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  • We Went To Kroger As A Family Tonight. When We ...

    Contributed by Melissa Pratt on Sep 25, 2008
     | 3,848 views

    We went to Kroger as a family tonight. When we got to the juice aisle, our six-year-old, Joshua said, "Mom, can we get some grape juice?" I was surpised as I have never purchased grape juice for the kids to drink, only apple and orange. I said, "Josh, do you even like grape juice?" He replied, ...read more

  • Running For Life

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008
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     | 2,999 views

    RUNNING FOR LIFE Recently I read a fable about a dog who loved to chase other animals. He bragged about his great running skill and said he could catch anything. Well, it wasn’t long until his boastful claims were put to the test by a certain rabbit. With ease the little creature outran his ...read more

  • I'd Play For Nothing.

    Contributed by Dale Krueger on Feb 7, 2009
     | 1,989 views

    "I'D PLAY FOR NOTHING." Ernie Banks, the great baseball player, once said that if the management only knew, he'd play baseball for nothing, he loved the game so much. His enormous salary did not compel him to endure the work to earn it, but the game itself was so enticing that the love of it bound ...read more

  • King David Gave Us A Great 4pt Sermon In His ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 13, 2009
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    King David gave us a great 4pt sermon in his Psalm of repentance (51) He pleaded, “Be gracious to me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; According to the greatness of my Thy compassion blot out my transgression.” He confessed, “Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, and done what is evil ...read more

  • Abortion And Teen Pregnancy Dropping

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    ABORTION AND TEEN PREGNANCY DROPPING Abortion and teen pregnancy rates have steadily dropped since 1990, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention study. Overall, abortions fell 24% to 1.22 million in ’04 from a historical high of 1.61 million in ’90. Teen pregnancies declined ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Gave His Class An ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 1, 2009
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    A Sunday school teacher gave his class an assignment to learn the 23rd Psalm by next Sunday because each was going to recite it to the whole church. A little boy named Bobby, just couldn’t get it all in his head, he struggled all week long. Finally Sunday comes and the church is packed out, ...read more

  • The Legal System Should Be Reformed So People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,123 views

    "The legal system should be reformed so people bear the consequences of their own bad choices. The best solution would be to make people who file baseless lawsuits pay the costs of defending against them. Loser pays, that system is called, and thats the way it works in most of the civilized world. ...read more

  • Three Phases To An Enjoyable Life

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 27, 2009
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    THREE PHASES TO AN ENJOYABLE LIFE When I was a boy, I would watch the space launches on TV. The rockets were in three phases. As it got so high, the lowest section of the rocket would drop off. Then the second section would drop off until only the capsule would remain. It took all three sections ...read more

  • Joseph Stalin

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 4, 2009
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     | 3,287 views

    JOSEPH STALIN Despite the mind-numbing brutality of the Joseph Stalin regime in the Soviet Union, his propaganda machine did its job well. Many Russians hailed him as a hero and a savior, including a young school girl who was chosen to greet Stalin on one occasion. Years later, this woman ...read more

  • Walt Disney Is Given Credit For An Important ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 9, 2009
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    Walt Disney is given credit for an important one-liner: change is inevitable; growth is optional. Nancy Adler likens the challenge implied in this truth to a hot-air balloon ready for flight. The only thing preventing the balloonist’s soaring into the air is the load of sand ballast holding it ...read more

  • The Teacher By Leslie Pinckney Hill

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 15, 2009
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    The Teacher by Leslie Pinckney Hill Lord, who am I to teach the way To little children day by day, So prone myself to go astray? I Teach them KNOWLEDGE, but I know How faint they flicker and how low The candles of my knowledge glow. I teach them POWER to will and do, But only now to learn ...read more

  • Who Is The Worst Sinner You Know?

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
     | 3,638 views

    WHO IS THE WORST SINNER YOU KNOW? "Who is the worse sinner you know? Are you more aware of your own sin or those sins of others? Because of God’s amazingly gracious heart toward those who thoroughly deserve only His wrath, He both planned for and provided this mediator to resolve the divine ...read more

  • Dave Thomas, Wendy's Hamburgers,

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 31, 2009
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    Dave Thomas, Wendy’s Hamburgers, “I got my MBA long before my GED. I even have a photograph of me in my MBA graduation outfit; a knee length work apron. I guarantee you that I’m the only founder among America’s big companies whose picture in the corporate annual report shows him wielding a mop ...read more

  • The Church's Greatest Troublemakers  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009
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     | 5,777 views

    THE CHURCH'S GREATEST TROUBLEMAKERS Preacher and Bible commentator, John Stott, said this in his exposition of Paul's letter to the Galatians: "To tamper with the gospel is to trouble the church... Indeed the church's greatest troublemakers (now as then) are not those outside who oppose, ridicule ...read more

  • Religion Says "Try” But The Gospel ...

    Contributed by Brandon Park on Jan 31, 2010
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    Religion says “Try” but the gospel says “trust.” Religion says, “Pay me what you owe,” the gospel says, “I’ll pay what you owe” Religion says, “Live for God,” the gospel says, “Live through God.” Religion says, “Obey the law,” but the gospel says, “Obey the Lord” Religion says “Do,” but the gospel ...read more

  • Broken Steel Belts

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2010
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    BROKEN STEEL BELTS It is impossible to be prepared for every error around. When I bought my dad's old car, it had been sitting idle for a year. He had hardly used it; even the tires were original -- nine years old. When I brought it in for a flat tire, the mechanic fixed it and all seemed well. ...read more

  • She Believed In Me

    Contributed by Jorge Acevedo on Feb 23, 2010
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    "SHE BELIEVED IN ME" Several weeks ago, an American Idol contestant said something like this before facing the judges, "I'm doing this for my best friend who died 4 years ago." They showed pictures of her and her friend laughing and doing things together. Then, crying she said, 'She was the only ...read more

  • Baseball Season Is Fast Approaching. I Like The ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Apr 9, 2010
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    Baseball season is fast approaching. I like the Mets. When the Mets won the World Series in 1969 they were dubbed, ‘the Amazing Mets’. Up until that year, the Mets didn’t have one winning season to their credit. The team they were facing in the series, the Baltimore Orioles, who had won 109 games ...read more

  • An Old, Rich Man With A Cranky, Miserable ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 8, 2010
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    An old, rich man with a cranky, miserable attitude visited a rabbi who lived a simple life. The rabbi had an idea on how to get through to him about his negative attitude. He took him over to a window and asked him what he saw. “I see men and women and a few children.” Then the rabbi took him to a ...read more

  • The Word ‘love’ Conjures Up So Man ...

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
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    The word ‘love’ conjures up so man different things today. A modern dictionary lists 28 various uses for the word: tender affection, warm attachment, intimate passion, strong predication, & amorous benevolence. Yet not of these are complete to define / describe what the Bible speaks of as a ...read more