Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 27, 2008
Illustration: The brick
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.
He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
As his car passed, no children appeared.
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Contributed by Darren Rogers on Jan 11, 2008
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There is a story about an old farmer whose mule fell into a well. After many unsuccessful attempts to haul the mule out of the hole, the farmer decided it was hopeless. With sadness, he instructed his boys to fill up several truckloads of dirt and just bury the old mule right in the well. The boys
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 1, 2009
HIGH SOCIETY: The Princeton Society Directory
When Katie and I were in Seminary years ago, we were broke. So we did whatever we could to get by. One of the things we did was housesitting for people in town when they were on vacation. What we looked for most was folks who would let us use their
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Feb 28, 2001
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In a Charles Schulz Peanuts comic strip Charlie Brown was playing catch with Lucy to prepare their old hapless losing team for the new baseball season. Charlie Brown proceeded to throw a high ball across the field to her. Lucy was ready for the ball to fly into her mitt. She lifted her head up to
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 7, 2002
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Many years ago, a captain of an English ship sailing near Turkey was caught in a storm. As there was no harbour nearby he let down the anchor, but the wind blew so fiercely that it began to drag the anchor. It couldn’t get a grip on the sandy seabed and so the ship began to drift. Another anchor
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 23, 2002
Security and peace of mind come when we recognize that even though we cannot control certain circumstances, God can. Annie Johnson Flint, almost an invalid, understood how confidence in God leads to peace of mind when she wrote a poem titled, "But God":
I know not, but God knows;
Oh, blessed
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jul 26, 2006
The captain of an ocean steamer tells that on one occasion his ship was engulfed in a dense fog off the coast of Newfoundland. It was Wednesday evening and the captain had been on the bridge for 24 hours when he was startled by someone tapping on his shoulder. He turned and saw one of his
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Baptist
Contributed by John Shearhart on Aug 19, 2006
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“Picture a coin falling toward the ground under the influence of gravity. In itself, that coin is powerless to overcome the downward pull of this earth. It is in its very nature to fall. But before it has gone far, someone reaches out an arm, holds the coin firmly in his hand, and then lifts it
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 16, 2007
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Listen to this insight from Dr. Ray Vander Laan:
In the first century, when a young Jewish man reached marrying age and his family selected an appropriate wife for him, the young man and his father would meet the young woman and her father to negotiate the “bride price,” the figurative cost of
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Contributed by W F on Mar 31, 2007
But how can it be, as Christians claim, that the Bible has one Author but many writers?
It’s helpful to see it like this. Maybe you’ve been watching the series on the ABC called, “Constructing Australia.” Last week’s episode was all about the construction of the Kalgoorlie pipeline which carries
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 15, 2011
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BEAUTY FROM WHAT HE PUTS IN
There once was a brier growing in a ditch when a gardener came along with his spade and dug it up. He dug around it and gently lifted it out of the ground, bringing the brier to ask itself, "What is he doing? Doesn’t he know I’m a worthless brier?"
But the gardener
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