Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 9, 2011
THELMA AND LOUISE: RETHINKING THE TRIP
Thelma, married to Darryl (which the film portrays as a controlling husband) and Louise (a single waitress with a troubled past) decide to take a weekend road trip in Louise’s teal 1966 Thunderbird convertible. They stop at a bar where Thelma flirts with a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 18, 2003
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What might we do in our families to celebrate Christmas as a holy day? Of course, we remember that its date was first set purposely to coincide with the Roman festival of the returning of the sun, so that it was indeed initially a pagan holiday. In order to celebrate it, however, the first
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Everett Ferguson (Early Christians Speak -- Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries, Revised Edition (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1981, 1987) - The sharing of food by the wealthier with the poorer was an important means of charity. The host provided food for those chosen
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
THE WHITE FLAG
Two hundred years after Christ, China’s Han Dynasty began its ruthless conquest of neighboring territories. During a particular battle, an enemy soldier, knowing he was defeated, stripped off part of his shirt and waved it in the air. It was an act of surrender – thus began the
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A solar eclipse took place in 1948, the year Israel declared itself a nation, and again in 1967, when Israel emerged victorious from the Six-Day War and unified Jerusalem.
With a little more research, we discover another solar eclipse in 1492, the year the Jews were expelled from Spain and
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 9, 2005
LANCASTER, Pa. -- Days after being shot in the leg, a 2-year-old Lancaster boy is home again after being released from the hospital Tuesday morning June 4th.
Pedro Melendez was shot last week in what police call a case of road rage.
Police said Jon Eichelman shot the boy
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2003
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A PADDY’S DAY JOKE
Paddy was tooling along the road one fine day when the local policeman, a friend of his, pulled him over. "What’s wrong, Seamus?" Paddy asked. "Well didn’t ya know, Paddy, that your wife fell out of the car about five miles back?" said
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
a. Man sends himself to hell by rejecting God’s plan of salvation.
b. Receiving Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour is how we accept God’s plan of salvation.
a. Hell is prepared for those who prepare for it by rejecting Christ.
b. There are good parking places on the road to hell.
c. Every
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Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
On the news recently was the story of a great sandstorm blowing over Arizona in the US and the city of Phoenix was put under warning. A TV camera in a helicopter high above showed an immense wall of dust and sand rolling across the Phoenix valley smothering everything. It reduced road visibility to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Oct 5, 2008
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Kind of like the guy who had too much to drink and he was driving -- all of the sudden he turns down a road going the wrong direction. The police finally pull him over and said to the man, "Hey fella, what are you doing, you could have killed yourself and someone else. Didn't you
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 23, 2004
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“The show went on; many had been slain (in the Roman Colosseum), and the people, madly excited by the desperate bravery of those who continued to fight, shouted their applause. But suddenly there was an interruption. A rudely clad, robed figure appeared for a moment among the audience, and then
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Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 7, 2001
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A father and son were driving down a country road and saw a watermelon patch a little way off the highway. The father said to the boy, "Keep a lookout here while I go get a melon." He snuck into the patch, lifted a choice melon from the vine, and then called to the boy, "Is anyone coming? Look both
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Holiness
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
Lester Lecroy was one of 12 children. He grew up in a home of very meager means. He was a rambunctious, but dependable young man. While cooling off after a hard days work in a creek at a little place we called the Iron Bridge on Cotton Hill Road in Eufaula, Alabama Lester Lecroy lost his life at
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Church Fights
I’m told that there is a church in Texas that debated over the issue of telling a lie. Some felt that there were some occasions in which a little white lie was acceptable. The others felt that there was never an occasion in which a lie of any kind was acceptable. The discussion got so
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When you talk about forgotten, I believe Joseph was one of God’s faithful servant that would shines above all. From the coat of many colours to the dusty road towards Egypt. From Potiphar’s house to the dungeon where the two servant of the Pharaoh met him and then forgot about him. God was NEVER
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Vera Hughes on Feb 20, 2008
According to a UPI news item; the Metropolitan Insurance Company received some unusual explanations/excuses for accidents from its automobile policyholders. The following are just few:
• An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car, and vanished.
• I had been driving my car for 40 years
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
BIRD OF PARADISE
Reminds me of an Easterner, was being driven by a Texas rancher over a barren stretch of West Texas, on a smothering hot day, when a large, brightly-colored bird scurried across the road in front of them. The visitor asked what it was, and the rancher said, "That's a bird of
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