Some of you may remember the Drop-While-You-Shop activity that the children did back in the spring. They took plastic cups, lined them with newspaper and put soil inside the newspaper. Then they took different seeds and put them between the newspaper and the side of the cup, so you could see the
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 17, 2009
STUDENT OF LOVE
I know a man named James Bailey, from Marks, Mississippi, who was one of my former deacons. James Bailey was a grown man when he became a Christian. He had only gone to school through the 4th grade and never learned to read when he was in school. James Bailey was a hard man and
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I remember something that happened just after I moved to Texas from New Mexico in 1974. I was driving down a street in Alvin and was pulled over by a city policeman. He asked me if I was aware that I was driving over the speed limit in a school zone. Having just moved to Texas, I didn’t know
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Contributed by Thomas Hensley on Nov 5, 2000
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During the height of the Cold War, a former FBI agent wrote a book about Soviet spies working in Washington, and how the KGB would solicit workers in the FBI and CIA and in the military to work for them. The KGB would never start by approaching an American and asking him or her to steal "top
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 6, 2001
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You may have heard about the two guys from Texas, from down around College Station, who went up north to do some ice fishing. They made the long trip but before they did their ice fishing they stopped by a store near the lake for some supplies. They asked the merchant if he had any ice picks and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2003
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A substitute kindergarten teacher at Forest Hills Elementary School in Coral Springs, Fla., is under fire after telling her class that there is no Santa Claus. By the time parent Melissa Shea complained to assistant principal Lisa George, Fabiola Mehu-Pelissier had already been spoken to, with
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Contributed by Galen Hackman on Mar 1, 2003
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Recently this word—fellowship—has been in the headlines of our daily experience, thanks to the popular movie adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkin’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
In the first book and movie, entitled, Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien describes the camaraderie of a diverse group of
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Brethren
Contributed by Jason Cole on Feb 18, 2004
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A young boy was part of a group of young people from his church who, as a service ministry, took the Lord’s Supper to homebound or hospitalized members of the church. He and his friends visited one elderly gentleman in particular who was in the hospital--nothing serious, just a minor illness--and
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Contributed by Allan Quak on Dec 5, 2005
The TV watch public in Australia was given a taste of seeing temptation as a form of entertainment when one of the networks aired a show called “Temptation Island”. The basic plot of the show was that four couples were going to test their devotion to each other by placing themselves on an island
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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Several years ago I met a gentleman who served on one of Walt Disney’s original advisory boards. What amazing stories he told! Those early days were tough; but that remarkable, creative visionary refused to give up. I especially appreciated the man’s sharing with me how Disney responded to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Several years ago I met a gentleman who served on one of Walt Disney’s original advisory boards. What amazing stories he told! Those early days were tough; but that remarkable, creative visionary refused to give up. I especially appreciated the man’s sharing with me how Disney responded to
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