Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 9, 2005
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We can learn a lot about being a friend from "MAN’S BEST FRIEND" Someone has said, "Only God and my dog can love me unconditionally". When I pastored in Pensacola, Fl., my wife and I had two Boston Terriers. There names was Sissie and Alphie. My wife said to me one day, "I think you love those
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Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 5, 2005
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In 1269 Kublai Khan sent a request from Peking to Rome for "a hundred wise men of the Christian religion...And so I shall be baptized, and when I shall be baptized all my baron and great men will be baptized, and their subjects baptized, and so there will be more Christian here than there are in
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
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Several years ago at a Promise Keepers conference, Dennis Rainey placed animal traps on stage. They were big ones too. Bear traps and even an African safari large animal trap that took two men to open. There were a dozen or so traps, and he set or opened them all. Then Dennis Rainey had a father
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Christian Church
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WHY PRAY? PRAYER HAS REAL POWER!
A. The atomic bomb is a very powerful weapon.
Its great explosive force comes from a sudden release of nuclear energy through fission.
B. On August 6, 1945 the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
and three days later on Nagasaki, Japan.
C. These two atomic
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Nov 16, 2005
Recently, I have starting reliving the early-90s! It was bygone time of discovery and mayhem. An acquaintance (a friend of a friend) from that era still sends an update newsletter on rare occasion. I find this correspondence very amusing because the “news” is laden with a string of accomplishments
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
United In Opposition: According to Barna Research, there are many attitudes in which Christians are not distinct from non-Christians, but in their most recent study abortion and homosexuality are not among them. The survey found the following: 75% of born again adults say abortion should be
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Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Mar 19, 2006
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There was an incident that occurred in connection with an encampment of Shantung soldiers located at Shanghai. One day a dog came into their camp with some pages from a book in his mouth. The soldiers caught the dog and began to read the papers. They were pages from a Bible being printed in
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Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
“The Bible is so strict and old-fashioned,” said a young man to a gray-haired friend, who was advising him to study God’s Word if he would learn how to live. “There are plenty of books written nowadays that are moral enough in their teachings, and do not bind one down to the Bible.”
The old
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Jul 11, 2006
Years ago on Candid Camera, children were used in an experiment about generosity. The children were placed by themselves in a room with a plate of cookies. On the plate were at least two cookies, there may have been more, but one of the cookies was very large. The adult left the room and the
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When I was a single parent in Georgia one of my boys and my daughters passions were to go to the monster truck show. I mean we made it a date every year. And well with type of crowd and noise they just look forward to it. At this time Gerard who is my ten year old now was only two. And he was
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Aug 17, 2006
Abel is included in the Faith chapter for one reason—generosity.
Years ago on Candid Camera, children were used in an experiment about generosity. The children were placed by themselves in a room with a plate of cookies. On the plate were at least two cookies, there may have been more, but one
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Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, the man cub, asks the animals what’s
the most feared thing in the jungle. He’s told that when two animals meet on a narrow
path that one must step aside and let the other pass. The animal that steps aside for no
one would then be the most
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Tim Parsons on Sep 24, 2006
Shortly after Herman Ostry bought a piece of property in Bruno, Nebraska, a nearby creek flooded his new barn with 29 inches of water. Herman’s son Mike started thinking about the problem. Mike counted the number of boards, timbers, and nails, estimating the barn’s weight at 19,000 pounds. Mike
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