Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 27, 2003
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Ferris Beaulers Day Off. His best friend is Cameron Frye. Cameron hates his father because his father places everything before him. Ferris and Cameron and Ferris’s girlfriend ride around Chicago in Cameron’s dad’s favorite car all day playing hooky from school. In one of the final scenes
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 12, 2004
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The Jordan River flows from the top of Mount Herman where the snow melts and travels down to the lowest point on earth, the Dead Sea.
For the most part the Jordan River is neither beautiful nor peaceful. It’s 25 percent mud and plunges downhill at a furious pace, falling nine feet per mile.
In
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 6, 2004
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William Frey, retired Episcopal bishop from Colorado, told the following story: When I was a younger man, I volunteered to read to a degree student named John who was blind. One day I asked him, "How did you lose your sight?"
"A chemical explosion," John said, "at the age of thirteen." "How did
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Contributed by Bo Lane on Dec 8, 2004
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I’m 14, depressed and see no reason to live.
Hi. Look I am 14 almost 15 and well I am depressed. Majorly depressed. I have no life. I mean come on, I have no friends, I am picked because my appearance is different, soccer practices are really crappy (I get made fun of, tripped, soccer balls are
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on May 8, 2006
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’Chaplain Ernst Gordon in his book "Through the Valley of the Quai" tells of the hardship prisoners of War during World War II as they were imprisoned by the Japanese army. These men wrote Chaplain Gordon were reduced to skeletons, riddled with disease, and the only way they could survive was by
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In India there is a Bible Institute run by Dr. Samuel Thomas – a modern day hero of the Christian faith. Each year this Bible Institute has a commencement ceremony where students who have finished their studies are together for one final time before leaving this institute as graduates. What is so
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Story: One of my heroes of the faith is the late Richard Wurmbrand (1909 – 2001)
Wurmbrand was born in Rumania in 1909 as a Jew and became a Christian when he encountered Christ at an early age.
He shared his faith with the occupying troops in the 1940’s and the Germans threw him in prison for
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Anglican
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 12, 2010
He lay in a bed seat, slightly twisted and looking at me with one eye half open. I was finishing a small Bible study devotional with a group of aged people on a passage from the book of Job in the Bible, telling them that God loves them and still has a purpose for their lives, to look UPWARD NOT
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 14, 2010
DEMONS IN AFRICA
On the coast of Malabar, in Canara alone, are 4041 temples to evil spirits, besides 3,682 to other gods. Here, in the very heart of the East Indies, men worship demons as deities. Evil spirits have for centuries been held in homage by all classes of Hindus except Brahmans. Even
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
CHRIST IN ONE
What is a Christian? In the LETTER TO DIOGNETUS, which dates back to the second century A.D., an anonymous writer describes a strange people who are in the world but not of the world.
"Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs; you see,
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
CHRISTIAN: CHRIST IN ONE
What is a Christian? In the LETTER TO DIOGNETUS, which dates back to the second century A.D., an anonymous writer describes a strange people who are in the world but not of the world.
"Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs;
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IS IT WORTH IT?
I see a young soldier, he looks barely 18 to me, he has got fear in his eyes, but he has one goal... to get glory and honour... I see him, going through his training, a hard routine, 20 press-ups followed by 30 crunches, then an hour jogging, and then more push-ups, by the end of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 21, 2012
COPING WITH COMPLAINING
How do you cope with complaining, nagging, whine-baby people? Internet discussion board posted this:
Why do people complain so much?
I know it's a natural thing but it has to be unhealthy. At my job people never stop complaining. Every day it's either too hot or too cold.
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