A little girl looked up at her daddy while sitting on his lap and asked, "Daddy, I need to ask you something. Is God dead?"
The father said, "Honey, why in the world are you asking me such a ridiculous question! What would make you ask me such a question?"
His daughter
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Contributed by Scott Miller on Dec 21, 2004
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Boynton, Florida - For their attempt to raise money to attend the police academy, Michael Harrison and Kevin Carter were
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Contributed by Kevin Earls on Oct 25, 2006
Illustration: I’m Raising Kids!
Harmon Killebrew, the great baseball player of yesteryear, tells in his autobiography about growing up in a home with four boys. He says that on one occasion his father was out in the front yard playing baseball with the boys and a neighbor walked by and said, "Mr.
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
‘Raising children is quantifiably the most persistently unselfish act known to mankind, as millions of veterans of sleepless nights will attest. Parenthood is when "I" takes a backseat to "thou" -- when the infant-self submits to adulthood so that
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the
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Years ago, the Sheriff's office in a Texas city distributed a list of rules titled, "How To Raise A Juvenile Delinquent In Your Own Family."
Rule One: Begin with infancy to give the child everything he wants. This will insure his believing that the world owes him a living.
Rule Two:
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering we are where and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time,
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Contributed by Gary Macdonald on Dec 13, 2002
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This prayer was found in the clothing of a dead child at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
O Lord, remember not only the men and woman of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all of the suffering they have inflicted upon us:
Instead remember the fruits we have borne because of
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jun 26, 2006
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A pastor wrote:
"Some time ago I saw a picture of an old burned-out mountain shack. All that remained was the chimney...the charred debris of what had been that family’s sole possession. In front of this destroyed home stood an old grandfather-looking man dressed only in his underclothes with a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"There is nothing quite so dead as a self-centered man a man who holds himself up as a self-made success, and measures himself
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In 1947, Muhammad adh-Dhib, a twelve-year-old Arab boy, made one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. While looking for a lost goat in Qumran, near the Dead Sea, he threw a stone into a cave and heard the sound of shattering pottery. Curious about the noise, he entered the cave
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