Contributed by Jason Evans on Oct 4, 2016
Let’s say there is a man who owns a brand new $100,000 car. He decides he wants to take it out one day to go to the store and parks in a lot around a lot of other cars. When he comes out it has been stolen. When they find the thief and arrest him the thief says "Well you should have known better
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L.A. LAKER POWER GUARD A.C. GREEN is one example of a man who will stand for the truth
at all costs.
I knew A.C. during his rookie season with the Lakers. Like all rookies, he had to
endure harassment and practical jokes. As he started to practice one day, a teammate came
up to him and told him
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Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 30, 2018
Dr. John Geddie, a Presbyterian missionary, went to Aneityum, an island in the South Pacific in 1848 and worked there for God for 24 years. On a tablet erected to his memory in the church where he preached, these words are inscribed:
When he landed, in 1848, there were no Christians. When he
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Frederick Buechner, from Wishful Thinking
The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people. Although, like the author of Job before him, he specifically rejected the theory that sickness was God's way of getting even with sinners (John 9:1-3), he nonetheless
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 24, 2025
My name? Well… I don’t have one anymore.
I used to be a donkey—strong, steady, built for long walks and heavy loads.
But my part in God’s story began after my last bray.
One hot afternoon, I was resting in a field when trouble came.
The Philistines had captured a man named Samson—big, strong, and
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Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 31, 2000
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Hilda Houlding co-ordinator of the Calgary Family Service Bureau, made this comment “An affair is often an attempt to find a little bit of paradise on the side, pursuing the belief that if one just finds the right sexual partner there will be instant happiness and everything will fall into place.
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Contributed by Thomas Hensley on Nov 5, 2000
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During the height of the Cold War, a former FBI agent wrote a book about Soviet spies working in Washington, and how the KGB would solicit workers in the FBI and CIA and in the military to work for them. The KGB would never start by approaching an American and asking him or her to steal "top
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Contributed by Tim George on Feb 8, 2001
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“At first it is a mere thought confronting the mind; then imagination paints it in stronger colors; only after that do we take pleasure in it, and the will makes a
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 14, 2001
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A minister friend of mine received a Christmas card with a note in it from a lady in his congregation. He said she was very complimentary about his preaching, & compared him with Billy Graham. She finished by writing, "I think you are one of the really great preachers of all time."
Later that
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Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Mar 25, 2001
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"Fire Your Rockets"
I read with interest this past week about the Astronaut who dropped a 10 pound wrench into space, and they had to fire the rockets in the space shuttle to avoid this wrench hitting their cabin and taking all the pressure out, and killing them all in space. Imagine! A 10 pound
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