Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 7, 2000
based on 107 ratings
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“It’s not what’s happening today that drags a man down.
It’s remorse over what happened yesterday, and dread of tomorrow.”
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Orthodox
Contributed by John Hamby on Dec 10, 2000
based on 141 ratings
| 10,540 views
“In football they have a huddle, the goal of the huddle is to give you thirty seconds to call the play, that is why they give you a huddle.(At a professional football game there may be ) Sixty thousand people watching you huddle, they don’t mind you taking thirty seconds to call the play. They
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 10, 2000
based on 90 ratings
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In Sir Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia, he tells a parable from the Buddha about a mother who had lost her child. Carrying its dead body in her bosom, she come to the buddha and said:"Lord and Master, do you know any medicine that while be good for my child?" "Yes," he said, "bring me a mustard seed
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Lutheran
Contributed by Doug Sanders on Jan 1, 2001
based on 1,092 ratings
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HOW TO CATCH A MONKEY
Native hunters in the jungles of Africa have a clever way of trapping monkeys.
They slice a coconut in two, hollow it out, and in one half of the shell cut a hole just big enough for a monkey’s hand to pass through. Then they place an orange in the other coconut half before
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Jones on Oct 31, 2000
based on 88 ratings
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French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he’d always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence…a yacht in the Mediterranean, a large
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Jones on Oct 31, 2000
based on 159 ratings
| 9,210 views
Many years ago, executives of the Time-Life publishing organization discovered that the company’s profit margin had shrunk to an alarmingly low level. Consequently, they began an intensive effort to try to cut costs.
Efficiency experts suggested that substantial savings could be effected in the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2001
based on 142 ratings
| 5,714 views
Author and teacher, Dr. Howard Hendricks tells the story of a young man who strayed from the Lord but was finally brought back by the help of a friend who really loved him. When there was full repentance and restoration, Dr. Hendricks asked this Christian how it felt away from the Lord. The young
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Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Feb 18, 2001
based on 208 ratings
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Intelligence is not the same as wisdom.
A minister, a Boy Scout, and a computer expert were the only passengers on a small plane. The pilot came back to the cabin and said that the plane was going down but there were only three parachutes and four people. The pilot added, “I should have one of he
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Baptist
Contributed by John Hamby on Mar 26, 2001
based on 84 ratings
| 4,697 views
“August 22, 1741, was a sweltering day in the city of London. An elderly stooped-shouldered man wandered through the streets. His nightly aimless wandering through the streets of the city had become a familiar ritual. His angry mind raced back to the memories of great adulation and then looked at a
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Baptist
Contributed by Rob Short on Apr 6, 2001
based on 189 ratings
| 9,390 views
In 1994, two Christian missionaries answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics in a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage.
It was nearing
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Baptist
Contributed by Joel Pankow on May 2, 2001
based on 101 ratings
| 4,245 views
Jackie Chan movie. This man is very innovative in the way that he makes fight scenes. Instead of just using normal karate chops and the like, he will use common every day items and create unbelievable fight scenes with them. In one scene, he fights off dozens of men with a common every day step
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Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2001
based on 161 ratings
| 11,846 views
THEY DIED IN THE SERVICE
One Sunday morning the pastor noticed little Alex was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. The plaque was covered with names, and small American flags were mounted on either side of it.
The seven-year-old had been staring at the plaque
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 16, 2001
based on 137 ratings
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Rabbi David A. Nelson likes to tell the story of two brothers who went to their rabbi to settle a longstanding feud. The rabbi got the two to reconcile their differences and shake hands. As they were about to leave, he asked each one to make a wish for the other in honor of the Jewish New Year. The
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Crow on May 20, 2001
based on 261 ratings
| 9,511 views
Norman Cates shared the humorous story of a guy who prayed this prayer every morning: "Lord, if you want me to witness to someone today, please give me a sign to show me who it is." One day he found himself on a bus when a big, burly man sat next to him. The bus was nearly empty but this guy sat
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Baptist
Contributed by Ted Sutherland on May 28, 2001
based on 108 ratings
| 4,901 views
In Yorkshire, England, during the early 1800s, two sons were born to a family named Taylor. The older one set out to make a name for himself by entering Parliament and gaining public prestige. But the younger son chose to give his life to Christ. He later recalled, “Well do I remember, as in
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Baptist
Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Jul 10, 2001
based on 74 ratings
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In other words, we begin our Christian life in God’s grace, and then quickly abandon grace, and try to live our life, and almost to continue to earn our salvation, - by what we do, by our works.
Author Jerry Bridges puts it like this: "We tend to give an unbeliever just enough of the gospel to get
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by James May on Jul 10, 2001
based on 52 ratings
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Too many times I have played the part of Humpty Dumpty as I stayed on the wall, walked the fence between serving God and the Devil. Just like old “Humpty”, I fell off of the wall too. All my “king’s horses” of personal accomplishments, education, abilities and reasoning could not repair the
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible