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  • Mamie Adams Always Went To A Branch Post Office ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 3, 2001
    based on 102 ratings
     | 4,019 views

    Mamie Adams always went to a branch post office in her town because the postal employees there were friendly. She went there to buy stamps just before Christmas one year and the lines were particularly long. Someone pointed out that there was no need to wait in line because there was a stamp ...read more

  • Dr. Joon-Gon Kim, Was A Well-Known Korean ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 2,573 views

    Dr. Joon-Gon Kim, was a well-known Korean Christian leader. He witnessed his wife and father slaughtered before his eyes by communist sympathizers from his own village. He was beaten senseless and left for dead. He survived the beating and asked God to give him love for the souls of his enemies. ...read more

  • A Little Boy And A Little Girl Were Singing Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 10, 2001
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,488 views

    A little boy and a little girl were singing their favorite Christmas carol in church the Sunday before Christmas. The boy concluded “Silent Night” with the words, “sleep in heavenly beans.” His sister elbowed him, and said, “No. Not beans, peas!” The way many of us feel by the time we are ready ...read more

  • The Post Office Maintains A "Dead Letter ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 23, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,296 views

    The post office maintains a "dead letter office." To it come all the letters that cannot be delivered. At Christmas many write to Santa Claus, especially children. One employee of the post office was very interested to see how many people ask for things and how many people thank others for giving ...read more

  • It's Interesting To Note That In His Book ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 18, 2004
     | 1,923 views

    It’s interesting to note that in his book entitled, The America We Deserve, Donald Trump predicted a terrorist attack against America. In a chapter entitled, Freedom From Terrorism, he made the following statement: “The biggest threat to our security is ourselves because we’ve become arrogant, ...read more

  • I Remember The First Time I Was With Someone ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
     | 1,773 views

    I remember the first time I was with someone when they died. Just before Lloyd passed from this life to the next he talked about how he saw someone holding his hands out to him. I believe he was talking about Jesus. The rest of in the room didn’t see Him, but we didn’t have ...read more

  • The Emperors Club Is A Movie About This Clash ...  PRO

    Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Nov 22, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,133 views

    The Emperors club is a movie about this clash between doing what is right and what will increase power and significance. The teacher has a young Senator's Son (Cedrick), who is a leader. After a brief turn in the right direction Cedrick decides to cheat to win the schools greatest honor. As ...read more

  • In His Memoir Of His Experience In A Nazi ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
     | 1,180 views

    In his memoir of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Elie Wiesel notes that before his village was ever emptied of the Jewish settlers, a poor man, Moshe the Beadle, who had been deported on some of the first trains of Jews out of the Hungarian village and had seen first hand the ...read more

  • Eugene Peterson, Earth And Altar - If I Am An ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 16, 2006
     | 1,871 views

    Eugene Peterson, Earth and Altar - If I am an atheist in my heart, making myself sovereign in place of God, and therefore arranging things in accordance with my appetites and needs and fantasies, I become a pirate in society. I relentlessly look for ways in which I can get what is there for my own ...read more

  • Mamie Adams Always Went To A Branch Post Office ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Oct 18, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,268 views

    Mamie Adams always went to a branch post office in her town because the postal employees there were friendly. She went there to buy stamps just before Christmas one year and the lines were particularly long. Someone pointed out that there was no need to wait in line because there was a stamp ...read more

  • Lester Lecroy Was One Of 12 Children. He Grew Up ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
     | 821 views

    Lester Lecroy was one of 12 children. He grew up in a home of very meager means. He was a rambunctious, but dependable young man. While cooling off after a hard days work in a creek at a little place we called the Iron Bridge on Cotton Hill Road in Eufaula, Alabama Lester Lecroy lost his life at ...read more

  • The Bible Is A Universe Of Revelation Facts ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Feb 17, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,777 views

    The Bible is a universe of revelation facts which have no meaning for us until we are born from above; when we are born again we see in it what we never saw before. We are lifted into the realm where Jesus lives and we begin to see what he sees. Oswald Chambers (1874-1917). Edythe Draper, Draper’s ...read more

  • Guests At Weddings Are Seated By Taking The Right ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,443 views

    Guests at weddings are seated by taking the right arm of the usher. However, the bride comes down the aisle on her father’s left arm. He stands between his daughter and the groom to protect her, until she finally says she does indeed want to go away with Big & Ugly. We begin the ceremony on the ...read more

  • President Reagan In His Proclamation Of ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on May 6, 2008
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    President Reagan in his proclamation of personhood in the womb, declared on January 14, 1988… “Our nation cannot continue down the path of abortion, so radically at odds with our history, our heritage, and our concepts of justice. This sacred legacy…demands that protection of the innocents must be ...read more

  • Charles Spurgeon Said, "...on The Ground Of L...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Charles Spurgeon said, "...On the ground of law, if he would deserve eternal life as a reward, he must be as good as GOD, and keep the commandments to perfection. There the rugged way of works was set before him; not that he might attempt to win eternal life, but that he might perceive his own ...read more

  • When Dawn And I Were In Kenya, It Was An ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 21, 2009
     | 1,666 views

    When Dawn and I were in Kenya, it was an interesting thing. For about 2 hours every day, the local deep well near an oasis would be pumped into cisterns all around the area. It was often difficult to get the local people to allow the cisterns to fill before they turned on hoses to water the trees. ...read more

  • Not So Sure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2009
     | 2,622 views

    NOT SO SURE The famous preacher and founder of the Methodist church, John Wesley, once said, "When I was young, I was sure of everything. But after a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. And at present, I am hardly sure of ...read more

  • Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Was Impeached ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 26, 2009
     | 1,281 views

    Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was impeached by the state House by a 114 to one vote. After racing back to his Chicago home before the vote could deprive him of a ride home on the state plane, Blagojevich once again said he was the victim of a rush to judgment. "And the fight goes on," he told ...read more

  • Prayer, According To The Mishna

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 28, 2009
     | 1,628 views

    PRAYER, ACCORDING TO THE MISHNA "One who says the Tefillah so that it can be heard is of the small of faith; he who raises his voice in praying is of the false prophets; he who belches and yawns is of the arrogant; if he sneezes during his prayer it is a bad sign for him — some say, it shows that ...read more

  • When Their Lives Are Spiritually ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 24, 2010
     | 2,656 views

    When Their Lives Are Spiritually Frigid As a musician was tuning his instrument prior to a concert, he held it for a few seconds before a flaming fireplace. Asked why he did this, he replied, “I can’t seem to get any music out of it when it’s cold.” In a similar way, God’s children cannot produce ...read more