Contributed by Dale Harlow on Jun 19, 2003
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I know you have heard the phrase “remember the Alamo.” It is a story that illustrates what we, as men are all about. 187 men against the Mexican army of over 6000. They were extraordinary men, but they knew they couldn’t win with those odds. They had sent out pleas for help, but they had gone
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 28, 2003
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I remember a skit at camp several years ago. There was a fence that one girl sat on. Someone tried to convince her to be saved, but she wouldn’t go. Someone else tried to lead her to open, indulgent, flagrant sin, and she wouldn’t do that either. She was content to sit on the fence.
Then the
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Apr 14, 2007
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I remember when I was a young Marine going through basic training in San Diego, California. One of the most challenging parts of the training was a several mile hike wearing full equipment with a rifle and a rucksack (backpack) in excess of 26 pounds, which culminated in climbing to the top of a
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Christian Church
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 11, 2007
John Stott writes, "For it is when we remember people (their faces, names and needs) that we are prompted both to thank God and to pray for
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I remember the old story of a young soldier boy who was a Christian. After the lights were out in the barracks he would slip down on his knees by his bunk in order to pray. One night the sergeant, who had little use for anything religious or Christian, threw his very muddy boots at the boy,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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. I REMEMBER AS A BOY GOING WITH MY GRAND DAD TO AN OLD GRIST MILL ON THEN SALADO CREEK, WITH A BIG WATERWHEEL THAT TURNED WITH THE WATER FROM THE CREEK.
I. GRAND DAD WENT THERE TO HAVE HIS CORN GROUND INTO CORN MEAL AND ONE MORNING WE DROVE TO THE MILL AND THE WATERWHEEL WAS NOT TURNING BECAUSE
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Do you remember going to the circus. My favorite part of the circus was watching the acrobats. How they flew twisting and turning into the air. It is an amazing sight of beauty. Yet if you notice below the high wire act there is a net. It is not their for looks but is their for protection. That net
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jul 29, 2007
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I can remember my cousin Jenny as a joyful, delighted-with-life little girl who wasn’t like the rest of us, but could make the grumpiest of grumps smile because her love of life and underlying happiness was so infectious.
The message here is that all of us have opportunity to give sacrificially to
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 6, 2007
Do you remember the impossible task we spoke of at the beginning, the building of the Panama Canal? After the canal was completed, after working on that seemingly impossible mission, the men who build that canal wrote a song. They said:
“Don’t send us back to a life that’s plain again,
We who
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Baptist
Contributed by Scott Brewer on Aug 7, 2007
Do you remember the movie “Hook” from the early 1990’s? According to Stephen Spielberg, when Peter Pan grew up he became a self-absorbed, ladder climbing, workaholic baby boomer. So goes the story line of the movie.
In some early scenes Peter promises his son numerous times that he would come to
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Baptist
I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll go there with young people from
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 6, 2007
Napoleon - p82 boasted he could remember the names of every person he ever met. His technique was simple. If he didn’t hear the name clearly, he said, “So sorry I didn’t get the name clearly,” If it was an unusual name he would ask how is it spelled? During the conversation, he took the trouble
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Dale Harlow on Dec 17, 2007
Do you remember me saying that none of Mary’s family was there for the birth? It wasn’t that way at his death. We don’t know her name, but it doesn’t matter. Those words say a lot, “his mother’s sister.” Because of the way Mary lived her life, at least one member of her family came around. She
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 18, 2008
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You probably don’t remember or know the name Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, nor should you. But during his day he was as powerful a man as there was on earth.
A Russian Communist leader
He took part in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
He was the editor of the Soviet
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
I remember when I was a small boy that I was fascinated with soldiers. I played with little green army men, listened to Dad tell stories of the second world war he was in. I loved to dress up and play army (Get the pictures). I had the steel hat, inside liner, and jacket, etc. I loved playing
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
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On the 4th of July each year, we remember the signing of our Declaration of Independence. There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, either on that day or shortly thereafter. Some names come quickly from the recesses of our memory, names like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 27, 2008
Remember in college when you mixed your drink at the coke dispenser. A little coke, sprite, cherry coke, diet coke, power aid and you got a strange conglomeration. It looks and tastes nothing like the original things you put in it. People like Tiger Woods use this approach.
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Wesleyan
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