Contributed by Joe La Rue on Mar 18, 2008
Just over 5 months ago, on Nov 2, 2007, the remains of Sarah Symonds, who died in 1821, were reported stolen from the Bible Hill Cemetery in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. The grave was excavated with a rectangular hole dug 5 and a half feet deep. Dirt was piled up on either side of the hole, and the
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Nov 29, 2012
English writer F.W. Boreham tells a story about an old gravedigger who had a terrible cough. A visitor to the cemetery expressed sympathy to the old man and his cough. The gravedigger motioned to the graves around him and said, “There’s plenty here who would be glad of my cough.” His point being
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
Young American soldiers had a vague idea of their job, until planes used as bombs struck the heart of this country. Then they were motivated . The we all knew we had to war against terrorism. The soldiers had a clear purpose. We did too. -- When they got to Iraq and saw the mass graves and the
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Erwin McManus reminds us that Christianity is a dangerous faith. Listen to what he says:
"How could we ever think the Christian faith would be safe when its central metaphor is an instrument of death? It is not a coincidence that baptism is a water grave depicting death and resurrection"..."It is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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SALT-CRAVING
Salt creates thirst. Try eating just one Ruffles potato chip. You cannot eat just one chip. They are salty which creates a thirst for more. When people look at our lives here do they thirst more for the living Jesus?
Chuck Swindoll says an appropriate grave marker for many might be
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 5, 2001
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Illus.: “Where Was the Key?”
A father and his little girl were staying in a hotel. During the night the girl became very ill and without warning she died. The father was heart-broken. He had already lost his wife and now his precious little girl was gone. Only two people followed the body to
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Contributed by David Whitten on May 28, 2002
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“Memorial Day is an official holiday in most states of the United States. It was observed on May 30 until 1971, when for federal employees,, the date was changed to the last Monday in May. With the exception of Louisiana, all states observing Memorial Day adopted the change. It is also known as
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Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Nov 19, 2007
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Much of the credit for the adoption of a later ANNUAL national Thanksgiving Day may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. For thirty years, she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, contacting President after President until President Abraham
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Video Illustration: The end of the movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. It’s were the three have a show down in the cemetery court yard.
This scene paints a picture for us today on how we are to deal with the Bad and the Ugly of the church. The truth is we are in a duel with both. But the Good
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, “Give, give!” The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 9, 2012
VISITING BEETHOVEN
Beethoven died in 1827 and is buried in Vienna. A tourist went to visit his grave and found it a deeply moving experience. As they stood looking at the gravestone they could hear music. It was Beethoven’s music only it wasn’t quite right, there was something wrong. Then the
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 7, 2009
THREE PIECES OF BREAD: PASSOVER
In a Jewish home (at Passover) the Father places three pieces of matzot bread inside a cloth. The middle of the three pieces is broken. Part is wrapped in cloth with the remaining two, and the other broken part is hidden.
Jewish people have many views as to what
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Contributed by William Hooper on Jul 12, 2007
Someone has said that we are in danger of entertaining ourselves to death. In his blog, Michael Spencer has said that "work must be entertaining. Education must be entertaining. Marriage must be entertaining. Family life must be entertaining. Children must be entertained. Our lives must be full of
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
The inscription on the Plymouth Rock monument: "This spot marks the final resting place of the Pilgrims of the Mayflower. In weariness and hunger and cold, fighting the wilderness and burying their dead in common graves that the Indians should not know how many had perished, they here laid the
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Contributed by Jay Mccluskey on Jan 29, 2009
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IS YOUR CHURCH A CHURCH OF BONES?
In the town of Sedlec in the Czech Republic, there is a famous cemetery that dates back to the 13th century. Some 40,000 people who died from the Black Plague in the 14th century and in the Hussite wars in the beginning of the 15th century were buried there.
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“What a Night”
That night when in the Judean skies
Thy mystic star dispensed its light,
A blind man moved in his sleep
And dreamed that he had sight
That night when shepherds heard
The song of angelic choir near,
A deaf man stirred in slumber’s spell
And dreamed that he could hear
That night
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
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THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PILGRIMS
The sufferings of these pilgrims has been a theme often repeated and yet it remains an amazing story. Within three months of the Mayflower landing in December 1620, only about fifty of the original hundred survived. Their graves had to be unmarked and grassed over to
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