Contributed by Jim Heidebrecht on Jun 21, 2007
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I want to tell you about a man by the name of Rick Rescorla
He was the Vice President of Security for Morgan Stanley
He predicted the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
Worked 12 hours helping rescue workers looking for survivors
Then he predicted that the Terrorists would try again –
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 15, 2007
There is a guy named Shane Claiborne who sees this Shema of Jesus to do to others as a radical call to a radical way of living. When he was in college at Eastern University near Philly, the newspaper had a headline about some homeless families that were being evicted from an old, abandoned
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Church Of God
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An English missionary doctor named Helen Roseveare, tells this story about an incident she experienced during her time in Zaire, Africa.
One night she had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all they could do the mother died, leaving them with a tiny premature baby and
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST POIGNANT SNAPSHOTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR: A LITTLE GIRL RUNNING NAKED DOWN THE STREET, HER EYES WIDE WITH TERROR, SCREAMING IN PAIN.
B. AT THE TIME, CHUCK COLSON WAS PRESIDENT NIXON’S ASSISTANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE, DEALING WITH DECISIONS INVOLVING THE VIETNAM WAR, AND IN HIS BOOK
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
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MOM AND THE C.S.D.
POEM TO MOM
My son came home from school one day, With a smirk upon his face.
He decided he was smart enough, To put me in my place.
’Guess what I learned in Civics Two, that’s taught by Mr. Wright?
It’s all about the laws today, The ’Children’s Bill of Rights.’
It says I need
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 24, 2008
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BLESSINGS FROM HURRICANE IKE
Tuesday I went out, by myself at first, but later in the day Cindy went with me, to check on many of you. No, I didn’t make it everywhere, but I did make it out I think to most of the communities where we have members. As I visited with folks, and even more folks
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Methodist
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"YOU CAN'T JUST SIT AROUND."
Larry Walters is among the relatively few who have actually turned their dreams into reality. Larry was a truck driver, but his lifelong dream was to fly. When he graduated from high school, he joined the Air Force in hopes of becoming a pilot. Unfortunately, poor
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 29, 2009
KEYS TO THE KINGDOM?
At a former church, the day I started my job as an associate pastor I was given a set of keys to the church by one of the Trustees, Bill. Bill told me, "Peter, these are not all the keys to the church, we are only giving you four keys: One key to the church building, one key
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Sep 28, 2017
MARY
Several years ago I learned that a friend had died. Mary Mott, a member of the church during the years we lived in Virginia, had passed away at about eighty years of age. Mary was a soft-spoken lady with a sweet and gentle manner. But apart from being a pleasant lady who was easy to like,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Todd Catteau on Jun 1, 2021
I’m a terrible typist. I’m old enough to have taken typing class in high school when that kind of thing was taught, but I never thought that I would need to be proficient on a keyboard; so I bowed out. Typing was not in my future. But here I am on a keyboard just about every workday hunting and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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This two-part story can frame a message on heaven, hope or the resurrection.
The 1989 Armenian earthquake needed only 4 minutes to flatten the nation and kill 30,000 people. Moments after the deadly tremor ceased, a father raced to an elementary school to save his son. When he arrived, he saw that
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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