Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 10, 2006
In the film Shrek 2, Shrek and the princess are married and they have been summoned to see the King and the Queen. As their carriage arrives in the kingdom of ‘Far, far away’ people begin to follow. At last, it is the long awaited return of the beautiful princess, and as the carriage enters the
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Valuable Necklace
An American tourist in Paris, who purchased an inexpensive amber necklace in a trinket shop, was shocked when he had to pay quite a high duty on it to clear customs in New York. This aroused his curiosity, so he had it appraised. After looking at the object under a magnifying
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 14, 2008
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“The Guardian” is a powerful movie depicting the life and risks of Search and Rescue teams. A trainee is intent on breaking the swim records and rescue stats of the legendary Master-chief Ben Randall (Kevin Costner). Ben laments quietly to himself “records” because young Jake Fischer is missing the
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
ILLUSTRATION: Imperial Hotel
Years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the impossible task of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
No comparable construction job ever before had been undertaken.
With patience he laid plans for the immense building in this land of earthquakes and terrible
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Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jun 1, 2011
TRAPPED ON A TRAM
It was a beautiful sunny day in Ostrava, Czech Republic, a city of 300,000. It was 1995, and I had just moved there to take an intense Czech language course. After half a day of Czech grammar, I was tired. I got on the tram and spaced out for my 20-minute ride to the suburbs
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 4, 2013
Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist.
Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
Listen to part of the June 2006 editorial of Christianity Today, written when The Da Vinci Code was being released in theaters:
“The tendency to grasp at excuses for not making a commitment to (God) was illustrated by National Public Radio commentator Peter Manseau. He compared the Gospel of Judas
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Dec 28, 2004
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Charles Smith was a Jehovah’s Witness, working his way up in the organization for 37 years. Outside one of their meetings, he noticed someone with a sign that simply said, “1 John 5:13.” He decided he would read it later.
“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 6, 2001
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You may have heard about the two guys from Texas, from down around College Station, who went up north to do some ice fishing. They made the long trip but before they did their ice fishing they stopped by a store near the lake for some supplies. They asked the merchant if he had any ice picks and
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on Oct 15, 2001
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Dr. Elizabeth Targ, a psychiatrist at the Pacific College of Medicine in San Francisco, has also tested out prayer on critically ill AIDS patients. All 20 patients in the study got pretty much the same medical treatment, but only half of them were prayed for by spiritual healers. Ultimately, 10 of
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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Any of us more than twenty-five years old can probably remember where we were when we first heard of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
British novelist David Lodge, in the introduction to one of his books, tells where he was--in a theater watching the performance of a satirical revue he
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She was a Hindu; but all the same, an active member of the Students’ Christian Movement. Then the shocking news came that she was diagnosed with cancer. She was admitted in a hospital. When we went to see her, I expected her to be very bitter. At such a young age to get such a sickness!
But
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Catholic
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Listen to what Ann Graham Lotz says in her book, “I saw the Lord.” She writes:
“Hurricane Katrina was a resounding wake-up call, not just to New Orleans and the Gulf coast, but to this entire nation. Wake up, America! Disaster can strike at any moment! Your unprecedented prosperity, your advanced
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Baptist
I read a fable about a man who was browsing in a store when he made the shocking discovery that God was behind a sales counter.
So the man walked over and asked, "What are You selling?"
God replied, "What does your heart desire?"
The man said, "I want happiness, peace of mind, and freedom
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Independent/Bible