Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
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In his retirement, Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Because
Jefferson trusted that students would take their studies seriously, the code of
discipline was lax. Unfortunately, his trust proved misplaced when the misbehavior
of students led to a riot in which professors who tried
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Contributed by Gerald Albers on Feb 24, 2007
; A women who’s husband had died years earlier had stopped by her Pastors office one day. She had been crying inside for 2 long painful years. As she talked, she related everything that had happened up to the time of her husband’s death --- everything! She knew every detail. Finally she opened
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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ALL PARTS ARE IMPORTANT
One day a young girl came home from school in tears because she had been given only a small part in the class play, and one of her friends had gotten a leading role. After her mother dried her tears, she wisely took off her watch and put it in the little girl’s hand. She
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 12, 2002
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WRONG WAY RIEGELS
The story of "Wrong Way Riegels" is a familiar one, but it bears repeating. On New Year’s Day 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game a young man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for UCLA. Picking up the loose ball, he lost his direction and ran 65
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On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game a young man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for UCLA. Picking up the loose ball, he lost his direction and ran sixty-five yards toward the wrong goal line. One of his teammates, Beeny Lom, ran him down and tackled
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 3, 2008
-Why do we sometimes hold on so tightly to things God is asking us to let go of? God really does want to bless us with His very best, but we can get so attached to the things of this life that we aren’t willing to release them to Him.
-One little girl saved up her money for weeks and weeks. She
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Assembly Of God
Poem:
Light and dark.
Sweet or sour
Big and small
Each alone
But only understood together
Life and death-
When one begins
Each begins.
The baby’s first cry
Echoes tears of the
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Contributed by Andy Grossman on Jun 3, 2008
John Wesley’s Diary:
July 7, 1739. — I had an opportunity to talk with him (some preacher friend) of those outward signs which had so often accompanied the inward work of God. I found his objections were chiefly grounded on gross misrepresentations of matter of fact. But the next day he had an
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Holiness
Contributed by David Fox on Nov 12, 2001
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C.H.Mackintosh wrote: “There is power in the presence of a risen Savior to solve our difficulties, remove our perplexities, calm our fears, ease our burdens, dry our tears, meet our every need,
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 24, 2001
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As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As part of his research he lived with one of the Navajo families, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them, & generally living the
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My daughter brought a caterpillar from school one day. We promptly found a shoe box and put some leaves and grass into the box. My daughter gently placed the little insect into its new home. We punched holes in clear wrap and placed it over the top of the box, so that we could watch our little
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Contributed by Charles Mallory on Oct 11, 2001
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WHEN ASKED TO DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND AN AVERAGE PERSON, ALBERT EINSTEIN EXPLAINED THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON FACED WITH THE PROBLEM OF FINDING A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK WOULD STOP WHEN HE OR SHE LOCATED A NEEDLE. BUT
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Free Methodist
Story: In March 2004, I was in the second bookshop in Dymchurch rummaging through the books when I came across a second hand Jerusalem Bible.
As I opened up the Bible, a number of loose leaf papers fell into my hand.
And on one of them was written a story.
It was obviously very meaningful to
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2003
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John Foster in one of his books tells how he came into his home in this country one day in the thirties to find his daughter in tears before the radio set. He asked her why and found that the news bulletin had contained the sentence – “Japanese tanks entered Canton today.” Most people would hear
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 4, 2002
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“Moody’s Barroom Meeting”
D.L. Moody once entered a tavern in order to ask the bartender if his two little girls might attend his Sunday School. He was told that an atheist club met there every Thursday night and the owner of the bar was in no mood to offend them. Moody looked into the face of
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