Contributed by David Rumley on Jan 4, 2007
A runner and his daughter:
• A daughter asked her father, who ran on a consistent basis… After one cold morning like today… the daughter asked…
• Dad, do you determine how far you will run each time, or do you go as far as you feel like it?
• I find if I am running and think about how I am
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Pentecostal
Si quieres algo, dilo!
(Translation follows)
Por nuestras palabras hemos creado cuadros en nuestra imaginación, en nuestro pensamiento y comenzamos a gravitar hacia lo que hemos dicho. Debemos pintar buenos cuadros. Yo siempre pinto un buen cuadro de mi mismo, Digo “Gerardo” estás lleno de salud,
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
I recently read this story: “Back in the 1920s, when Lou Little coached football at Georgetown University, he had a player of average ability who rarely got into the game. Yet he was fond of him, and especially liked the way he walked arm-in-arm with his father on campus. Shortly before the big
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Methodist
Contributed by Bob Aubuchon on Mar 2, 2001
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Martin Niemoeller, a German pastor imprisoned for opposing the Nazis, illustrated the gravity of remaining silent: "In Germany, the first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2002
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A SWEET ATTRACTION
In 1994, when Rick and Maureen Barker lost their little 5 year-old Rickey to a long term illness, a rare disorder of his digestive tract, they needed hope. They needed a picture of the eternal perspective we have in Christ.
And the hope they needed came in a most unusual
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 1, 2002
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THE TRUTH ABOUT ROMANCE--ACCORDING TO KIDS
How Does a Person Decide Who to Marry?
"You flip a nickel, and heads means you stay with him and tails means you try the next one." Kally, age 9
"You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like if you like sports, she should like it that you
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 30, 2002
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Bible teacher F.B. Meyer once had a firewood factory that employed prisoners.
Meyer would give them a job to do, good wages, a place to live, and, when possible, spiritual encouragement.
In exchange, he expected them to render good employment.
They didn’t, and he lost money.
Finally he fired them
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 8, 2009
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In communist Romania there was a very young man named Matchevici who had been put into prison because of his faith at the age of 18. Because of the tortures, he was very sick with tuberculosis. Somehow his family found out that he was sick and sent him a hundred bottle so streptomycin, which could
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Church Of God
The noted author, John Killinger, tells a powerful story about a man who is
all-alone in a hotel room in Canada. The man is in a state of deep depression. He is so depressed that he can’t even bring himself to go downstairs to the restaurant to eat. He is a powerful man usually the chairman of a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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In his book, In the Heavenlies, Dr. Harry Ironside tells the story of an attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth I. The woman who sought to do so dressed as a male page and secreted herself in the queen’s boudoir awaiting the convenient moment to stab the queen to death. She did not realize that
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Contributed by Jon Dart on Mar 6, 2007
Horses in the Salad—Readers’ Digest Online, Reader Contributions, Hazel Boone, Kelowna, BC, 1999
"I took Spanish lessons every day while my husband and I lived in Argentina. After a month, my tutor encouraged me to ’speak to the shop clerks, the maid. Speak to everyone and practise, practise.’ A
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2003
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The young woman was married and had two beautiful children, but one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought, ’There must be more to life than this.’ When her husband came home, he found a note she’d written and began to weep.
She would call him about once every week to
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 18, 2008
DON'T TELL ME, SHOW ME
The young woman was married and had two beautiful children. But one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought
'There must be more to life than this.'
When her husband came home, he found a note she'd written and began to weep. She would call him
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There was a king who had all his world could afford. The thing he loved most, however, was to laugh. Once while being entertained a jester came along wishing to join in the festival of activities and also wishing to perform for him. His opportunity came and he put the best comical show together he
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