Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 12, 2008
"Briefly stated, the Talmud (Kiddushin 29a) states that a father is obligated regarding his son to circumcise him, redeem him (if he is a first-born), teach him Torah, marry him off, and teach him a trade. Some add an obligation to teach him how to swim. A father is further obligated to support
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 11, 2008
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TUNE INTO THE GOSPEL
Right now, there are thousands of radio stations broadcasting through the air all over the U.S. Some have news shows, others play a variety of musical styles; commercials are blaring while other stations broadcast sporting events. But if you do not tune in, those radio
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 23, 2009
On May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens exploded with what is the most visible indication of the power of nature that the modern world has ever seen. At 8:32 am the explosion ripped 1,300 feet off the mountain, with a force of 10 million tons of TNT, or roughly equal to five hundred Hiroshima’s. Sixty
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 3, 2009
NO ACCIDENTS
Scientists have discovered the the appendix may have a purpose after all. Supposedly, it provides the body with bacteria that builds immunity. Some even argue that some diseases were unheard of one hundred years ago because most people had worms in their instestines that fought off
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Contributed by Willem Nel on Mar 26, 2011
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WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING
In 1945, Arsenal were playing Russian giants Dynamo Moscow in London when a thick fog descended over the ground. The referee refused to abandon the game as the visitors had come such a long way, but it was impossible to see what was going on. It is said that an Arsenal
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 5, 2011
FREEING THE QUAIL
At a Farmer’s Market, there was a covey of quail walking around a pole. They had strings attached to their legs and walked in circles hour after hour. A customer purchased the birds and then cut the strings off their legs, giving them their freedom. Yet, in spite of the
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 2, 2012
When Harry Truman was thrust into the presidency by the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn took him aside. "From here on out, you’re going to have lots of people around you. They’ll try to put up a wall around you and cut you off from any ideas but
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 15, 2002
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IN EVERY SITUATION
There are, in every situation, two factors: there is what happens, and there is how we take what happens.
How we take what happens goes back to what kind of person we are, and what kind of belief we have about life as a whole.
SOURCE: Purpose in Chaos,
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 2, 2011
A LITTLE GIRL'S DREAMS
A mother was taking her four-year-old daughter to school. She was a doctor and had left her stethoscope on the car seat. Her little girl picked it up and very excited began to play with it.
Excellent, thought the doctor, my daughter wants to follow in my
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 18, 2002
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A preacher had once to illustrate the free nature of God’s gift of salvation. They stood in the pulpit one morning held up a poinsettia plant and said: “Whoever wants this beautiful Christmas poinsettia may have it. All you have to do is take it.”
They stared at me. I waited. And waited.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 1, 2002
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Several years ago, I was sitting in my office with my door open. A lady waling down the hall said, “Have you got a minute?”
“Sure, come in.”
She sat down and said, Dr. Chapman, I’ve got a problem. I can’t get my husband to paint out bedroom. I have been after him for nine months. I’ve
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Contributed by Mark Brunner on May 31, 2005
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May 31, 2005 “Our Semper Fi Brother!” Matthew 9:18-26 Key verse(s) 22“Jesus turned and saw her. ‘Take heart, daughter,’ he said, ‘your faith has healed you.’ And the woman was healed from that moment.”
Nothing defines endurance better than a Marine. I have known a few Marines in my life; in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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JUSTIN
I want to tell you about a 12-year-old boy we’ll call Justin. Justin never knew anything good. His parents, if you want to call them that, were completely without qualifications to birth the boy, having done so quite unintentionally, making far less effort to raise him than they made to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 31, 2001
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Victor Frankl, the Jewish psychologist who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany wrote, "They striped me naked. They took everything -- my wedding ring, watch. I stood there naked and all of a sudden realized at that moment that although they could take everything away from me -- my
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
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*Too Late To Date*
An elderly woman died last month.
Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers.
In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote,
"They wouldn’t take me out while I was alive, I don’t want them to
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Contributed by Mark Wood on Feb 18, 2006
A nine year old girl came into the room of her very sick mother. Thinking her mother was asleep the little girl unfolded the blanket and covered her mother up. The mother said, It was not long ago that I was Covering you up and taking care of you. This little girl paused and
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