Contributed by Stephen Wright on Mar 11, 2006
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An old missionary couple had been working in Africa for years and were returning home to retire. They had no pension; their health was broken.
On the same ship was President Teddy Roosevelt, who was returning from a hunting expedition. As the passengers disembarked there was a crowd of admirers
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
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Anytime we are engaged in a work for God, we are likely to encounter the poison-tipped arrows of ridicule. A barrage of truth mingled with lies, innuendo, malicious gossip and implied threats is the normal experience of leaders. Malice arises from fear, and fear is a common response to someone
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Contributed by Floyd Johnson on Nov 19, 2006
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As I worked the internet this week, I stumbled on the web page for the Colombian government. The Ambassador from Columbia to the USA is Andrés Pastrana. According to the web page he has two jobs – one is to manage the Columbian Embassy in Washington DC, which is responsible for serving Colombian
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 30, 2007
“If our work efforts are to have any redeeming value, then they must contribute in some way to God’s agenda, that is, to preserving the things that He values.” (Boa 1997, 26)
Boa, Kenneth,
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 30, 2007
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Most of our adult lives are spent working. If a person works outside the home for eight hours a day and five days a week, then you work 2,080 hours a year. There are only 8,760 hours in a year, and if you spend the same amount of time sleeping as you do working, you only have 4,600 hours remaining.
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Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
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Years ago, when I worked in the hospital’s Emergency Room, the Chief ER doctor, who was also one of my elders in my church, loved to have me help him sew up his patients so we could "discuss" spiritual things between us. Obviously, the patients, who didn’t
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow wont
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