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“A young woman, eight months heavy with child, waddles into her mother’s house. Flops on the sofa. Kicks off her tennis shoes. Props her puffy feet on the coffee table. And groans, “I don’t think I can make it.”
Wise from the years, the mother picks up the photo album and sits beside her
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United Methodist
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Illustration: Both Glad and Sad.
We were told of an old legend about three men crossing a desert on horseback at night. Approaching a dried-up pond bed, they heard a voice commanding them to stop and dismount, pick up some pebbles, put them in their pockets, and not look at them until the morning.
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Foursquare
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
By the time Rockefeller was fifty-three his life was a wreck. Throughout his business career he said, “I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.” He was the richest man in the world and yet he was miserable in every sense of
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Oscar Cervantes is a dramatic example of Christ’s power to transform lives. As a child, Oscar began to get into trouble. Then as he got older, he was jailed 17 times for brutal crimes. Prison psychiatrists said he was beyond help. But they were wrong! During a brief interval of freedom, Oscar met
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
If God is to develop His plan in your life and you are to work at it with all your heart, then you must grow new spiritual muscle for the challenge. As a runner begins to train, his or her entire being is transformed. Within weeks of starting training the runner actually grows new capillaries.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 1, 2007
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I remember taking a bike trip through the country as a small boy. As we traveled back roads we came upon one of those small transformer power plants. You have seen the them, surrounded by chain like fence and barbed wire around the top. And a big red sign with white sign with white letters saying
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Wesleyan
ON MEDITATION
The Hebrew word translated "meditate" speaks of what a cow does after grazing all day. As she chews the cud over and over again, she extracts every nutrient. In other words, to meditate means to ponder a section of the Word day and night, extracting more from its inexhaustible supply
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Baptist
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A Gift for Nicolas Cage
When the actor Nicolas Cage was a young boy, his father gave him a little Pinocchio for Christmas. Being a boy, he was a little rough with it, and broke its head off. So his father suggested they bury Pinocchio. The next morning, on the very place where they had buried
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ken Pell on Aug 4, 2011
"BUMPS" SHOW CHARACTER
The other day I had a very full cup of coffee. VERY full. To top it off I had to walk back to my desk with it and, as fate would have it, I bumped into the desk corner while walking there. The coffee spilled. There's no hiding spilled coffee on a book or paper and, sure
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Nazarene
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Sep 26, 2011
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THE BIBLE TREASURE
Kathleen Norris tells the story of a South Dakota rancher and his bride who received a leather-bound Bible as a wedding gift from the groom's grandfather. They wrote a thank-you note and stowed the Bible away on a closet shelf, out of the way.
As time passed, the grandfather
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Congregational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2002
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ANGUS MCGILLIVRAY GAVE IT ALL
In Ernest Gordon’s true account of life in a World War II Japanese prison camp, Through the Valley of the Kwai, there is a story that never fails to move me. It is about a man who through giving it all away literally transformed a whole camp of soldiers. The man’s
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 27, 2010
ANGUS' MUCKER--A STORY OF GIVING
Ernest Gordon wrote a true account of life in a World War II Japanese prison camp, Through the Valley of the Kwai. How many of you saw the movie, "Bridge Over the River Kwai"?
In the book, there is a story that never fails to move me. It is about a man who,
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Pentecostal
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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Baptist
Contributed by Harold Miller on Dec 15, 2000
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The native groups in the Peruvian Amazon have only known Christ for one generation. Just one generation ago they were fearful, aggressive, and animistic; all their contacts with outsiders were marked by violence. But now there are transformed. One missionary writes that since embracing faith in
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Mennonite
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