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  • Sales Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar, In His ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 23, 2003
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    Sales motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, in his book, Over the Top, points something out that I had never considered before reading it. He says that we work our hardest just before a vacation. We try super hard to get everything done so we can relax when we get on vacation. Ziglar says that if we ...read more

  • One Day, Adrian Rogers, The Former ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jan 5, 2004
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    Illustration: One day, Adrian Rogers, the former president of the southern Baptist church, now Pastor of Bellevue Baptist in Memphis, Tenn felt discouraged that people were not responding to His invitations. He felt so distraught that he asked God to give him a verse for encouragement. He opened ...read more

  • When Orville And Wilbur Wright Finally Succeeded ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
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    When Orville and Wilbur Wright finally succeeded in keeping their homemade airplane in the air for fifty-nine seconds on December 17, 1903, they rushed a telegram to their sister in Dayton, Ohio, telling of this great accomplishment. The telegram read, "First sustained flight today fifty-nine ...read more

  • Let's Learn How To Gain Perspective. Look At This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Dec 31, 2005
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    Let’s learn how to gain perspective. Look at this paragraph. Most of us can read it even though most of it is misspelled. This is because as long as a word has the right beginning and ending letter it is usually readable provided the words are in a person’s common vocabulary. Aoccdrnig to ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw Is Perhaps Most Renowned As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them ...read more

  • In The Book Gaily The Troubadour, Published In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    In the book Gaily The Troubadour, published in 1936, Arthur Guiterman wrote the following poem. Reading his observations, you wouldn’t guess it was written 60+ years ago. First dentistry was painless; Then bicycles were chainless And carriages were horseless And many laws, enforceless. Next, ...read more

  • I Serve A Risen Saviour  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 15, 2006
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    I SERVE A RISEN SAVIOUR One Sunday morning a pastor was dressing for church and had the radio on listening to radio station. Suddenly he heard, "It’s Easter, and it doesn’t make any difference if Christ be risen or not..." Shocked, A.H.Ackley shouted," It’s a lie! He is risen!" His wife ...read more

  • In The Book "Gaily The Troubadour," Published In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2006
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    In the book “Gaily The Troubadour,” published in 1936, Arthur Guiterman wrote the following poem. Reading his observations, you wouldn’t guess it was written nearly fifty years ago. First dentistry was painless; Then bicycles were chainless And carriages were horseless And many laws, ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of Soldier In The Time Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    The story is told of soldier in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was looking at his pocketbook where he had written all his debts. In exasperation he wrote, “Who will pay my debts.” Napoleon was passing during the night checking on his soldiers. He saw within the tent of this soldier, and he had ...read more

  • The Wrong Kind Of Faith

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Here’s an example of the wrong kind of faith. Are you familiar with the Broom Hilda comic strip? Anybody ever seen it? For an illustration of mindless faith I like the conversation that takes place between Irwin Troll and Gaylord Buzzard. Gaylord is reading the daily paper and observes, "First we ...read more

  • During The Siege Of Plevna, The Czar, While ...

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Oct 13, 2007
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    During the siege of Plevna, the Czar, while going around the camp one evening, found a man who had fallen asleep while writing a letter to his wife. This officer had told of his hard work and exposure in the trenches, but said that these were nothing compared to his debts. "Who will pay my debts?" ...read more

  • Over The Years, God Has Opened Up Some Amazing ...

    Contributed by Don Crowson on Feb 1, 2008
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    Over the years, God has opened up some amazing doors for ministry for me to be involved in. One such opportunity was to go to Africa a few years back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When I arrived in the capital city of Kinshasa, the first thing I noticed was a number of troops from the ...read more

  • An Archaeologist Digging In The Negev Desert In ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
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    An archaeologist digging in the Negev Desert in Israel came upon a sarcophagus containing a mummy. He called the curator of a prestigious museum. “I’ve just discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!” the excited archaeologist exclaimed. The curator replied, “Bring him ...read more

  • Kids Mirror ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    KIDS MIRROR PARENTS An American Bible Society study conducted by Weekly Reader Research found children do mirror their parents’ behavior. Parents who attend church weekly tend to have teens that worship weekly, while 78% of parents who never attend worship services have teens who never attend, ...read more

  • In Front Of God

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    IN FRONT OF GOD I read the story of a man who took a slip of paper and wrote upon it only three letters spelling "G-O-D." He showed it to his friend, who was plainly overcome with greed and the worship of wealth. He took a coin, and after having placed the coin over the slip of paper, asked his ...read more

  • The Setting Is The Front Of A Small Church. The ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Aug 3, 2009
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    The setting is the front of a small church. The pastor says from the pulpit, ‘I’ve misplaced my sermon notes, so I’m just going to read from this devotional—if I can find it here. While I look, maybe the choir can lead us in a hymn’. He glances at the choir which has one person. The choir ...read more

  • Hate

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2009
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    HATE One of the worst cases of hatred I have ever come across is found in a will written in 1935 by a Mr. Donohoe. It says, "Unto my two daughters, Frances Marie and Denise Victoria, by reason of their unfilial attitude toward a doting father...I leave the sum of $1.00 to each and a father's ...read more

  • I Made A List Of Crisis That People Sometimes ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
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    I made a list of crisis that people sometimes face and I want to read them to you and see if you’ve faced any of these in your life. COMMON CRISIS PEOPLE OFTEN FACE 1. The loss of a valued relationship…such as breaking up with a boyfriend of girlfriend, or divorce. The dissolving of a longtime ...read more

  • The Second Grade Teacher In Elementary School Was ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Apr 20, 2007
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    The second grade teacher in elementary school was teaching some very simple principles of physics. One the several things she taught about was a magnet. She explained the basic principle of magnetic attraction and demonstrated it using a magnet to pick some small metal objects. On Friday, she ...read more

  • Sin Mars Us

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 19, 2010
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    SIN MARS US During an all-night festival in Paris, five young people, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum and left a 4-inch gash in a priceless painting by Claude Monet. Culture Minister Christine Albanel said the painting could be restored, but she was deeply disturbed at the damage ...read more