A little boy wanted to meet God.He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks,he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, just staring at some
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When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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Jim Rhodes: God’s Complainer
Driving through Mineral Wells, Texas, one afternoon in 1994, Jim Rhodes noticed many buildings standing vacant due to the shutdown of a local military base. "I always complain to God about things that bother me," says Rhodes, "so I asked him, ’Why aren’t these buildings
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
Facing The Storm
In 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a "hurricane party" in the face of a storm named Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We’ll never
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 13, 2008
Opportunity: Billy Graham
In his autobiography, Just as I Am, Billy Graham tells about a conversation he had with John F. Kennedy shortly after his election:
“On the way back to the Kennedy house, the president-elect stopped the car and turned to me. ‘Do you believe in the Second Coming of Jesus
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The following information is from the website legendsofamerica.com. Foolish quotes from famous people:
"I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
- Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
“I’ve read about
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Andrew Hill on Feb 10, 2008
When you put your faith in Jesus Christ His righteousness or perfection becomes yours. Let me give you an example of how this works in every day life. The super bowl was just played last Sunday. The Patriots played the Giants. Many of the fans went to the game wearing shirts and hats that had the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Paul Dietz on Mar 19, 2008
The fire has finally died. It’s been snuffed out: Dampened by the coldness of betrayal, denial and doubt. No more glowing embers: Just a few dusty cinders remain laying in one clump. No more smoldering flares: Instead, just a few whiffs of smoke here and there. No more crackles, hisses or snaps of
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Contributed by David Moore on Aug 29, 2008
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The White Stone
The overcomers at Pergamos were given a white stone, and in the stone a new name written.The people of Pergamos were familiar with a number of customs involving the use of a white stone. They used a voters urn in which if you approved of a candidate you placed a white stone bearing
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
Dr. Clarence Macartney illustrates this point by this story
Dr. Macartney claims he had a vision were he
Saw the King seated upon His throne
On either side of the throne, I saw the great angels
Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel
Before the throne stood another angel
The angel of the Book
And by his
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Jan 20, 2009
There is a place near where Christina and I used to live in Florida, called Wall Spring Park. When Sebastian was a baby and then very little and first beginning to walk, she and I would regularly take him there. We would often push him the stroller around this beautiful pathway which had been
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Christian Church
HOW YOU FINISH
James was excited as he turned the two hundred mark heading towards home. Two and three-quarter laps had gone and he was still in the lead. His one and only goal was to win this race and he was full of confidence that he could do it. His thoughts race ahead to the podium, the
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Adventist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY
Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 14, 2013
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WHAT DOES "ALL" MEAN?
I know people who are carrying around a load of guilt over the past and they're loaded down with this extra weight God doesn't want them to have.
I remember a lady in my church in Wiesbaden I'll call Jill. Jill had rebelled against her parents, had been on drugs, had had
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