Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
There used to be an egg farm about 5 miles from here, out on Reed Ellis Road. From time to time, when I was growing up, we used to take one of our 2 ton trucks down there to the chicken farm and pick up a couple of loads of chicken manure to put on our pastures to help the grass grow.
I remember
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Baptist
My Dad’s Flowers
The air is cool today, the streets are wet with last nights rain. I went out to do some cleaning and saw my Dad’s flowers come to bloom, so beautiful. You see, My Dad has been away for 10 years now, living in Hong Kong and one of his main concerns before he left the PI
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Contributed by Bob Soulliere on May 5, 2007
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A CHANGE MAKES
Once upon a time there was a prince who fell in love with a fair maiden. But his enemy captured the fair maiden and held her captive in a tower. Now the prince had a plan to rescue her, so he recruited the help of two small animals to send a message to the maiden.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 3, 2001
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A young Christian went to his local church usually, but one weekend attended a small town church.
He came home and his wife asked him how it was.
"Well," said the young man, "It was good. They did something different however. They sang hymns instead of regular songs."
"Hymns," said his wife,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Warren Bird on Jan 18, 2004
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The best way I can explain God’s face shining on us is to think about the difference between rainy days and sunny days. I work in the city and try to get out at lunchtimes to walk in the Botanic Gardens. I distinctly remember one day after a period of rain and wind that had made being outside quite
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Al Schifano on Mar 25, 2004
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Making A Difference
Don’t Look Back
As you travel through life there are always those times
when decisions just have to be made,
when the choices are hard and solutions seem scarce
and the rain seems to soak your parade!
There are some situations where all you can do
is to simply let go and
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Catholic
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Pastor Bruce D. Weaver and his wife drove in their car to pick up their son from Vacation Bible School. The sky was growing dark and there was a storm watch in effect, but no rain was falling yet. The theme for their upcoming Vacation Bible School had to do with Noah’s ark and the flood, so he
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Nov 16, 2005
“A salesman, driving on a lonely country road one dark and rainy night, had a flat tire. He opened the trunk- no tire wrench. The light form a farmhouse could be seen dimly up the road. He set out on foot through the driving rain. Surely the farmer would have a tire wrench he could borrow, he
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Stephen Wright on Mar 11, 2006
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Possessed of a good income, guaranteeing the supply of every need, it is of little moment that God has pledged himself to provide all needful things for those who seek his kingdom first. Environed by troops of faithful friends, like so many successive lines of defence entrenched in the strong
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2006
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A visiting preacher once stayed in a house of a widow. He’d arrived on the Saturday before he was to preach on the Sunday, and the lady of the house, being that sort of person, had given up her bedroom for the guest. When he got up in the morning he threw back the curtains and looked out on a
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Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Dec 16, 2006
I remember a 13 year old boy standing in his mothers front room and looking out her window at the weather, it was late November or early December and watching it rain and snow, sleet and thinking what a gloomy day. Suddenly a green Plymouth Valiant slowly pulled up to the driveway and pulled in.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Apr 2, 2007
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You understand the relationship of cause & effect. If that happened, then this results.
When you enter a dark room and flip a light switch you expect the room to brighten. If you flip that switch and the windows open, you’re pretty surprised because the two aren’t related.
When you get in your
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Mennonite
JESUS. THE TEACHER
Of all the responsibilities and great offices that Jesus filled, His being a teacher rated near the top, if not at the top. When He gave the Sermon on the Mount, He seated Himself and His disciples came to Him: and He opened His mouth and taught them.
Let us think of the
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 27, 2012
The fire started at about 9 p.m. on Sunday, October 8, in or around a small barn that bordered the alley behind 137 DeKoven Street.[3] The traditional account of the origin of the fire is that it was started by a cow kicking over a lantern in the barn owned by Patrick and Cahterine O’Leary. Michael
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Contributed by David Moore on Aug 27, 2008
I grew up in the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, but my first ministry was among the Roman Catholic community in the Republic of Ireland. One evening after preaching in Belfast, I was traveling south when my car broke down on the motorway. It was late at night, the road was dark and it
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Baptist
Contributed by Art Good on Aug 14, 2007
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A man spread vicious rumors and harmful gossip about another man. In this small village the judge not only presided over cases where the law was broken but also over cases involving unethical or improper conduct.
So the man who had spread the malicious gossip was brought before the judge. The
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Wesleyan