Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 23, 2011
REUNITED
This week (1-11) an interesting story hit the presses:
A woman who was kidnapped as a newborn 23 years ago says finding her real mother "felt like a dream."
Carlina White was just 19 days old when she disappeared from Harlem Hospital in New York. She tells the New York Post that when
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IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG
I remember a time when I had misplaced my good pen and I was looking for it everywhere. I looked in drawers. I looked under things, behind things and in things. I looked on the floor, but it was nowhere. And then I found it. I was holding it in my mouth the whole time.
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Contributed by William Beard on May 22, 2007
MARY MASON wrote a poem called: “It’s Coronation Day”.
“The house (he/she) lived in seems so still;
The eyes no longer see;
The lips, half smiling, do not speak.
Is this finality?
Our hearts shout, “No! It’s not the end!
Her life has just begun!”
TODAY is Coronation Day:
For her, the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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When Michigan played Wisconsin in basketball early in season in 1989, Michigan’s Rumeal Robinson stepped to the foul line for two shots late in the fourth quarter. His team trailed by one point, so Rumeal could regain the lead for Michigan. He missed both shots, allowing Wisconsin to upset favored
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Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 26, 2008
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ILLUSTRATION: I thought of this as we were discussing living the eternity driven life…
A man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he sent his wife a quick
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Mar 1, 2008
A lady had just moved into a new apartment and was besieged by salesmen for everything from laundry service to life insurance. One busy day a dairyman came to the door. "No," she said firmly, "My husband and I don’t drink milk."
"Be glad to deliver a quart every morning for cooking."
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
One of the great benefits of the worship-filled life is you see God working in your home and family life. I have seen God do some amazing things in Kendra’s life and in the life of my kids. Sometimes they are things that could easily be missed. For example, Micaela has the cutest little smile and
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Church Of God
Jill Rigby stated, “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” (Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World, page 11).
Rigby makes this observation about our society today: “When I was growing up, people weren’t perfect, but society was certainly more
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 21, 2008
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TOO BUSY TO LOVE
A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company. Then the father noted a change in his daughter. If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going. He grieved about it, but could not understand.
When his birthday came, she presented him
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
Most of us believe that we know what a tree needs in order to grow tall and strong and thus be able to produce enough oxygen to sustain animal and human life. We know to plant it in very rich healthy soil, we know to water it, and we know that it needs sunshine. This experiment was done, not to see
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
In our study group, it was mentioned that if someone broke in and stole all the Christmas gifts not to mention the decorations and Christmas ham, then most of us would have a pretty miserable Christmas. Very few of us would get up and see the empty house and walk outside and start singing the
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 26, 2009
BE A LINE-GUIDE
When they were teaching me to march in the Navy, for a while until they learned that I have eye problems (go figure) they made me a line-guide. A line-guide is in the front corner of the ranks and marches straight, so that everyone else can mark their place off him.
The line-guide
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 12, 2009
HOSEA 2: LOW-DOWN PERSON
I was watching an old movie on television and I heard a line that I’d missed before. The villain of this comedy was talking on the phone and said something like: "Sure, I know what kind of low-down person would sue his own mother, but we’re not talking about me!" It caught
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