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  • Proverbs According To Kids: A First Grade ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 5, 2006
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    Proverbs According To Kids: A first grade teacher collected old, well known proverbs. She gave each kid in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest. As You Shall Make Your Bed So Shall You... Mess It Up. Better Be Safe Than... Punch A 5th Grader. Strike While ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Letting Your Light Shine Dr. Paul Brand Was ...

    Contributed by George Mansfield on Jan 1, 2008
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    LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE Dr. Paul Brand was speaking to a medical college in India on "Let your light so shine before men that they may behold your good works and glorify your Father." In front of the lectern was an oil lamp, with its cotton wick burning from the shallow dish of oil. As he ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Why Jesus Was Born In A Stable

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 5, 2012
     | 2,375 views

    WHY JESUS WAS BORN IN A STABLE According to the ancient historical writer Jerome, he feels Jesus was born in a stable because "...it would have been fitting for Christ to come into the Holy of Holies in the Temple, but he came into this world in a stinking stable, for us... "Christ found no room ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • There Used To Be A Show On Cable Television ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rob Clifton on May 23, 2001
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    There used to be a show on cable television called, "Tales from the Darkside." The title sounds a little more sinister than the series really was, because I’m not one to watch scary movies and such. It was more like the old show, "The Twilight Zone." In one episode, there was an old man who ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Beautiful Feet?

    Contributed by Scott Bayles on Mar 14, 2012
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    BEAUTIFUL FEET? The Bible says, in Romans 10:15, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace..." (NKJV). I don't know about you, but when I think about beautiful things, feet don't rank very high on my list. Feet are sweaty and stinky. Did you know that your feet have ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • There Are Exceptions, But Almost Every Team Goes ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Beehler on Apr 16, 2003
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     | 2,563 views

    There are exceptions, but almost every team goes through some lean years where they, in a word, stink. They don’t have the talent and, more importantly, no leadership. Kind of like the 1971 NBA Championship series when Willis Reed, the NY Knick center, had a knee injury. The rest of the team ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Your Sins Have Been Your Downfall, Is Where The ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Aug 18, 2012
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    "Your sins have been your downfall", is where the tar starts sticking to the tyres. Most people generally don’t like the whole “s” word thing. For some reason there is an issue with the human brain that tells us to kick up stink when we are having a good time, a pleasurable time and someone, some ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • True Peace With God Comes To Us When God Says To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jun 3, 2004
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    True peace with God comes to us when God says to us, “you are one ugly person. I can’t stand to look at you. Your breath stinks, you’re out of shape, and you aren’t worthy of me. Here, take this outfit of righteousness - put it on. Keep it on. Take these works of my Son. Take this holiness ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • > My First Basketball Team As A Coach Was ...

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
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    >>> My first basketball team as a coach was good. The first day I saw these guys had been playing together for a while and were really good. The first few practices went well and a starting 5 became clear. We ran plays like clock work. --- But after the first game when we were beaten by 40 ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Smoking Stats

    Contributed by Ryan Yandris on Jan 8, 2009
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     | 1,584 views

    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 ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • A Certain Man, Living In Budapest, Hungary, Went ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 8, 2008
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    A certain man, living in Budapest, Hungary, went to his rabbi, complaining: “Life is unbearable. Nine of us must live in the one room of my house. What can I do?” The rabbi answers, “Take your goat into the room with you.” The man is incredulous. Certain he has misheard, he asks again. But the ...read more

    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Smelly Collections

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 28, 2011
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    SMELLY COLLECTIONS He may dress like a skid-row bum and smell like a dead rat, but Andy Smulian is a hit among London businessmen plagued by those who won't pay their bills. Employed by the London-Manhattan Debt Collection Agency, the 20-years-old youth will stumble into a deadbeat's office for ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Mickey Mantle, An Almost Mythical Baseball Star ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 3,269 views

    Mickey Mantle, an almost mythical baseball star who feared he had failed to fulfill career expectations because of alcohol abuse and whose recent years were haunted by self-recrimination, died of cancer. He was 63. The former New York Yankees center fielder and a member of baseball’s Hall of Fame ...read more

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  • God Came Near

    Contributed by C Jordan on Dec 14, 2007
     | 3,349 views

    QUOTE –GOD CAME NEAR: “They were too busy. The day was upon them. The day’s bread had to be made. The morning’s chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby. Yet, were someone to chance upon the sheep stable on the ...read more

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  • On The Lighter Side Of Life: Proverbs From Fourth Graders

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 7, 2007
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     | 1,419 views

    On the lighter side of life: Proverbs from Fourth Graders A 4th grade teacher collected well-known proverbs. She gave each child in the class the first half of the proverb, and asked them to come up with the rest. Here is what they came up with: Better to be safe than punch a 5th grader Strike ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Max Lucado On Bethlehem And The Stable  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
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     | 3,714 views

    MAX LUCADO ON BETHLEHEM AND THE STABLE "They were too busy. The day was upon them. The day’s bread had to be made. The morning’s chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby. "Yet, were someone to chance upon the ...read more

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  • Meeting With God In A Cesspit

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 15, 2011
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    MEETING WITH GOD IN A CESSPIT Philip Yancey shared about "a conference on evangelism sponsored by Billy Graham in Manila. A Cambodian man mesmerized the audience with his story of daily meditation. Under the Pol Pot regime he was held in a concentration camp like those depicted in the movie ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • The Key Called Promise

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
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    THE KEY CALLED PROMISE In John Bunyan's great allegory, Pilgrim's Progress, the incident is related of how Christian decides to leave the Main Highway and follow another Path which seemed easier. But this Path leads him into the territory of Giant Despair who owns Doubting Castle. Eventually he ...read more

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  • Pilgrims Progress...

    Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 20, 2007
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    Pilgrims Progress... Well, on Saturday, about midnight they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day. Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out into this passionate speech: What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, ...read more

    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Dirty Laundry

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011
     | 3,569 views

    DIRTY LAUNDRY I have to admit, I dislike washing the laundry, but I detest wearing filthy clothes even more. Okay, truth be told, I don’t usually have to wash the clothes. My wife does most of it, and she does it well. I’m thankful, though, she doesn’t toil in the same manner as our ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran