Opal Stout, of Cottageville, West Virginia wrote, "When the fireworks display began on the Fourth of July, my six-year-old nephew became so frightened I had to take him home. As we drove away, he said, "I bet God is mad at those people shooting at him!" (Christian Reader, "Kids
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Mar 19, 2005
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Because the time’s going to come when you will pass from this earth, and you will stand face to face with God.
I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen at that point, but here’s one possibility.
I’ve asked my daughter, Dani, to help me with this.
Here’s what I think might happen:
You’re
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
Take the founders of space travel, for example. Three innovative men, each unaware of the others, launched our world into the unexpected new era of space travel: (1)
In 1903, Russian Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky first speculated that a rocket could travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
In 1923,
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 18, 2008
The Celtic was of spirituality was amazingly holistic. It did not reflect the dualism of the modern age. The Irish such as Patrick understood that the earth was the Lord’s. They saw God’s hand at work in nature (in their environment). They saw their work on earth to be part of their spiritual
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Contributed by Tim Secrist on Feb 22, 2013
IT'S LIKE DROPPING A PENNY INTO WATER
On October 28, 1993, the U.S. Space Command watched as a two-ton chunk of a Chinese satellite began to reenter the earth’s atmosphere. According to their calculations, this satellite would plunge into the Pacific Ocean 500 west of Baja, California. When it
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 29, 2012
THE ICE HOTEL
In January 2001 Canada's first Ice Hotel was opened. That's right -- Ice Hotel. The hotel is constructed of 12,000 tons of snow and 400 tons of ice covering more than 30,000 square feet. It has ceilings over 18 feet high, walls covered with original artwork, and furnishings carved
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
Martin Luther’s preaching aroused the Church from a thousand years’ slumber during the Dark Ages — the devil’s millennium. It is easy to understand why when we discover how Luther preached. He said, “I preach as though Christ was crucified
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Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 1, 2006
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What Is Faith?
FAITH is dead to doubts—
dumb to discouragements,
blind to impossibilities,
knows nothing but success.
FAITH lifts its hand up through
the threatening clouds,
lays hold of Him who has
all power in heaven and on earth.
FAITH makes the uplook
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 24, 2004
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After connecting deeply and intimately with a friend who he’d only had a shallow relationship for years, the German poet Goethe wrote these words:
The world is so empty
if one only thinks
of mountains, rivers, and cities;
but to know someone
who thinks and feels with me,
and
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Dr. W. A. Criswell, was the pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, TX, for many years. One day he was talking to his son and said that if he ever had a moral lapse and sinned, that He hoped that no-one in thc church would find out, because according to Dr.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
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IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES
Richard Wurmbrand tells the story of a church leader he met while imprisoned in Romania. He was sentenced to 22 years for his goodness.
The man, his wife, and six small children were eating breakfast when the police burst into his home. They had just read Psalm
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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GOOD GIFTS
Go to God--he is the source of our goodness on this earth.
Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
This story about Hudson Taylor, a well-known
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
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Mary Had The Little Lamb
Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth;
Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth.
Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall --
Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall.
Mary had the little Lamb, obedient Son of
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