Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Apr 20, 2007
A few years ago my wife and I spent a few days at Triple Creek Ranch near Galena, IL. It’s a retreat center for ministry couples. We enjoyed long walks through some parts of the ranch, and drove through some more remote areas. In one section there were a number of Llamas. It was interesting to
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Denomination:
Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
In 1925, Betty Stam said: "Lord, I give up my own purposes and plans, all my own desires, hopes, and ambitions, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever. I hand over to Thy keeping all of my friendships; all the people whom I love are to
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
Back on the ranch where I spent my summers when I was young, my Dad and some of the other men used to break horses to ride and then would train them for various tasks according to their abilities and breeding.
The first thing they always did was to gain the animal’s trust. They would then trained
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Many years ago, I bought myself a car which my children dubbed ’a banger’,although I bought this car to regain my freedom from car thieves who visited my previous car on three occasions, it however served me very well and fit for purpose. I packed it with total freedom anywhere I liked even without
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 23, 2007
When my wife and I first got married, we moved to St. Louis where I started seminary. It was a stressful time the first year. I started learning Greek and Hebrew and learned the fine art of being married. I had enough time in my schedule to clean the house, do the dishes and do the laundry while
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Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Virgil Gibson on Oct 17, 2007
Several years ago my wife and I bought our 2 small grandsons new bicycles for their birthdays. We did not have a truck available at the time, so we bought the bikes unassembled.
My son and I realized that it would not be a big task to assemble the bikes. We began the process without reading the
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Denomination:
Apostolic
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
A while ago my wife had a job evaluation from her employer. Her boss commended her for doing a good job, and she received a nominal raise in pay. Nothing that would change her lifestyle, but an increase in pay none the less.
Upon leaving the evaluation she said to her boss, “Thank you for the
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Erik Stadler on Dec 21, 2007
When I was in sixth grade, my teacher had us all write essays on what we would do with a million dollars. We shared them in class and the teacher said “Now listen to how you say you are going to use the
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Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
Me and my father-in-law used to have a project we liked to work on together. It was with chickens. On several occasions we incubated some eggs. He had an incubator and I would care for it while the eggs were “cooking.”
One of the key elements in hatching those eggs was temperature control
If the
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Baptist
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