Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
THROUGH HIS BLOOD
In 1927, in West Africa, a blood specimen was taken from a native man named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A vaccine was made from the original strain of virus obtained from this man. In fact, all the vaccine manufactured since 1927 by the Rockefeller Foundation and
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Aug 28, 2011
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TRUMAN'S FAITHFULNESS
A number of years ago, the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO made public 1,300 letters that the late President wrote to his wife, Bess, over the course of a half-century. Mr. Truman had a lifelong rule of writing to his wife every day they were apart. He followed
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 31, 2018
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Awesome achievement
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- Paul. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians writes about love in chapter thirteen, but he finishes the chapter by mentioning two other powerful things,
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 15, 2019
Greek & Roman religions taught very little about personal holiness. A person could bring sacrifices to an idol, say a few prayers & go away from the altar and commit sin freely. No one would ever think he was inconsistent in his faith. This is not so with the life of a follower of
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 6, 2024
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General Douglas MacArthur, during World War II, famously declared to the people of the Philippine Islands, “I shall return.” This resolute statement was made after he was ordered to leave the Philippines, which were under Japanese invasion.
His promise echoed the determination of our Lord Jesus
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 6, 2026
[306]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
People can observe something and take that limited observation and construct an edifice from it that turns out to be very wrong. That is the problem with making conclusions from limited information.
At the time of Christopher
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 3, 2001
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[How God’s Children Change, Citation: Craig Barnes, author and pastor of National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.; from sermon "The Blessed Trinity" (5-30-99)]
When I was a child, my minister father brought home a 12-year-old boy named Roger, whose parents had died from a drug overdose.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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REMEMBERING JOSEPH BAU--COMMUNION MEDITATION
When someone dies, we remember—we remember all the stories that filled their life. Last week a man named Joseph Bau died. It’s a name you probably don’t know, but a story worth hearing.
Joseph Bau was born on June 18, 1920, in Krakow, Poland.
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Contributed by Guy Caley on May 25, 2003
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In 1953 in Grimes Iowa, Violet Cross was getting sicker by the day. Finally her eldest son Frank insisted she go to the doctor. Eventually they ended up at the large teaching hospital in Iowa City. The diagnosis was devastating. Though Violet had never smoked she was dying of Lung cancer. One
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