Opening illustration: Dead Poets Society
Time 14:00-18:22 Mr. Keating gathers his English class in the hallway of the school, telling them to look closely at the pictures of the alumni on the wall: all photos of once invincible, hopeful students, now dead. Mr. Keating asks the students what they
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Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Feb 4, 2004
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A friend often told me about the problems he had getting his son to clean his room. The son would always agree to tidy up, but then wouldn’t follow through. After high school the young man joined the Marine Corps. When he came home for leave after basic training, his father
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 6, 2004
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I have heard Karl Ingersoll, another Grand Mananer and pastor of Fredericton First Wesleyan, say, “The measure of the greatness of a man’s love for God is not found in his attention to the things he has to do, but in his attention to the things he doesn’t have to do.” That is, your salvation
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
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A few years ago, Dr. Paul Vitz, then professor of psychology at New York University, worked with a committee that examined sixty social studies and history textbooks used in public schools across the United States. The committee was amazed to find that almost every reference to the Christian
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Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Nov 22, 2005
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The Emperors club is a movie about this clash between doing what is right and what will increase power and significance. The teacher has a young Senator's Son (Cedrick), who is a leader. After a brief turn in the right direction Cedrick decides to cheat to win the schools greatest honor. As
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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When a mother saw a thunderstorm forming in mid-afternoon, she worried about her seven-year-old daughter who would be walking the three blocks from school to home. Deciding to meet her, the mother saw her walking nonchalantly along, stopping to smile whenever lightning flashed.
Seeing her mother,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
Origins On The Mind: A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 75% of Americans have thought at least a moderate amount about human origins, and 66% say it matters to them which theory is correct. Americans are more likely to endorse a purely creationist view than an evolutionary one. The majority
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Contributed by Clarence Clough on Nov 28, 2006
A young lad was hospitalized because a life-threatening condition had developed. The boy became
sad during the lengthy stay. One of his school teachers asked permission from the nurse to visit the
boy in his room and review grammar and math with him.
When questioned by the nurse, after the lad
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
I worked with my Daddy on Saturdays in the grocery from the time I was a senior in high school through being a senior in college. The farmers would come to the movies on Saturday night and wait until after the double feature and the serial and the previews to pick up their groceries. Daddy would
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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HIGH HOPES
A Mother was taking her four-year-old daughter to school. She was a doctor and had left her stethoscope on the car seat. Her little girl picked it up and very excited began to play with it. Excellent, thought the Doctor, My daughter wants to follow in my footsteps! Then the child spoke
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A column entitled “Lite Fare” that appeared in The Christian Reader shares this story by Sherrie Murphree of Odessa, Texas: “My husband has an almost boundless appetite for ice cream, and it was obvious at a Sunday school party where he helped himself to a good sample of every flavor available.
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