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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
The little girl one Sunday as her family drove home from church, she turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, there’s something about the preacher’s message this morning that I don’t understand." The mother said, "Oh? What is it?" The little girl replied, "Well, he said that God
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2009
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SHOCK IN HEAVEN
I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven’s door,
Not by the beauty of it all, by the lights or its décor.
But it was the folks in heaven who made me sputter and gasp;
the thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics, the trash.
There stood the kid from 7th
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
LIMITS. Write that down. Who do we need to accurately assess ourselves? Someone else.
Regular assessment is important because our limits regular vacillate. They change according to what is on our plate and our overall well-being. They depend on the season.
There are times in our lives in which we
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Contributed by Paul Green on Oct 28, 2009
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JOY IN CHURCH
Then there’s the story about a little boy in church with his mother. He was a good little boy, quiet and well behaved. He didn’t cause any problems. But every once in a while he would stand up in the chair, turn around, look at the people behind him and smile at them. His smile was
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Dec 5, 2009
I WILL NOT VEX MY FATHER
"There is the story of half-a-dozen boys who had severe fathers, accustomed to beat them within an inch of their lives. Another boy was with them who was well beloved by his parents, and known to do so. These young boys met together to hold a council of war about robbing
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Contributed by Hugh Laing on Mar 1, 2010
TEMPTATION...means Enticement, Forbidden Fruit, Allure, Bait, Desire... and I love this story on temptation. “There is a story told about a little boy in a grocery store that I think illustrates the nature of TEMPTATION. The boy was standing near an open box of peanut butter cookies. “Now then,
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Contributed by Sean Harder on Mar 18, 2010
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HOLDING ON
Let me share a story from Chuck Swindoll.
"Four guys decided to go mountain climbing one weekend. In the middle of the climb, one fella slipped over a cliff, dropped about 60 feet and landed with a thud on the ledge below. The other three hoping to rescue him yelled, 'Joe, are you
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Contributed by Jason Miller on Mar 29, 2010
"YOU DID NEED HELP."
A man went to a convention where George Washington Carver was going to be speaking and giving presentations. When he arrived at the hotel, he saw a black man standing there and said, "Here, boy, help me carry my bags."
On the elevator the man bragged about his
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Jul 17, 2010
The murder of Willie Stokes Jr. a young gambler on the south side of Chicago attracted local attention when the family had an auto-body shop outfit his coffin as a Cadillac Seville, complete with trunk and front grille, windshield and dashboard, silver spoke wheels, working headlights and tail
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
MIDDLE C
When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, was a university student, he lived in a boarding house. Downstairs on the first floor was an elderly, retired music teacher who was infirm and unable to leave the apartment. Douglas said that every morning they had a ritual they
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
"HE'S MY DAD."
A group of scientists and botanists were exploring remote regions of the Alps, looking for new species of flowers. One day they noticed through binoculars a flower of such rarity and beauty, that its value to science was incalculable. But it lay deep in a ravine with cliffs on both
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
CATCHING UP
A woman who had recently moved into a small village in Wiltshire, was in the backyard hanging out the washing on the line when an old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. She could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home.
As she walked into the house, the dog
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 19, 2011
IF I'D KNOWN YOU HAD HIM...
Madeline Rockwell wrote of her grandparents:
"My Grandmother was a ball of fire, while Grandpa was slow and deliberate. One night they were awakened by a commotion in the chicken house. Grandma sprang out of bed, ran to the chicken house and found the cause of the
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HIT HIM AGAIN, LORD!
At the turn of the 19th Century, the roof of the a little Swiss church hall was in serious need of repair. So the congregation held regular prayer meeting in the church hall after the service--to pray for funds to repair the roof.
An old man, well know for being "tight
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