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  • Time Technicians At The National Institute Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standards) set a new level of precision in 1949 by inventing the atomic clock. It counted the oscillations of the nitrogen atom in an ammonia molecule--and was reliable to within one second in ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of 2 Hunters That Fly North To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Shane Burney on Sep 13, 2006
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,052 views

    The story is told of 2 hunters that fly north to go elk hunting, just as they did the year before. During their hunt, they are successful, and kill 6 large elk. As the pilot returns to pick them up, he tells the men that only 4 elk can come on the plane, due to weight restrictions. The men argued ...read more

  • The Porn Facts Utah Family Counselor Jill Manning ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,352 views

    The Porn Facts Utah family counselor Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. Its affects on a person’s social and sexual ...read more

  • Christian Country There's A New Wave Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,455 views

    Christian Country There’s a new wave of faith-based, Nashville sounds. Whether it’s Carrie Underwood’s prayerful Jesus, Take the Wheel or Brooks & Dunn’s nostalgic Believe, country charts are sounding like Sunday morning. The reason, says David Fillingim, Shorter College religion and philosophy ...read more

  • The Porn Facts Utah Family Counselor Jill Manning ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,833 views

    The Porn Facts Utah family counselor Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. Its affects on a person’s social and sexual ...read more

  • The Other Day While Waiting In A Room With Some ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2005
     | 1,618 views

    The other day while waiting in a room with some other people I heard something very similar. A mother with three children was there. She had an infant, a 2-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl. She was taking care of them the best she could. But I could see it was a bad day and that she was ...read more

  • Time Technicians At The National Institute Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,209 views

    Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standards) set a new level of precision in 1949 by inventing the atomic clock. It counted the oscillations of the nitrogen atom in an ammonia molecule--and was reliable to within one second in ...read more

  • Adoniram Judson Sweated Out Burma's Heat For 18 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    Adoniram Judson sweated out Burma’s heat for 18 years without a furlough, six years without a convert. Enduring torture and imprisonment, he admitted that he never saw a ship sail without wanting to jump on board and go home. When his wife’s health broke and he put her on a homebound vessel in the ...read more

  • Awesome Scripture Distribution Projections: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    Awesome Scripture Distribution Projections: Doesn’t everybody have a Bible, or even several copies? In the U.S. probably, but in most of the third world, Bibles are still is short supply. Choosing between buying a Bible and feeding your family for a week is a tough choice. Here’s Bible ...read more

  • Unlikely Predictions

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 29, 2009
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    UNLIKELY PREDICTIONS Toronto Maple Leafs – rough start to their Season. First eight games were loses. Then hope was born... we got Phil Kessel of the Boston Bruins! Haven’t won the cup since 1967 – yes, I was only 5 years old. People laugh. Leaf jokes are now hotter than Newfie jokes! Things are ...read more

  • Anxiety Is A Dud

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
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    ANXIETY IS A DUD What's worse than being trapped behind prison bars? Trying to live while avoiding capture. Sergei was a Latvian prison convict with ten months left to serve on his seven-year burglary sentence, when he decided to escape. But even after years of freedom, the escapee couldn't ...read more

  • First-Century Fire

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on May 16, 2012
     | 5,768 views

    FIRST-CENTURY FIRE Billy Graham, that great and uncompromising preacher, once in a Revival meeting held at Los Angeles, shared a passionate message on the Early Church, outlining what needs to be done for the Churches of modern era to become more effective. While many were moved by it, some ...read more

  • Forgetting Times Three

    Contributed by Kelvin Mckisic on Jun 26, 2023
     | 1,360 views

    Three sisters, ages ninety-two, ninety-four, and ninety-six, lived together. One night the ninety-six-year-old drew a bath. She put one foot in and then paused. “Was I getting in the tub or out?” she yelled. The ninety-four-year-old hollered back, “I don’t know; I’ll come and see.” She started up ...read more

  • The Prison Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Prison of Bitterness Because we live in a world full of people that don’t know grace. It’s foreign to them. They don’t know it. And if they don’t hear about it and experience it from the body of Christ, they will never know it. I first learned of this story from Max Lucado. Each week Kevin ...read more

  • H. The Day The Church Treasurer Resigned The ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
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    h. The day the church treasurer resigned the church asked the local grain elevator manager to take the position. He agreed under two conditions. That no treasurer’s report would be given for the first year. That no questions be asked about finances during that year. The people were surprised but ...read more

  • A Strong Foundation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    1. A STRONG FOUNDATION • When building a structure, the key to that structures longevity is the base upon which it has been built • The structure, no matter how large or small must have strong ‘legs’ in order to stand in the midst of the storms that might come • The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy ...read more

  • How Much Time Do We Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    How Much Time Do We Have Left? A few years ago People Magazine published an article entitled, “Dead Ahead,” telling about a new clock that keeps track of how much time you have left to live. It calculates an average life span of 75 years for men and 80 years for women. So you program your sex and ...read more

  • G. Campbell Morgan Personalizes Jesus' Word To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    G. Campbell Morgan Personalizes Jesus’ Word to Jairus Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, that great preacher of 19th century spoke powerfully on this passage from his own experience. He said, “I can hardly speak of this matter without becoming personal and reminiscent, remembering a time forty years ago when ...read more

  • U2 Singer Bono, In A Private Meeting In June 2001 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,735 views

    U2 singer Bono, in a private meeting in June 2001 on the Hill in Washington, D.C., said, “I believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force. God doesn’t mind if we bang on the door to heaven sometimes, asking him to listen to what we have to say.” SOURCE: Aaron ...read more

  • A Woman Once Wrote The Editor Of Christianity ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Luthy on Apr 28, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,779 views

    A woman once wrote the editor of Christianity Today with this story: “One afternoon, my four-year-old niece Paige and my six-year-old daughter Ashley started an argument, which grew louder and louder. I was about to intervene when my daughter stormed down the stairs. "Mom," she yelled, "Jesus ...read more