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h. Three-year-old granddaughter, Beverly, was playing with her toys. Her mother, who was folding laundry across the room, noticed Beverly’s shirt was dirty and needed to be changed. After calling two times with no response, her mother gave her the full three-name call: "Beverly
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Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Oct 18, 2004
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In the year A.D. 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued a decree that he hoped would extinguish the spreading flames of Christianity. One of his primary objectives was the seizure and destruction of the Christian Scriptures. Later that year, officials enforced the decree in North Africa.
One
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Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Nov 16, 2004
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Many years ago, Chinese farmers theorized that they could eat their big potatoes and use the small ones for seed. Consequently, they ate the big potatoes and planted the small potatoes. As a result of this practice over the years, nature eventually reduced the size of all the potatoes they
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Nov 20, 2004
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Pat Summerall spent 50 years with the national Football League. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1952 and played with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants until 1961. After his retirement from the game, he joined CBS as a broadcaster, and in 1993 switched to Fox. During his CBS years he
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Contributed by John Young on Nov 23, 2004
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Some years ago a little group of freethinkers in Scotland decided on a plan whereby they might reveal, as they put it, the inaccuracies of Scripture and thus cause people to realize that the Bible was not really the Word of God. One member was given the task of going to Asia Minor, southern
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 13, 2004
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A. Years ago an interesting sign was seen hanging in a store window during the Christmas season. The original message stated, “Let’s make this the best Christmas ever.” Underneath, some perceptive person had scribbled a legitimate question: “How will we top the first one?” God
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 4, 2005
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For 30 years, Randy Murphy drove without a traffic incident, without being stopped by the police, and without a driver’s license. Then, the 46 year old Knoxville, Tennessee native’s luck ran out. On his way home from work as a dishwasher, he increased the volume on his radio. Turning the corner
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
After 25 years of an arranged marriage, listen to Tevya’s question to Golde in the musical Fiddler on the Roof:
(Tevye) “Golde, I have decided to give Perchik permission to become engaged to our daughter, Hodel.”
(Golde) “What??? He’s poor! He has nothing, absolutely nothing!”
(Tevye) “He’s a
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Contributed by Thomas Black on Jan 28, 2005
A year or so ago, Police in Wheeling, Illinois, accused a Wal-Mart cashier of buying merchandise at the store using credit-card numbers she had copied from customers. Investigators admitted the cashier had made their job easier. She
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Contributed by Steve Smith on Aug 28, 2007
Ron McClung is a former pastor of 33 years and wrote these words:
“God sees the dream in our hearts. People all around us have dreams of being better than they are, of doing better and climbing higher. Yet, sometimes we don’t recognize the dreams because we don’t see them clearly as God does.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 4, 2007
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Richard Daly was mayor of Chicago for 21 years. Mayor Daly was known as a rather difficult man to work for. One of Mayor Daly’s speech writers came in and demanded a raise. Mayor Daly responded, “I’m not going to give you a raise. You are getting paid more than enough already. It should be
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: Glynn Wolfe lived 88 years; he was born July 25th 1908 and died June 10th 1997. He died alone in a nursing home in Redlands, California where no one visited him and no one came to claim the body. Wolfe died with $430 to his name which was used to give him a pauper’s funeral. What
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2007
We lived in Montrose, CO for four years and often went to the town of Telluride. Telluride is a beautiful resort town, with skiing and a gondola and much more. But it didn’t always have a good reputation. To this day to get to Telluride you must drive a narrow, curvy, two lane road. Back in the
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Oct 19, 2007
Years ago the Emperor of China had a famous orchestra.
One particular member of the group did not have any real musical talent but had simply weaseled his way into as a member. During the concerts he would always pretend to play but loved the attention and the money he was paid.
One day the
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Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Nov 21, 2007
----ILL>Years ago in a Coca Cola commercial on t.v., Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker Mean Joe Green is shown heading into the players’ tunnel to his dressing room after a hard game. A young fan gets his attention, then gives him a Coke. He takes the Coke and turns away to walk on down the tunnel,
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Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Nov 26, 2007
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A number of years ago, when the new Volkswagen Beetle was introduced, one of the features that received significant attention was that it was burglarproof. Volkswagen bragged there was no way anybody could steal their car. To demonstrate their point, VW hired a professional burglar and called a
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Nov 29, 2007
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Several years ago in Chicago, Joseph Kratzle, a service elevator operator in an apartment house, recovered two checks for $114,000 that had been lost by the tenant in the apartment house where he worked. His reward was a fifteen cent tip and a solicitous offer to put iodine on the cuts on his hands
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 13, 2007
There is a story of an 8 year old boy who was learning in school how plants grow, he was intrigued how a tiny seed can germinate in the ground and later burst through the ground, that week he attended a funeral where the pastor talked about the final resurrection of our bodies. Several days
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