Contributed by Rick Stacy on Feb 24, 2003
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Consider some of the dumb things people have said through the years:
1859 – "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to find oil? You’re crazy!" - the employees to Edwin L. Drake before his first successful oil well near Titusville, Penn
1899 – "Everything that can be invented has been
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 24, 2004
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Just in case you might think that I’m making this up, I want you to know that this really did happen to me and that it is a TRUE STORY.....
I was recently browsing through the latest issue of Children’s Ministry magazine (back to front, an odd habit that I picked-up from my husband) and came
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Apr 4, 2004
Could we with ink the oceans fill
And were the skies of parchment made
And every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the oceans dry,
Nor could that scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky
Frederick M.
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Baptist
Contributed by Scott Brewer on Aug 7, 2007
Is there enough evidence to convict you of being a Christ-follower?
Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge John Burlew was on the bench in April when Eric Hine, 43, of Cincinnati, came before him on a charge of receiving stolen property. Hine’s attorney asked for a low bond, saying Hine had a full
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 29, 2007
In the movie, “Hook,” Robin Williams plays Peter Pan, who had left Neverland and had grown up to be a corporate attorney.
He is completely focused on his job, and ends up neglecting his son over and over.
There is a line that he quotes from time to time in the beginning of the movie that sets the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
Dallas Willard writes: “I do not know of a denomination or local church in existence that has as its goal to teach its people to do everything Jesus said. I’m not talking about a whim or a wish, but a plan.” Willard’s book, The Great Omission (Willard, 2006), is his personal take on the popular
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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In a poem attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero, entitled “Prophets of a Future Not Our Own,” he states:
“It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete,
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 12, 2008
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Sometimes even the best of us don’t get along like we should.
I read about an 8-year-old boy from Waterford, Connecticut who saved his sister’s life. Zachary saved his 6-year-old sister, Meghan, when she started choking on a piece of hard candy. Zachary noticed Meghan wasn’t breathing, and gave
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 21, 2008
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Since some of the best illustrations are what not to do, I offer a few tips on How to Turn a Disagreement into a Feud:
1. Be sure to develop and maintain a fear of conflict, letting your own feelings build up so you are in an explosive frame of mind.
2. If you must state your concerns, be as vague
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Contributed by Nigel Heath on Aug 12, 2009
Philosophical arguments can be very confusing and also very convincing.
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RC Sproul quotes some research that reveals: ‘Over 90% of students entering college in USA are convinced of, and committed to the relativity of truth’ = That there is no objective reality.
What is actually being
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 27, 2010
ARE YOU A CHIEF STUDENT?
David Friedman, in They Loved the Torah p. 61 comments about Peter (Shim'on):
I see Shim'on as Yeshua's Torah-observant....talmid hakham...a Hebrew technical term meaning the leading student (of a rabbi). Every famous rabbi who daily taught the same students had a talmid
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 10, 2011
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OLONGA'S PERSECUTION
Henry Olonga tells of when he was first selected for the Zimbabwean cricket B-Team. They were touring South Africa and staying in a luxurious Johannesburg Hotel. At that time they had to share a hotel room with a teammate and he was sharing with a more famous, white, senior
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