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  • Two Bicycle Repairmen In Dayton, Ohio, Dreamed Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Gilstrap on Jan 25, 2001
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     | 3,394 views

    Two bicycle repairmen in Dayton, Ohio, dreamed of flying. They went to the Dayton Public Library and checked out a book on the life and works of a German man named Lilienthal, who had succeeded in flying a glider. The two men were named Orville and Wilbur Wright. They began to explore all the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Not Long Ago I Was Meeting A Friend For Breakfast ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
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     | 1,792 views

    Not long ago I was meeting a friend for breakfast at a local restaurant. Out the window I saw a lady walking across the lane of traffice in the parking lot, when a car nearly hit her. She entered the restaurant, looked at me and said, “Jesus Christ! That lady almost ran me over!” So I said, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • The Lone Ranger And Tonto Were Travelling On A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 115 ratings
     | 3,768 views

    The lone Ranger and Tonto were travelling on a train. "Tonto, good indian friend, loyal companion, would you get me a glass of water?" Tonto goes off and returns after a few minutes with a glass of water. "Thanks good indian pal, friend." The Lone Ranger drinks the water. After a few ...read more

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  • Hell Is Described As A Place Of Darkness Or ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Schoonover on Mar 13, 2003
    based on 43 ratings
     | 2,581 views

    Hell is described as a place of darkness or blackness. The only way I can imagine the total isolation broght on by such complete darkness is the blackness felt deep inside a cavern. I have toured a number of caverns in the United States. Almost every tour I have been on will at some point bring the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Billy Graham Tells … The … Story About His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
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    Billy Graham tells … the … story about his grandmother. When she died, “the room seemed to fill with a heavenly light. She sat up in bed and almost laughingly said, ‘I see Jesus. He has His arms outstretched toward me. I see Ben [her husband who had died some years earlier] and I see angels.’” ...read more

  • Larry Olsen Describes A Man Lost In The Desert: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 12, 2005
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    Larry Olsen describes a man lost in the desert: “He has been out of food and water for days. His lips are swollen, his tongue is swollen, he’s all beat up and bloody. Some of his bones are almost peeking through. He has been scraped and beat up by the cactus, sand and sun. He’s blistered. As he’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Sometimes The Cup Of Iniquity Is Full And The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 3, 2007
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    Sometimes the cup of iniquity is full and the people are ripe for judgment. In such a case it may happen as it did in the flourishing and extraordinarily beautiful city of Messina, Sicily, the third largest city in Italy. In the early morning of December 28, 1908, the city was almost entirely ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Our News Is Filled With The Death Of Ana Nicole ...

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Apr 4, 2007
     | 1,119 views

    Our news is filled with the death of Ana Nicole Smith. Her trademark is the public exposure of her enlarged breasts. Her sexual escapades were proudly shared. Her son died of drug overdose and she appears to have done the same. Her little baby, worth millions, has had no less than five men claiming ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Jesus Embassy

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 1, 2011
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    THE JESUS EMBASSY Almost every nation in the world has an embassy that is owned by the United States of America. No matter what nation that embassy is in, the ground on which it rests is U.S. soil. That land does not belong to that foreign country. Now, if you - as a U.S. citizen - are in Europe ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • The Antichrist In Jewish Literature

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 23, 2012
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     | 2,023 views

    THE ANTICHRIST IN JEWISH LITERATURE In Jewish literature, the Antichrist was sometimes referred to as Belial. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, "in Jewish circles in the pre-Christian period the expectation was prevalent of the appearance of Belial (one of Satan's lieutenants) if not of Satan ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Christian Businessman Fred Smith Reported That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,739 views

    Christian businessman Fred Smith reported that the membership of the Moscow Baptist Church was 5,600, the attendance 6,000, and the participation level almost 100 percent. The Russian Christians are zealous for their faith. The pastor told Mr. Smith, "In Russia, we have no four-wheel Christians." ...read more

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  • A Little City In Mexico Was Fed Up With All Of ...

    Contributed by John Dobbs on Oct 16, 2007
     | 3,226 views

    A little city in Mexico was fed up with all of the late night revelry and noise from thousands of people late into the night during the summer. So their answer was to create a law to put a decibel limit on urban noise levels. Unfortunately this disrupted a noise that has been heard in that city for ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • For Example, Did You Know That According To A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
     | 1,157 views

    For example, did you know that according to a recent Barna survey of those who become Christians, 43% do so before the age of 13? Almost half do so before they become teenagers. This has huge implications on who we should focus upon and evangelize. Not only that but out of those who became ...read more

    Denomination: Church Of God

  • The Physics Professor Had Just Finished His ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2008
     | 1,022 views

    The physics professor had just finished his lecture about the pendulum, wherein he had shown the mathematical proof that an untouched pendulum will always swing in ever-decreasing arcs. He then asked for a volunteer to demonstrate this fact by standing against a wall with a pendulum bob against ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Picked Last

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2008
     | 1,984 views

    Picked Last It happened several times a week, almost without fail. Whether they lined up against the wall of the gymnasium, the local ice rink or the snow bank for the back-roads hockey, it was always the same. The leaders picked him last. Last for basketball because he was too clumsy; in hockey ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • Indonesia

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 19, 2009
     | 994 views

    Indonesia Indonesia is a country that is almost 90% Muslim. When I was up in SUNDERLAND in February 1998, when I heard Suzette Hattingh speak. She told us how she held a crusade in Yapura on the island of Irian Jaya and the miracles that she saw. The Indonesian army offered the use of 110 trucks ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • John Ortberg In The Life You've Always Wanted ...

    Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,247 views

    John Ortberg in The Life You’ve Always Wanted speaks about Mable. She was in a state-run convalescent home, a place where people were left to die. Mable lived 25yrs in a home. She was strapped into a wheelchair; half her face was eaten away with cancer, she was blind and almost deaf; she drooled ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • A Close Call  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,986 views

    A CLOSE CALL Edward Steichen, who eventually became one of the world’s most renowned photographers, almost gave up on the day he shot his first pictures. At 16, young Steichen bought a camera and took 50 photos. Only one turned out -- a portrait of his sister at the piano. Edward’s father thought ...read more

  • They Need A Father  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 3,016 views

    THEY NEED A FATHER ... “almost 75 percent of American children living in fatherless households will experience poverty before the age of eleven, compared to only 20 percent of those raised by two parents. Children living in homes where fathers are absent are far more likely to be expelled from or ...read more

  • Working Hard?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,013 views

    WORKING HARD? Workers around America frankly admit that they spend more than 20 percent of their time (seven hours a week) at work goofing off. That amounts to a four-day work week across the nation. Almost half of Americans admit to chronic malingering, calling in sick when not sick, and doing ...read more