Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 30, 2010
WOULD YOU BECOME A DOG?
C. S. Lewis:
“Lying at your feet is your dog. Imagine, for the moment, that your dog and every dog is in deep distress. Some of us love dogs very much. If it would help all the dogs in the world to become like men, would you be willing to become a dog? Would you put down
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Brethren
Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
GLUTTONY PANTS
Chef Chris Cosentino, Food Network star and executive chef at Incanto restaurant in San Francisco, has created the Gluttony Pants for those of us who occasionally indulge and engorge without the post-meal awkwardness. The pants have three buttons, allowing you to expand the pants'
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Methodist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2012
COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING
"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" was written by Robert Robinson. He wrote it early in his life. In stanza three, Robinson speaks of being "prone to wonder, prone to leave the God I love". This seems to be a forecast of his later life, when he lapsed into sin,
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Contributed by Richard Sharp on Nov 9, 2007
A city missionary in London was called to an old building where a woman lay dying in the last stages of a terrible disease. The room was cold and she had nowhere to lie but on the floor. When the missionary asked if there was anything he could do, she replied, "I have all I really need; I have
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Baptist
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EPAPHRODITUS -…His name means “charming.” And what a charming winsome person he was. Paul uses four words to describe him, “brother, companion, fellow-soldier, and messenger.” The Greek word “brother,” means literally, “from the same womb.” It speaks of a common origin. A common origin speaks of a
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 14, 2008
This is a picture of Johnny. Johnny’s mother saw him playing church with the family cat. The cat was sitting there quietly while Johnny preached his sermon to the cat.
Johnny’s mother smiled and went back to her work. A little while later, she heard a huge commotion where Johnny was supposed to
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 1, 2008
There are many things that clamor for our obedience and obeisance. For fifty years people have become the servant of the television, the ‘boob’ tube, haven’t they? I’m thankful that we were too poor to afford anything but one of those little 12 inch black and white screened General Electric
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 13, 2009
Criminals come from all walks of life: rich, poor, black, white, educated, and uneducated. Background makes little difference. However the common link between them all is a thinking pattern. For many years people thought that the problem was the criminal’s environment. In the book, The Criminal
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
A lawyer invites his cousin from the Czech Republic to come and stay with him in Canada. Soon they decide to go hiking in the woods. Suddenly, a big grizzly bear appears. The bear kills the Czech cousin and then eats him.
The lawyer runs to the nearest village and tells everybody what has
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Contributed by Tim Bond on Apr 30, 2003
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One of my favorite stories is about Chippie the parakeet. Chippie was a happy little bird, content every day to sit on his perch, swinging and singing to his little heart’s content. One day Chippie’s owner took the initiative to clean out his cage. She took off the attachment from the end of the
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Chippee the Parakeet
One of my favorite stories is about Chippie the parakeet. Chippie was a happy little bird, content every day to sit on his perch, swinging and singing to his little heart’s content.
One day Chippie’s owner took the initiative to clean out his cage. She took off the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 2, 2009
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THE PRINCE OF PEACE AND THE PAUPER
It may be a poor example, but I draw from Mark Twain's classic "The Prince and The Pauper." Ten-year-old Prince Edward, spoiled and bored, finds a pauper boy, Tom Conti, who is his precise double in appearance. The two trade places on a lark, but the Prince
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Orthodox
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