Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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HIGH HOPES
A Mother was taking her four-year-old daughter to school. She was a doctor and had left her stethoscope on the car seat. Her little girl picked it up and very excited began to play with it. Excellent, thought the Doctor, My daughter wants to follow in my footsteps! Then the child spoke
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 21, 2011
Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind:
"Openness and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings is the great insight of our times. The true believer is the real danger. The study of
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Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
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
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Contributed by Richard Francis on May 19, 2007
For me the scariest verse in the Bible is: Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ’Sir, open the door for us.‘ To die and be told by Jesus I don’t know you that is a reality to awful to contemplate, I know it will not happen to me,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Issur Danielovitch Densky did not like the image he thought his name projected, so he changed his name and became Kirk Douglas.
In the same way, Frances Gum transfigured herself and her image into Judy Garland.
Archibald Leach became Cary Grant. Aaron Schwalt became Red Buttons. And would you
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And our text is Exodus 20:12: Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. (NRSV)
Frankly, when I was a little guy I had my own ideas about that business of honoring parents so my days would
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Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 25, 2007
When my eldest brother Peter was caught in a riot at the university, he realized that at his age, he couldn’t confront the riot police as they engaged the students in the melee. He therefore thought very fast in order to save his skin. He took an African basket and bought some groceries - cabbages,
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Contributed by Don Jones on Oct 23, 2007
A missionary came to church on Sunday. He was in Africa for several years. The question was asked, "What was your most harrowing time?" His answer was, "During the summer". We were all surprised. We3 thought he would say natives, wars, snakes or some other terrible thing but summer?
He
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
The true story a meat store owner told some time back:
The owner said: “one day a customer informed me she had gotten some unexpected money and wanted to fill her freezer. She picked out about $200 worth of meat and handed me her credit card."
Laughing, the owner said: "I thought
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We were having a honeymoon picnic on Lake Taneycomo in Branson, MO. After pulling to shore to eat, I put our blanket and food back into the boat. My bride Connie thought she should help, and she put the anchor into the boat & it began to drift away. Fortunately the current was slow enough that I
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Contributed by Wes Richard on Sep 24, 2008
Years ago, a railroad bridge washed away in the rain and a train went hurtling over the edge. Eventually, the man who had signaled a warning with his lantern was put on trial. The judge asked the man to demonstrate how he used his lantern. The lantern man showed how he swung it sideways and up and
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