Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
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I say, "my car," but it’s not really my car, it’s the Lord’s. He has just loaned it to me to use for Him. Every bit of metal, plastic, every bit of glass and for my car, every bit of rust belongs to God. And someday my car will be dropped into some giant compressing machine, be folded up into about
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 8, 2009
I don’t know what will happen this year. I know that a lot of us are struggling in many ways especially financially. Food prices are going up. A loaf of bread at Wal-mart used to be around 80 cents a couple of years ago. Now it is over a dollar. 10 pounds of potatoes used to be 2 dollars or less.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Dennis Cocks on Apr 22, 2006
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What would you be willing to do for $10 million? From survey results found in The Day America Told the Truth, 1 of 4 respondents would abandon their entire family, 23 percent said they would become a prostitute for a week, 16 percent noted they would leave their spouse, and 3 percent confided they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
Where Does The Money Go? A recent Your Church magazine survey finds U.S. churches spend their median $203,590 annual budget as follows: 43% for staff compensation, 20% for facilities (rent, mortgage, utilities, upkeep), 16% for missions, 9% for church programs, 6% for administration and supplies,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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Hello Kitty, Goodbye Money? Last year Visa introduced a Hilary Duff gift card in five denominations and urged tween girls to “shop like a star.” Now MasterCard has announced a Hello Kitty debit card. That can be reloaded. The primary target is younger girls ages 10-14. Legend Credit Inc.,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Gambling draws more money from American pockets than movies, videos, music and books combined, according to the latest figures from Christiansen Capital Advisors. Americans now lose $68
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 20, 2002
What some people won’t do for money.
In an attempt to collect 40,000 euros ($44,780) in insurance payments, a 58-year-old German landscape gardener had a friend cut off his thumb and forefinger with a chainsaw.
According to authorities, the gardener held onto a cutting board while his accomplice,
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Moi Kieng Ting on Aug 9, 2007
A large sum of money was given to [a man named] Rowland Hill to dispense to a poor pastor. Thinking that the amount was too much to send all at once, Hill forwarded just a portion along with a note that said simply, ‘More to follow.’ In a few days the man received another envelope containing the
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Methodist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 10, 2008
"Money ’is useless to me know, without my family...they were washed away’." Thein Myint, a broken fisherman who lost 28 relatives in the recent Myanmar cyclone. (LA
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