Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 27, 2005
At the tender age of eight, my son Jesse is a sports fanatic. He will run through a wall. He picked up a book about Ichiro, the Seattle Mariners right fielder, from the school library for a “little light” reading. When Jesse comes to the plate for batting, he sticks out his arms and pulls up his
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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A Builder Or a Wrecker
As I watched them tear a building down
A gang of men in a busy town
With a ho-heave-ho, and a lusty yell
They swung a beam and the side wall fell
I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled,
And the men you’d hire if you wanted to build?"
He gave a laugh and said,
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Contributed by Floyd Johnson on Nov 29, 2006
(Ill.) It is a very special glue – not like those we have available to us:
1.There is a very simple glue that holds the little plastic toys that can be thrown against the wall. It sticks, but comes off so easy.
2.Then there is rubber cement – it holds papers together, but allows them to be taken
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Methodist
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Aug 9, 2004
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I can remember another time when Dad and I went to lunch at Wimpy’s. Wimpy’s was one of those hole in the wall kind of establishments that served the basic hot dogs and hamburgers. It was found on the south side of Lansing in a predominately African-American neighborhood.
When we entered this one
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Story: A young man who had been raised as an atheist –was training to be an Olympic diver.
The only religious influence in his life came from his outspoken Christian friend.
The young diver never really paid much attention to what his friend said about Jesus.
One night the diver went to the
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Anglican
Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 16, 2008
We live in a world where the truth is often elusive, like shifting sand. Just west of Yuma, Arizona lay the imperial sand dunes. This is a system extends for more than 40 miles along the eastern edge of the Imperial Valley agricultural region. The dunes are really interesting phenomena of that
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 14, 2009
Scientists at NASA have developed a gun for the purpose of launching dead chickens. It is used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshield of airline jet, military jet, or the space shuttle, at that vehicle’s maximum traveling velocity. The idea being, that it would simulate the frequent incidents of
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2002
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-The First approached the Elephant, and examined his broad and sturdy side. He said this elephant is very much like a wall.
-The Second, feeling of the tusk, said “So very round and smooth and sharp? To me it is mighty clear this elephant is very much like a spear!"
-The Third
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 16, 2002
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There is no room for broad-mindedness in a chemical laboratory. Water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The slightest deviation from the formula – not allowed.
There is nor room for broad-mindedness when it comes to music. The skilled director will not permit his first
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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A new young monk arrives at the Monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not the original manuscripts. So, the new monk goes to the head Abbot to ask him about
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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BEING STILL
Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitted door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the icehouses, and covered with sawdust. Often the ice would
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 27, 2003
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If you don’t believe in miracles, listen to this story.
There was a young girl who lived on New York, and her parents didn’t allow her to play in the streets, so she had to play upstairs. Now where she played it was a third floor window and she would always play by this window. One day she was
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