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  • In The Comic Strip, Dennis The Menace, Dennis And ...

    Contributed by Paul Decker on Jan 11, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,502 views

    In the comic strip, Dennis the Menace, Dennis and his little friend, Joey, are leaving Mrs. Wilson’s house with their hands full of cookies. As you may remember, Dennis is not always very considerate toward the Wilsons who are his next-door neighbors (especially Mr. Wilson). But Joey says, "I ...read more

  • Every 24 Hours, About 146,000 People Die, And ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jan 16, 2005
     | 1,187 views

    Every 24 hours, about 146,000 people die, and most of them without Christ. Every 24 hours, about 345,000 babies are born. Will we win these? Our denomination wins about 400,000 people to Christ a year, which is less than the number of people born January 1 & 2 each year. My ...read more

  • Milan Ford:

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Mar 26, 2009
     | 1,180 views

    Milan Ford: "One of the most powerful tools you and I have to help align our faith and relationship with God is through praise. Our ability to become consumed with His character and attributes is essential to our growth in Him. Like prayer, praise and worship is not a time for us to try updating an ...read more

  • Arthritic Church

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 30, 2009
     | 3,135 views

    ARTHRITIC CHURCH Dennis is suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis. Many of you are familiar with the disease. The body attacks itself causing pain, disfigurement, and an inability for the body to function as it should. My friends, the Bible says that we are the Body of Christ. This church and our ...read more

  • Palm Sunday Chant

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 4, 2009
     | 7,866 views

    PALM SUNDAY CHANT We’re going to sing a rap-song together now. What I need you to do is to chant each line after me, and to cheer madly when I lift my arms into the air: Ho-sann-a; Ho-sann-a; Hear the people cheer (arms in the air) Riding on a donkey See the King appear (arms in the ...read more

  • Searing Our Conscience

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
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    SEARING OUR CONSCIENCE My dad had a ‘76 Honda Accord. One day, the "service engine" light came on. He said, "Here, I’ll show you how we fix that," and he pushed the key into a slot right below it that reset it. The light went off, but I'm not sure that was the point of it being there in the ...read more

  • Being A Servant Comes Down To Basin Theology. ...

    Contributed by Kyle Rye on Apr 29, 2009
     | 2,049 views

    Being a servant comes down to basin theology. "Remember what Pilate did when he had the chance to acquit Jesus? He called for a basin and washed his hands of the whole thing. But Jesus, the night before His death, called for a basin and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples. It all comes down ...read more

  • Farewell, President

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
     | 3,032 views

    FAREWELL, PRESIDENT An on-line friend directed my attention this week by to a recently published note by one of our nation’s most distinguished church historians, Dr. Martin Marty on the eve of President Obama’s inauguration. It was titled, "Farewell, President" and in it he quoted the late ...read more

  • Now To A Jewish Person, Any Time The Word ...

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 19, 2010
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    Now to a Jewish person, any time the word “sacrifice” was used, they would’ve immediately thought about the lambs that were sacrificed at the temple. Those sheep were raised up, they were fed, taken care of and protected, for the sole purpose of the sacrifice on the alter of God. That’s what a ...read more

  • The Bolted Door

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 4, 2010
     | 4,226 views

    The Bolted Door C.S. Lewis, Irish Oxford Scholar and well-known author for his Narnia fiction series for children, wrote after the death of his wife, "Where is God? ...Go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound ...read more

  • Sinful ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 14, 2010
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     | 7,734 views

    Sinful Nature How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from inside. But how does he get in there? Simple! An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the ...read more

  • Father's Day Vs. Mother's Day  PRO

    Contributed by John Fallahee on Jun 23, 2010
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     | 12,019 views

    FATHER'S DAY VS. MOTHER'S DAY One little boy's definition of Father's Day went like this: "Well, it's just like Mother's Day, only you don't spend so much." Well, we fathers can concede that. Someone said, "A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be." And the phone ...read more

  • Dr. Harold Sightler, My Pastor, At The Staff ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 10, 2010
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    Dr. Harold Sightler, my pastor, at the staff lunch table would say: “Boys, I picked every one of you green!” And so it was. He had hired each of us, with no particular experience in our field, and taught us the job. So it is with our love. It is small, selfish, incomplete. But God takes us as ...read more

  • The Importance Of A Name

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Sep 21, 2010
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF A NAME I went to a doctor for some pain here, upper side of my stomach… in those days I used to eat 6 times a day like for 3 people… But my doctor was sick too, staying home, another doctor replacing him. His name was Vlad Tzepelea – in translation THE IMPALER… like Dracula… Vlad ...read more

  • Defensive Striving

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 27, 2010
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    DEFENSIVE STRIVING There's a term in driver's education - Defensive Driving. Driving to save lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others. Its aim is to reduce the risk of driving by anticipating dangerous situations, despite adverse conditions or the ...read more

  • After Going On A Diet, A Woman Was Really Feeling ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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    After going on a diet, a woman was really feeling good about herself, especially when she was able to fit into a pair of jeans she had outgrown long ago. "Look, look!" she shouted while running downstairs to show her husband. "I can wear my old jeans again!" Her husband looked at her for a long ...read more

  • Asking Good Questions

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
     | 2,001 views

    ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS A friend once asked Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science, how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn't so much interested in what he had learned that day, but she always inquired; ...read more

  • On Self-Control

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 14, 2011
     | 6,805 views

    ON SELF-CONTROL Daniel Akst in a secular article called, "Whose in Charge Here?" wrote: "Life in modern Western cultures is like living at a giant all-you-can-eat buffet offering more calories, credit, sex, intoxicants, and just about anything else one could take to excess than our forebears ...read more

  • When We Sin, We Are Judged Because In That ...

    Contributed by Mark Haines on Mar 21, 2011
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    "When we sin, we are judged because in that moment of choosing sin we are actually electing the absence of God in our lives at that point. You see, [sin and salvation are] always relational. Sin separates us from God--that’s the point--sin is our embrace of the absence of God in our ...read more

  • This Too Shall Pass

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jun 10, 2011
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     | 4,194 views

    THIS TOO SHALL PASS "Walking on Water" Sermonspice video about Bethany Hamilton (Soul Surfer), also quote from Pastor TL Lewis Bethel Baptist Missionary Church, Pratt City Alabama who quoted the following after his church was destroyed from Tornado: "I can't tell you that I don't hurt over this, ...read more