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  • From The Reader's Digest) One Woman Wrote: ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,742 views

    (From the Reader’s Digest) ONE WOMAN WROTE: Determined to lose weight, I decided to join a FITNESS CLASS that met three times a week. But no matter how much I pleaded, my husband, Keith, refused to join me. As the weeks went by, my EXCUSES for MISSING most of the classes became more and more ...read more

  • Two Little Boys Got Into A Fight. But The Next ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Jan 15, 2003
    based on 36 ratings
     | 2,587 views

    Two little boys got into a fight. But the next morning Johnny took his cap and headed for Bobby’s house again. Surprised, an older member of the family said teasingly, "What! Going to play with him again? I thought you had a fight last night and was never going to have anything more to do with ...read more

  • A Recent Jim Carry Movie, Bruce Almighty, Is The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Oct 21, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,161 views

    A recent Jim Carry movie, Bruce Almighty, is the story of a human given the power but not the wisdom of God. Carry proceeds to make a huge mess of things, resulting in everything from natural disasters to financial calamities. But when his girlfriend, Grace, becomes fed up with his immaturity and ...read more

  • Be Strong!

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 1, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,441 views

    ii. Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle, face it: ’tis God’s gift. Be strong! Say not the days are evil. Who’s to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce, O shame! Stand up, speak out and bravely, in God’s ...read more

  • Elisabeth Elliot, At Urbana 76, Told Of Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 2,226 views

    Elisabeth Elliot, at Urbana 76, told of her brother Thomas Howard. Their mother let him play with paper bags she’d saved if he put them away afterwards. One day she walked into the kitchen to find them strewn all over the floor. Tom was out at the piano with his father singing hymns. When ...read more

  • In The Movie, Minority Report, John Anderton, ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 26, 2004
     | 2,251 views

    In the movie, Minority Report, John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise is with his wife and a young girl named Agatha. John and Laura, several years before, had lost their 6 year old son, Sean... kidnaped and murdered. In the scene we are about to see Agatha, who is a type of “seerer” recounts what ...read more

  • Some Of Us Grew Up With An Extra Kid In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by West Garner on Aug 31, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,020 views

    Some of us grew up with an extra kid in the house. We didn’t know it but he was there at certain times. His name was “Not Me.” He always appeared when something happened. Like when your mom asked, “Who got this play dough in the carpet?” (NOT ME) “Who colored on the walls in the bedroom?” (NOT ...read more

  • I Like To Watch The Old Westerns On Tv. The ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Dec 15, 2007
     | 1,578 views

    I like to watch the old westerns on TV. The battle usually centered on the cowboys and Indians. We would even go out a play cowboys and Indians after school or on Saturday after watching an episode on TV. One thing that was in every movie was the rescue. The cowboys would be surrounded by ...read more

  • The Value Of A Volunteer ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 1,888 views

    THE VALUE OF A VOLUNTEER HOUR The value of a volunteer hour nearly kept pace with inflation during ’07, increasing 3.94% while consumer prices tracked at 4.1%. The estimate for the value of a volunteer hour jumped 74¢, from $18.77 in ’06 to $19.51 in ’07, reports the Independent Sector, a ...read more

  • In Consideration Of This, Let Me Help You To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In consideration of this, let me help you to understand what tragedy is: In the February 1998 edition of Reader’s Digest which told of a couple who took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast. He was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they putter around the ...read more

  • Elisabeth Elliot, At Urbana 76, Told Of Her ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
     | 1,572 views

    Elisabeth Elliot, at Urbana 76, told of her brother Thomas Howard. Their mother let him play with paper bags she’d saved if he put them away afterwards. One day she walked into the kitchen to find them strewn all over the floor. Tom was out at the piano with his father singing hymns. When ...read more

  • Jehovah-Shammah

    Contributed by Darryl Womack on Oct 30, 2009
     | 2,793 views

    JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH I love to play peek-a-boo. My grandson Cayden loves to watch as I cover my face and then move my hands and say peek-a-boo. He’ll laugh and laugh. Ever wonder why that works so well at entertaining babies. It’s because they haven’t figured out yet that you really haven’t gone ...read more

  • Baseball Manager Demonstrates Humility After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,006 views

    Baseball Manager Demonstrates Humility After Winning the Pennant When the Florida Marlins baseball team won their first trip to the WORLD SERIES, the press began to shower praise on manager Jim Leyland. When congratulated on winning his first National League Pennant, Leyland responded, “I didn’t ...read more

  • Voice Of Authority

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on May 12, 2011
     | 3,383 views

    VOICE OF AUTHORITY When I was serving with YWAM in the summer of 1982, we played a concert at a school in Amsterdam. As the concert ended, the students began to come up to us and talking with us, and believe it or not, some even asked for our autographs. At that moment a tall, thin, man with a ...read more

  • David Trueblood On Discipline

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
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    DAVID TRUEBLOOD ON DISCIPLINE David Trueblood: "The one who wants to be an accomplished athlete must discipline his body by regular exercise and a strict diet. Otherwise, he or she will not be free to excel on the playing field or the tracks. The athlete who fails to train rigorously denies ...read more

  • Tongue Is Like A Fire

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 9, 2011
     | 4,598 views

    TONGUE IS LIKE A FIRE When we were children, my brother and started a small fire in the field across from our home. We just wanted to burn off some briars and things so that we could clear the field to play. Wow, did we ever clear that field. The wind picked up and before long the fire was ...read more

  • Visiting Beethoven

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 9, 2012
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    VISITING BEETHOVEN Beethoven died in 1827 and is buried in Vienna. A tourist went to visit his grave and found it a deeply moving experience. As they stood looking at the gravestone they could hear music. It was Beethoven’s music only it wasn’t quite right, there was something wrong. Then the ...read more

  • Obscurity

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Aug 20, 2019
     | 2,691 views

    In his book Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eugene Peterson recounts the story of the fourth century church father Gregory of Nyssa whose brother Basil had arranged for him to be made bishop of Cappadocia. "Gregory objected," Peterson writes. "He didn't want to be stuck ...read more

  • Honesty

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Feb 7, 2022
     | 1,586 views

    Blaise Pascal observed that human life is nothing but perpetual delusion; human relationships are based on mutual deception. Martin Buber wrote of the uncanny game of hide and seek we play - in which the soul seeks to hide from itself. Thomas Merton - our minds are deformed with a contempt for ...read more

  • Batters Hustling To The Plate To Take Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2005
     | 2,465 views

    Batters hustling to the plate to take their swings? Questionable calls going uncontested. Umpires being thanked after the game? Fans returning foul balls? This is Major League Baseball? It was. For a few weeks during the spring of ’95, professional baseball was a different game. The ...read more