Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
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Someone has said, “Christ dug deep the gorges, piled up the hills, and probed up the mountains with His will. The moon and the stars leaped on His arm. He did not have to write His signature on the corner of a sunrise because He is the creator. He did not have to place a laundry mark in the
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On Thursday when I went to pick up my granddaughter from the Learning Center she is attending for the summer there was one of the kids balancing with arms outstretched on a skateboard without wheels and with one of those virtual reality visors on his head. He appeared to be having a blast –
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United Methodist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 24, 2003
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A father wanted to read the paper, but was being bothered by his little
daughter, Vanessa. Finally, he tore a sheet out of his magazine, on
which was printed the map of the world. Tearing it into small pieces, he
gave it to Vanessa, and said, "Go into the other room and see if you can
put this
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Contributed by Stephen Wright on Sep 12, 2004
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The story is told of a newcomer to Alaska who started to cross a frozen river. As he walked along, he thought he heard a cracking sound and became frightened that the ice might break under him. He carefully lowered himself to distribute his weight more fully across the ice in hopes that it wouldn’t
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Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
One traveler, who toured that area of the world before it became commercialized, wrote this description of how evening banquets at rich guys’ houses went in 1894. He said,
“…entertainment is a public affair. The gateway of the court, and the door… stand open… A long, low table, or more often
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
JESUS TO THEM
A missionary, lost at sea, washed up on edge of a remote native village. Half-dead from exposure, starvation, and sea water, the natives nursed him back to health. He lived with them 20 years; never made a confession of faith, no songs, no sermons, no Scripture; but attended the sick
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Swindoll states, The Bible never flatters its heroes. All the men and women of Scripture have feet made of clay, and when the Holy Spirit paints a portrait of their lives, He’s a very realistic artist. He doesn’t ignore, deny, or overlook the dark side. Personally, when I step into this chapter in
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 17, 2011
COMFORTABLE IN THE PRESENCE OF MAJESTY
It isn’t good to be too comfortable in the presence of majesty.
There is a story about a man named Lear who was hired to give Queen Victoria art lessons. Things were going well, and Lear started to feel quite at home in the palace. He enjoyed standing in
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 31, 2007
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Lin Smalec writes, "I read recently about a children’s Sunday School class that heard the Christmas story and sang the beloved Christmas carol, “Silent Night”. They were then asked to draw what they thought the nativity scene might have looked like. One little fellow did a good likeness of Joseph,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Carl Allen on Sep 24, 2008
Come Back to the Plumb Line
Every carpenter will tell you when they start to build a structure, one of the first things they are going to do is hang a plumb off of the first vertical post the install after it has been trued with a balance. So as they continue on in the building project, they can
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2008
HARMONIC CONVERGENCE
On August 16, 1987, a group of people tried to apply this concept (karma) with what they called the Harmonic Convergence. Thousands of people gathered at Mount Tamalpais just north of San Francisco and other designated religious hot spots around the world, such as Stonehenge,
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 16, 2009
DIG IN AND HANG ON
When I read Hebrews 6:13-20, I am always reminded of a story I heard years ago, from a young man telling about his trip down a foreign river. A storm came up suddenly and the banks were too high to climb, so he and his friend guided their small craft to the river's edge where,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 17, 2009
"What we value speaks volumes about us. When the oil industry got going, gasoline was a curious side-product. It wasn’t good for much. When auto pioneers worked on developing engines, they would buy gasoline by the quart from the pharmacy. Now, we fight wars over oil fields; we value what once was
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Contributed by Joel Santos on Jun 21, 2006
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The roof of the church hall of a little Swiss church, at the turn of the 20th century, was falling down. So the members of the church held regular prayer meetings in the hall after the service to pray for funds to repair the roof.
There was an old man, known to be very tight with his money, who
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
IF SHE CAN, I CAN TOO
My Meme Granberry was a great soul winner for the Lord.
If you would be around her, within a few minutes she would be telling you about the Lord and asking you if you know Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
There was a reason why.
• Meme & Papaw lived a rough life.
• Papaw owned
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 20, 2001
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A man sent a letter to Ann Landers. He wrote, "This is for the woman who was distressed about her son. I would like to ask her some questions about the boy. Is he disrespectful? Has he been arrested for drunk driving? Has he been kicked out of college for cheating? Has he made his girl friend
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Contributed by Edward Frey on Jul 18, 2001
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There’s another beautiful picture of baptism given here: “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” Did you catch it? Baptism clothes us with Christ. We’re wrapped up in Jesus and all of his goodness in baptism. We’re clothed with his work and his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2002
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THE WRONG GUY
Determined to avenge the assault of their young fourteen year old girlfriend, ten young people raced away from the hospital with a description of her assailant: an Hispanic man driving a red vehicle. Then by deception, the group of vigilantes lured young Leonel Cifuenies, a
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