Contributed by Walter Rogers on Apr 3, 2007
2. John Stephen Akhawri
a. Tanzania, Mexico City Olympics, 1968
i. Badly cut and dislocated knee, asked why he did not retire from the race…
b. “My Country did not send me to Mexico to City to start the race, They
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Adventist
Contributed by David Yarbrough on May 20, 2002
Billy Sunday was a pro Baseball player in the early 1900’s who became one of the most famous preachers of his day and laid the groundwork for Billy Graham in Crusade Evangelism. Billy Sunday said “Stopping at third adds no more to the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Dec 28, 2002
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The great preacher F.B. Meyer once asked D.L. Moody, “What is the secret of your success?” Moody replied, “For many years I have never given an address without the consciousness that the Lord may come before I have finished.” This may
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Darren Rogers on Sep 6, 2007
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A wood carver one day was carving a piece of wood, having many beautiful pieces already finished around him. What beautiful work he could do. Someone asked him how he did such wonderful work. The woodcarver
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Baptist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
“Not long after a wealthy contractor had finished building the Tombs prison in New York, he was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to several years in the prison he built! As he was escorted into a cell of his own making the
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 29, 2008
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A child's father kept bringing home office work just about every night. Finally his first-grader son asked why. Daddy explained that he had so much work, he couldn't finish it all during the day. The boy
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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FAKING THE GRAIN
Wood craftsmen and finishers of fine furniture are not nearly as common to our times as they were 100 years ago. For that matter, they are not found as much today as they were around even 25 years ago.
Some of these men were literally artists when it came to taking an old piece
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THE THREE RACES
A boy realised that God had made him fast. He wanted to have a race in his village to prove his speed. People from his village and the surrounding villages were invited, either as competitors or spectators. A wise man came to watch the race, which the boy won easily. Everyone
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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Toyohiko Kagawa, the Japanese Christian who spent his life working with and for the poor, was speaking at Princeton. When he finished his talk, one student said to another, "He didn’t say much, did he?" A woman sitting nearby leaned
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Toyohiko Kagawa, the Japanese Christian who spent his life working with and for the poor, was speaking at Princeton. When he finished his talk, one student said to another, "He didn’t say much, did he?" A woman sitting nearby leaned
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Contributed by Russ Barksdale on Dec 27, 2007
Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, who had treated Bob Cratchit with such disdain and indifference finally breaks down and shows favor to Cratchit’s family. He brings gifts and food to the Cratchit family on that Christmas day, showing favor to each one
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Baptist
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
THE OWL
Two taxidermists stopped before a window in which an owl was on display. They immediately began to criticize the way it was mounted. Its eyes were not natural; its wings were not in proportion with its head; its feathers were not neatly arranged; and its feet could be improved.
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Brethren
Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
Recently Jeanie and I have been working on a project to install a mantle above our fireplace. It is going to be beautiful when we finish it, if we ever finish it. The problem is that we started with a piece of wood that had already been molded into something else. It had been a piece of
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Charismatic
Contributed by David Ward on Dec 16, 2004
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David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing his sermon. His little daughter came in and said, "Daddy, can we play?" He answered, "I’m awfully sorry, Sweetheart, but I’m right in the middle of preparing this sermon.
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
A year or so ago, on the cover of the New York “Herald Tribune” Sunday magazine, I saw a picture of the Statue of Liberty taken from a helicopter. It showed the top of the statue’s head. I was amazed to see the detail there. The sculptor had done a painstaking job with the lady’s coiffure, yet he
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Pentecostal
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