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  • There Are 2 Popular Traditions In Africa: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kerry O'neill on May 14, 2006
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     | 4,404 views

    There are 2 popular traditions in Africa: drinking tea and playing soccer. However, these traditions are not unique to Africa, but were brought to the continent by the British. Even when it is very hot, each afternoon in many parts of Africa they pause to drink hot tea. Why? Because the British ...read more

  • When I Hear The Praises Start

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 26, 2006
     | 1,766 views

    My son, my son, why are you striving? You can’t add one thing to what’s been done for you. I did it all while I was dying. Rest in your faith, my peace will come to you. For when I hear the praises start I want to rain upon you. Blessings that will fill your heart; I see no stain upon you, ...read more

  • I've Become Convinced That The Problem With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 30, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,188 views

    “I’ve become convinced that the problem with believing the Bible is not based on what we don’t understand about the Bible – but it’s based on what we do understand about the Bible. “What we do understand challenges everything about us. Jesus calls us to follow him, and that means we have to give ...read more

  • One Sunday Evening, William Booth Was Walking In ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Ward on Aug 26, 2006
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     | 1,335 views

    One Sunday evening, William Booth was walking in London with his son, Bramwell, who was then 12 or 13 years old. The father surprised the son by taking him to a tavern! The place was crowded with men and women. Some of them were drunk. Some of them were loud. And the air was filled with the smell ...read more

  • In The Movie, Fiddler On The Roof, Tevye Asks His ...

    Contributed by Ish Engle on Sep 19, 2006
     | 1,974 views

    In the movie, Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye asks his wife, Golde, if she loves him. Her response is "For twenty-five years I’ve washed your clothes, cooked your meals, cleaned your house, given you children, milked the cow. After twenty-five years, why talk about love right now? Do I love him? For ...read more

  • Rejection Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 2, 2006
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    Rejection is in the Eye of the Beholder A young salesman became discouraged because he had been rejected by so many customers he approached. He asked a more experienced salesman for some advice. “Why is it that every time I make a call on someone I get rejected?” “I just don’t understand that,” ...read more

  • It Is Like Finding A Friend Playing Marco Polo. ...

    Contributed by Chip Van Emmerik on Oct 19, 2006
     | 1,436 views

    It is like finding a friend playing Marco Polo. Explain invited to friend’s house, blindfolded in the pool. You would never find the person unless they responded. Only imagine you were in the pool looking but the other person was not even in the pool, or even on the planet. Without God’s help, we ...read more

  • Some Of The World's Unhappiest People Are ...

    Contributed by Douglas Duvall on Nov 13, 2006
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    Some of the world’s unhappiest people are Christians. A man once described today’s Christians in this manner. = “Some Christians are too Christian to enjoy sinning but too sinful to enjoy their Christianity.” = “Some Christians have enough religion to keep them out of the bar on Saturday night, but ...read more

  • How Can You Be So Narrow-Minded?

    Contributed by Rick Balmer on Sep 20, 2007
     | 1,852 views

    “How can you be so narrow-minded?” The question jolted Steve from the newspaper he was reading in the teacher’s lounge. Jenna, the school librarian, was frowning and pointing at his coffee mug, which bore the message “One Way: Jesus”. Jenna was a follower of New Age religion. She believed there ...read more

  • A Boy Entered A Grocery Store And Asked The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 12, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,140 views

    A boy entered a grocery store and asked the grocer for a box of Duz detergent. The grocer was puzzled and asked why he wanted a box of Duz. The boy said that he was going to wash his cat. The grocer said, “Youlg man, you shouldn’t wash your cat with this kind of soap.” However, the boy insisted ...read more

  • Dean Farrar Was A Privileged Personal Friend Of ...

    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
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    Dean Farrar was a privileged personal friend of Queen Victoria, though he seldom referred to the distinction. But on the first anniversary of the accession of Edward VII to the throne of England, during the service in Canterbury Cathedral, he told how the Queen, after hearing one of her chaplains ...read more

  • This 80 Year Old Woman Was Arrested For Shop ...

    Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Dec 20, 2007
     | 2,130 views

    This 80 year old woman was arrested for shop lifting. When she went before the judge in Florida he asked her, "What did you steal?" She replied, "A can of peaches." The judge then asked her why she had stolen the can of peaches And she replied that she was hungry. The judge then asked her how ...read more

  • When Birds Worry

    Contributed by George Mansfield on Feb 23, 2008
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     | 4,179 views

    When Birds Worry When the birds begin to worry And the lilies toil and spin, And God’s creatures all are anxious, Then I also may begin. For my Father sets their table, Decks them out in garments fine, And if He supplies their living, Will He not provide for mine? Just as noisy, common ...read more

  • One Day John Wesley Was Walking With A ...

    Contributed by Gregg Rustulka on Mar 29, 2008
     | 2,887 views

    Ill: One day John Wesley was walking with a troubled man who expressed his doubt as to the goodness of God. He said, "I do not know what I shall do with all this worry and trouble." At the same moment Wesley saw a cow looking over a stone wall. "Do you know," asked Wesley, "why that cow is ...read more

  • What A Way To Go!

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Two elderly gentlemen were talking together. "I guess you’re never too old," the first one boasted. "Why, just yesterday a pretty college girl said she’d be interested in dating me. But to be perfectly honest, I don’t quite understand it." "Well," his friend said, "you have to remember that ...read more

  • Humility And Its Expression - At A Dinner Party ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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    Humility and its expression - At a dinner party one night Lady Churchill was seated across the table from Sir Winston, who kept making his hand walk up and down -- two fingers bent at the knuckles. The fingers appeared to be walking toward Lady Churchill. Finally, her dinner partner asked, "Why ...read more

  • In A Wycliffe Bible Translators Publication, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    IN A WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS PUBLICATION, THERE WAS A RECENT STORY ABOUT A WOMAN WHO SERVED AS A HOUSE-PARENT FOR MISSIONARIES’ CHILDREN IN THE PHILIPPINES. SHE LOVED BOOKS. THOUGH SHE LOANED OUT SOME, OTHERS SHE TREASURED IN A FOOTLOCKER. ONCE, IN THE QUIET OF THE NIGHT, SADIE HEARD A FAINT ...read more

  • Us When We Were Down On Romney Marsh – And He ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
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    us when we were down on Romney Marsh – and he went for a drive with Maddy. When he came home, he said to me: “Dad, is Mum all right?” “Yes”, I replied “Why do you ask?” “Well”, Jez replied “When we were driving across the Marsh and we came to some black sheep – Mum called them “rainbow “sheep. I ...read more

  • Where Is Your Compass?

    Contributed by Scott Jensen on May 1, 2008
     | 2,557 views

    WHERE IS YOUR COMPASS? Before the days of modern navigational aids, a traveler made the Atlantic crossing in a boat equipped with two compasses. One was fixed to the deck where the man at the wheel could see it. The other compass was fastened up on one of the masts, and often a sailor would be ...read more

  • Bad Meat

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jul 3, 2008
     | 2,566 views

    Bad Meat Colin Byrne Smith of Australia told of a missionary who called on a tribe of cannibals. Taking his life in his hands, he crossed the inlet in a small boat, and when confronted by the tribe, meekly endured every insult. Long afterwards, when he had succeeded in converting many and ...read more