Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 2, 2012
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FAITH LIKE THAT
The bishop's car ran out of petrol. His wife, who was a passenger remembered seeing a garage half a mile back down the road. He got out the car and started to search the boot of the car for a container, but the only one he could find was his baby grandson's potty - so that had to
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The way to stay free from sin
Is to stay committed to God
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
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Dr. William Sloan Coffin of New York’s Riverside Church said this in the April 20,1984 Lutheran Standard after the death of his son, Alex."The night after Alex died, I was sitting in the living room of my sister’s house outside of Boston, when a middle-aged lady came in, shook her head when she saw
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
During the Victorian era, one how-to-do-it-right manual was Lady Gough’s Book of Etiquette. In this volume, putting books by male authors next to books by female authors was forbidden – unless the authors were married.
• Different parts of the United States, as well as other parts of the world,
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Contributed by C. Philip Green on May 27, 2010
Last week, I was at Moody Pastor’s Conference in Chicago; and there, I won a drawing for a brand new Garmin GPS. It’s a nifty little device! Sandy and I had to make several stops in Milwaukee this last weekend – the airport, a Best Western Motel, Office Depot, a GNC store, and other places – so
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Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 21, 2018
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When we think of children we don't always think that there may be a person who is going to change the course of history. We don't see their potential or we brush it off as he or she is just a child. But every person who has had an impact on the world started as a child.
Jared A. Brock wrote a
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Contributed by Lewis Petrie on Jan 3, 2001
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Peter V. Deison, in his book The Priority of Knowing God, tells about Ramad, a man of India who was a member of a gang of robbers. On one occasion, while burglarizing a house, Ramad noticed a small black book containing very thin pages just right for making cigarettes. So he took it.
Each
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
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In my "Reader’s Digest - Jesus and His Times" (copy write 1987 - from which much of this information is derived), there is a picture of a "Mikvah" that has been discovered in Masada (the ancient fortress built by Herod which held off the Romans for so long after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.).
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2002
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THE HORRID DESCRIPTION
Jesus was tied to a post and beaten at least thirty-nine times – and probably more – with a whip that had jagged bones and balls of lead woven into it. Again and again the whip was brought down with full force on his bare shoulders, back, and legs …
At first the heavy
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Apr 2, 2002
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LISTING THE COMEBACKS
The 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks will go down as that of the comeback.
So in the November 12, 2001 issue of Sports Illustrated, they ranked the 10 greatest comebacks in world history. Among those making the list:
1. Muhammad
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Back in the 17th century, the Dutch artist Rembrandt painted two portraits of a famous Roman heroine named Lucretia. One portrait was painted the 1664. Two years later, he painted a second portrait of Lucretia in a different pose. For over 300 years, the two paintings were never seen together.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Church Growth: According to the 2003 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church experienced a 12% growth. Catholics followed with a 2.5% increase, while Mormons and the Assemblies of God each reported 2% growth in ‘01, the latest year for which figures
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