Contributed by Richard Sharp on Oct 27, 2007
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Ill- The Fable of the Jealous eagle (Taken from an old "Our Daily Bread")
The Great Evangelist DL Moody once told a fable of an eagle who was envious of another that could fly better than he could. One day the bird saw a sportsman with a bow and arrow and said to him “I wish you
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Baptist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
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If you’re wearing a parachute, and thrown from an airplane, you have decisions to make – how long will you wait before you do something? Will you pull the ripcord, or will you act as if you don’t have one? Will you take off the parachute, or leave it on? Will you keep your eyes open, or close
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Christian/Church Of Christ
WHAT DOES A MOUNTAIN LOOK LIKE FROM AN EAGLE’S EYE?
When I was a child my Dad pastored a country church in Clemont County, Ohio.
Our garden was an important part of our life. We ate from the garden fresh food, and in the winter we had canned food.
We were working in the garden, planting Hickory
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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Doctors from Coral Gables, Fla., compared the efficiency of the heart’s pumping action in 18 men with coronary artery disease to nine healthy controls. Each of the study participants underwent one physical stress test (riding an exercise bicycle) and three mental stress tests (doing math problems
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jul 10, 2003
He was from South Carolina and all this Baptist preacher ever wanted in life was to provide leadership to a Bible College. All his life, he worked for the position and eventually attained it. As he fulfilled his life’s dream and vocation, the disease of Alzheimer’s struck his wife. Her health
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2005
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In a recent article from Christianity Today.com songwriter and author, Michael Card reminds us of the four ‘successive curve balls’ that Job had thrown his way. There were the three ‘curve balls’ of financial destruction as Job’s wealth was taken away in a string of attacks on his property and
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Church Of God
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
I remember when I was 16 years old how I made my first profession of faith. Our church was in revival with Bro. Bobby McGilliard leading the service. Through his message God began to reveal to me that I was lost and headed for a place called Hell. I went forward and one of the councilors took me to
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Baptist
Contributed by David Moore on Jan 17, 2007
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A Sunday School teacher had just concluded her lesson and wanted to make sure she had made her point. She said, "Can anyone tell me what you must do before you can obtain forgiveness of sin?" There was a short pause and then, from the
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Pentecostal
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David Glass was the CEO of the Wal-Mart from 1988 – 2000. Back in 1962, he heard that a guy named Sam Walton was about to hold the grand opening for his second store in Harrison, Arkansas. Glass, who was running a successful drug-store chain in Missouri, decided to attend Sam Walton’s grand
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Picture a scene from the Old West, sometime in the 1870s. Weary cowboys in dusty Levi’s gather around a blazing campfire after a day on the open range. The lonely howl of a coyote counterpoints the notes of a guitar as the moon floats serenely overhead. Suddenly a bellow of pain shatters the night,
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 26, 2003
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Earlier this month, the Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas was brought to a dramatic close when a seven-year-old, white Bengal tiger attacked Roy and drug him off the stage before an audience of 1500 people. It was Roy’s 59th birthday, and shortly after introducing the Tiger, it bit Roy on the
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Methodist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
fACING THE TRUTH: BEVERLY SILLS
Confession is admission of something; it is an act of disclosure. Here's a story in the Ladies’ Home Journal as once quoted in The Reader’s Digest:
Being general director of the New York opera took a toll on Beverly Sills; she ballooned into obesity. "It made me
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Salvation Army
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