Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 13, 2009
The noted historian and Oxford professor Thomas Arnold wrote:
"The evidence for our Lord’s life and death and resurrection may be, and often has been, shown to be satisfactory; it is good according to the common rules for distinguishing good evidence from bad. Thousands and tens of thousands of
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SEPARATE: STAYING IN RANKS
The word "separate" is a military term, and it means to "stay in ranks." My son Jason just graduated from an intensive 9-week school for Drill Sergeants (we Brownworths never seem to finish going to school!). He will now be responsible for training as many as 240 "raw"
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 29, 2009
No one saw it coming. President Bush was attending a primary school activity when he received the call. Do you remember where you were on 9-11? American flights were banned from entry as provinces and countries dealt with international flights on route to America needing a place to land. What is
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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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Contributed by Tim George on Feb 5, 2001
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Did I ever tell you about the young Zoad?
Who came to a sign at the fork of the road
He looked one way and the other way too
The Zoad had to make up his mind what to do - Well, the Zoad scratched his head,
And his chin, and his pants. - And he said to himself, "I’ll be taking a chance.
If I go to
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 19, 2001
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Most of you are familiar with the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. Well, on one Mother’s Day, Calvin is pictured standing by his mother’s bed. "Hey, Mom! Wake up. I made you a Mother’s Day card." "My, how sweet of you." she says. "I did it all by myself. Go ahead & read it."
She begins
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Contributed by Steve Malone on May 22, 2001
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There was a man who lived up in upstate New York and he was getting tired of the cold weather, so he decided to go to Florida. His wife was on a business trip at the time so he called her to let her know what he was doing and to tell her not to go back to New York but to meet him in
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 27, 2003
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Two theological students were walking along a street in the Whitechapel district of London, a section where old and used clothing is sold. "What a fitting illustration all this makes!" said one of the students as he pointed to a suit of clothes hanging on a rack by a window. A sign on it read:
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jun 19, 2004
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In 1993, Dave moved his family from Florida to Tennessee to escape creditors and legalized gambling. He knew his family had suffered there from his gambling addiction, especially horse racing. He recalled when he moved to Florida he saw signs as they crossed the state line: "Welcome to Florida.
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Contributed by Michael Dascoli on Dec 14, 2005
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But the question on the floor is “What if”. What If Jesus Never Came? What’s the big deal?
Toward the end of the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey cries out, “I want to live again! I want to live again!" Immediately he’s flashed from the previous scene and finds himself
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Holiness
Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 21, 2007
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Longfellow could take a once cent sheet of paper, write a poem on it, and make it worth thousands- that is genius- not many of us have it. Rockefeller could sign his name to a small piece of paper and make it worth millions- that is called capital- and some of us do not have much of it. The U.S.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2007
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TRIUMPH
(By Jim L. Davey)
It was a dark & sullen morn, as several women approached the tomb,
With breaking hearts and deepest gloom,
The furthest thing from their minds.....was triumph
Why did He have to die they asked, each other on the road that morn,
It made no sense, their hearts were
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Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
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Somebody came running up to John Wesley and said, "Your house just burned down!" The great preacher replied, "I don’t have a house. I manage a house for the Lord, His house just burned down. Since I’m His son, and He wants me covered, I guess He’ll find me another place to live."
That is how we
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There’s a story about a local fitness center, which was offering $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that they were stronger than the owner of the place. Here’s how it worked. This muscle man would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and then hand the lemon to the next
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