I don’t know what the experiences of other parents are, but I do know that nothing truly prepared me in advance for the amazing changes that parenthood brings. I knew it would be different, but I failed to realise how profoundly and completely different things would be from then on. For me, it
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 17, 2007
Sometimes there things that I react so strongly to not because there is a tendency in me but because I have strong emotional connection to the issue. The biggest example for me personally is sexual abuse of children. My parents were social workers in the child welfare system and even though I was
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Church Of God
enry Ward Beecher said something truly helps us here. “If one should give me a dish of sand and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes and search for them with my clumsy fingers and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
TOO SHORT
Here's all you need to know about the different relationships a guy has with his wife and his mother. I bought two ceiling fans, one for our home and one for my parents. While installing our fan, I had to stand on a chair on my tiptoes. As she watched me struggle, my wife let me know the
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Brethren
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004
An Englishman once remarked:
You need not tell me there is no hell, for I already feel my soul slipping into its fires! Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The preschoolers were reciting their memory verse for the week. “Call unto me and I will answer.”
Jill was trying very hard to remember the verse she had been taught. She twisted and turned as she cautiously recited, “Call unto
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“Someone asked a pastor who had a rather sizeable pulpit blister, how he got that fat. He said, ‘I don’t know, it just snacked up on me.’” [SOURCE: Bible Illustrator for Windows Version 3.0 copyright 1990-1998 by
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is my joy in life to find At every turning of the road The strong arms of a comrade kind To help me onward with my load. And since I have no gold to give And love alone can make amends, My
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2010
Alfred Souza observed, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to still be served, a debt to be
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Christian/Church Of Christ
WHAT THIS THING IS ABOUT
In "The Green Berets," the crying child mouths those weighty words, "What will happen to me now?" Captain Kirby quickly takes the child’s hand and leads him off, speaking words of
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United Methodist
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
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Americans are willing to spend billions to lose weight. Marketing products and services to dieters is a cinch, a dream, and a no-brainer big business, and easy money, because more than 120 million or 61% of people in the USA are overweight, obese, or overweight by 30 pounds or more. The common
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Mike Hamilton on Apr 2, 2003
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The Baton Rouge Gideon Camp sponsored a Gideon Day at Angola Penitentiary. They took Bibles into the cells of prisoners to tell them about the love of God. One of these Gideons was named Luther. When he walked into Charlie Frazier’s cell, the prisoner started cursing him. Charlie Frazier was a
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Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 20, 2003
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A couple of F-15’s are escorting a C-130 Hercules, and their pilots are chatting with the pilot of the transport to pass the time. Talk comes around to the relative merits of their respective aircraft.
The fighter pilots contend that their airplanes were better because of their superior speed,
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 24, 2004
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This is the beginning of Lent. Most people are looking for things to give up for Lent. It you haven’t made up your mind maybe these will help.
GIVE UP grumbling! Instead, "In everything give
thanks." Constructive
criticism is OK, but "moaning, groaning, and
complaining" are not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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It is hard to believe now, but the potato was once a highly unpopular food. When first introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, newspapers printed editorials against it, ministers preached sermons against it, and the general public wouldn’t touch it. It was supposed to sterilize the soil in
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