Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
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ILL. A few years ago Paul Harvey wrote in Guidepost Magazine about his own baptism. He said that even though he had received almost every reward for his broadcasting powers & ability that he still felt empty inside.
Well, one summer he & his wife were vacationing in a place called Cave Creek,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002
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TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT
A friend of mine opened his wife’s drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
"This, - he said - isn’t any ordinary package."
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"She got this the first time we went to New
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THE STORY OF THE UGLY BABY, BIG CHICKEN.
One day the farmer was out near the hen house. The farmer noticed this big, ugly chicken
outside the lot. The farmer picked up the big ugly chicken and threw him back into the chicken lot.
The farmer often noticed how peculiar this big, ugly chicken acted.
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Bill Huffhine on May 27, 2004
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As a kid, I loved this Gilligan’s Island! I would jump off of the school bus, race across the yard, bolt through the door and down the hall to dump my books off on my bed, get back to the living room just in time to plop on the floor 12 inches away from the screen (yes mom, I know I’ll hurt my
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
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He was described as a man who “dangled the power of life and death over his fellow countrymen and murdered anyone who stood in his way...” By the end of the 1970s, Manuel Noriega had earned a reputation as the most feared man in Panama.
In 1983 he promoted himself to general and gained control of
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
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In June 1839, a Spanish schooner left the shore of Havana, Cuba and set SAIL for Porta Prince, another part of the ISLAND. The CARGO in the BOWELS of La Amistad (the name of the BOAT, which ironically means, The Friendship) was 53 Africans KIDNAPPED from the Mendi village of West Africa and
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
SONG – GOD BLESS AMERICA.
An eerie quiet fell over the battlefield near the French city of Verdun. It was Nov. 11, 1918, and the guns were abruptly silent. Some of the soldiers sank to the ground; others stared into space. Some began to shake. The Great War was finished, but the men could not
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Contributed by John Herrmann on Jun 21, 2011
WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE'S NO FIREWORKS
Around sunset one very hot summer’s eve when we (in the Army Chaplaincy) were in Iraq, about forty miles north of Baghdad, we saw the military police pull up in the building just next door. Out came two Iraqi Prisoners of War, their hands were shackled behind
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OUR WHITE STONE NAME
In the BBC reality show Monastery, a group of five men from diverse backgrounds voluntarily join a Benedictine monastery for a span of forty days. The five men don't have to assent to Christian beliefs, but they do have to respect and follow the monks' communal requirements--a
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