Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 19, 2009
The American Memorial Day weekend automobile race known as the Indianapolis 500 (a.k.a. Indy 500) attracts 400,000 spectators every year! It is probably the largest single sporting event that draws such a large crowd. The race requires many pit-stops – tire changes, fuel, oil, or repairs when
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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
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
New Zealand, Feb. 26 [2016] (UPI) -- Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, otherwise known as Pastafarians, registered their first official marriage celebrant in New Zealand.
The group announced the news on its Facebook page, although the first couple that was set to be married by
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2002
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MOTHER'S DAY GIFTS
What NOT to Buy Your Wife: Although the only person a man usually shops for is his wife, the whole experience is a stressful one. Many a man has felt extreme frigid temperatures for a long period based on a poor present decision. As a veteran of these wars, I’m still not sure
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 13, 2008
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Come with me for a moment. Come with me as we leave here and drive down Elizabeth Street. At the end of Elizabeth Street, you take a left on Debary Ave. Drive on Debary Ave. until to reach Providence and take a left. Drive down Providence until you reach Saxon. Take a right on Saxon and drive
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Baptist
Contributed by Chip Monck on Feb 15, 2005
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Top Ten Indications That Your Worship Service Might Be a Bit Too Relaxed:
10. The choir wears bath robes and bunny slippers!
9. Every prayer ends with "Yeah, God, You be the Man!"
8. The church just replaced their old pew bibles with the ABV (Authorized Barney Version)!
7. The
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 20, 2005
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Raymond P. Murray- Wanted
The great want of this age is men: Men who are not for sale; Men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe- in themselves as well as others; Men whose consciences are as steady as the needle to the pole; Men who will stand for the right though the heavens totter and the
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There is a story about a student at Cambridge University who entered the classroom on exam day and asked the proctor to bring him cakes and ale. The proctor refused, expressing astonishment at the young student’s audacity. At this point the student read from the four-hundred-year-old Laws of
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
* The city of Boston recently renamed its Christmas tree in Boston Commons a "holiday tree."
* In their 260 pages of newspaper insert promotions, Target, Kroger, Office Max, Walgreens, Sears, Staples, Lowe’s, J.C. Penney, Dell and Best Buy failed to mention Christmas a single time, according to
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Wesleyan
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Bruce L. Shelley adds, “From the year 312, he favored Christianity openly. He allowed Christian ministers to enjoy the same exemption from taxes as the pagan priests, he abolished executions by crucifixion; he called a halt to the battles of gladiators as a punishment for crimes; and in 321 he made
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 2, 2010
Its like this story of a frightened soldier who was running from sniper bullets.
He dove into a bunker thinking that he was alone.
To his surprise another soldier crawled into the bunker as well.
The second soldier happened to be wearing a cross around his neck.
“Thank goodness you’re here”, said
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Let me read it to you in closing:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And - sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could.
To where it bent in the undergrowth,
Then I took the other, as just as
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Anglican
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 1, 2011
WHERE DOES GOD FIT IN?
One Christmas season a schoolteacher in England supervised the construction of a manger scene in a corner of her classroom. Her pupils were delighted to set up the model barn and cover the floor with real straw and then arrange the clay figures of Mary, Joseph, the
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Presbyterian/Reformed