Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 11, 2007
When 53-year-old Danny Anderson was feeding his horses Monday night, a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property.
Anderson and his 27-year-old son, Benjamin, pinned the snake with an irrigation pipe and cut off its head with a shovel. A few more strikes to the head left it
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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A man who flew his own plane got tired of the long auto trip from the airport to his country place, which was situated on a lovely lake. The idea came to him to equip his plane with pontoons, so he could land right in front of his cottage. However, on his first trip up to the country with his
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Winter on Jan 18, 2003
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In the NT, the word for peace means “to reconcile or join.” Some missionary Bible translators were working very hard to find a word for peace in a particular tribal language. At last, a native who was working with them found a combination of words that captured the concept—“a heart that
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine, University of California-San Francisco Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic, sets out to show the ways in which the female brain is different from the male brain. Though certainly not politically correct, she admits the female brain is a machine
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We are usually surrounded by so much outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us. We have often become deaf, unable to know when God calls us and unable to understand in which direction he calls us. Thus, our lives
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Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
"In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...For even if I could conceive
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 31, 2009
I once went to court on behalf of young mother with an intellectual disability. She was a difficult person and the Department of Children’s Services had decided, in their wisdom, to apply the letter of the law and take away her child. It was my task to speak on her behalf and make a case for her,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas
Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy: white to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless
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i. Tadlock states, ‘The loss of perspective is another cost of hurry sickness. Perspective means a balanced way of seeing things-the capacity to see people or things in their relationship to each other. You see things as they are rather than in some distorted manner. It’s hard to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
A Skit – 3 people up front, each with a plate and snack in front of him/her. All 3 are very hungry. Person #1 thinks really hard about the food. Person #2 touches the food – maybe smells or licks it. Person #3 devours it, then asks the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jun 18, 2002
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Joe Bailey in his book "A View From a Hearse" tells of the day his boy died of cancer. He had returned to the clinic to thank them for their kindness and care of his son. As he spoke to the receptionist, she motioned toward a woman whose son was playing quietly with toys in the waiting area. "He
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jul 23, 2001
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A while back I was reading about an expert on the subject of time management. One day this expert was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration I’m sure those students will never forget. After I share it with you, you’ll never forget it either. As
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Contributed by Mark Haines on Jul 9, 2001
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Dr. William Sangster wrote: “When a thing is plainly right, it is, perhaps, academic whether I thought of it myself or whether God told me. But one thing is certain, I thought of far, far fewer sweet things to do, and hard things before I learned to listen to God than I
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Wesleyan
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