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  • In August Of 1983, I Started My Sophomore Year ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Harvey on Apr 28, 2004
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    In August of 1983, I started my sophomore year in high school. At that time I made the conscious decision not to be the good little girl anymore. I had a crush on someone I had known for the past 3 years and I was going to date him. Well, not only did he become my boyfriend, before long he had ...read more

  • Some Time Ago I Was Reading About The 18th ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Gibson on Nov 23, 2000
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    Some time ago I was reading about the 18th century German sculptor Johann Heinrich von Dannecker. His skills were impressive. He could bring stone to life with his tools. At the height of his powers, he wanted to do something special with his gifts -- he wanted to shape a statue of Christ that ...read more

  • At About 3:20 A.m. On March 13, 1964, Kitty ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 10, 2001
    based on 88 ratings
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    At about 3:20 a.m. on March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old manager of a bar in Queens, New York, returned to her quiet residential neighborhood, parked her car in a lot adjacent to her apartment building, and began to walk the 30 yards through the lot to her door. Noticing a man at the ...read more

  • When Is Jesus Coming? The Bible Is Very Clear ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on Jun 12, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
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    When is Jesus coming? The Bible is very clear that no one knows when that event will occur. It is kind of like trying to anticipate the next terrorist attack. People have their best guesses and the terror index goes up and down and so far nothing has happened here in the States. I actually ...read more

  • Just Something I Believed! (10.17.05--That ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 13, 2005
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    Just Something I Believed! (10.17.05--That Person!--Mark 6:2-3) Sometimes we want to believe something so hard that even when we know the truth, we cling to the error. I grew up believing that all cats were sneaky and couldn’t be trusted. All dogs were rather dumb and couldn’t be devious if ...read more

  • The Best Way For Anyone To Know How Much He Ought ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,221 views

    The best way for anyone to know how much he ought to aspire after holiness is to consider not how much will make his present life easy, but to ask himself how much he thinks will make him easy at the hour of death.” - William Law “Didst thou oftener think of thy death than of thy living long, ...read more

  • History Remembers John Joseph Mcgraw Primarily As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    History remembers John Joseph McGraw primarily as the famed and ferocious longtime manager of the New York Giants. But as unrelenting as McGraw was as a manager during the first three decades of the 20th century, he had been even more unrelenting as a player in the 1890s. It was an era of dirty ...read more

  • Wrong Priorities Illustrated In The Book, In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 12, 2009
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    Wrong Priorities Illustrated in the Book, In the Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work Ancient church father Augustine of Hippo once said, “Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.” Until those folks in Jerusalem moved God from the bottom of their list of ...read more

  • The Tin—untold Riches

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    THE TIN--UNTOLD RICHES In the late nineteenth Century in South Africa, an old man was digging for gold in a river bed. He had been at it for many years. Every now and then he found a little bit of gold, not enough to make him rich – but just enough to maintain his interest. The part of river in ...read more

  • Community: A Lost Art  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2011
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    COMMUNITY: A LOST ART I inherited an old trunk that sat in my grandma’s basement. It had belonged to the generation before, who had used it to bring their possessions across the sea from Sweden. It sits in my dining room. It smells a little musty, but I treasure it as a link to my heritage. I was ...read more

  • Servanthood And Spiritual Growth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2011
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    SERVANTHOOD AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH I surveyed my church to see if people saw a relationship between ministering to others and spiritual growth. When asked, "To what extent has your ministry or service to others affected your spiritual growth?," 92 percent answered positively. None responded that ...read more

  • The Circle Maker

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Dec 4, 2011
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    THE CIRCLE MAKER Pastor Mark Batterson wrote a book called "The Circle Maker". He tells the following. The Book of Legends, is a collection of stories from the Jewish Talmud, when I discovered the true legend of Honi the Circle Maker. It forever changed the way I pray. I pray more. I pray with ...read more

  • Augustine And The Four States Of Man  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Mar 5, 2012
    based on 19 ratings
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    AUGUSTINE AND THE FOUR STATES OF MAN In the 5th century AD, St. Augustine wrote about the "4 States of Man": * The first state of man (the haec sunt prima) is "living according to the flesh -- with reason making no resistance." This can be seen in so many ancient cultures and religions (and ...read more

  • Jesus Changes Life

    Contributed by Rev. Dr. Andrew B Natarajan on May 16, 2017
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    The word of God is Alive Half a century ago, in one of the Indian villages, there was a family. the family size was five( Husband, wife and three children). The Husband was a drunkard and notorious man. His wife was a home maker and simple lady. The man had all kinds of bad habits such as ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago Billy Graham Was Honored In His ...

    Contributed by Scott Brewer on Jul 23, 2007
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    A few years ago Billy Graham was honored in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. Billy Graham is in his eighties and suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He agreed to respond briefly at the end of this great tribute from his hometown. His brother-in-law, Leighton Ford, described his response. ...read more

  • Joseph Valachi Was A Gangster Who Worked For ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 22, 2007
     | 2,100 views

    Joseph Valachi was a gangster who worked for various crime bosses in the Mafia during the mid-20th Century. He handled mostly low-level criminal activity such as numbers rackets and gambling. Valachi was eventually arrested for dealing heroin, along with his crime boss at the time, Vito Genovese. ...read more

  • I Have Obtained A Copy Of A Recently Discovered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
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    I have obtained a copy of a recently discovered document from the 1st century. It’s from the first publisher of the Bible – this was before there was Zondervan and Tyndale and all those publishers. It’s a letter from them to the Bible’s original author… Dear Sir, While we appreciate that the ...read more

  • Billy Graham's Suits

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 21, 2008
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    Billy Graham’s Suits In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, ’We don’t expect a ...read more

  • On The 4th Of July Each Year, We Remember The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
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    On the 4th of July each year, we remember the signing of our Declaration of Independence. There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, either on that day or shortly thereafter. Some names come quickly from the recesses of our memory, names like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago Billy Graham Was Honored In His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,249 views

    A few years ago Billy Graham was honored in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. Billy Graham is in his eighties and suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He agreed to respond briefly at the end of this great tribute from his hometown. His brother-in-law, Leighton Ford, described his response. ...read more