Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
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Jeremy Benson was a very successful English businessman, & for a number of years served as Chairman of the Board of a London hospital. When he died, he left a large part of his fortune to that hospital.
But his Will stipulated that every year for ten years after his death, when the hospital board
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 9, 2003
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SHOULD WOMEN SPEAK IN CHURCH?
Catherine Booth, wife of Salvation Army founder William Booth, once responded to a man who argued, "Paul said to the Corinthians it is a shame for women to speak in the church"
"Oh yes, so he did;" said Catherine, "but in the first place this is not a church, and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Corrie ten Boom was once asked if it were difficult for her to remain humble. Her reply was simple. “When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the back of a donkey, and everyone was waving palm branches and throwing garments onto the road, and singing praises, do you think that for one
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Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Feb 20, 2009
French impressionist painters Henri Matisse and August Renoir were the closest of friends. Renoir’s health failed and the final decades of his life he was nearly paralyzed with arthritis. Yet, he continued to paint fighting tortuous pain with each movement and stroke of the brush. Matisse asked,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2009
UNCLEAN GENTILES
The Mishna says, "The dwelling places of Gentiles are ritually unclean (Ohalot 18:7). David Stern summarizes other passages in the Mishna, "…Jews may not remain alone with Gentiles, leave cattle at their inns, assist them in childbirth, suckle their children, do business with them
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Contributed by Colin Bain on Nov 9, 2010
WILLIAM BOOTH: I'LL FIGHT
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight
While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight
While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight.
While there is a drunkard left
While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets
While there
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Contributed by Eugene Morell on Oct 13, 2011
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NO FORGIVENESS OVER DINNER
In "What’s so Amazing About Grace," Philip Yancey tells a story about a man and wife who one night had an argument about how supper was to be cooked. The argument was so heated that they slept in separate rooms. Neither approached the other to say "I’m sorry" or to offer
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Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Feb 25, 2026
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Hear God's Word in John's telling: BIBLE "And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost." 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
Let’s tell the truth: SIN CAN BE FUN! Well at least it is fun for a while. The reality is that sin always has consequences. And the consequences of sin are unpleasant.
The National Geographic reported in October 2005 that a 13-foot Burmese python had been found dead in the Florida’s Everglades
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
HAPPINESS VS. JOY
There is a pretty common belief that differentiates between happiness and joy. This is one that I believe. Happiness is based on circumstances. Expensive gifts and good food and parties and celebrations and Christmas lights can bring happiness. But they are only temporary. They
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 13, 2009
Years ago Bonnie Chamberlain wrote a story in the Saturday Review that told of an artist who was once commissioned to paint in a Sicilian cathedral a mural depicting the life of Jesus. The painter accepted this task and made it his life’s work. He began by searching for people to be his models for
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 8, 2024
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Muller himself interceded for more than half a century for the salvation of a small group of men. He once wrote: “In November, 1844, I began to pray for the conversion of five individuals. I prayed every day without a single intermission, whether sick or in health, on the land or on the sea, and
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Contributed by David Smith on Apr 21, 2005
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don’t think that there is any better answer to that question than the one given by the great painter Renoir. In old age the great French painter, suffered from arthritis, which twisted and cramped his hand. Henri Matise, his artist friend, watched sadly while Renoir, grasping a brush with only his
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