Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 26, 2001
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Skip Gray in his book, The Way of The Cross says,
Tradition tells us that around the time when Jesus was a teenager, there was a rebellion near where he lived. The Roman army crushed the rebellion but they didn’t want it to happen again, so they crucified an Israelite every 10 meters along the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 7, 2004
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One day, educator and comedian Sam Levinson was standing with a group of men who seemed to tower above him. Someone asked, "Sam, don’t you feel strange surrounded by so many tall people?" He replied, "Yes, I do. I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies!"
This reminded me that we who are
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Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 10, 2006
Little babies, whose concepts of reality are still being formed, lack the ability to realize that when their father is out of their sight that they still exist. A father can spend hours with her infant, put it down in the crib, walk away – and it is as if the father didn’t even exist anymore to
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Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Oct 5, 2007
Illustration: Influence
One of the strange sights on the Dutch Windward Islands in the Caribbean is the Divi-Divi tree. Because the winds blow almost constantly from the east, all of the branches grow on one side of the tree. You can look at a Divi-Divi tree and always know which is east and
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Baptist
Contributed by Rick George on Mar 19, 2009
"The distinguishing mark of saving faith is not perfection. The mark of faith is not that I never sin...The mark of faith is that I fight. I fight anything that dims my sight of Jesus as my glorious Savior. I fight anything that diminishes the fullness of the lordship of Jesus in my life. I fight
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 1, 2007
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“When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the captain of the ship sought to turn him back. “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Apr 3, 2008
"A lady once came to Billy Sunday and tried to rationalize her angry outbursts. "There’s nothing wrong with losing my temper," she said. "I blow up, and then it’s all over."
"So does a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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One-liners about Baldness
“Don’t regard it as losing hair. Think of it as gaining face.”
“The good man always comes out on top.”
“At least it’s neat.”
“God only made so many
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Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
A lady once came to Billy Sunday and tried to rationalize her angry outbursts. "There’s nothing wrong with losing my temper," she said. "I blow up, and then it’s all over." "So does a shotgun,"
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Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 2, 2001
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Carmine DeSena in The Air Down Here (Chronicle Books, 1995, p. 7) states, “There’s a lesson my grandmother use to recite: ‘The world is like a hand and all the people its fingers. If you hate and destroy one
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Holiness
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 21, 2007
Zig Ziglar: “When you throw dirt at people you’re not doing a thing but losing ground.”
Chinese Proverb: “Let the man who says it cannot be done not disturb the man doing it.”
If you are a Christian, you can
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Wesleyan
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