Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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Holidays get interesting don’t they? They bring out the best in people and they also, unfortunately, bring out the worst in people. I’ll have you determine which is true in the following story.
The day before Thanksgiving an elderly man in Phoenix called his son in New York and said to him, "I hate
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Church Of God
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 14, 2008
• There is a true story about the great scientist, Michael Faraday, when he was taken ill. When it became evident that the sickness that had fastened itself upon him would soon result in his death, a group of fellow scientists came to see him--not so much to talk about science as to talk about
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Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 23, 2010
The psychoanalyst Victor Frankl and his friends were imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was winter. They had been marched off to work in the morning, spent the day at hard labor, been given only a little thin soup to eat, and then staggered back to camp in the late
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bill Harper on Jan 23, 2001
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A woman named Dawn McKnight wrote a letter to the editor of the Birmingham News. She said:
My 14 year old son and I were recently running an errand and saw a sight that made me sick to my stomach.
As we were going through a drive-through window at a bank, my son observed that in a pile of trash
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Luthy on Aug 17, 2001
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It was a regular work day. There were 6 of us in a room—myself, two other men, and three women. One of the guys was talking about his vacation when one of the women handed him a knife and he stabbed me, right in the lower abdomen. The last thing I remembered before I passed out was the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
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THE TRUTH HURTS
Some of us may be able to sympathize with the fellow who received a call from his wife just as she was about to fly home from Europe. "How’s my cat?" she asked.
"Dead."
"Oh, honey, don’t be so honest. Why didn’t you break the news to me slowly? You’ve ruined my trip."
"What do you
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Pentecostal
Contributed by James May on Apr 13, 2003
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While serving as a security guard for the US Army at Long Binh in 1969, it was one of my duties to ride “shotgun” on every civilian tank truck that came to our little compound to fill our water tanks with fresh water from wells that were dug by the Army.
The local villages had very little, if
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ian Johnson on Dec 1, 2003
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Mary a Fijian woman in the Island of Vanua Levu was SO sick that she could no longer walk
But her husband carried her to the bus and they were heading for a local witch doctor in the
Last desperate hope that she could be made well. They had to change bus at the cross roads near the village
I was
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 19, 2004
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In his book, Thirteen Days to Glory, author Lon Tinkle tells about Colonel Jim Bowie and the brave defenders of the Alamo. That sacred Texas shrine had only 183 defenders against a huge army led by Santa Anna. On March 3, 1836, two hours before dusk, the Mexican guns quit firing. William Travis
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Baptist
In 1877
Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce Indians…
Surrendered to the American Army…
There was a movie made in 1975 about Chief Joseph and his battle to remain free…
It was entitled, “I will fight no more forever”….
As a teenager in the 70s, I remember this movie…
The speech that he gave when
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Nazarene
Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
There was a very large family that lived out in the country. They were always having financial problems. There was never enough money for food or clothes. They lived in an old beat up shack that they rented. Fortunately they had recently shot and killed a bear that had wandered onto their property.
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Lutheran
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Max Lucado in his book 3:16 notes the following about those living in the dead zone:
a. “He, at this very moment, issues invitations by the millions. He whispers through the kindness of a grandparent, shouts through the tempest of a tsunami. Through the funeral he cautions, ‘Life is fragile.’
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 16, 2009
“Everyone dies…all flesh is grass…what did you expect? Did you really think that Christ would blunt the spear-points, deflect the lash, cause the chains to melt away when they touched your skin? Did you expect to walk in sunlight and not feel the heat, or to go without water and not grow thirsty?
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Orthodox