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
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Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
“The Bible is so strict and old-fashioned,” said a young man to a gray-haired friend, who was advising him to study God’s Word if he would learn how to live. “There are plenty of books written nowadays that are moral enough in their teachings, and do not bind one down to the Bible.”
The old
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Ian Johnson on May 15, 2006
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In 1979 I was living in a town called Te Aroha in New Zealand, We had a wind storm which destroyed many homes- one gust was so strong that it wound the wind meter off the scale (over 200 MPH) no one believed their home would be damaged when they built them but that night over 50 homes were
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jun 20, 2006
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A little boy wanted $100 very badly. He prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. So, he decided to write a letter to God requesting $100.
When the postal authorities received the letter to "God, USA", they decided to send it to the President. The President was so amused that he instructed his
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Baptist
Consider these famous predictions that underestimated the incredible power of vision.
• Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM in 1943 said, "I think there is a market for maybe five computers in the world."
• Ken Olson, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation said in 1977, "There is
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, the man cub, asks the animals what’s
the most feared thing in the jungle. He’s told that when two animals meet on a narrow
path that one must step aside and let the other pass. The animal that steps aside for no
one would then be the most
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Free Methodist
A story is told about a wood chopping challenge between two wood workers. One man challenged another to an all-day wood chopping contest. The challenger worked very hard, stopping only for a brief lunch break. The other man had a leisurely lunch and took several breaks during the day. At the end
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Methodist
Contributed by Don Jones on Nov 6, 2006
I heard the report on a Navy Seal who lost his life in Iraq. They were on a roof top returning fire from several buildings. One Seal was assigned to watch the entrance to the roof. He saw someone down below but couldn’t get a clear shot. Before anyone knew it a grenade came up through that
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Baptist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
Back in 1968, Will Herberg wrote an article called “What Is the Moral Crisis of Our Time?”
“The moral crisis of our time cannot, it seems to me, be identified merely with the widespread violation of accepted moral standards, for which our time is held to be notorious. There has never been any lack
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Most of us have gone to the zoo before and at the zoo, even if we cannot stand the snakes there is always that pull to go and see them. There are some places that have pythons that are 12 to 18 feet long. In my mind he wasn’t pretty, in fact my thinking is that the only good snake to me is a dead
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Steven Cannon on Feb 13, 2007
Psa 119:1 Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
They do nothing wrong; they walk in his ways. You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed. Oh, that my ways were
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by James Chandler on Feb 20, 2007
Earlier this week, I was wrestling my 14 year
old son. I accomplished the near impossible
feat of tackling and pinning him to the
floor. Just when I thought that victory was
mine, my 12 year son decided to jump in and
throw himself onto my back. I was
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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A certain atheistic barber was conversing with a minister as they rode through the slums of a large city. Said the unbeliever, "If there is a loving God, how can he permit all this poverty, suffering, and violence among these people? Why doesn’t he save them from all this?"
Just then a disheveled
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Feb 26, 2007
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Indifference by G. A. Stoddard-Kennedy
When Jesus came to Golgotha, they hanged Him on a tree.
They drove great nails through hands and feet and made a Calvary.
Red were His wounds and deep, for these were crude and cruel days and human flesh was cheap.
When Jesus came to Birmingham, they
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 23, 2007
OEM: G. K. Chesterton said:
O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die,
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not Thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 28, 2007
POEM: G. K. Chesterton said:
O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die,
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not Thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue
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Other
Contributed by Art Good on Jun 5, 2007
Have you ever gone to a car show?
Recently I went to a car show in Carlisle PA. I noticed that some guys are Chevy guys, some like Ford, others are into Pontiacs, or Oldsmobile or whatever. But when you get to a car show people are talking with each other, they all “ooh” and “ahh” over cars and
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Indifference by G. A. Stoddard-Kennedy
When Jesus came to Golgotha, they hanged Him on a tree.
They drove great nails through hands and feet and made a Calvary.
Red were His wounds and deep, for these were crude and cruel days and human flesh was cheap.
When Jesus came to Birmingham, they simply
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