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  • A Little Boy Came Back From Sunday School One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    A little boy came back from Sunday school one morning and his father asked him:. “Well, what did you learn?”. The little boy replied: “How the people of Israel were kept in Egypt and used as slaves by this guy called Pharaoh.” “Oh?” said the father. “Then what happened?” The little boy went on ...read more

  • Why We Celebrate The 4th  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,445 views

    WHY WE CELEBRATE THE 4TH But there is a reason why we celebrate on the 4th and we can’t forget that! It was the day the day the colonies declared their independence from England. Freedom was declared in some famous words of the Declaration of Independence, which starts: We hold these truths to be ...read more

  • Encouragement Changes History

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,648 views

    Encouragement changes history. You may know the true story of Robert the Bruce King of Scotland. Bruce and the Spider(Scotland) HUNDREDS of years ago there was a king of Scotland and his name was Robert the Bruce. It was a good thing that he was both brave and wise, because the times in which he ...read more

  • Someone Anonymous Once Poignantly Said Something ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Jan 22, 2003
    based on 33 ratings
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    Someone anonymous once poignantly said something very profound about Jesus: "I am far within the mark when I say that all armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected ...read more

  • A Serviceman Wrote About A Bit Of Unintended ...

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Nov 16, 2004
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    A serviceman wrote about a bit of unintended comedy he witnessed in the army. In happened during a company inspection at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. An inspection was being conducted by a colonel. Everything had gone smoothly until the officer came to the man standing next to the soldier who ...read more

  • As World War Ii Was Drawing To A Close, The ...

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Sep 22, 2004
     | 2,473 views

    As World War II was drawing to a close, the Allied armies gathered up many hungry orphans. They were placed in camps where they were well-fed. Despite excellent care, they slept poorly. They seemed nervous and afraid. Finally, a psychologist came up with the solution. Each child was given a piece ...read more

  • I Will Tell You The Secret: God Has Had All That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,682 views

    I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind ...read more

  • Behind The Mask

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    BEHIND THE MASK In Basel, Switzerland each year the good Protestant townspeople have a festival in which they all don masks and go through the city doing things and going placed they would never consider doing/going under normal circumstances. The mask, which veiled their identity emboldened them ...read more

  • Garibaldi Had An Incredibly Committed Volunteer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 9, 2002
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    Garibaldi had an incredibly committed volunteer army. He would appeal for recruits in these terms: “I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart and not with his lips only, follow ...read more

  • William Booth Once Put It Like This, " I Will ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 7, 2007
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    William Booth once put it like this, “ I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me ...read more

  • William Booth Put It Like This, " I Will Tell ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    William Booth put it like this, “ I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and ...read more

  • When The 'empress Of Ireland' Went Down With A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When the ’Empress of Ireland’ went down with a hundred and thirty Salvation Army officers on board [29th May 1914], one hundred and nine officers were drowned, and not one body that was picked up had on a life-belt. The few survivors told how the Salvationists, finding there were not enough ...read more

  • Never Surrender

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Nov 5, 2007
     | 3,545 views

    Never Surrender“ "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we ...read more

  • Ira Sankey Protected During The Civil ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    Ira Sankey Protected during The Civil War Years ago when Ira Sankey was at the height of his ministry and traveling on a steamer in the Delaware River, he was recognized by some of the people on board. They had seen his picture in the newspaper and knew he was associated with evangelist D. L. ...read more

  • The Witness Of Booth And Lee

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 15, 2010
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    THE WITNESS OF BOOTH AND LEE In the early years of her life she witnessed horrific events as members of her family were beheaded in conflicts in China. Although she was only a little girl, MI LEE (not her real name) was forced to watch and still hallucinates about these terrible and barbaric ...read more

  • Who Do I Shoot?

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 19, 2012
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    WHO DO I SHOOT? A new soldier was on sentry duty at the main gate. His orders were clear. No car was to enter unless it had a special sticker on the windshield. A big Army car came up with a general seated in the back. The sentry said, "Halt, who goes there?" The chauffeur, a corporal, said, ...read more

  • Patton's Mistake

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 10, 2012
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    PATTON'S MISTAKE On August 3, 1943, General George S. Patton entered a tent in a military hospital in Sicily to visit wounded soldiers. He had just been briefed by one of his commanders that malingering was thinning out the ranks at the front. Amid the wounded warriors was an enlisted man ...read more

  • In 246bc, When 14year Old Ying Zheng Ascended The ...

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Aug 26, 2007
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    In 246BC, when 14year old Ying Zheng ascended the throne of the Chin provence of China and took for himself the title first emperor, he made his plans clear. And he proceeded to war against his neighbouring states until he had united China and made himself it’s emperor. But his plans did not stop ...read more

  • Choose Wisely  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,290 views

    CHOOSE WISELY There are many who believe that hell is not a literal place prepared for those who reject God. Part of the refusal to believe this comes from the way Hell has been represented to us. It’s become a cartoon of sorts. There is a Far Side cartoon showing the devil (complete with a ...read more

  • When I Was Up In Sunderland Three Months Ago, ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 20, 2003
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    When I was up in SUNDERLAND three months ago, 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 to bus people to the meetings free of charge. Thousands ...read more