Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Nov 20, 2025
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When my granddaughter was about three years old, ... my wife Lee and I ... were babysitting our grandchildren in Morton Illinois.
Anna wanted to go outside and play on our own.
I thought this was a good teaching moment.
So, ... I knelt down beside her ... so that we could look at each other
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 12, 2008
Preschool; Kindergarten; primary and elementary education; Middle School and Junior High; High School and Technical/Trade School; College and University; and postgraduate work are all the American Way of learning. From 3 – 4 years of age through the teenage years into early adulthood and sometime
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 16, 2009
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LISA BEAMER: FAITH IN TRAGEDY
In her book, "Let’s Roll" she explains how she was reared in a loving home where the Lord was honored. She goes on to record: "On October 25, 1984, pain seared through his chest and everyone thought he was having a heart attack. The next morning at 5:00 a.m. the
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 29, 2001
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When skater Michelle Kwan was 13, the junior skater went behind her coach Frank Carroll¡¦s back, submitted her application for senior competition for the next Olympics, and prepared herself for a spot on the team. Kwan then pleaded with her coach to allow her to compete with skaters older than her,
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 21, 2002
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Years ago when I was doing youth ministry, we received applications from students who wanted to go on a mission trip.
The missionary we were helping only had accommodations for a certain number to go, so the applications allowed the youth ministry sponsors to select the final team of students
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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AN ESKIMO FISHERMAN CAME to town every Saturday afternoon.
He always brought his two dogs with him. One was white and the other was black. He had taught them to fight on command. Every Saturday afternoon in the town square the people would gather and these two dogs would fight and the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
CHOOSING A NEW SETTING
The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Anatoli Shcharansky, a dissident Soviet Jew, kissed his wife goodbye as she left Russia for freedom in Israel. His parting words to her were, "I’ll see you soon in Jerusalem." But Anatoli was detained and finally imprisoned. Their reunion in Jerusalem would not only be postponed, it might never
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Contributed by James Pless on Jun 20, 2006
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Wolf Licks Bloodied Knife To Death
Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin.
"First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to
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Baptist
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One course I had in college was in adolescent psychology. Difficult class but the professor would let us bring a note card with as much information as we could get on it. That was a great help. Steve Winger writes about a final exam he took in a logic class at the university he attended. The
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Baptist
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Feb 28, 2005
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While I was in Bible College I worked part time on the side for a construction company as a laborer. One day I was given the job of moving the 2 x12 planks the brick layers use on their scaffolding from one job site to another across town. This was supposed to be a two or three trip job as the
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Mennonite
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 10, 2007
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Walking by a pet store to school, a young boy had stopped to stare at four black puppies that were playing together. He pleaded with his mom later that day to let him have one. “I’ll take care of it. I promise. I will even use the money from my allowance that I’ve saved to buy it.”
The mother
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Church Of God
Danielle Fineout grew up as the daughter of missionaries in Zaire. As a little girl, she went to a day-long rally celebrating the one-hundreth anniversary of Christian missionaries coming to that part of Zaile. After a full day of long speeches and music, an old man came before the crowd and
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Baptist
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