Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 19, 2006
My Dad and my brothers as served in the Marine Corps. I always wanted to, but the Lord, in His wisdom, saw fit to keep me from passing the physical. Even though I was never able to get into the military, I was impressed about one important focus the Marines had. They always kept in mind what was
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Baptist
Contributed by Robbie Parsons on Nov 5, 2006
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THE STORY OF THE GOOD PIZZA (names changed to protect people)
Our young three year old daughter loves the locally owned Sherry’s Gustavo’s Pizza Store. We eat at the buffet almost every week. She eats one slice of pepperoni and one slice of "sweet pizza", crust with cinnamon and iced glaze.
One
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United Methodist
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
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Comedian Carl Hurley tells the story about trying to throw a trash can away. He said it’s the one thing you can’t get the garbage man to pick up. He said, I set an old rusty garbage can out at the street one morning thinking the garbage man would understand that it needed to be thrown away. He
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
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You can’t take it with you. There was a man who tried to disprove that. As he lay on his deathbed, he spoke with his 3 best friends, a doctor, a professor, and a preacher. He said, “I’m going to prove them wrong. I’m going to take it with me. I’m giving you each $100,000 in an envelope. After
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
We have a fireplace in our house. It’s nice to be able to start up a nice fire and warm up the living room. When you’re really chilled, you can even go sit on the edge in front of it. That sure feels good! But sit there too long, or sit too close, and ouch! It hurts. It’s a good thing, but
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Collin Thacher killed his wife. She had the nerve to leave him and he was a man who’s father was the primure of Sask. Collin was addicted to power. So he had her killed. Then he got Jesus because he thought that jesus would get him out of prison after all didn’t Jesus open the prisons for
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
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Seoul -- At his father’s funeral, American Carl Lewis placed his 100-meter gold medal from the 1984 Olympics in his father’s hands. "Don’t worry," he told his surprised mother. "I’ll get another one."
A year later, in the 100-meter final at the 1988 games, Lewis was competing against Canadian
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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In Bill Moyers’s book A World of Ideas II, Jacob Needleman remembers,
"I was an observer at the launch of Apollo 17 in 1975. It was a night launch, and there were hundreds of cynical reporters all over the lawn, drinking beer, wisecracking, and waiting for this 35-story-high rocket.
"The
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
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One of my favorite stories is the one about West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska. Normally all of the good choir people came to church on Wednesday night to practice, and they tended to be early, well before the 7:30 starting time. But one night, March 1, 1950, one by one, two by two,
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Pentecostal
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A few years ago during the Easter season a very unusual cross was constructed on the front lawn of a church in Dallas, Texas. The cross, which was at least 10 feet tall, became extremely controversial. Many people in the community, some of whom were church members, wanted the cross to be taken
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Baptist
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These are actual answering machine answers recorded and verified by the
world-famous International Institute of Answering Machine Answers
*Hello, you are talking to a machine. I am capable of receiving messages. My owners do not need siding, windows, or a hot tub, and their carpets are clean. They
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Baptist
As a young teen, I loved to read books from the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. In the first couple of pages a story would be set up – for example you are going on a hike with your cousins and it begins to storm. But by the end of page three the reader comes to a critical point in the story
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Presbyterian/Reformed
In fact the idea of speaking out when confronted with something wrong was the chief proponent behind an education development in the Reagan administration. It’s roots go back to the 1970’s where a University of Houston Social Psychology professor begin working on a model to help students resist
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Contributed by West Garner on Jun 29, 2009
I heard a pastor tell about a company in the NW that had a need come to them. The Need was for a bear proof trash can. All trash cans were being destroyed by grizzlies. Three companies took on the challenge and each developed a product for testing. They took the three products out into grizzly
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Baptist
REFORMATION BLOT
One of the blots on the career of the great German Reformer, Martin Luther – was his acquiescence to the bigamous marriage of Philip of Hess.
In 1530, at the height of the Reformation in Germany – and where the Protestant cause was at its most vulnerable, Philip of Hesse
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Anglican
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