Contributed by Charles Hines on Jun 12, 2007
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I love the 23rd Psalms where it says "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. all the days of my life." I imagine two angels, one named goodness and one named mercy, and everywhere I go they follow me, and protect me. I had the chance to experience this first hand. I was travelling to
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 2, 2007
There was a professor who told his class that man is only a meaningless piece of protoplasm. He dismissed class early because of grief over his young daughter, whose life would be scarred because she had run off with an older man. A Christian student asked, “How can
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Blake Inscore on Sep 26, 2008
Mark Twain was asked his opinion on the raising of children. With his typical wit Twain offered this homey philosophy: “Things run along pretty smoothly until your kid reaches thirteen. That’s the time you need to stick ‘em in a barrel, hammer the lid down nice and snug, and
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The animal called an ermine that inhabits upper northern Europe. Its hair is snow white. When hunters find its nesting ground, its home, they smother it with tar, which is pitch black, then when the hunting dogs chase the ermine, it will run to its home but not enter it so that it will not
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. Oddly enough, the winner was not the runner who finished first and fastest. It was the first runner who finished the race with his torch still lit.
I am not trying to outrun others.
I just want to run all the way to the
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jun 18, 2002
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Joe Bailey in his book "A View From a Hearse" tells of the day his boy died of cancer. He had returned to the clinic to thank them for their kindness and care of his son. As he spoke to the receptionist, she motioned toward a woman whose son was playing quietly with toys in the waiting area. "He
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DIVORCE DOESN'T MEAN HAPPINESS
Survey of those who had been seriously considering divorce.
Five years later, revisited. Some had divorced, some had done hard work to stay together.
On repeat survey, those who had done hard work and stayed together rated their lives as happier than those who’d
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 2, 2012
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Have you ever gone to a doctor and got a prescription?
You take that prescription down to the pharmacy and they sell you the medicine.
Now, have you ever heard of a druggist getting the prescription wrong?
Of course you have.
Why would a pharmacist get it wrong? Well, not because they intended to.
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
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There was a little boy who was asked by his father if he would move a fairly large stone in the backyard. The boy said, "Yes, I’ll do it. I’ll try."
He tried very hard, but he couldn’t budge the stone. The father said, "Son, give it all you’ve got." He tried again and strained very hard. The
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Contributed by Fred Schaeffer on Dec 5, 2008
Jim always thought he was a pretty good guy. Oh ... he made some mistakes once in a while ... but overall he thought he was OK. He knew that he wasn’t a BAD person.
Oh, he fudged on his income tax a little bit .. not really cheated he said .. just fudged a little bit. He would stay out on
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Aug 29, 2003
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WHAT TO RAISE
Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, tells about the man who made his sons work in the cornfields while their peers spent the afternoon at the swimming hole. Someone scolded the father saying, "Why do you make those boys work so hard? You
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2001
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It was F.B. Meyer, I believe, who once said that when we see a brother or sister in sin, there are two things we do not know: First, we do not know how hard they tried not to sin. And second, we do not know the power of the forces that assailed them. We also do not know what we
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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It was F.B. Meyer, I believe, who once said that when we see a brother or sister in sin, there are two things we do not know: First, we do not know how hard they tried not to sin. And second, we do not know the power of the forces that assailed them. We also do not know what we would
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 19, 2010
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ON THE SEQUENCE OF SONGS IN REVELATION 5
Think of this like a commencement on a cosmic scale. The graduate represents three things:
** The past (all the study and hard work she has invested)
** The present (the diploma and honors she receives at his graduation)
** The future (the potential
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