Contributed by John Braland on Apr 3, 2007
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Several years ago I used to heat our house with wood. Every fall I would go out and cut wood with my friend Roger Raether and Bob Bosma. I never liked cutting wood because it was a lot of back breaking work but I liked the price. It was free except for the labor so we would take a Saturday here
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 13, 2001
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The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents’ bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.
As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar.
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Lutheran
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Several times my daughter had telephoned to say... "Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. "I will come next Tuesday, " I promised, a little reluctantly, on her third call. Next Tuesday dawned
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Darren Ethier on Mar 22, 2002
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Don’t ride in an auto – they cause 20 percent of all fatal accidentsDo not stay at home – 17 percent of all accidents happen there.Do not walk in the street – 15 percent of all accidents happen to pedestrians.Do not travel by air, rail or water – 16 percent of all
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Contributed by Todd Stiles on Dec 5, 2006
In Operation Desert Storm, our military had one objective on the first night of operations: attack all communications installations and destroy them! Here’s why – if you can dismantle and disable someone’s communication network, you can defeat them.
The same is true in our relationships,
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Baptist
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Apr 7, 2013
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TABERNACLE FAITH
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes about the feast of Tabernacles: "Sitting in the booth underneath its canopy of leaves, I often think of my ancestors and their wanderings across Europe in search of safety; and I begin to understand how faith was their only home. Their existence was
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Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 29, 2008
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbs cartoon fame gets dressed in his special clothes for school. He goes to school. He sits on some bubble gum, gets beat up by a bully, fails a test at school and gets rained on the way home. At bedtime he
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2002
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WORKING ON HELL
Reader’s Digest recently asked the great fighter Muhammed Ali what his faith meant to him. Ali replied:
"[It] means [a] ticket to heaven. One day we’re all going to die, and God’s going to judge us, [our] good and bad deeds. [If the] bad outweighs the good, you go to hell;
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 23, 2010
Two men were talking and one said to the other, “You’re having an anniversary soon, right?”
The other replied, “Yes, a big one. 20 years.”
“Wow,” said the other, “what are you going to get your wife for your anniversary?”
The other replied, “A trip to Australia.”
“Wow, Australia, that’s some
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2002
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"Treasuring is an attitude we carry in our hearts, a conviction we hold deep down inside. It’s one big decision that plays itself out in 10,000 little decisions every day of our lives. This one giant choice to treasure your husband lights up a
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 29, 2003
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Over 20 years ago a retired couple, concerned about the threat of nuclear war, decided to carefully research the safest place on earth to which they could move and live. They studied and traveled, traveled and studied.
Finally they found THE PLACE. And on Christmas they sent their pastor a card
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