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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
There was this man and a woman who got married. But they shared the same birthday and they decided to get married on the same day. So they got married, had a few kids, and lived the lives they dreamed.
But 20 years passed. They were celebrating their 40th anniversary
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Calvin Coolidge
I was reading the other day. ‘Once, President Calvin Coolidge invited some folks from his hometown to dinner at the White house. Since none of them knew what proper etiquette should be on a state occasion, they thought the best policy would be to do whatever the President did.
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Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 18, 2008
Colossians 4:6 addresses the way we talk, saying that our speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt (4:6). In the ancient world, salt was valuable, and served at least two purposes as nothing else could do. First it was a purifying agent. In those centuries before refrigeration, salt was
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Contributed by David Baeder on Nov 8, 2008
The Jews have this concept, when they celebrate the Passover, they are not only remembering the deliverance of their ancestors from Egypt, they are celebrating their own deliverance from Egypt. It is a concept of historical solidarity. The bible presents this same view in baptism and in the
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Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 26, 2006
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Seeing The Rainbow From God’s Side
Some years ago it was my privilege to be one of the speakers in a state-wide Bible Conference held in Dallas, Texas. Inasmuch as I was conducting a revival meeting in Houston that same week, it was necessary for me to fly to and from the Dallas appointment.
My
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Baptist
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
Book of Ezra. The idea was that they gathered in unity for the same purpose. Unity is one of the basic foundations for accomplishing a work for God (Phil 2:1-4). Lack of unity is one of the
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 18, 2002
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A father related how one of his son’s favorite games was "hide and seek" - his son always hid. The game always went the same: Dad always counted to 100 by 5’s and then would shout out, "Here comes Daddy to find you Tommy." And Tommy would always hide in the same room and the same spot - but of
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Christian/Church Of Christ
I almost lost the that which is most precious to me almost 3 years ago. I was here doing some interviews for Day Camp Staff when the phone rang. It was a friend of my wife, Joanne, who called to say that Joanne had just been loaded into an ambulance and was being taken to the U of A hospital.
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Baptist
Contributed by Eric Bland on Jun 20, 2003
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About six months ago my son Caleb began to walk. He quickly went from a staggering walk to a run. Now he is twenty months old and anyone who has kids knows at that age they become pretty brave, so now he is jumping off of anything that elevates him, whether it is jumping off of books or stools or
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2005
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There is an ancient door on display in St. Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. The rough hewn door has a rectangular hole hacked out in its center. It is called the “Door of Reconciliation,” and gives rise to the Irish expression of “chancing one’s arm.” In 1492, two prominent Irish families,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Boys In Crises: It may still be a man’s world. But it is no longer a boy’s. From his first days in school, an average boy is already developmentally 2 years behind girls in reading and writing. Yet he’s often expected to learn the same things in the same way in the same amount of time. While every
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A Modern day example of this is found In the movie Groundhog’s day. Bill Murray finds that he is stuck repeating the same day over and over again. At first, he is very frustrated and thinks he is going to go insane. No matter what he does he cannot affect or change the events of the day. Then
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Lutheran
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