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  • Importance Of Religion: According To A Recent Cbs ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Importance of Religion: According to a recent CBS News Poll 45% of Americans say the most important part of religion is following the teachings and traditions of their faith as closely as they can. 38% say the search for spirituality — no matter where it takes them — is more important than sticking ...read more

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  • A 12 Year Old Girl In Rural Ethiopia Was Kidnaped ...

    Contributed by Andy Anquoe on Feb 15, 2007
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    A 12 year old girl in rural Ethiopia was kidnaped from her family . Her captors yelled at her, beat her, and almost raped her during her 7 day ordeal. They wanted to force her into marriage by selling her to the highest bidder Who knows what kind of situation she would have ended up in if that ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • U.s. Workers Feel Rushed On The Job, But Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    U.S. Workers feel rushed on the job, but are getting less accomplished due to technology intended to make work quicker and easier. “Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it’s slowed everything down, paradoxically,” says John Challenger, Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...read more

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  • Pearl Harbor! The Morning Of December 7, 1941, ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 26, 2007
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    Pearl Harbor! The morning of December 7, 1941, found 353 Japanese airplanes swarming all around the Harbor site. Within a couple of hours, America lost 8 big battleships, 6 major airfields, almost all planes, and 2,400 men. That happened at 7:50 AM in what was supposedly a surprised attack. But ...read more

    Denomination: Other

  • The Date, March 28th. The Year, 1992. The ...

    Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 9, 2005
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    The date, March 28th. The year, 1992. The place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The moment seizer, and dare I say these words in a Kentucky pulpit, Christian Leattner. First ever player to start in four Final Fours. MVP of the East Regional of the NCAA tournament when he scored 31 points against ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Pearl Harbor The Morning Of December 7, 1941, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Pearl Harbor The morning of December 7, 1941, found 353 Japanese airplanes swarming all around the Harbor site. Within a couple of hours, America lost 8 big battleships, 6 major airfields, almost all planes, and 2,400 men. That happened at 7:50 AM in what was supposedly a surprised attack. But ...read more

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  • A Young Woman Named Florence Chadwick Attempted ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A young woman named Florence Chadwick attempted to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast in 1952 in an attempt to set a record for covering that distance. When she entered the water, a heavy fog had settled itself on the path before her. Blinded by fog, she became disoriented and ...read more

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  • A Country Boy Went To Visit A Friend In New York ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A country boy went to visit a friend in New York City. It was about noon and they were downtown by Times Square in Manhattan. The streets were filled with people. Cars were honking their horns, sirens were wailing and the sounds of the city were almost deafening. The country boy said, “I hear a ...read more

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  • A Young College Student Had A Summer Job As A ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 9, 2007
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    A young college student had a summer job as a welder’s assistant, building a hospital. He had never welded before in his life. He was afraid of heights, and wouldn’t you know it, they put him to work welding on the seventeenth floor! Vast sections of steel beams were jutting out over nowhere. He ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • There Was Once A School For Poor And ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Cuddeford on Nov 1, 2007
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    There was once a school for poor and underprivileged boys. In it there was a rule that, if certain things took place, the offender was to receive so many blows from a cane. One day a very poor boy broke this rule. He was called and stripped to receive his punishment. He had had little to eat, and ...read more

    Denomination: *other

  • Christian Television And Radio Reaches Across The ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 3, 2007
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    Christian television and radio reaches across the airwaves to nearly every home, with late night, all night and almost any-time-of-the-day viewing. Our bookshelves feature the hottest and greatest materials from the latest and most celebrated authors. We have worship experiences with top-notch ...read more

    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • According To The Jewish Encyclopedia: "Even The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 12, 2007
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    According to the Jewish Encyclopedia: "Even the names of Antichrist in this passage are of Jewish origin; the "lawless one" (II Thess. ii. 8, R. V.) is none other than Belial—whom Paul mentions in another place as the opponent of the Messiah (II Cor. vi. 15)—a name interpreted by the rabbis as ...read more

    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • In The Movie, Hotel Rwanda, Based On A True Story ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 30, 2007
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    In the movie, Hotel Rwanda, based on a true story from the Rwandan civil war and genocide, Paul Russebegina played by Don Cheadle goes and makes a deal with the leader of the genocidal Interahamwe militia to get more supplies for his hotel where he is hiding refugees. The deal goes fine, but this ...read more

    Denomination: Lutheran

  • So Personal  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    SO PERSONAL The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982. In the first 15 years, 54,000 items were left at the Wall. It still takes almost an hour every night, [and much longer on Memorial Day,] to collect all the mementos-a teddy bear, a photo of a soldier's grandchild, a letter from a ...read more

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  • The Girl And The Lions

    Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Nov 9, 2008
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    THE GIRL AND THE LIONS A 12-year-old girl in rural Ethiopia was kidnapped from her family. Her captors yelled at her, beat her, and almost raped her during her seven-day ordeal. They wanted to force her into marriage by selling her to the highest bidder; who knows what kind of situation she would ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Workplace ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
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    Workplace Satisfaction Many of us here are employed in some form or another. Employment means that you have committed yourself to an occupation from which you derive your livelihood. You are selling your time to another person. The average person will spend almost 100,000 hours at work during the ...read more

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  • Alex Haley, In His Book Roots, Shared The Story ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Sep 28, 2010
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    Alex Haley, in his book, Roots, shared the story of an old slave who one day drove his master to a great ball at an adjoining plantation. As the slave sat quietly in the buggy waiting for his master to return, he became aware not only of the sounds coming from the big house, but of strange music ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Gen. Macarthur: Understanding Einstein

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    GEN. MACARTHUR: UNDERSTANDING EINSTEIN When General Douglas MacArthur was at Army training college, he tells this story: "The first section was studying the time-space relationship later formulated by Einstein as his Theory of Relativity. The text was complex and, being unable to comprehend it, I ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

  • Journaling Experiment

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 26, 2011
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    JOURNALING EXPERIMENT Please try this experiment. Take out a piece of paper and on the left side of the paper write down all the things that you are burdened with. On the right side of the paper write down all the things that God has either protected you from or trials that He has gotten you ...read more

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  • Truman's Faithfulness

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Aug 28, 2011
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    TRUMAN'S FAITHFULNESS A number of years ago, the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO made public 1,300 letters that the late President wrote to his wife, Bess, over the course of a half-century. Mr. Truman had a lifelong rule of writing to his wife every day they were apart. He followed ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene