Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 22, 2001
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David Livingstone went to darkest Africa as a lone missionary. After some time his missions committee wrote to him saying, "Some people would like to join you. What’s the easiest road to get where you are?" He replied, "If they’re looking for the easiest road, tell them to stay in England. I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2002
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Two sisters I know, Joanne and Linda, when they were much younger, were playing at home one day. Joanne, the older of the two became irritated with her younger sister, Linda, and said to her. "You’re getting uglier and uglier every day." Later that same day or was the next day, their gramdma came
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
Some years ago, Dr. Karl Menninger, noted doctor and psychologist, was seeking the cause of many of his patients’ ills. One day he called in his clinical staff and proceeded to unfold a plan for developing, in his clinic, an atmosphere of creative love. All patients were to be given large
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Contributed by S Henriques on Jan 27, 2003
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READY FOR MORE GOOD
God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn’t do good to his children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and he never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going "bad" that does not
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 28, 2003
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Church Membership Vows
Will you ___________, take your church to be your church; to live together in the holy covenant of membership? Will you love, comfort, honor, and keep your church and be faithful to your church as long as you live?
Do you ___________, take your church to be your church, from
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Contributed by David Swanger on Mar 15, 2003
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A young lady came to visit her preacher and explained that her boy friend was pressuring her to have sex. She explained that both were Chrsitians and she was getting to the point that she did not know what to do. Her preacher offered the following advise: "The next time that you feel pressured,
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Contributed by Dennis Rhoads on Sep 23, 2003
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This past week I read an article about a movie that was released several years ago. It was called, “The Sixth Sense”. The movie was about a young boy, who when he looked at people, could see who was going to die within a short period of time. He kept telling Bruce Willis, the co-star, “I see
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 14, 2005
o we try to find meaning by comparing ourselves to others:
Mrs. Moskowitz was trying to describe to the interior decorator exactly how
she wanted her house done.
She said, "I leave the art and design entirely to you. I ask only that whatever you do, it be spectacular. I want it done in such a
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 26, 2005
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Pastor Andrew Murray of South Africa once faced
a terrible crisis. Gathering himself into his study,
he sat a long while quietly. Prayerfully, thoughtfully.
He wrote this in his journal.
1. I am here by God’s appointment; in that fact I
will rest.
2. He will keep me here in His love and
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I watched a brilliant film with my son Jared a short while ago called, “Downfall”. It is about the last ten
days of Hilter’s Nazi Germany, the last ten days in an underground bunker when the realization of the colossal failure of Nazism and of its war efforts was dawning on Germany’s leaders at the
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 8, 2005
General Stonewall Jackson had a man on his staff who had become so accustomed to his ways that he was able to discern whenever the General was about to start on an expedition. Someone asked him how he knew the General was about to depart without telling him. “Oh, that’s easy,” answered the man.
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Contributed by Bud Rose on Nov 26, 2005
Remember Robin Williams in that hilarious movie, "Mom Forever?"
What? Don’t remember that one? Well, that’s what they call it in Italy, anyway. We know it better as Mrs. Doubtfire.
Some American-made movies and TV shows end up with very different names by the time they reach foreign turf. Often,
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Dec 5, 2005
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This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white man. In a 1996 interview she said “she was tired of it all.” My friend, 1 person, a seamstress from Alabama, decided it was time for a change and through her action and
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Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Jan 24, 2006
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World Magazine reported last October:
Just in time for scary Halloween masks, Princeton professor Peter Singer—notorious for his approval of euthanasia and some kinds of infanticide, bestiality, and necrophilia—is at it again. He predicts in the Sept.-Oct. issue of Foreign Policy that by 2040
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