The Times-Reporter of New Philadelphia, Ohio, reported in September, 1985 a shocking discovery at a New Orleans municipal pool. The party around the pool was held to celebrate the first summer in memory without a drowning at the New Orleans city pool. 
In honor of the occasion, 200 people
                    
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                    ATHEISTS DECRY ’9/11 
CROSS’ MEMORIAL
A campaign to incorporate Ground Zero’s "miracle debris" steel cross into the design of a planned permanent memorial has been targeted by atheists who say it would be "unconstitutional, inappropriate and insulting." According to "The New York Daily News,"
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ONE ACT OF BRAVERY
A firefighter performs one act of bravery in his career, and that’s when he takes the oath of office, after that, everything else is in the line of duty.   
SOURCE:  Special Operation’s Chief John Moran,
                    
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                    Contributed by David  Yarbrough on May 29, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had them push his car
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale Rose on Apr 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had them push his car
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE TALE OF THE STAR 
Eusebius, a scholarly church historian of the early fourth century, evidently made a considerable study of the literature available to him, and came to this conclusion about the star: "The star was new and a stranger among the usual lights of heaven, a strange star, not one
                    
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                    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jan 14, 2008
                
                
                
                    "Throw off your old evil nature which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.  Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes.  You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God’s likeness — righteous, holy, and true."   (Eph
                    
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                    Contributed by Rob Short on Apr 7, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In 1994, two Christian missionaries answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics in a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage. 
It was nearing
                    
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                    There were 3 preachers in a Barnie’s Coffee shop were discussing the time when life began. They each gave their opinion of when life begins.
One preacher said "Life begins when the child takes his/her first breath."
The other said "NO," then he finished, "It begins when the child is
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 3, 2025
                
                
                
                    [181].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MAN’S DEPARTURE IS AWAY FROM GOD
We live in a world in decline and it was prophesied that way – {{2 Timothy 3:1-5 “Realise this, that IN THE LAST DAYS DIFFICULT TIMES WILL COME, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 11, 2025
                
                
                
                    [226].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - QUANTUM LEAPS
This poem is in 4 sections though all are related.  It deals with the progression of wickedness in the world, but that progress has been very rapid.  Those who are older, and in a reflective mood, will recall how things were in the 1950s and 60s when
                    
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                    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 4, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Speaking of heaven D.L. Moody said, “We believe it is just as much a place and just as much a city as New York is, and a good deal more; because New York will pass away, and that city will abide forever.  It has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Classic Sermons on Heaven and Hell;
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [2002 Poll on Uniqueness of Christianity, Citation: "Faith in America," U.S. News & World Report (5-6-02), p. 42; source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/features/religion_survey.htm]
PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly/U.S. News & World Report poll conducted March 26–April 4, 2002
In a spring
                    
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                    Contributed by Lisa Delay on Nov 16, 2005
                
                
                
                    Recently, I have starting reliving the early-90s! It was bygone time of discovery and mayhem. An acquaintance (a friend of a friend) from that era still sends an update newsletter on rare occasion. I find this correspondence very amusing because the “news” is laden with a string of accomplishments
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BARN RISING
Herman Ostry’s barn was under water because of a nearby creek.  The Nebraska farmer invited a few friends to a barn raising.  But it was not a typical barn rising (I said raising).  They didn’t build a new barn.  No, Mr. Ostry needed to move his entire 17,000 pound barn to a new
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 1, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LEFT-HANDED WHOPPER
On 1st April 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in an American newspaper announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" especially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new
                    
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