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  • Greek Mythology Has The Image Of Time Being Like ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
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    Greek mythology has the image of time being like a man with long hair in front and bald in the back. The picture is of one you must catch coming toward you, ...read more

  • Time Is Often Represented By A Straight Line ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 27, 2008
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    “Time is often represented by a straight line drawn on a page. We call this a time line. To get a grasp of what the eternality of God means, when you have drawn your time line you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn”. (Green, M. P. (1989). Illustrations for Biblical ...read more

  • Postal Carrier Linda Harrell Wasn't Supposed To ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 20, 2008
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    Postal carrier Linda Harrell wasn’t supposed to be at this particular location, but her route had been changed that day. At an instant moment, she looked up as a baby fell from a window ...read more

  • Max Lucado, Preacher And Writer, Teaches That ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 14, 2008
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    Max Lucado, preacher and writer, teaches that ‘every day ...read more

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

  • A ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 16, 2009
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    Absence A strange silence I have never heard As I walk a path alone, An unfamiliar moment When I realize you are gone. As I look around to notice That the roads have all been changed For there’s one that now is fading At a place I called your name. So I must go on without you With the memories ...read more

  • John Taylor Recently Invented A Clock Called The ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
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    John Taylor recently invented a clock called the Chronophage. Literally it means time eater. It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, chronos, and the word phageo meaning “to eat”. A monster-looking grasshopper with a mouthful of teeth devours ...read more

  • Six-Word Memoirs  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
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    Six-Word Memoirs One of the surprising best-selling books of 2008 is "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure." Notice that the main title is only six words: "Not Quite What I Was Planning." People were asked to succinctly sum up their life in six ...read more

  • To Realize The Value Of One Year, Ask A Student ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 26, 2010
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    To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the businessman whose flight was delayed an hour. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the man who had ...read more

  • Tchaikovsky And Time Management

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    TCHAIKOVSKY AND TIME MANAGEMENT Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the great Russian composer, put a sign on his gate: "Visiting hours Monday and Tuesday between 3 and 5 p.m. Other times please do not ring." By posting that sign, Tchaikovsky was announcing to the world that he was a great composer, and as ...read more

  • You Can't Turn Off Time

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 17, 2011
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    YOU CAN'T TURN OFF TIME James W. Moore says, "One of the greatest comedy acts in the history of show business was the beloved husband and wife team of George Burns and Gracie Allen. In real life, Gracie Allen was a bright, wise businesswoman, but she always played the part of a naive, off-the-wall ...read more

  • Time To A Pig

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
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    TIME TO A PIG Reminds me of a man who was walking past a farm, and noticed a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another ...read more

  • The 2,000-Year-Old Seed

    Contributed by Roshelle Deas Roberson on Feb 6, 2012
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    THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD SEED This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. A tree grows in Kibbutz Ketura in the Israeli desert, and what a tree it is, a tiny sapling actually 2,000 years old, or the seed that it comes from is 2,000 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated. Botanists never gave ...read more

  • Feeling God

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 4, 2012
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    FEELING GOD When we try to measure time or weight or temperature or speed or any of a hundred other things, we normally rely on instrumentation. But we can try to tell the time by using our feelings, such as how hungry or tired we feel, and our senses, such as how light it seems, is crudely ...read more

  • Don't Be Impatient

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 15, 2013
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    DON'T BE IMPATIENT When I was a teen-ager, my mom finally gave in to my dad. After mom and dad bought our Christmas, dad talked mom into allowing us to open the gifts days, sometimes weeks early. He couldn’t wait until we opened our gifts. The problem is that it took a lot of the joy out of ...read more

  • The Stewardship Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE STEWARDSHIP OF TIME John Taylor recently invented a clock called the chronophage. Literally it means "time eater." It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, "chronos," and the word "phageo," meaning "to eat". A monster-looking grasshopper with ...read more

  • In 2006 A Study Was Done On The Lifespan Of ...

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 11, 2009
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    In 2006 a study was done on the lifespan of people. It was determined that the average person would be alive for around 65 years. That is 3,380 weeks, or 23,725 days, or 569,400 hours, or 34,164,000 minutes, or 2,049,840,000 seconds that the average person is alive. Of course I just wasted like ...read more