I used to have 1982 Volkswagen Golf. It was cute car and I liked the engineering. I am not a mechanic, so when the car broke down, I would take it to an expert. Not just a mechanic, but also a foreign car specialist. You see this car was a Wolf berg edition made in Germany and I new that a mechanic
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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CECIL B. DEMILLE told this wonderful experience: "Many years ago I was commissioned by David Belasco to write a play, ’The Return of Peter Grimm.’ The play was being written for David Warfield, and the story hinged upon the continuation of life after death.
"I got the inspiration for that story
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn writes: “Some time ago, I read about the work of a Wycliffe Bible translator in a remote village in Papua New Guinea. When the opening chapters of Genesis were first translated into the native language, the attitude toward women in the tribe changed
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Contributed by David Ward on May 25, 2008
Pilots run out of fuel, pray, land near Jesus sign
Posted: May. 21, 2008
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a
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Contributed by David Moore on May 30, 2008
1. “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?” Isn’t is funny how we always have reasons why we cannot serve God, but we always find the time and the money to serve ourselves?
Someone put it this way:
• Isn’t it strange how a 20 pound note seems like such
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 16, 2008
GIVE IT TO THE CAT ----Years ago I received a call from a member to stop on by her house. I could tell by the call that she was fairly shaken up. She was a lady who was quite advanced in years, and was quite wealthy, well, she was phenomenally wealthy. It turns out that granddaughter had stopped by
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WORDS IN THE SPIRIT
When I was asked to be the preacher for the North Little Rock Ministerial Alliance Community Thanksgiving Service, I was floored. I didn't think that anybody thought that much about me. I was honored by the gesture, but the moment I said "yes," my nerves got the best of me. I
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on Mar 15, 2002
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One day, in 1888, Alfred Nobel picked up the morning newspaper and read his obituary. It was his brother who had passed away, but an over-zealous reporter, who had failed to check the facts, wrote that the world saw Alfred Nobel as the inventor of dynamite, an armaments manufacturer, a merchant of
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This brings me to my "TERM PAPER THEORY."
The student knows the whole semester:
there will be a term paper required at the end of the term.
So, the night before the paper is due,
the student pushes the dead line,
runs to the library and does the last minute research, and can’t hold his head
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2002
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OVERCOMING EVIL
Overcoming locked gates, tall fences and snapping dogs presents a challenge for us meter readers in rural Oklahoma, where we are required to read all meters: no estimates are allowed. One time a co-worker succeeded in getting past a particularly vicious watchdog tied to a chain
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Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
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Sometime when you’re in an airport, observe the difference between passengers who
hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. The ones with confirmed
tickets read newspapers, chat with their friends or sleep. The ones on standby hang
around the ticket counter, pace and smoke, smoke and
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 4, 2003
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I came across some definitions of things we use in the church. MAGI: The most famous trio to attend a baby shower. MANGER: 1. Where Mary gave birth to Jesus because Joseph didn’t have private health cover. 2. The Biblical proof that holiday travel has always been rough. BULLETIN: Church
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 6, 2004
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In Valladolid, Spain, where Christopher Columbus died in 1506, stands a monument commemorating the great discoverer. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the memorial is a statue of a lion destroying one of the Latin words that had been part of Spain’s motto for centuries. Before Columbus made
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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A severe rash prompted a man from a rural area to come to town to be examined by one of my colleagues. After the usual history-taking followed by a series of tests the physician advised the patient that he would have to get rid of the dog that was evidently causing the allergic reaction. As the man
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