Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 6, 2003
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I remember in high school track I ran the last leg of the 2 mile relay. At a huge invitational meet we were competing in the 2 mile relay. When I got the baton, we had dropped to 8th place and it wasn’t looking good. I ran the first of two laps around the track. I thought to myself, I cannot go
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Principle particularly moral principle can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
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When the first Memorial Day was celebrated, a group of women from Washington D.C. asked the War Department for permission to put flowers on the soldiers graves at Arlington Cemetery. After a lot of haggling, permission was finally granted to do so. But a stern order was attached to the permission.
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 2, 2002
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One day C.H. Spurgeon noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were these words: God is love. Spurgeon said to his friend that he thought this was an inappropriate place for such a message. He said, "Weather vanes are changeable, but God’s love is constant. His friend
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 23, 2004
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IT WAS PENTECOST SUNDAY. As the congregation filed into church, the ushers handed each person a bright red carnation to symbolize the festive spirit of the day. The people listened attentively to the reading of the Pentecost story from the Book of Acts about how the disciples had heard “what
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
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I recently had a nursery operator inform me that keeping my young fruit trees tied up so that the wind would not “damage” them was, in actuality, damaging them! They told me that the strong winds strengthened the fibers of the tree’s trunk and limbs so that it could withstand the fury of nature.
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 20, 2007
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Wendell Holmes once said.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we
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Contributed by Tim White on May 9, 2011
I heard Adrian Rogers give this example:
"We all have seen Canada Geese fly in their V formation with one leg of the V formation longer than the other leg. Why do they fly in the V formation? The lead goose is making it easier for the other geese who are following his lead. He is moving the wind
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Just listen to the whispers in the quiet of the dawn, A thousand little muffled sounds along the winds are borne. The gentle rustling of a tree, the trembling leaves that sigh, The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it wont stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it up in
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