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  • Quote: Of God's Sovereignty Over All Human ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 28, 2007
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    Quote: Of God’s sovereignty over all human authority, Robert Culver wrote: God alone has sovereign rights. Democratic theory is no less unscriptural than divine right monarchy. By whatever means men come to positions of rulership"by dynastic descent, aristocratic family connection, plutocratic ...read more

  • A Black American Baptist Preacher From Richmond ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A black American Baptist preacher from Richmond was attending a Baptist convention in Mississippi. A Mississippi preacher, reading the Scripture lesson for a morning session, read: “Now the Kingdom of Heaven was likened unto ten Virginians which took their lamps and went forth to meet the ...read more

  • Short Opening Extract Of William Shakespeares ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 24, 2007
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    Short opening extract of William Shakespeares Last will and Testament. "In the name of God, Amen, I William Shakespeare.... in perfect health and memory, God be praised, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament in the manner and form following. That is to say, first I commend my soul ...read more

  • In 1982, Susan G, Komen Lay In Bed, Dying Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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     | 1,862 views

    In 1982, Susan G, Komen lay in bed, dying of breast cancer. Her sister, Nancy Brinker, promised her dying sister that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Since that organization was founded they have donated ...read more

  • With Regard To Daneil,i Thought It Strange That ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 22, 2007
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    With regard to Daneil,I thought it strange that an official of a conquered nation would become an official in the conquering nation. However, I remembered the end of World War II. Germany was working feverishly with V-1 and V-2 buzz bombs and rockets. They were advanced their capability at that ...read more

  • Gregory Wiens Writes: One Afternoon While ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 6, 2007
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    Gregory Wiens writes: One afternoon while playing on a wooden picnic table, 4 1/2-year-old Jordon ran a splinter into his finger. Sobbing, he called his father (me) at the office. "I want God to take the splinter out," he said. I told him his mother could remove it very easily. But he wanted ...read more

  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the ...read more

  • A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, The ...

    Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
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    A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, the man cub, asks the animals what’s the most feared thing in the jungle. He’s told that when two animals meet on a narrow path that one must step aside and let the other pass. The animal that steps aside for no one would then be the most ...read more

  • Millions Of People Upon This Planet This ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 28, 2006
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    Millions of people upon this planet this Christmas will celebrate with big celebration’s, but they will completly miss the point of the celebrations. Could you imagine returning home to find your house decortated top to bottom with lights and party decorations and when you get to the door you ...read more

  • Select Stats On Change

    Contributed by Dan Brown on Nov 27, 2006
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    Select Stats on Change: In the 1950’s: -a car cost $1,220 -gas $0.23 -College Tuition- $525 -round of golf @ Pebble Beach $2 -Coke, Hershey bar, coffe- $0.05 -stamp $.03 -Annual Salary for a teacher $2,640 -computer $500,000 It took the radio 40 years to reach 50 million domestic users. It took ...read more

  • Wizard Appeal 84% Of U.s. Teens Have Read Or ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Wizard Appeal 84% of U.S. teens have read or watched Harry Potter. So have 77% of all church-going and born again Christian teens. Just 4% say they’ve encountered any teaching or discussions in a church about the spiritual themes embedded in the wizardry legend. Among born again teens it’s 13%. ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Third-Grade Sunday School ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    The story is told of a third-grade Sunday School class whose teacher had built her lesson around the fifth commandment: “Honor your father and your mother.” 1. As she developed her lesson, she asked, “We’ve been talking about our mommies and daddies, but does anyone know a commandment about ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more

  • The Blight Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE BLIGHT OF SIN Blight is a destructive plant disease that can infect any plant, even trees. Infected trees exhibit a blackening of the blooms, leaves and twigs, and the whole tree is eventually involved. The blight causes the tree to decay outwardly and the decay can eat all the way to the ...read more

  • This Is Not Going To Be A Debate About Creation ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 24, 2009
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    This is not going to be a debate about creation or evolution, but I do want to share a quote from a well known pastor named Randy Croft: Astrophysicists have found that there are over 60 criteria that are necessary for life on earth. For you and me to live. Life could not exist or form if any one ...read more

  • Humility And Experience

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
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    HUMILITY AND EXPERIENCE Listen to this true story: "My father began teaching business classes at the local prison through a community college. On his first night of class, he started a chapter on banking. During the course of his lecture, the subject of ATMs came up, and he mentioned that, on ...read more

  • When You Pray, Do You Seek His Face Or His ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 28, 2009
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    When you pray, do you seek His Face or His Arm? In some of our prayers, if we are honest to God, we will find that rather than seeking His Face we are simply seeking His Arm. We pray because we find ourselves in a position where we need His Strength. We believe that “…nothing is impossible with ...read more

  • Following In The Steps Of Christ

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 6, 2009
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    FOLLOWING IN THE STEPS OF CHRIST "Believers will never suffer for others' salvation, including their own. But they will suffer for Christ's sake, and His example is their standard for a God-honoring response. The word translated 'example' is hupogrammon, which literally means 'writing under' and ...read more

  • Focusing On The Law Just Arouses More Desire To ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 9, 2009
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    Focusing on the LAW just arouses more desire to BREAK the law. Back when our first grandchild was about a year old, we hadn’t yet bought a gate for the bottom of the stairs. We put everything we could find in front of those stairs. (Show picture of 1 year old morgan climbing stairs) You can’t ...read more

  • Why Women Choose Abortions From National Right To ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 28, 2010
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    Why women choose abortions from National Right to Life: Ē Social Reasons (given as primary reason) Ē 25% - Feels unready for child/responsibility Ē 23% - Feels she can't afford baby Ē 19% - Has all the children she wants Ē 8% - Relationship problems/Single Ē 7% - Feels she isn't mature ...read more