Contributed by Joel Pankow on Oct 25, 2001
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On the TV show called the X-Files, they had a story about a family that used to keep an ugly looking creature in their basement. And what was even stranger was that people would bring their sick and dying family members over to see this creature and they would come back healthy. When Scully and
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Contributed by Kelly Benton on Feb 3, 2026
Before power steering, turning a car was basically CrossFit.
Two hands on the wheel.
Face red.
Whole body involved.
You didn’t turn—you wrestled that thing like it owed you money.
Then power steering came along. And suddenly a pinky finger could do what used to take a full upper-body workout.
Same
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Nona Freeman, the great missionary, once related this story about something that happened in Ghana:
A student from a college in Carbondale, Illinois gave another student from Ghana a tract. In Ghana when a student goes away to college everyone in their tribe contributes something but when they
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 23, 2002
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Scientists hypothesize that if time travel were possible and we could go back 1000 years, one of the things that would shock us most would be the silence. Think about it. All the background noise of our modern world: television, telephones, radios, cars, planes, refrigerators...none of which
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Contributed by Rae Fitch on May 9, 2002
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The story is told of a man who took an evening flight on which dinner was to be served to the passengers. Of course he was in first class, so we can expect that he would have received first class service and a first class meal. He was a bit hungry as he had missed lunch that day in order to
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"The great accomplishments of the world have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is
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in every cognitive process, truth is not something that we produce, it is always found, or better, received. Truth, like love, “is neither planned nor
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 11, 2007
"It is Well with My Soul" is one of my much loved hymns. I don’t know if you might be familiar with the chronicle behind it or not, but the man who authored the lyrics of this beautiful hymn lost his whole family at sea. Horatio Spafford, a successful businessman, had dispatched his family ahead of
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Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Feb 25, 2008
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Let me share an example from my own experience. I was privileged to be on the mission field of East Africa in 1963. While in Tanzania (then called Tanganyika) I was blessed to work alongside Bill Lewis, our Southern Baptist missionary to the Rungwe district near Mbeyu. Bill was one of the
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Baptist
Contributed by Chris Surber on Mar 14, 2009
Not long ago my family and I were on vacation at Disney World in Florida. Everything at Disney World is of course of a very inflated price and occasionally of an inflated value. One morning we were waiting for a transport shuttle to take us from our Disney resort where we were staying to one of
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