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  • I Have A Battery Charger Which I Bought Because ...

    Contributed by Mark Suter on Sep 16, 2006
     | 1,497 views

    I have a battery charger which I bought because I got tired of buying batteries for my digital camera which is really hard on batteries. We were in Washington, D. C. a couple of years ago and even though I had put in new batteries before we left that morning, right in the Smithsonian, probably ...read more

  • Priorities: Are You Going Too Fast?  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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     | 4,422 views

    Priorities: Are You Going Too Fast? A number of years ago, a Navy jet fighter plain shot itself down over the deserts of Nevada while testing a new cannon mounted on its wing. The plane was flying at supersonic speeds but the cannon shells were subsonic. What hap¬pened was critical. The fighter ...read more

  • Giving In Theory  PRO

    Contributed by Susan Blader on Jan 21, 2007
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     | 7,613 views

    Giving in Theory The story is told of the missionary who asked a new convert, “Pablo, if you had a hundred sheep, would you give fifty of them to the Lord’s work?” “You know I would gladly give them,” he replied. “Pablo, if you had fifty cows, would you give twenty-five to the Lord’s work?” “Of ...read more

  • Home-Grown Churches Researcher George Barna Says ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,256 views

    Home-Grown Churches Researcher George Barna says millions of Americans are breaking from traditional church and choosing a home church. They want to “be” the church, not just attend church. He estimates more than 20 million Americans have begun exploring alternative forms of worship since ’00. ...read more

  • A Young Preacher Began A Ministry At A Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    A young preacher began a ministry at a church that was rife with disunity, so he devised a simple method to eliminate the bickering. Whenever a member came to him to complain, he would take a spiral notebook out of his desk drawer. It was brand new-still had the Wal-Mart sticker on it. Across the ...read more

  • Life Examples: Ezekiel: Watching Dead Bones Come ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,894 views

    Life Examples: Ezekiel: Watching Dead Bones Come Alive (Ezek. 37:14) In his day, hope had become a rare commodity. Ezekiel must have felt as desolate and useless as the piles of bones that he had seen in a startling vision. As the prophet sat in the middle of a valley, he knew that only a miracle ...read more

  • Take The Founders Of Space Travel, For Example. ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
     | 1,892 views

    Take the founders of space travel, for example. Three innovative men, each unaware of the others, launched our world into the unexpected new era of space travel: (1) In 1903, Russian Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky first speculated that a rocket could travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere. In 1923, ...read more

  • Does He Show?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    DOES HE SHOW? One Sunday as they drove home from church, a little girl turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, there’s something about the preacher’s message this morning that I don’t understand." The mother said, "Oh? What is it?" The little girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than ...read more

  • Mountain Climbers Help Each Other

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2009
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    Mountain Climbers Help Each Other In May 1953, two men became the first in history to climb to the top of Mt. Everest; Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper and explorer, and his Sherpa guide from Nepal, Tenzing Norgay. They reached the summit together and attained instant international ...read more

  • Money Money Money  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
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    MONEY MONEY MONEY Money magazine declared money was the number one obsession of Americans. Newsweek reports there is a new plane of consciousness called "transcendental acquisition." Its cover story of 8/27/01 tells of a woman saddled with debt who charged a diving trip to French East Indies. ...read more

  • Same Old Story...?  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Nichols on Apr 17, 2009
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     | 3,309 views

    SAME OLD STORY...? The little boy was not exactly happy about going to church on Easter Sunday morning. His new shoes were to tight, his tie pinched his neck and the weather outside was just too beautiful to be cooped up inside...so as he sulked in the pew his parents heard him mutter to no one in ...read more

  • The Game ‘dungeons And Dragons' First Came To ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Apr 23, 2009
     | 1,426 views

    The game ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ first came to light in 1974. Players of D&D create characters which they live out in an alternative reality. And so D&D is a fantasy role playing game where players embark upon imaginary adventures in a created world. Although there’s a few variations of the game, a ...read more

  • In Her Book, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom ...

    Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Aug 4, 2009
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    In her book, THE HIDING PLACE, Corrie Ten Boom relates an incident that taught her to be thankful for things we normally would not be thankful for. She and her sister, Betsy, prisoners of the Nazis, had just been transferred to the worst prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck. Upon entering ...read more

  • Ted Williams, Who Died In 2002 Was Arguably The ...

    Contributed by Kevin Short on Oct 13, 2009
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    Ted Williams, who died in 2002 was arguably the best hitter baseball has ever known. He was the last baseball player to hit better than .400 in a season. Upon his death George Will said in his column "There is no joy in Red Sox nation, a.k.a. New England, or in any heart where baseball matters." ...read more

  • Eddy Stone Lighthouse Rebuilt On Rock And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
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    Eddy Stone Lighthouse Rebuilt on Rock and Survives The first beacon of the Eddy Stone Lighthouse for the English Channel off the coast of Plymouth was placed there over 250 years ago to warn ships of the dangerous reefs. Winstanley, the architect who built it, was so confident of it’s strength ...read more

  • American Dream: Double What You Have

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 30, 2009
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    AMERICAN DREAM: DOUBLE WHAT YOU HAVE Don Jaques notes from his sermon "The Secret of Contentment" on sermoncentral.com the following: About 10 years ago, there was a story in U.S. News and World Report. Some of the information in this story is probably just as relevant today, ten years later, as ...read more

  • Cost Of The American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    Cost of the American Dream About 10 years ago, there was a story in U.S. News and World Report. Some of the information in this story is probably just as relevant today, ten years later, as it was then. The story was about the so-called “American Dream.” I guess that would include owning your own ...read more

  • Giving Up Is Better Than Ecstasy

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
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    GIVING UP IS BETTER THAN ECSTASY Scott Peck writes in his book "The Road Less Traveled: "I spent much of my ninth summer on a bicycle. About a mile from our house the road went down a steep hill and turned sharply at the bottom. Coasting down the hill one morning, I felt my gathering speed to be ...read more

  • Jewish Scribes, Who Kept Up The Old Testament ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
     | 1,761 views

    Jewish scribes, who kept up the Old Testament scrolls for centuries, had a nearly foolproof system for making perfect copies. First, a scribe would count the number of letters on the page to be copied. When he had finished his copy, he would count the number of letters on the new page and make sure ...read more

  • Have You Ever Been In A Parade? It’s A Fun ...

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 26, 2010
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    Have you ever been in a parade? It’s a fun thing to do. When I was a boy scout I was in several parades. Today I want to talk about one of the most famous parades in history - Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. A parade takes some preparation. Every year we love to watch the tournament of ...read more