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Dope on a Rope There once was a criminal who had committed a crime He was sent to the king for his punishment. The king told him he had a choice of two punishments. He could be hung by a rope. Or take what’s behind the big, dark, scary, mysterious iron door. The criminal quickly decided on...

General Robbie Risner For seven and a half years, North Vietnamese soldiers held him and dozens of other soldiers in the "zoo" (a POW camp in Hanoi.) Misery, solitary confinement, starvation, tortures and beatings were routine. Interrogators twisted broken legs, sliced skin with bayonets...

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William Cowper There is a magnificent hymn born out of distress, "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants the footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm." The background of the hymn = His life was in shambles. He was not a Christian. He was filled with despair and...

The empty chair "No. I was not expecting you," said Bob. "Who are you?". "I'm the new minister at your church," he replied. "When I saw the empty chair, I figured you knew I was going to show up." "Oh yeah, the chair," said the bedridden man. "Would you mind closing the door?" Puzzled...

Dance Like No One's Watching -Crystal Boyd- We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we're frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal...

The Father Who Lost 2 Sons This is about what’s normally called The Parable of the Prodigal Son. That’s only one of the two sons in the parable, the younger boy. The older boy is the one—the other son—who is lost. And the point about changing the name of the parable is that the parables are...

Please welcome Ted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH7h...ature=emb_logo

No one has ever accused us Christians of being fun. No one has ever said we are a laugh-filled group. No atheist has ever said, “I might not love Jesus, but his followers sure know how to party!” And yet, in my favorite story in the Bible we actually see Jesus paint the opposite picture.- If...

Shame on you Jefferson. As punishment for your wickedness you are obliged to view the following..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHBMFCzznE

The Weight of the Glass Once upon a time a psychology professor walked around on a stage while teaching stress management principles to an auditorium filled with students. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the typical “glass half empty or glass half full”...

Sylvia’s mother suffered a stroke. Over the next several weeks, Sylvia moved her mom from the hospital to a rehabilitation center and then to a retirement center. Sylvia sold her mother’s condominium, completely setting up a new apartment at the retirement home. She spent hours cleaning...

Nabeel Qureshi (Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus) “All suffering is worth it to follow Jesus. He is that amazing.” — Nabeel Qureshi Nabeel was not a prodigal in any outward way. The son of loving devout Muslim parents, Nabeel Qureshi was clean-cut, well-educated, kind, respectful, and quite happy...

Explain God. "One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn't make grown-ups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He doesn't have to take up His...

In the next 10 to 20 years: 1 — Auto repair shops will disappear... 2 — A gas/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts... An electrical motor has 20... Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers... It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an...

Ashley Smith “Even though I was fighting the drugs, I still woke up every morning and read a chapter in my Bible…If nothing else good happened in my life, at least I was going to hear God every day.” — Ashley Smith In 2005, widowed single mother Ashley Smith was in the middle of moving when...

Chad Williams “I had reached my mountaintop, only…the view disappointed me. And there was no higher step to take…Why did I feel so disappointed?” — Chad Williams After his mentor Scott Helvenston was brutally killed in Iraq, and his death televised, the young Chad Williams vowed to become a...

Louis Zamperini In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept. Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner and talented mischief-maker whose incredible survival story (30+ days...

Rosaria Butterfield (The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert) I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. How much greater? About the size of a mustard seed…Repentance is an intimate affair. And for many of us, intimacy...