Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 15, 2007
Vaughan Roberts wrote about a recent advert in a newspaper which headed “Unpleasant manager required!. It continued: We are a high-pressure company and we work for money. We push ourselves hard. We are not looking for management to hold our hands. We want nasty, not nice. If you are the kind of
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Baptist
Contributed by Cris Willis on Dec 27, 2007
Trick-or-treaters rake in a lot of candy every October 31. In fact, according to the National Confectioners Association, Halloween is the number-one holiday for candy sales, beating out Christmas, Easter and Valentine’s Day. The NCA predicts Halloween candy sales to reach $2 billion in 2003 in the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
Corrie ten Boom, that saintly lady who endured such brutality from the Nazis in Ravensbruck during World War II, once said that she had learned to hold everything loosely in her hand. She said she discovered, in her years of walking with Him, that when she grasped things tightly, it
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Contributed by Brian Buriff on Feb 2, 2010
Zig Zigler: If you feel you married the wrong person - treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. On the other hand, if you marry the right person, and treat that person wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 19, 2001
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Illus.: “The Human Fly” (pp.18,19, A Treasury of Inspirational Illustrations, Earl C. Willer)
Some years ago, a so-called “human fly” went to Los Angeles. It was announced that on a certain day he would climb up the face of one of the large department store buildings. Thousands gathered to
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Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 11, 2006
My Accident
My life was normal and unexpecting of tragedy when the bumper of a LTD came crashing into my back I had no time to repent like I always figured I would if I would have died it would have been at a moment that I was angry and frustrated and I can't say that I was as comfortable in my
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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TATER PEOPLE
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Some people are very bossy and like to tell others what to do, but don’t want to soil their own hands. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians
They are called "Dick Taters" .
Some people never seem motivated to participate, but are just content to watch while others do
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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Matt 5.10-12 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
On June 17, 2004, when Sister Jiang Zongxiu went to the market in Guizhou Province, China, she thought it would be just another day. Along with her mother-in-law, Jiang went through
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Contributed by Betty Johnson on Aug 18, 2008
There’s a story told about a fitness center. This fitness center owner was offering $1,000 to anyone who could prove that they were stronger than he was. Her’s how it worked: the owner of the fitness center was a real muscle man, and he would take a lemon and squeeze it until all the juice had
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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True Friends?
Two little boys were the best of friends. As they grew up, their friendship only deepened. One became a preacher and the other a priest. And they would meet each week for coffee at the local Starbucks, no matter what else might be happening.
After one such meeting, they shook hands
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED
Matt 5.10-12 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
On June 17, 2004, when Sister Jiang Zongxiu went to the market in Guizhou Province, China, she thought it would be just another day. Along with her
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
TRUTH IN CUSTOMS
I have a friend who lives in France and she lives on a farm with her husband and animals. (On Christmas Day, she and her husband were helping the sheep they own as they gave birth to lambs!)
I decided to ask her about table customs in France that were different in America and she
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