Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 9, 2017
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“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,” (John 10:4 paraphrase)
When I was growing up, my uncle Otto was my favorite uncle. He lived on a big farm and milked about 100 cows every morning and evening.
One day he had all the cows out in the far back pasture he called the “back forty.” It was the
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Mar 5, 2024
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Humor: Spit it Out!
One Sunday morning after church as I was shaking hands with a young dad, suddenly he said, “Pastor, excuse me, please.” He had noticed his little 4-year-old with something in her mouth. Fearing what she may have in her mouth, he demanded her to
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Let me tell you a story to bring this passage home. Back in the 1800s, the thick forest of northern Michigan there was a young logger, confident in his sense of direction, set out one crisp morning to scout new timber. The forest was dense, the sky hidden by a canopy of green. Hours passed, and as
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The Quarter of Remembrance by Mike Cope (reprinted)
http://preachermike.com/2007/12/21/two-bits-of-memory
I actually got to meet Dr. Channing Barrett, though I don’t remember the meeting because I was too young. But that doesn’t change my picture of him as a young man walking a marathon of miles
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Contributed by Michael Gibney on Jun 8, 2002
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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the
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Contributed by Jack Kale on Sep 30, 2017
Rain on the Rocks
We were on the last morning of a five day float down the Buffalo River in Arkansas. Our family joined another for the second annual Kale-Parker river trip. Everyone had their own boat and each was packed with supplies ranging from coolers, cook-wear, clothes, fishing gear, and
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 13, 2018
Note: this story is told by me - Jim Butcher of Madison WV.
I want to tell you a story about an insight that God gave me into John 14:1-4, the passage where Jesus speaks of going to prepare a place for us. This is the story of something that happened to me several years ago while I was in
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 13, 2025
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[198]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – O FOREST, HOW YOU WEEP IN PAIN
This is a serious poem and I like it very much. Like most of my poems it comes out of some personal experience.
If this was a musical composition it would be in a minor key. The summary is, “O forest, how you weep in pain, but
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Sir Earnest Shackleton’s epic tale of survival and courage began with dreams of being the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. En route, the Endurance became beset in the ice deep within the Weddell Sea and drifted with the pack for ten months before finally being crushed and sunk in
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An old Jewish folktale bears witness to the importance of sharing in the tradition.
There were once two brothers who farmed together. They shared equally in all of the work and split the profits exactly. Each had his own storehouse. One of the brothers was married and had a large family. The
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Contributed by John Knight on Jul 15, 2002
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If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it. -Spanish Proverb
Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and more than 1000 other things. December 1914 he had worked for 10 years on a storage battery. This had greatly
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