Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
Few people have the privilege of a private audience with Pope John Paul II. One who did was journalist Tim Russert, NBC News Washington Bureau chief, Meet The Press moderator, and former altar boy. This was his experience:
I’ll never forget it. I was there to convince His Holiness it was in his
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
Tom Dempsey.
On Nov 8th, 1970, there was a hard fought game between the New Orleans Saints and the Detroit Lions.
The game was nip and tuck and it came down to the last final seconds to see who would win. The crowd gasped as they realized that the Saints were going to try a field goal of 63
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What is Your Legacy?
This week I had the extreme privilege of praying at a ceremony honoring the memory of Sandra Waugh Bradshaw, one of the heroic flight crew of 9/11's Flight 93. Sandy went to Grays Chapel and had ties to this community. I want to suggest to you that in the moment that brave
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United Methodist
Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
A Friend Like Pee Wee Reese
Willie Morris says that gestures often speak more eloquently than words.
In his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, faced venom nearly everywhere he traveled -- fastballs were aimed at his head,
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Mennonite
Contributed by Ryan Yandris on Jan 8, 2009
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SMOKING STATS
Did you know that one out of five deaths are contributed to tobacco products?
Every 8 seconds someone in the world dies of tobacco.
Cigarette smoke contains 69 chemicals that are known to cause cancer.
1 out of 3 smokers will die from a tobacco related disease.
400,040 smokers die
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 30, 2009
Marriage and Creation
Your life started as the joining of two cells, One from your mother and one from your father. That cell from your dad made in an incredible journey as one of thousands. Each cell carries 23 chromosomes. When the cell from your dad and the cell from your mom met, they formed
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 9, 2009
We recently watched a DVD about prestidigitation. It was called The Prestige and was based on the idea that every illusion has three acts. The first act is "The Pledge" where the magician shows you something very simple and ordinary, though it rarely is. The second act is "The Turn" where something
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 12, 2009
HOSEA 2: LOW-DOWN PERSON
I was watching an old movie on television and I heard a line that I’d missed before. The villain of this comedy was talking on the phone and said something like: "Sure, I know what kind of low-down person would sue his own mother, but we’re not talking about me!" It caught
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 17, 2007
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However, Gordon MacDonald has provided a very clear set of descriptors in understanding what it means to fully follow the Lord.
(10A) The first descriptor is spectator. MacDonald notes that there many spectators around Jesus because they were curious about what He had to say and offer. They were
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Church Of God
Contributed by David Rumley on Dec 21, 2009
A bus carrying only ugly people that crashed into an oncoming truck, and everyone inside dies. As they stand at the Pearly Gates waiting to enter Paradise and meet their maker, God decides to grant each person one wish because of the grief they have experienced. They’re all lined up, and God asks
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 17, 2010
Prior to Rodger Bannister running the mile in 3’59.4" in 1954 it was believed to be impossible, and that athletes would die in the attempt.
The ’four minute barrier’ has since been broken by many athletes, and is now the standard of all professional middle distance runners. In the last 50 years
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 18, 2010
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Michael had been pinching pennies for 3 months since being laid off from his job. He’d promised to take his twin sons to an amusement park for the 10th birthday, and he wasn’t going to let them down. So when the day rolled around, Michael went into the cash reserves and pulled together enough to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
FOUR FREEDOMS
In January 1941, when the flames of war were consuming Europe and the Far East, President Roosevelt addressed Congress. In that address, he said some things about freedom that has echoed down through the years.
The address, now known as the "Four Freedoms" address, contained these
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Church Of God
“I am” and Yahweh come from the same root word but have different tense references “I am” is 1st person “Yahweh” 3rd Person.
Pronunciation of Yahweh
The covenant name for the God of Israel in the Old Testament is Yahweh. This name was so sacred that by the second century BC the Jews refused to
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