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Several years ago as I was coming home from Wesley Seminary at the end of four very long weeks, I felt a bubbling of energy within myself. I felt like I was waiting on a precipice about to jump into a new life. Energy was being sparked within me. I was ready to follow Christ wherever I was led
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Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 25, 2007
When my eldest brother Peter was caught in a riot at the university, he realized that at his age, he couldn’t confront the riot police as they engaged the students in the melee. He therefore thought very fast in order to save his skin. He took an African basket and bought some groceries - cabbages,
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Oct 14, 2007
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Fred got home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and very tired. "Bad day at the course?" his wife asked.
"Everything was going fine," he said. "Then Harry had a heart attack and died on the 10th tee."
"Oh, that’s awful!"
"You’re not kidding. For the whole back nine
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Mar 9, 2008
John was having trouble hitting the ball. He was striking out and the head coach was unhappy. John was very upset and felt like giving up. One of the others coaches said, "No matter what happens, even if you strike out, remember that your parents will always love you." The next at bat, John
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 3, 2008
"Our lives should always be the first things to speak; and if our lips speak more than our lives, it will avail very little. So often the tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in words, but their whole life and demeanor has been a denial of it. The world does not pay much attention to
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
The Tongues of Fire
Philo: "Then from the midst of the fire that streamed from heaven there sounded forth to their utter amazement a voice, for the flame became articulate speech in the language familiar to the audience" (Decal. 46), quoted by Ben Witherington III in his commentary, The Acts of the
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 25, 2008
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Fish Tank Life
A very nice doctor's office had a beautiful fish tank. The fish are bred to look like exotic salt-water fish. They are beautiful, but they are stuck in that expensive tank and going nowhere, chasing each other, killing each other, hoping someone will pay attention and feed them.
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
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Dr. John Trent tells the story of a couple in West Texas. The wife, Betty, was very athletic, & had been a cheerleader & very popular in high school. Now she is 55 & has come to Dr. Trent for medical help. She hurts a lot & her joints are beginning to swell.
After examining her, he tells her
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian Mavis on Apr 11, 2001
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Chemistry 101 -- Table of Elements
Two new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements:
Element Name: WOMAN
Symbol: WO
Atomic Weight:(don’t even go there)
Physical properties: Generally round in form. Boils at nothing and may
freeze at anytime. Melts whenever treated properly. Very bitter if
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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There are many heresies among us; all of them detract from the eternal truths of God. The most dangerous one is the one we hear as the new theme of political speeches and commencement addresses. This heresy is rooted in academia and thrives in prideful minds. This heresy is very evident in popular
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 16, 2002
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In a recent report by Linda Duxbury of Carleton University’s School Of Business. Ottawa, and Chris Higgins of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, London, entitled “Work-Life Balance in the New Millennium: Where are We? Where Do we need to Go?,” the authors
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2003
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THE PROBLEM OF GOODNESS
"The simple fact is that for all our moral hesitation and stuttering, many people know goodness and excellence when they see it and they are overwhelmed by the magnetism of goodness. Goodness attracts. Goodness is proclaimed so that the circle of adulation can widen. So we
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Contributed by Bruce Morrison on May 26, 2003
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I remember when I first started training to be a pilot. I was a young pastor and lived in Labrador in the north east part of Canada. The church purchased a bush plane to be used for outreach in parts of the region where there were no churches of any kind so I needed to learn to fly. On my very
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
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WANDERING OFF
Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they
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Contributed by John Foster on Jul 19, 2003
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Bob had just started his career in banking and was the lowest person in the bank with the title manager. ( Of course just about everyone had the title of manager. I suppose it made people feel important when they were speaking to him and it kept some of the flack away from the real manager
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