Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 20, 2003
We use lures when we go fishing. A lure is something that is supposed to look good to the fish you are trying to catch. When I was growing up, I had a lure that looked like an injured fish. The fish was bent a little, right at the bend there was a reddish spot that was supposed to look like a
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 4, 2004
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A teacher asked her students to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World. The students cast the most votes for 1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids 2. Taj Mahal 3. Grand Canyon 4. Panama Canal 5. Empire State Building 6. St. Peter’s Basilica 7. China’s Great Wall
While gathering the
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Contributed by Kyle Blanton on May 14, 2007
I know you’ve heard the passage time and time again. 6 Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Psalm 22:6
My mother never missed a beat. There was a time when my dad resigned from the pastorate when we lived in Illinois that he took to the road
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A teen boy was trying to sneak his date back into her home very late at night. He stood at the door as she headed up the stairs, but she was met at the top by her angry father. He told her to go to her room, then walked down to the young man. “Did I hear the clock strike four just a few moments
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In April, 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was also a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with several other skydivers and filmed the group as they individually dove out of the plane and opened their parachutes. As the video was being shown of each member of the crew
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
Kokomo Tribune writer Scott Smith wrote an article for the Kokomo Tribune headlined, "Dam destruction part of Wildcat Creek’s revival." It reads:
"The water upstream from the old Continental Steel dam looks almost stagnant. The streambed is deep, and the surface untroubled. But the lack of rills
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 9, 2011
THELMA AND LOUISE: RETHINKING THE TRIP
Thelma, married to Darryl (which the film portrays as a controlling husband) and Louise (a single waitress with a troubled past) decide to take a weekend road trip in Louise’s teal 1966 Thunderbird convertible. They stop at a bar where Thelma flirts with a
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 20, 2008
RAILROADS AND CANAL BOATS
In 1829, Martin Van Buren sent the following letter to then President Andrew Jackson:
To: President Jackson
The canal system of this country is being threatened by the spread of a new form of transportation known as "railroads." The federal government must preserve the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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SUCCESS FROM STRUGGLE
Well, one way to respond to opportunity is to learn to recognize it even when it is disguised as difficulty. In a famous study by Victor and Mildred Goertzel, the home backgrounds of 300 highly successful people were investigated.
All 300 of these people made it to the top
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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HE DIED FOR EVERYONE--INCLUDING ME
The famed congregational preacher, Dwight L. Moody, once said,
"The great trouble is that people take everything in general, and do not take it to themselves. Suppose a man should say to me, 'Moody, there was a man in Europe who died last week, and left five
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Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 9, 2005
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I am not a connoisseur of great art, but from time to time a painting or picture will really speak a clear, strong message to me. Some time ago I saw a picture of an old burned-out mountain shack. All that remained was the chimney...the charred debris of what had been that family’s sole possession.
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jun 26, 2006
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A pastor wrote:
"Some time ago I saw a picture of an old burned-out mountain shack. All that remained was the chimney...the charred debris of what had been that family’s sole possession. In front of this destroyed home stood an old grandfather-looking man dressed only in his underclothes with a
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