Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 25, 2021
My sister didn’t do as well on her driver’s-ed test as she’d hoped. It might have had something to do with how she completed this sentence: “When the ______ is dead, the car won’t start.”
She
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2002
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UNEXPECTED GRACE
I left work early so I could have some uninterrupted study time right before the final in my Youth Issues class. When I got to class, everybody was doing their last minute studying. The teacher came in and said he would review with us for just a little bit before the test. We went
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 18, 2012
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THE UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS
When I was in seventh grade, like so many youth at that age, music became a huge part of my life. I was awakened to the sounds of music of Elton John’s Greatest Hits, SuperTramp's Breakfast in America and Led Zeppelin 2. So my hope and dream was to build a stereo system
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Methodist
Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 12, 2006
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GETTING THE UNEXPECTED/DISAPPOINTMENT:
A wife woke up one morning and said, “Honey, I just had a dream that you bought me a new gold necklace. What do you think it means?”
“I don’t know, but Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Tuesday, you’ll know,” He replied.
A few nights later, she again woke
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Do your homework. Prepare for the unexpected. Learn all you can before you plunge into a task. It's a
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Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 26, 2007
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Maybe the most famous of all the unexpected heroes of 911 was a 32 year old Oracle salesmen named Todd Beamer, the determined Christian on flight 93 who called up the GTE operator to find out what was happening, prayed the Lord’s Prayer with her over the phone, added, “Jesus, help me,” then said,
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 15, 2009
Unexpected guests were on the way, and my mother, an impeccable housekeeper, rushed around straightening up. She put my father and brother to work cleaning the guest bathroom. Later, when she went to inspect it, she was surprised that the once-cluttered room had been tidied up so quickly. Then she
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 5, 2010
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God’s Unexpected Answer to Prayer Protects from Bomb
But God provides in a variety of ways. A Messianic Jewish brother relates:
"I was part of a singing group once that was scheduled to do a series of "peace" concerts in war-torn Northern Ireland. As Jews, we went with the message that Catholics
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 20, 2010
I remember as a kid watching the TV series called "KUNG FU" staring David Caradine. The blind Master Po (Keye Luke) calls his young student "GRASSHOPPER" to "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED". We are not grasshoppers but we often see ourselves as such (Numbers 13:33) and we don't need a Shaolin monk to tell
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 9, 2007
The true story a meat store owner told some time back:
The owner said: “one day a customer informed me she had gotten some unexpected money and wanted to fill her freezer. She picked out about $200 worth of meat and handed me her credit card."
Laughing, the owner said: "I thought
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The surest way to puncture a pleasure is to over-anticipate it; the best things in life
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet
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