Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 5, 2009
Agenda pushers look for opportunities to promote their personal opinions and convictions. We just went through the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on he World Trade center. On that day, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, or ROC-NY, which was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001,
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Last week we attended our niece’s wedding. Our little 2 year-old granddaughter Lydia was the Flower Girl and our 5-year-old grandson David was Ring-Bearer. Susan was talking to David after the wedding about what a great job he did coming up that aisle. She told him, “Charis said you were an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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C.S. Lewis understood that confidence and arrogance were components of pride, too, and that humility was what kept them in balance. There was no simpering, sniveling, “I can’t do anything,” in what he did, but neither was there the pride that says “It’s all me.” He suggested a definition that I
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 21, 2011
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GRANT AND CUSTER
There is a story of two Civil War Generals: George A. Custer and Ulysses S. Grant. Both graduated from West Point -- Gen. Grant, being the oldest, graduated in the 1840's and Gen. Custer in 1861. Grant fought in several wars and was a field General in every sense of the word.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
“Pride makes us over sensitive, where we easily get our feelings hurt. It leads to jealously, to envy, and causes us to hold a grudge because we are not being appreciated.” (Martin
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There¡¦s fear, and then there is fear. The 82nd Airborne Rangers train at Fort Bragg, NC. The division commanding general was inspecting, and as he reviewed the ranks of paratroop trainees, he carefully scrutinized one West Virginia recruit standing proudly at attention, jump wings and boots
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Contributed by Robert Travis on Jul 19, 2001
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I read a story once about a little
frog that wanted to go south for the winter. It was too far to
hop and he did not have wings to fly. Two Little birds felt sorry
for the little frog and together they came up with a plan. The
little birds would hold each end of a stick in their beaks, and
all the
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Aug 7, 2001
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They that know God will be humble," John Flavel has said, ’ and they that know themselves cannot be proud." quoted in
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Aug 7, 2001
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Winston Churchill was once asked, "Doesn’t it thrill you to know that every time you make a speech, the hall is packed to overflowing?" "It’s quite flattering," replied Sir Winston. "But whenever I feel that way, I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the
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Contributed by Bart Leger on Sep 24, 2001
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"The moment we begin to tread upon the thin ice of our own abilities, we have traveled beyond the realm of God’s
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Apr 30, 2002
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Quotable
“It is the highest and holiest of the paradoxes that the man who really knows he cannot pay his debt will
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