Contributed by Paul Barreca on May 23, 2011
THE POST-IT NOTE
In his book, "Built to Last," Jim Collins describes how 3M employee Art Fry invented the Post-It Note:
"One day in 1974, while I was singing in the church choir, I had one of those creative moments. To make it easier to find the songs we were going to sing at each Sunday’s
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Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jun 1, 2011
TRAPPED ON A TRAM
It was a beautiful sunny day in Ostrava, Czech Republic, a city of 300,000. It was 1995, and I had just moved there to take an intense Czech language course. After half a day of Czech grammar, I was tired. I got on the tram and spaced out for my 20-minute ride to the suburbs
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Lutheran
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 6, 2011
ONE HOUR
A child loved his dad but seldom saw him. The man was so busy with so many things to do. The child collected bottles and cans, did odd jobs and seemed to be always trying to make money. One day he asked his father, "How much do you make in an hour?"
The dad said, "$20.00, why?"
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Baptist
Contributed by John Sears on Jan 18, 2012
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THE RUSTED OUT CAR
A few weeks ago, I was driving home on the interstate and saw a pickup truck pulling a trailer with the rusted out shell of an old car on it. All I know was that the car on that trailer was an antique. And it was covered in rust from bumper to bumper. I could tell from the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 6, 2004
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Forgiveness in Action
Pastor Hayes a man in his middle forties, was well-loved by his congregation, and faithful to God and to his family. He enjoyed a successful ministry in an exuberantly vital, growing church. Just when everything seemed to be going well, a cloud came over this man and his
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2006
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Compassion –Acts of kindness showing God’s love.
A Hospice physician living in Denver, Colorado wrote about his experience of showing God’s kindness to a desperate mother.
I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and
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Free Methodist
Contributed by John Herrmann on Mar 25, 2011
EVER BEEN BOTHERED BY PEOPLE?
Sometimes church and worship can keep us from the living water people need and that we need. People can actually hide behind church, the machinery of church and worship.
Recently I attended a Wednesday Lenten service with my wife in my former church. A stranger - a
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 23, 2001
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Josh McDowell, a dedicated Christian intellectual, wrote, "I was invited to speak in a university in South America. Because of the university’s Marxist leanings, I was the first American to speak there in four years, & it was a tense situation.
"Big photographs of me had been posted all over
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Here is a story by a guy named Cliff Davis, which portrays in a beautiful way what childlike faith is all about. One afternoon in early autumn, Ric (the husband/father in the other family) and I were setting out on our tractor to pick up a wagon, which we had a few days earlier lent to a neighbor.
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Contributed by Ken Schlenker on Aug 7, 2002
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Humility was a Hebrew word meaning the lowering of the Nile River. Now I know a lot of Egyptians friends that use to come through Galilee and we would talk and they would tell me that the Nile River meant everything to them. They were totally dependent upon it. When the Nile River went down so
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2002
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Steve Brown, a popular radio bible teacher, says that one morning after a Church service a lady came up to him and said, "I wanted to meet you because I have listened to your sermons on the radio and they have turned my life around. I didn’t know the Lord, and my whole life has been changed because
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Contributed by David Ward on Dec 16, 2004
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There’s a story that Abraham Lincoln went to a slave market one time, and was moved with compassion to place a bid on a young black girl. He won the bid and walked away with his “property.” There was a sullen, angry expression on the girl’s face, because she knew that here was another white man
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 24, 2005
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It was the end of the autumn season, past bulb-planting time.
The greenhouse operator had gathered all the unsold tulip bulbs and, finding that these leftovers were mostly in inferior anyway, was bagging them for the trash bin. The good ones had been sold, so he wasn’t concerned about the loss of
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