Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 13, 2001
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POSSUMS AND THE GRAVE
I have heard that possums are smart animals. You wouldn’t think so because you hardly ever see one except when it’s dead on the road. There’s a joke that goes, “why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done!”
But possums, it turns out,
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Lutheran
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 12, 2009
GRAVE OF THE UNKNOWN
There we stood bracing ourselves against the cold wind. It was cloudy, it was icy, the wind was blowing hard, it was not a pleasant day. The director said to me, "Peter, I think we should get started now."
There were three of us there, myself, the funeral director and the man
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 7, 2001
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In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Yet strangely, she directed in her will that her grave be made so
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 14, 2011
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HE'S NO LONGER IN THE GRAVE
In 1887, twenty two years after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, his coffin was dug up and opened because there were constant rumors that his body was not in the grave. So they dug it up and the body was there. The rumors continued so 14 years later they
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In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Yet strangely, she directed in her will that her grave be made so
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave
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"Planting flowers on a recent grave in a little cemetery in the far West, a young man seemed overcome with emotion. A stranger passing, thought to comfort him by speaking a kind word, and as he drew near he observed a small cross at the top of the grave on which the words, "He died for me" were
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United Methodist
MAN PRAYING AT WIFE’S 1ST HUSBAND’S GRAVE
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave.
The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, "Why did you
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Today one grave is open, and from it has risen a sun which will never be obscured, which will never set, a sun which creates new life.
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 15, 2009
We erect stone markers to identify the graves of the significant people we loved. When Cracker Jack creator Frederick Rueckheim decided to put a logo on the confection’s package in the early 1900s, he modeled it after his own beloved grandson Robert, who often wore a sailor suit.
But just as the
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Pentecostal