Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jun 19, 2013
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TWO MILES OF DITCH
I was headed home late from a wedding reception and had about a two hour drive when a friend said to me, "Remember that for every mile you drive there are two miles of ditch".
I was in the car before that really sunk in, and then it hit me, for every path we walk, there are
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United Methodist
Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 11, 2012
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THE STRAIGHTEST PATH
Two boys were playing in the snow one day, when one said to the other, "Let us see who can make the straightest path in the snow." His companion readily accepted the proposition, and they started.
One boy fixed his eyes on a tree, and walked along without taking his eyes off
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 23, 2008
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Stay on the Path
On vacation I hiked a pass overlooking the Loyalsock Creek in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It was a difficult incline that I estimate in many places to have been sixty degrees. There was a stern warning at the head of the trail that you should not stray from the path. As I
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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The path of civilization is paved with
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path and the
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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IS THERE GRASS ON YOUR PATH?
In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these "prayer rooms" by using their own
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Brethren
LIGHTS FOR OUR PATH
A couple of years ago, I went outside after dark to look at the stars in ways we couldn’t while back in Minnesota. I stepped from the porch, with the lights of course, and then I tripped on the water-hose. Down I went, taking my wife and daughter with me. Truth be known —
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Lutheran
Contributed by Casey Sabella on Jan 27, 2016
Psalm 118:105: Your Word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. (NLT)
While in India on a brief missions trip, I was summoned to a the home of an official who was sick. He wanted me to agree with him in prayer.
On the way, we traveled along a river in the dead of night. We carried
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 4, 2011
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TRUST THE NARROW, UNBEATEN PATH
When I was younger I went hiking up Golden Ears Mountain. Several years earlier I went with my school and there was a nice rope bridge that crossed the waterfalls to keep you on the trail up the top of the mountain. The path that led to the bridge was wide, covered
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 18, 2012
TAKING THE GOOD PATH
The media interviewed the second Chilean miner freed, and here is what he said, "The time down there changed me. God had one hand and the devil had the other hand, and when I was down there, I decided to let go of the devil and hold onto God. I buried 40 years of my life down
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity. And on
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 2, 2003
In an article entitled, “Mosaic and Ancient Near Eastern Laws,” (from the www.theology.edu/Eqypt3) we read that the Code of Hammurabbi and the Mosaic code “differ in their moral code.” “In the Hebrew laws, a greater value is generally placed on human life, and the Babylonian code has nothing in it
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 11, 2001
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There is an ancient Scottish legend - a shepherd boy tending a small flock of sheep on the side of a mountain. One day as he cared for his sheep he saw at his feet a beautiful flower -- one that was more beautiful than any he had ever seen in his life. He knelt down upon his knees and scooped the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 24, 2006
In The Rime of The Ancient Mariner Coleridge says, “Corpses man the ship; dead men pull the oars; dead men hoist the sails; dead men steer the vessel.” That was
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
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An ancient Psalm was recently discovered in an Irish bog. The book has been dated to the years 800-1000. A Trinity College manuscripts expert says it’s the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries. The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2005
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There is an ancient door on display in St. Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. The rough hewn door has a rectangular hole hacked out in its center. It is called the “Door of Reconciliation,” and gives rise to the Irish expression of “chancing one’s arm.” In 1492, two prominent Irish families,
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