Contributed by Joe La Rue on Jan 27, 2009
On the day President Obama was inaugurated, Eliot Swainson happened to be in Washington, D.C. The city authorities had expected record numbers of people to attend the inauguration, so they asked for assistance from other cities to help with crowd control. Metro Officer Swainson from Houston,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The man who doesnt relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of
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From National Public Radio -- June 6, 2002 -- Writer Bob Greene calls it "the miracle of the trains." Starting in December 1941 and throughout World War II, volunteers in North Platte, Neb., greeted and comforted millions of soldiers and sailors heading off to battle as troop trains made brief
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Contributed by James Jack on Mar 8, 2005
Imagine a man standing in the middle of some train tracks, reading a
newspaper. You’re standing to the side of the tracks, and you notice that he doesn’t
seem to be getting off. In the distance behind him, you can see the train coming
toward him, you can hear the noise it makes. Strangely,
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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In a locked upper room on that first Easter, “Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. John 20:19b-20.
Some years back, before skin-grafts were a
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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In 1986, a group of researchers published a study of Japanese mothers and mothers in Minneapolis. The mothers were asked to rank the most important things that a child needs to succeed academically. The answers tell a lot about the difference in our two cultures
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Mennonite
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
When I first came into ministry many years ago now, Julie and I realized that the only way we could train in the Bible College was to sell everything we owned except our car and our children (actually our children already belonged to God, so they didn’t come into the equation). There was no
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
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RED HERRING
You’ve probably heard the expression "red herring." This term was coined from a method of training hunting dogs to follow the scent of their prey. Once the dogs were following the proper scent, their trainers would drag red herrings (a stinky fish) across their paths. Initially, the
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Apr 14, 2007
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I remember when I was a young Marine going through basic training in San Diego, California. One of the most challenging parts of the training was a several mile hike wearing full equipment with a rifle and a rucksack (backpack) in excess of 26 pounds, which culminated in climbing to the top of a
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Christian Church
Norman Vincent Peale wrote this:
"Ralston Young carries bags for a living but his real job is living the spirit of Christ as a porter in one of the world's greatest railway stations.
One day he was asked to take a little old lady to her train.
She was in a wheel chair so he took her down on the
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Contributed by Daniel Haas on Apr 4, 2009
In 2005, a grant was provided to the Ikengo Agriculture and Training Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What began with the purchase of 20 pigs has resulted in 305 pigs in 2
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Congregational
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: “No Use but Useful”
Elderly Sister Ann in China was born into quite an educated family. She had four brothers who all became doctors. She, however, was not even taught how to read and write. She began to train as a nurse, but her father fell ill and she was required to nurse him.
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