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A Gift for Nicolas Cage
When the actor Nicolas Cage was a young boy, his father gave him a little Pinocchio for Christmas. Being a boy, he was a little rough with it, and broke its head off. So his father suggested they bury Pinocchio. The next morning, on the very place where they had buried
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Lutheran
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 7, 2009
“One day, people are going to forget about the Heisman Trophy, the jump pass and the national championship. One day, this [championship] ring is going to rust. There are only four things that are going to last forever: God, his word, people and rewards.”
"Because I’m so passionate about it, and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 19, 2009
The American Memorial Day weekend automobile race known as the Indianapolis 500 (a.k.a. Indy 500) attracts 400,000 spectators every year! It is probably the largest single sporting event that draws such a large crowd. The race requires many pit-stops – tire changes, fuel, oil, or repairs when
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
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GOOD FRIDAY: SUNDAY'S COMIN'
Tony Campolo tells a story of preaching on Good Friday at his church in Philadelphia. He got up to preach to his predominantly black congregation-–and he was "ON"! The folks were encouraging and hepping him along, and he got excited. He could hear some saying, "Help
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
John Howard Griffin was a white man who believed he could never understand the plight of African-Americans unless he became like one. In 1959, he darkened his skin with medication, sun lamps, and stains, then traveled throughout the South. His book, Black Like Me, helped whites better understand
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 31, 2005
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ILLUS: There was a man many years ago named Henry Ward Beecher. He was a prominent preacher here in America. He was invited on an occasion to attend a meeting of an atheist club where the noted agnostic Robert Ingersol was speaking. So Mr. Beecher, the preacher, accepted the invitation.
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Baptist
From The Straits Times, Monday, September 30, 1996
"No money, no rescue"
A 6-YEAR-OLD boy drowned in a river in southern China after bystanders refused to rescue him unless his penniless sister paid to save her brother’s life, a newspaper reported.
Hongkong’s South China Morning Post said that
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
What better way to show how man has done this than to look at the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977 and sent barreling towards
the outer reaches of the solar system. On each ship is a gold-coated phonograph record, offering a message to extraterrestrial civilizations.
This message includes
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Wesleyan
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-President Ronald Reagan gave one of the best ‘Memorial Day’ speeches ever given on the 40th anniversary of the D-Day in 1984. D-Day was the invasion of France that led to the destruction and ultimate surrender of Nazi Germany.
“We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of
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Pentecostal
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There is a true story of a boy who suffered under the Nazis during WWII. This Jewish boy was living in a small Polish village when he and all the other Jews in the vicinity where rounded up by Nazi SS troops and sentenced to death. This boy joined his neighbors in digging a shallow ditch for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 13, 2001
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THE MUSIC PASTOR AT BEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Jack Martens is a fifty-six year old teacher who has spent 33 years teaching music at Ben Franklin Middle School in San Francisco.
“Over 50 percent of Martens’ students are from broken homes. The same number are on welfare. Nearly that many come
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Church Of God
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2002
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THE COURAGE OF SHANNON WRAY
After winning a hard fought battle over an attempt to censor religious
references from her speech, Shannon Wray delivered her non-censored
salutatorian speech on Friday during the Hollidaysburg Area High School graduation ceremony. Shannon was represented by Mat
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 5, 2002
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CHOOSING COURAGE; FINDING PEACE
By Steve Goodier
http://www.LifeSupportSystem.com
"Do you know what my son James dreamed about last night?" a friend
asked me. "He dreamed about YOU," she went on.
"James told me this morning that in his dream he was being chased by
King Kong. Then he met
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Contributed by George Rennau on Aug 25, 2003
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The political convention was in chaos. Each delegation wanted something different. Some favored states rights, others wanted a stronger central government. Larger states wanted greater representation, and small states wanted an equal voice.
Debate dragged on and on. Finally the committee
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Assembly Of God