Contributed by Victor Yap on Jun 18, 2003
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Han Xin was a military strategist who rendered outstanding service towards the founding of the Han Dynasty (207 B.C. - A.D. 221). When he was young his family was poor and he was looked down upon. Once a young man humiliated him in front of a crowd of people. He said to Han Xin, “Although you are
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Well, for you who aren’t sure if you were from a small town, let me help you out. You know you’re from a small town when:
• The city limits signs are both on the same post!
• The local Motel 6 sleeps 6. (You’ll notice is says that in Bethlehem “…there was no room in THE Inn.” Bethlehem didn’t
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Contributed by Dale Bird on Jan 7, 2006
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IF YOUR FRIEND JUMPED OFF A CLIFT WOULD YOU?
450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths
By The Associated Press
posted: 08 July 2005
11:22 am ET
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) _ First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as
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Contributed by Jordan Lumbard on Jun 5, 2007
PLAY VIDEO CLIP – THE LAST SAMURAI
The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C,
- With only 300 Spartan Warriors defending their post against a 1 Million man Persian army.
- The Spartans put up the most brave and determinied resistance, taking their stand on a little hill, and fighting in a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Illustration: I actually typed into Google the words “I hate my life!”
1. I was shocked how many I hate my life websites came up!
2. Here is the opening page of one website:
You’re having a bad day. We want to know about it.
Maybe your agony exceeds ours. That could be interesting. Because
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 18, 2008
I close with a story from Becky Tirabassi whose wrote the article posted at Christianity Today.com I spoke of earlier that illustrates one young man’s desire to be free in Christ.
While speaking at Oregon State, ‘in front of 1,000 students,’ she wrote, ‘near the end of my message, a young man
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 23, 2009
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
By 1934, alcoholic Bill Wilson had ruined a promising Wall Street career because of his constant drunkenness. He was introduced to the idea of a spiritual cure by an old drinking buddy Ebby Thacher. While in a hospital, Wilson underwent what he believed to be a spiritual
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 6, 2009
LIST OF WEAKNESSES
In his book He Chose the Nails, Max Lucado wrote: "The list of our weaknesses. Would anyone like to see yours? Would you like to make them public? How would you feel if they were posted high so that everyone, including Christ himself, could see? Yes, there is a list of your
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SCRUBS CHRISTMAS VOICEOVER
The cast of the TV Show Scrubs have done a number of satirical looks at various things. The did a voice over of "Charlie Brown’s Christmas" and Dr. Cox does the Linus soliloquy which originally was the story of Christmas from the gospel. This post-modern version [IMHO]
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Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Nov 10, 2009
THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE
How many have heard the apparently new cliché: "They are who we thought they were"?
"Normally quiet Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green first uttered this trademarked phrase during a swear-filled, post-game tirade in 2006. When he was asked what he thought of
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 18, 2010
A revealing exchange was captured on the Fox News Channel. Bill O’Reily was interviewing Dan Rather, longtime anchorman at CBS. O’Reilly: I want to ask you flat out. Do you think bill Clinton’s an honest man? Rather: Yes, I think he’s an honest man. O’Reilly: Do you really? Rather: I do.
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
BIGGER THAN NOW
When you prepare to come out of high school, you go through processes in grade 11 and 12 where you evaluate future options. You might have had a conversation with your school counsellor, talking about programs and courses you needed to qualify for certain post-secondary studies.
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THE DURABILITY TEST
Endurance is a quality that God expects us to manifest. If you go to an IKEA store, you will find somewhere in the chair department a glass box with what is called the durability test. They have a mechanism that simulates someone sitting on the chair, and they say the chair was
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Oct 6, 2011
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MAKING A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE
When Apple founder Steve Jobs died, there were many posts on various websites about his spirituality (Jobs was Buddhist). One cartoon depicted him at the Pearly Gates while Saint Peter fumbles through the Book of Life. Steve, holding an I-Something, says, "I have an
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In Dwight Pentecost’s commentary on the book of Philippians he refers to an occurrence of a church split in Dallas Texas. The church split was so bad that it involved a legal suit of one side of the church against the other over who had the right of owner ship of the church property. The case went
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Baptist
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In Dwight Pentecost’s commentary on the book of Philippians he refers to an occurrence of a church split in Dallas Texas. The church split was so bad that it involved a legal suit of one side of the church against the other over who rightfully had the right of ownership of the church property. The
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Assembly Of God
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