Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 29, 2007
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• Every single apostle experienced persecution: 1 John died of old age exiled on the island of Patmos. 2 Peter was crucified upside down under Nero. 3. Andrew died upon a cross at Patrae, in Achia 4.James the brother of Jesus was thrown from a pinnacle of the temple and beaten to death by a
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
There’s a type of boat called a hydrofoil that has actually been around for over 100 yrs. The secret lies underneath the hull, where there are basically underwater wings. Once the boat reaches enough speed, it actually lifts out of the water and “flies” with only those wings in the water.
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A blessing is God’s expression of favor on you. In the passage we look at this morning, God commanded his priests to give his people a blessing from him. When I started looking at this passage this week, one image came to mind. It’s sort of funny actually, but a scene from Rocky II came to mind.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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A "POWERFUL" GROANER
One day in the middle of the woods, a hawk, a lion, and a skunk were arguing about which one was the most powerful. The hawk said it was because he could fly down and catch his dinner so quickly they could not get away.
The lion said he could run the fastest and had the
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Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
John Ortberg in The Life You’ve Always Wanted speaks about Mable. She was in a state-run convalescent home, a place where people were left to die.
Mable lived 25yrs in a home. She was strapped into a wheelchair; half her face was eaten away with cancer, she was blind and almost deaf; she drooled
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 19, 2001
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Donald Barnhouse tells of the time when a prairie fire swept across his father’s land & burned everything, house, buildings, crops, everything.
Later on, his dad was walking across the burned ground, kicking this object & that. Finally, he came to a charred piece of something that looked
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 21, 2001
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ILL. Jean Baron writes in Readers Digest about the old mobile home where she lived with her teen-age son. She said, “The home was structurally unsound, & the plumbing always leaked.” She was ashamed when her son brought friends home because of their meager surroundings.
But one day she learned
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Contributed by Mike Richardson on May 16, 2001
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A Church called a new pastor at 60 years of age. His first sermon was 15 minutes long. Kinda short but fine for the folks. The next week he preached for 20 minutes. That was Ok, too. But the following week he preached for an hour and 45 minutes. Boy the deacons pulled him off to the side
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Aug 28, 2001
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Illustration: Free From Worry
Donald Trump, the famous businessman, has many millions of
dollars. What a friend to have, eh? There is a story about
Trump’s generosity with a stranger. It is said that Trump’s
limousine broke down on the Garden State Parkway. An
unemployed car mechanic stopped to
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 13, 2001
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Ann Weems wrote: "It was a family treasure. That golden vase, the priceless vase that had belonged to my great-grandmother & my grandmother & now to my mother. The vase sat on the mantle, out of reach of little fingers. However, I managed to reach it. I climbed to reach it, & I broke it. I
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Contributed by Richard White on Jan 4, 2002
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There is a story of the Battle of Marathon around 490 B.C. King Darius of the Persians,
The Athenians were outnumbered by the Persians. The city-states that surrounded the
Athenians in Marathon offered no help. But they caught the Persians by surprise by
running the full length of the plain
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 16, 2003
John Piper (Let the Nations Be Glad, 1993,p.12)quotes Charles Misner, a scientific specialist in general relativity theory, who expressed Albert Einstein’s skepticism
The design of the universe ... is very magnificient and shouldn’t be taken for granted. In fact, I believe that is why Einstein
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Contributed by Mike Leiter on Sep 2, 2003
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Love makes obedience a thing of joy!
To do the will of one we like to please
Is never hardship, though it tax our strength;
Each privilege of service love will seize!
Love makes us loyal, glad to do or go,
And eager to defend a name or cause;
Love takes the drudgery from common work,
And asks
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In, The Horse Whisperer, Tom Booker, has a gift when it comes to what he calls "gentling" horses. In one telling scene, a traumatized horse, frightened by a ringing cell phone, gallops off into the far end of a large pasture. Booker walks into the pasture and sits down, where he waits for what
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Nov 15, 2003
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It seems there was a pretzel stand out front of an office building in New York. One day, a man came out of the building, plunked down a quarter, and then went on his way without taking a pretzel. This happened every day for three weeks. Finally, the old lady running the stand spoke up: "Sir, excuse
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 26, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… Governor John Connally Quote
I was reading recently of events that happened back in 1963 when John F Kennedy was tragically gunned down. It was the Texas Governor of the time John Connally who was wounded in the gun attack. He and his wife Nellie were in the motorcade that day. In
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Contributed by Mark Evans on Jan 7, 2004
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Regardless of his state in the present, the negative thinker finds disappointment in the future. The epitaph on a negative person’s headstone ought to read, “I expected this.” A sign that was read several years ago in an office building can best describe this type of thinking:
Don’t look – you
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Contributed by Timothy Archer on Jan 13, 2004
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Do you remember the movie "The Lion King"? It tells the story of a young lion who is the son of the king. The lion runs away when his father is accidentally killed and the cub is made to feel responsible for that death. He takes refuge with a pair of insectivores, and we see the king of the beasts
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