Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jan 15, 2004
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2 weeks ago all of America was horrified as they watched a man named Steve Irwin, so respected and fondly followed as the Crocodile Hunter, dangle his 1 month old baby boy, Bob, w/in a couple yards of a crocodile he was feeding chicken to w/ the other hand [not unlike the dangling baby of Michael
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 25, 2004
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Eric Reed in this past week’s Leadership Weekly e-mail column related the following story.
“After Easter last year, a woman approached a pastor I know and asked, "So what happened with Jesus after the Resurrection?" "Well, he ascended into heaven and he’s still alive," the pastor said.
"I know he
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Church Of God
Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
I played Santa this week at the nursing home - The outfit was fine but the beard was rank, so I had to spray it with something. - I hugged - asked if they were good little boys and girls, passed out gifts and even danced with some of the ladies. I couldn’t tell who really believed in Santa and
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Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Jul 21, 2003
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I read this week of a house fire in the middle east where a man ran back into his burning house to get his valuables, but he didn’t make it out. He was found in the ashes clutching an ivory idol. The headlines read, "Man dies trying to save his god." Two thousand years ago on a hill called
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Baptist
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I was clicking through the stations last week and came across a documentary on a women’s prison. A guard explained how the visitors for their own safety needed to stay on the gray painted lines. The inmates could not reach them if they stayed on the gray painted lines. Catch this, staying on
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Fanny Crosby, blinded by an illness at 6 weeks of age, would grow to write over 9,000 poems and hymns. One of her many hymns begin this way:
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it,
Redeemed by the blood of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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When I was in the media, I spent a week in Culion, Palawan. In fact, it was a holy week. Yes, that’s part of Palawan. But I don’t think you would like to go there. Culion was a leper colony. That’s where we quarantine or exile people afflicted with leprosy or Hansen’s disease in the past.
When I
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Aug 23, 2007
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Last week, as part of their study of WWII, we watched, The Longest Day, a classic film with dozens of famous actors, including John Wayne.
Much of the action centers on the allies efforts to take Omaha Beach. The Germans had every tactical advantage and hundreds of men were killed by machine gun
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Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Nov 21, 2007
This week I saw an ad in the Arizona Republic newspaper. It was an ad placed on behalf of someone’s grandmother, which said: “Lost: one pearl ring. Lost near 35th Avenue and Cactus. Setting is chipped from many years’ wear, has one diamond on each side of pearl. Great sentimental value. Large
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
b. Last week a couple with two children and a grandmother stopped by for some assistance. They were traveling from Tennessee to Charleston, SC and I wondered how they ended up at our church. They had stopped several places and been told no or redirected somewhere else. The wife said they were at
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Dec 20, 2007
On an ICY winter’s night two weeks before Christmas, 1987, a PREACHER was impatiently waiting at the O’Hare Airport in Chicago. All FLIGHTS has been CANCELED due to FOG and FREEZING RAIN. The TERMINAL was in BEDLAM. Thousands of people were CLUSTERED at the TICKET COUNTERS demanding projected
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jan 4, 2008
A few weeks ago as I was returning from an emergency trip to Rapid City, I went through a small town, and a church sign had this on
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Wesleyan
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At six weeks of age, Fanny Crosby was blinded, but even as a youngster she determined not to be confined by the chains of darkness. In time, she became a mighty force for God through her hymns and Gospel songs.
The secret is this: when you have the single mind of purpose, you look on your
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Just this past week one of the little guys in our church’s Friendship Company preschool program broke into song as he was doing some artwork---He sang, “Jesus loves me this I know---for the Bible tells me no.” What is it they say? From the mouths of babes??? Now while that little guy didn’t sing
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Christian/Church Of Christ