Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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"Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late '70s, sociologists found the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 27, 2008
PONY EXPRESS
When it comes to being on the alert and ready at any moment to do the job, it's hard to beat the Pony Express.
This historically famous mail service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and California depended on constant movement and readiness.
Relay stations were established every ten
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WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS?
Not long after I got out of seminary, I decided I needed more training. So, I applied for a pastoral residency position at one of the largest churches in our denomination. It was a church in Prairie Village, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. As it turns out, the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2003
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[A Christmas Story, unknown]
I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid.
I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!" (Rejection!)
My Grandma was not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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PURPOSE IN YOUR HEART
Wilma was born prematurely. This produced complications that resulted in her contracting double pneumonia (twice) and scarlet fever. But the worst was a bout with polio which left her with a crooked left leg and a foot twisted inward.
Metal leg braces, stares from
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Contributed by Michael Belcher on Nov 26, 2001
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I will close with a record of something God did 130 years go in New York City. It illustrates how God has started every harvest time in history, through the concerted prayer of his people. Toward the middle of the last century the glow of earlier religious awakenings had faded. America was
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Experts can’t agree if the following is a true story or if it should be written down next to the tale of George Washington and the Cherry Tree. While there is no concrete evidence of its truth, there is enough anecdotal evidence that the story has been in existence long enough to quite possibly be
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Nazarene
Contributed by Tim George on Jul 7, 2001
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During WWII soldiers were warned not to speak freely back home about what was going on in the war. An official Army memo contained ten specific things soldiers needed to be careful talking about. These words were added at the end of the memo: “loose talk is direct delivery to the enemy. If you
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on Jul 14, 2002
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We feel guilty when we’re not working, and we’re suspicious of anyone else who removes their nose from the grindstone for too long. Take vacations, for example. In Europe , the standard is five or six weeks of time off per year. Sound good? In France, the whole country basically shuts down for the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
[Stephen Hawking] “…has calculated that if the rate of the universe’s expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have collapsed into a fireball.”
• British physicist P.C.W. Davies has concluded the odds
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Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
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STORY OF SHEEP
In the Highlands of Scotland, sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get
into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet
and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they can’t
jump back again, and the
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 18, 2004
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Folks, the Word of God produces spiritual life, as the following story illustrates:
The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty has often been retold. One part that deserves retelling was the transformation wrought by one book. Nine mutineers with six native men and twelve native (Tahitian)
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Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
"Runner’s World" told the story of Beth Anne DeCiantis’s attempt to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Trials marathon. A female runner had to complete the 26-mile race in less than two hours, forty-five minutes to
compete at the Olympic Trials. Beth started strong but began having trouble around mile
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