Contributed by Rex S. Wignall on Oct 25, 2002
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Sometimes, we are tempted to think we are the only ones who struggle with this burden. Ellsworth Kalas tells the discovery that Thomas Wolfe the fine American writer made about loneliness:
Wolfe was a lonely man. He once thought that loneliness was something suffered especially, perhaps even
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
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Where have the skunks gone?
If you’ve seen a skunk--or smelled one--in the last five years, Florida wants to know.
"I haven’t seen a dead skunk on the road for a while," said Henry Cabbage, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Neither have the agency’s biologists.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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I WILL SAVE YOU
John Piper puts it this way:
If we only knew it, every one of us is stranded on an ice face in Greenland, and the wind is blowing fiercely. Our position is so precarious that even if we inhale too deeply our weight will shift and we will plunge to our destruction. God comes to us
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2003
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The Wal-Mart store in Sterling, Colo., agreed to allow the local Toys for Tots charity to put a huge box in the store’s lobby so shoppers could buy toys for needy children. "I’ve been keeping an eye on that box every time I went to Wal-Mart, and was so excited as it slowly began to fill," said
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 18, 2003
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- Someone once said: A Bible in the hand is worth two in the bookcase.
- And someone else said: A Bible stored in the mind is worth a dozen stored in the bottom of one’s trunk.
- Here’s a pop quiz: Which of the following aren’t in the Bible? -Cleanliness is next to godliness - God helps those who
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Contributed by Mark Evans on Sep 12, 2003
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A preacher and an atheistic barber were once walking through the city slums. Said the barber to the preacher: "This is why I cannot believe in a God of love. If God was as kind and loving as you say, He would not permit all this poverty, disease, and squalor. He would not allow these poor bums to
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Contributed by Corey Arnold on Nov 17, 2003
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It seems that hell isn’t as hot as it used to be. Hell has become "more of a deep funk than a pit of fire." A January 2000 U.S. News & World Report poll reveals that 64 percent of Americans believe there is a hell, 25 percent say there isn’t a hell, and 9 percent don’t know. Most respondents think
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Aug 9, 2004
I can remember when we first arrived as the pastor’s family at Ravenna, there was only a handful of people. In fact, within the first couple weeks it became evident that the Ravenna congregation couldn’t even pay the pastor’s salary.
But instead of crying to the conference for help or making the
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Methodist
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 4, 2004
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It is interesting that Time magazine in 1971 noted that labor experts were predicting that by the new millennia we would be on a national 4 day work week and have an abundance of leisure time. Those projections have not come true, in fact exactly the opposite has happened. According to a
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Christian Church
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Several Years ago there was a movie that starred Nicolas Cage. It was about a New York City Cop who didn’t have enough money for a tip. He felt bad about it so he gave her a choice. She could wait until tomorrow and he would come back and bring her a few dollars or she could have half of
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Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Mar 31, 2005
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They remind me of a story told by Lee Strobel. When he was still a writer for the Chicago Tribune he received a phone call from a father desperate to find his missing 19 year old daughter. She was a good girl, never in any trouble, not much more than an innocent child-and now she was gone. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2005
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Things You’d Love to Say at Work But Can’t
• How about never? Is never good for you?
• I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.
• It sounds like English, but I can’t understand a word you’re saying.
• Ah … I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again.
• I like you. You remind me of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 27, 2005
From the 9-20-05 Daily Bread
A few years ago, an unkempt, poorly adjusted youth named Tim… was converted to Christ in an evangelistic crusade. Several days later…he was sent to my home so that I could help him find a good church. And so it was that he began attending with me.
Though Tim needed
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Oct 14, 2005
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Some of you know that I built a little cabin up at my family’s property on the way to Ottawa. What you might not know is that it is built on the edge of a small cliff with a good view of the lake. The north end of the cabin is on solid Canadian Shield rock, but the south end hangs over the cliff
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