Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
It seems that people haven’t got a clue about spiritual truth. Many believe that the dead are roaming the earth as spirits or ghosts to help or haunt the living. Dale Earnhart Jr. in his account of his narrow escape from a burning sports car, as his Dad (Dale Earnhart SR -deceased) pulled him
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 20, 2006
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"The religious dead play at a façade of piety while trusting that the big check they dropped in the plate today will cover for their indulgence in the lusts of the flesh yesterday.
They take a week or two to travel to a third world country and pass out rice and Bibles and that washes away any
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Orthodox
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 8, 2007
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Quote from Generation Me by Jean Twenge- Young people have learned these self-lessons very well. In a letter to her fans in 2004, Britney Spears, 23, listed her priorities as "Myself, my husband, Kevin, and starting a family." We don’t have to hear that twice to get the point. We take it for
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 4, 2010
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BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE
Perhaps you remember the farm family who, many years ago, lived in dire poverty. One Christmas someone sent them their first mirror. The teen-aged boy saw himself for the first time. He said to his mother: "Mom, look how ugly I am. How can you love me when you see how dirty
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Why women choose abortions from National Right to Life:
Ē Social Reasons (given as primary reason)
Ē 25% - Feels unready for child/responsibility
Ē 23% - Feels she can't afford baby
Ē 19% - Has all the children she wants
Ē 8% - Relationship problems/Single
Ē 7% - Feels she isn't mature
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Mar 12, 2010
Minnesota Crime Commission…
"Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it: his bottle, his mother's attention, his playmate's toys, his uncle's watch, or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Perry on Apr 6, 2010
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EASTER: OPEN CASKET
I was speaking to a woman recently who told me the sad story of her daughter in-law who was killed in a car accident. She explained how she had been the one who was responsible for the identifying of her daughter in-law's body. When the time for the funeral came, the distraught
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Aug 10, 2010
STRIKING THE LAST NOTE
It is said of one of the famous composers that he had a rebellious son who used to come in late at night after his father and mother had gone to bed. And before going to his own room, he would go to his father's piano and slowly, as well as loudly, play a simple scale, all
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2010
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A SPECIAL VISITOR
This past Tuesday, it was difficult to drive in and out of our church parking lot because of a barrage of traffic down Webster Street. Where did this traffic come from? Downtown was blocked off because President Obama and Vice-President Biden were speaking at a closed meeting a
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Independent/Bible
MAKE THE FIRST MOVE
Many years ago I was preaching in a little mountain church in a close community. There was a division between two men in the church over a cow. Their families had been at odds, and they had brought the argument into the church. One of the men bought a cow and the other man
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Bible Church
Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 3, 2012
From the Olympics I found some really sad stuff, there was a report about a swimmer and a gold medal swimmer to boot whose own mother said that he had no time for meaningful relationships and could only have one night stands, or the cyclist who crashed deliberately to get a restart and went on to
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Sep 2, 2012
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THE HOLMES BROTHERS ON PRIDE
The brilliant physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and his brother John represent two radically different views on the subject of flattery.
Dr. Holmes loved to collect compliments, and when he was older he indulged his pastime by saying to someone who had
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Brethren
Contributed by Tim Smith on Jan 6, 2013
STRESSED OUT SANTA
A shopping mall Santa Claus in California had a meltdown after refusing to cuddle a bawling toddler, calling the mother evil and ripping off his beard and costume in front of startled children. Kelly Fornatoro, 33, said she told Santa her 19 month old son, Brian, would stop
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Methodist
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
A man was walking down a street when he noticed in
a store window a beautiful painting of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He stood there gazing at the picture for the longest than realized that a little boy was standing beside him. He patted the little boy on the head and said, "Son, what does
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Baptist
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