Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 29, 2009
UNLIKELY PREDICTIONS
Toronto Maple Leafs – rough start to their Season. First eight games were loses. Then hope was born... we got Phil Kessel of the Boston Bruins! Haven’t won the cup since 1967 – yes, I was only 5 years old. People laugh. Leaf jokes are now hotter than Newfie jokes!
Things are
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 15, 2010
Physical death will continue until the Lord returns and takes us home to heaven. However, the sting has been taken out of death. A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window. The little boy, who was allergic to bee
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 14, 2010
ACCEPTING THIS PART OF THE PLAN
Years ago, the church I was serving did a cantata, during which one of the choir members gave a brief testimony. He was a beloved man who had been battling cancer. After acknowledging that he had asked all the questions and experienced all the emotions he simply
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by John Perry on Apr 18, 2010
You may have read the story of Tom Smitheringale & how he revealed how close he came to perishing in an icy grave in the last few days. The explorer survived falling through ice into freezing water during his solo expedition to the North Pole, sustaining only mild hypothermia and frostbite on some
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2010
ABRAHAM VS. BALAAM
Whosoever possesses these three qualities belongs to the disciples of Abraham our father: a generous eye, a humble spirit, and a meek soul. But he who possesses the three opposite qualities--an evil eye, a proud spirit, and a haughty soul--is of the disciples of Balaam the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Moore on May 26, 2010
GOD-FANATICS
Did you know that an online survey of 20 000 football fans revealed that 51% said they would starve themselves for a week if that would bring victory in the upcoming World Cup to their national squad. More than 40% offered to give up dating for a year, 7% said they would gladly give
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
Listen to this insightful observation of A.W. Tozer:
One hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other. They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers meeting
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Baptist
Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 7, 2010
A number of years ago the National Council of Churches declared a week in October to be “Peace and Justice” week. They created an interesting poster to promote the emphasis. The poster depicted a globe or world held aloft by many different colored human hands. What they didn’t realize is that this
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Nazarene
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 14, 2011
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KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
The Johnson and Johnson company once had in their mission statement that employees would “operate with honesty and integrity” Several weeks before a major incident involving Tylenol, the president of Johnson and Johnson sent a memo to all the presidents of divisions in the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
YOU THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER?
A young boy complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring to him. They were far too behind the times, tiresome tunes and meaningless words. He kept talking about it, for many weeks.
One day his father put an end to the discussion by saying, "If
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Independent/Bible
THE ARTIST AND THE GARDENER
Both the artist and the gardener begin with contemplation, paying close attention to what is already there.
The gardner looks carefully at the landscape; the existing plants, both flowers and weeds; the way the sun falls on the land, and so on. The artist regards their
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Baptist
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jun 4, 2011
PLANTING THE WRONG SEEDS
Some time ago the Reader’s Digest magazine told a story about a company who mailed out some special advertising business post cards. Glued to the postcard was a mustard seed. The card also contained the following words:
"If you have faith as small as this mustard seed in
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Brethren
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jul 2, 2011
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SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS
There's an old story of a rich guy who threw a party at his mansion. One of his pride and joys was his new saltwater pool in which he had the ability to let swim in various specious of ocean fish.
He had the party assemble along the edge of the pool as he
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 29, 2011
TOUGH LADIES AND HUMAN NATURE
I used to enjoy the old "Where's the Beef?" commercial.
Everyone, it seems, knows a "where's the beef" type of lady. Germany has them, too:
BERLIN (Reuters) - A feisty 90-year-old German woman chased away three would-be burglars from her rural farmhouse with her
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
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THE GLUE TRAP OF LUST
Adam Hamilton tells the story of moving into his house after it was built only to discover that it was infested with mice. So he got glue traps which have a scent that attracts the mice. They step on it and then are stuck. Then the mice need to be killed and disposed of. He
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Methodist