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Ben Franklin’s quote from the book America’s God and Country by Federer pages 247-248: Thursday, June 28, 1787, Benjamin Franklin, delivered a powerful speech to the Constitutional Convention, which was embroiled in a bitter debate over how each state was to be represented in the new government.
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Dr. James Dobson’s Focus On The Family recently aired this true story from Dr. Bob Reccord, president of the International Missions Board:
A pastor friend in Texas was in a hurry after work. He had to get to the mall for some items, go to his daughter’s school to pick her up, take her home, get
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Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
A BOY’S VICTORY
I remember when out in Kansas, while holding a meeting, I saw a little boy who came up to the window crying. I went to him and said, "My little boy, what is your trouble?" "Why, Mr. Moody, my mother’s dead, and my father drinks, and they don’t love me, and the Lord won’t have
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MICHAEL JACKSON: PRODUCT OF CHILDHOOD
One of the saddest comments I heard Michael Jackson make was when he was being interviewed and he said that his father had never told him that he loved him.
In a speech at Oxford University in March 2001 he spoke very perceptively when he said this:
"All of
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 24, 2009
One evening a burglar finally decided to make his move. He had been casing a house for weeks and determined that tonight he was going to break into a particular house where he was sure that the owners had left for vacation. Slyly and with extreme stealth he headed to the window. He had already
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Contributed by Paul Green on Oct 28, 2009
LOVE DOESN'T GIVE UP
I came across an article in the paper this week that had the heading "A Mother's Love and Determination." And the subtitle "Refusing to give up, Cynthia Teare helped her son to walk again." I caught my attention because out theme today is "Love is... determined."
It's the
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There was a Pastor, who after the usual Sunday Evening Hymns, stood up, walked over to the pulpit and, before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in service that evening. In the introduction, the Pastor told the congregation that the guest minister was
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 25, 2010
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My Dad wasn’t a very good father to me or my sisters. He drank too much and got angry at our Mum far too often. At 5 years old while my Dad had a roaring argument with my Mum, I decided to swing my fists at him and tell him I hated him and tried to push him away from my Mum.
As a kid, I remember
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
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TRANSFORMED
Once upon a time, there was a prince who fell in love with a fair maiden. But his enemy captured the fair maiden and held her captive in a tower. Now the prince had a plan to rescue her, so he recruited the help of two small creatures to send a message to the maiden.
First, there was
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on May 26, 2010
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My attempt to take Max Lucado’s third person narrative to a first person narrative from his book ’Six hours one Friday; pages 16 and 17’
Here it is "Passover Shepherd"
Mate it’s hot, just standing here surrounded by my scattered flock of sheep, the sun is relentless in its gaze, almost like it’s
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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 5, 2011
THE STORY OF THE TEACUP
There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery, especially teacups.
This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. They were in this one shop when they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, "We’ve never
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