Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 28, 2006
I remember when I first left school at 16 with no qualifications, yet I got a job and earnt a living what could I do with all the extra income I had? My mother told me to take driving lessons. I had 26 lessons in all, it was money well spent it was intense but I devoted myself to passing the test.
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 24, 2007
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A small boy came home from school and went straight to his room to pray. His mother had never seen her son do this, so she listened outside his door. She heard him praying softly and then saying, "Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo", loudly. She went into his room and asked what he was doing. He responded that he
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 13, 2007
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Statistics: Our kids Every day: 1,000 unwed teenage girls become mothers - 1,106 teenage girls get abortions - 4,219 teenagers contract sexually transmitted diseases - 500 adolescents begin using drugs - 1,000 adolescents begin drinking alcohol - 135,000 kids bring guns or other weapons to school
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Baptist
THE BIBLE LEAF
A little boy opened the big family Bible at home. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it closely. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mamma,
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Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
The rhino calf was taking a drink at the water hole. The tiger leaped at it. Soon the calf would have been ripped to shreds. But the mother rhinoceros charges out of the tall grass and drives the tiger away with her horn. "He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant
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To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the businessman whose flight was delayed an hour.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the man who had
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
WHY DO YOU ASK?
A vicar was walking along the road when a lady stopped him and this question. "Vicar" she asked. "What do you think about cremation?"
Without hesitation the vicar replied, "You know the scriptural principle don't you?"
"No" the lady replied.
"You bury treasure but you burn
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 15, 2011
YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD WHEN...
• You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
• You watch the Weather Channel.
• You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
• You try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any.
• When you say something to your
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 19, 2012
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TELLING LIES
A grandmother was looking after her two little grandchildren, a 7-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy. Both of them had been really naughty. But as the time approached for their mother to pick them up, the little girl said to her grandmother, "Are you going to tell Mummy?"
The
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 5, 2012
HELPING HIM CRY
Man once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a 4 year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went
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HE FLIES UNDERNEATH YOU
You see, when a mother eagle has her eggs, she sits on them to keep them warm and waits for them to hatch. then she goes back and forth and finds food for them. But there comes a time when she decides these little guys have to learn to fly. So she stirs up the nest and
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 20, 2013
IF HE GETS LOOSE
The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mic. Unlike todays wireless mics, this had a wire attached to it. He was an energetic preacher and as he preached, he swung his hands and he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mic cord as he went. Then he moved to one side,
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 11, 2004
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This is a true story. Two guys in a church, Paul and William decided that they really wanted to become godly men. So they started meeting with one another to pray and encourage one another; they even set goals for themselves and their behavior, and then were accountable to the other one.
Paul
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Sep 9, 2004
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Bill Hybels writes the following in his book, ‘Courageous Leadership,’
Ten years ago I sat in a little restaurant during my summer study break and wrote these words; The local church is the hope of the world and it’s future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
For the first time, I
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
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Illus.: “You Can’t Practice Burying Me”
Shortly after a recent seminary graduate had assumed his first pastorate, he and his wife went to visit his family. His mother sensed that her daughter-in-law was unhappy, but not wishing to interfere, she pretended not to notice. As they were leaving,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Love then is the giving of self, and as long as we have a body and are working out our salvation, it will always be synonymous with sacrifice, in the Christian sense of the word. Love sacrifices naturally just as the eye sees and the ear hears. That is why we speak of "arrows" and "darts" of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2002
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RELIGIOUS MERGER CREATES 900 MILLION HINJEWS
New Delhi, India (SatireWire.com) — Hinjew leaders today conceded the merger of Hinduism and Judaism has not worked out as planned, as instead of forming a super-religion to fight off the common Islamic enemy, they have instead created a race of 900
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
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DAD'S RESOLUTION
Last year when I called my parents to wish them a happy New Year, my dad answered the phone. "Well, Dad, what’s your New Year’s resolution?" I asked him. "To make your mother as happy as I can all year," he answered proudly. Then mom got on, and I said, "What’s your resolution,
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