Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Mar 28, 2004
Everyone enjoys clowns at the circus. Some put on a happy face with a big red nose. Some have lots of curly hair while others are bald. White faces, red, green and yellow, clowns are as different as your imagination. Yet under the costume and beneath all the makeup is a real person. A clown
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Assembly Of God
Sin is deceptive. It is like an apple worm, which is really codling moth larva. On the outside of the apple you see a small hole, a little blemish. But when you open the apple up it is ruined.
There are few experiences that equal biting into a crisp, flavorful apple, but few worse than finding
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Methodist
There are few experiences that equal biting into a crisp, flavorful apple,. There is nothing like that first bite of a first ripe apple of the summer. Sweetest fills you mouth, and juices run down you chin.
But few experiences are worse than finding half a worm in the remaining portion. Sin is
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Another story is told of an elderly German woman who, as her village was being entered by an American unit during the final days of the Second World War, she stood in the middle of the street holding a small U.S. flag. Her friends told her she was crazy; she should hide and wait to see who would
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Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who was sent with her family to a Nazi prison camp for hiding Jews during World War II. Her family had been fairly well off before the war, but when the Nazis imprisoned her, she lost everything, including her sister.
She later said, “I’ve learned that we
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Michael Walther on May 27, 2011
MAKING IMPROVEMENTS
Recently researchers at John’s Hopkins University ran across the notes a 19th century neurosurgeon named Harvey Cushing. What surprised them was his meticulous self-evaluation and self-criticism. He carefully documented every mistake he made on the operating table. Most
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Lutheran
Contributed by Paul Dietz on Mar 25, 2008
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Marty Halyburton’s husband, Porter, was shot down during the Vietnam War, and Navy personnel came to her home to tell her he had died in battle. For several days, Marty was too numb to respond. Flags flew at half-staff all over town, and a grave-marker was placed in Porter’s memory in his family’s
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
How may we be forgiven? Some people may think they can outrun the judgment. A Spaniard committed a murder at a castle many years ago. He jumped upon a horse and rode wildly into the night. He rode for hours to escape. Finally, exhausted, he lay down to sleep for a couple of hours. When he awoke it
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 15, 2002
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During the Civil War a Union soldier from Ohio was shot in the arm.
His captain saw he was wounded and barked out an order, “Gimme your gun, Private, and get to the rear!”
The private handed over his rifle and ran toward the north, seeking safety.
But after gong only about two or three hundred
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bud Rose on Nov 26, 2005
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On June 6, 1981, Doug Whitt and his bride, Sylvia, were escorted to their hotel’s fancy bridal suite in the wee hours of the morning. In the suite they saw a sofa, chairs, and table, but where was the bed? Then they discovered the sofa was a hide-a-bed, with a lumpy mattress and sagging springs.
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Pentecostal
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SECURITY IN THE ROCK
The rock badger hides in the crags in the rock. They are greyish in colour and blends well with the rocks. When a predator comes to attack, they will run into a hole, the crag in the rock. The vulture or eagle must sweep down on them before they get into the rocks.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jan 28, 2006
Many years ago a farmer had an unusually fine crop of wheat. Just a few days before the wheat was to be harvested, a terrible hail and wind storm came. The entire crop was destroyed. After the storm was over, the farmer, with his little son, went out on the porch. The little boy looked at what
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Price on May 12, 2006
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I have been told that in the jungles of South America, that monkey trappers use jars with narrow mouths, hung in trees by wire, to trap their prey. They hang the jars on the branches, and place rocks inside. As the monkeys travel through the trees, the branches rattle the stones in the jars. The
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