Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 19, 2006
My Dad and my brothers as served in the Marine Corps. I always wanted to, but the Lord, in His wisdom, saw fit to keep me from passing the physical. Even though I was never able to get into the military, I was impressed about one important focus the Marines had. They always kept in mind what was
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Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Sep 9, 2011
STAIN REMOVAL: HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
Father Greg Boyle is in the business of erasing the past. A Jesuit priest, he is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries in East Los Angeles.
Father Boyle put together a team of physicians trained in the laser technology of tattoo removal. The team is
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 26, 2007
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Charles Swindoll, in Growing Deep in the Christian Life, tells about a man who bought fried chicken dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon. The attendant at the fast food outlet, however, inadvertently gave him the proceeds from the day’s business--a bucket of money (much of it cash)
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 13, 2009
There was a time when my folks visited me and saw a bizarre arrangement in my living room. I had a nice sofa, but I couldn’t afford end tables. So, I’d taken cardboard boxes and covered them with blankets to hold lamps and magazines. It was clever, but it didn’t look nice. Frankly, it looked pretty
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 23, 2009
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
By 1934, alcoholic Bill Wilson had ruined a promising Wall Street career because of his constant drunkenness. He was introduced to the idea of a spiritual cure by an old drinking buddy Ebby Thacher. While in a hospital, Wilson underwent what he believed to be a spiritual
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Christian/Church Of Christ
TEMPLE OF GREED
Stanford Kurland ran Countrywide Mortgage through 2006. Then after the mortgage crisis began (for which Kurland may be partially responsible) he opened up PennyMac, a company that says they will help bail out the mortgage industry by buying the troubled mortgages at a reduced rate
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United Methodist
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I was leaving the nursing home after visiting one of our members and I passed a lady in a wheel chair. "What’s your name?" she said, smiling sweetly. I told her my name and asked, "What’s your name?" Suddenly
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 28, 2008
One startling bit of research conducted by the Christian Business Men’s Committee found the following: When the father is an active believer, there is about a seventy-five percent likelihood that the children will also become active believers. But if only the mother is a believer, this likelihood
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
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It was May 7, and Roger Simms was hitchhiking his way home, having been discharged from the Army. He flashed his hitchhiking sign at a car, but almost lost hope for a ride when he noticed it was a black, sleek, new Cadillac. To his amazement the car stopped. As Roger entered the car from the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2005
A person researching their family’s genealogy was walking through a cemetery. They noticed an epithet on a tombstone.
It read:
"Here lies Jamie Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble cutter and tombstone maker. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of
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