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  • Robert Wood Johnson, The Former Chairman Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Robert Wood Johnson, the former chairman of Johnson & Johnson, was known to be a terror when he inspected his plants. On one such unannounced visit, the plant manager had a fortunate 30-minute tip prior to his arrival. Hastily he had things spruced up by ordering several large rolls of paper ...read more

  • An Enthusiastic But Somewhat Unscrupulous ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    An enthusiastic but somewhat unscrupulous salesman was waiting to see the purchasing agent of the engineering firm where my husband worked. The salesman was there to submit his company’s bid, or price quote, for a particular job. He couldn’t help but notice, however, that a competitor’s bid was on ...read more

  • In A View From The Zoo, Gary Richmond, A Former ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    In A View From The Zoo, Gary Richmond, a former zoo keeper, tells about an experience a friend had with a raccoon. He explains that raccoons go through a glandular change at about 24 months. After that they often attack their owners. A 30-pound raccoon can be equal to a 100-pound dog in a scrap. ...read more

  • Marathoner Loses By A Mustache." So Read The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    "Marathoner Loses by a Mustache." So read the headline of a recent Associated Press story. It appeared that Abbes Tehami of Algeria was an easy winner of the Brussels Marathon--until someone wondered where his mustache had gone! Checking eyewitness accounts, it quickly became evident that the ...read more

  • A Man Purchased A White Mouse To Use As Food ...

    Contributed by George Rhodes on Apr 19, 2006
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    : A man purchased a white mouse to use as food for his pet snake. He dropped the unsuspecting mouse into the snake’s glass cage, where the snake was sleeping in a bed of sawdust. The tiny mouse had a serious problem on his hands. At any moment he could be swallowed alive. Obviously, the mouse ...read more

  • I Have Been Told That In The Jungles Of South ...

    Contributed by Mark Price on May 12, 2006
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    I have been told that in the jungles of South America, that monkey trappers use jars with narrow mouths, hung in trees by wire, to trap their prey. They hang the jars on the branches, and place rocks inside. As the monkeys travel through the trees, the branches rattle the stones in the jars. The ...read more

  • There Is A Small Tree Which Grows In Southeast ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jul 28, 2006
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    There is a small tree which grows in Southeast Asia known as the Judas-tree. From its branches grow gorgeous blossoms. These blossoms look like scarlet sunbeams. The brilliant beauty of the crimson flowers attracts thousands of tiny insects. Wild bees also try to draw honey from their ...read more

  • A Bit Of Knife Blade

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 23, 2006
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    Rev. John McNeil told the following story: A ship once wrecked on the Irish coast. The captain was a careful one. Nor had the weather been of so severe a kind to explain the wide distance the ship had swerved from her course. The ship went down, but so much interest was attached to the disaster ...read more

  • The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: The Leo Burnett advertising agency did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago on lying, cataloging when we lie, how we lie and why we lie. The results were interesting. Ninety-one percent of all Americans confessed that they regularly lied… One out of every five admitted that ...read more

  • Clever Drug Traffickers Used A Propane Tanker ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Clever drug traffickers used a propane tanker truck entering El Paso from Mexico. They rigged it so propane gas would be released from all of its valves while the truck concealed 6,240 pounds drugs. They were clever, but not bright. They misspelled the name of the gas company on the side of the ...read more

  • Willie Nelson Apparently At One Time Owned A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Willie Nelson apparently at one time owned a golf course. He said the great thing about owning a golf course was that he could decide what par for each hole was. He pointed at one hole and said, “See that hole there? It’s a par 47. Yesterday I birdied it.” Well, we cannot decide what par for the ...read more

  • Ucla Sociologist, James Wilson, Has Observed An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    UCLA sociologist, James Wilson, has observed an interesting fact about city life: The crime rate escalates on those streets where broken windows are not repaired. His study showed that the failure to replace windows makes an announcement to the public by saying the standards have been lowered and ...read more

  • In His Autobiography In 2004, Pete Rose Finally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In his autobiography in 2004, Pete Rose finally admitted that he bet on baseball games while employed as manager of the Cincinnati Reds — an infraction that produced a lifetime ban from the sport in 1989. Rose’s admission of guilt came after denying any wrongdoing for almost 15 years. And he has ...read more

  • The Results Of Spiritual Blindness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Results of Spiritual Blindness. On November 30, 1991 fierce winds from a freakish dust storm triggered a massive freeway pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. At least 14 people died and dozens more were injured as topsoil whipped by 50 mile-per-hour winds reduced visibility to ...read more

  • Paul W. Powell, "Pride Is So Subtle That If We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Paul W. Powell, “Pride is so subtle that if we aren’t careful we’ll be proud of our humility. When this happens our goodness becomes badness. Our virtues become vices. We can easily become like the Sunday School teacher who, having told the story of the Pharisee and ...read more

  • I Told You I Was Reading A New Book By Max ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I told you I was reading a new book by Max Lucado called, “Come to the Sweet Spot.” This illustration was in this book. He had a daughter in college. He had set up a checking account for her so that she would have some money at school and could be responsible to pay her bills through this account. ...read more

  • There Was A Lady Named Danni Stampley From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a lady named Danni Stampley from Luann’s home church who had been trained as a Baptist missionary. She felt the call to be a missionary the very night she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior; she was a teenager at the time. After high school and college, she spent several years in a ...read more

  • There Is One Great And Mysterious Thing That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is one great and mysterious thing that happens in the lives of little boys all across the country - it’s the phenomena called the “New Sneaker Syndrome.” You all know exactly what I am talking about. When a little boy gets a new pair of shoes, what happens? THEY CAN RUN FASTER I remember ...read more

  • Peter Hopkirk Tells A Great Story About The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Peter Hopkirk tells a great story about the folly of a faulty proclamation. It was 1919, and Russia was in the midst of its own Civil War to establish Communism as its official ideology. While Moscow had been “liberated” two years earlier, farther flung parts of its empire, such as what is now in ...read more

  • A Disease Left Helen Keller Blind And Deaf As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A disease left Helen Keller blind and deaf as a very young girl. Her family hired Anne Sullivan to take care of Helen. Through Anne’s tireless and selfless efforts, Helen finally learned to communicate through touch and even learned to talk. When Anne first told Helen about God, the girl’s response ...read more

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