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  • Chuck Colson Tells This Amazing Story: "Nbc Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Chuck Colson tells this amazing story: “NBC has been running a gripping series on the emergency military triage facilities in Iraq. Last Thursday, NBC showed wounded Iraqi insurgents [terrorists] being brought to Camp Speicher near Tikrit. Two of them had been caught placing an explosive device on ...read more

  • Do You Know This Man? His Name Is Thomas ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Do you know this man? His name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson. In 1851 he resigned from the army to teach at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. In the ensuing years tension arose between the Union states and the Southern states over slavery. In November 1859, Jackson was one of ...read more

  • Fifty-Six Men Signed The Declaration Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the ...read more

  • Fifty-Six Men Signed The Declaration Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the ...read more

  • On The 19th Of November 1967, In The Vicinity ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    "On the 19th of November 1967, in the vicinity of Dak To, Viet Nam Chaplain Charlie Waters was moving with one of the companies of his Battalion when it engaged a heavily armed enemy battalion. As the battle raged and the casualties mounted, Chaplain Waters, with complete disregard for his safety, ...read more

  • Lord Jesus, Receive My Spirit, And Put An End At ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 9, 2007
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    Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and put an end at Thy good pleasure to this my miserable life; for justice and truth are not to be found among the sons of men…Be merciful unto me, O Lord…Now after many battles, I find nothing in me but vanity and corruption. For in quietness I am negligent, in ...read more

  • In The Star Wars Films I Love The Character Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 28, 2007
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    In the Star Wars films I love the character of Yoda. He is from an alien race of small creatures about 3 feet high, with a green-brown complexion. Yoda is old. He hobbles around on a walking stick and yet his words are full of wisdom for his pupils. In many ways he is a pitiful sight. At one point ...read more

  • Star Over Christ's Birthplace

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 29, 2007
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    Illustration 4300 Star Over Christ’s Birthplace A Silver Star hanging over the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem was the cause of a war which involved five world powers, lasted three long years, and caused a million casualties as well as a billion and a half dollars. This was known as the Crimean ...read more

  • F ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    FLEA-FLICKERS One of the great ways to win a battle or a game is called "misdirection." You make your opponent think you are doing one thing, but do another. In football, they are called "gadget plays" or "flea-flickers." One of my favorite memories of this is in Super Bowl XV. Being a huge ...read more

  • A Wise Bible Teacher Once Said, "Sooner Or Later ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 12, 2009
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    A wise Bible teacher once said, “Sooner or later God will bring self-sufficient people to the place where they have no resource but Him – no strength, no answers, nothing but Him. Without God’s help, they are sunk.” He then told of a despairing man who confessed to his pastor, “My life is really ...read more

  • General Ulysses S. Grant's Loyal Friend, John A. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2009
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    General Ulysses S. Grant’s Loyal Friend, John A. Rawlins General Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded the Union soldiers for Lincoln, was such a disciplined hard man on his soldiers that few knew of his weakness for liquor. One of those who was keenly aware of Grant’s shortcoming was his faithful ...read more

  • These ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 30, 2010
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    “These Hands” A young man and a young woman were engaged to be married and were looking forward to a near wedding day when the young man was suddenly called to serve his country. From the field of warfare letters regularly came and went and love shone brightly in all of them. The letters from ...read more

  • God's Greatness

    Contributed by Ed Lu on Nov 26, 2011
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    GOD'S GREATNESS Today it doesn’t take wars or persecutions to challenge our Christian faith or religious practices. No spears, no swords, no fiery torches or saddled horses to combat our religiosity. Sadly, these so called wars and battles among Christians are domesticated within the surrounding ...read more

  • Frank’s Combat Trauma

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
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    Frank Bernadone bore the emotional wounds of his time in the military. His unit had already been through four years of battles when they came to Perugia. The town was heavily fortified, leading his unit’s assault against it to be disastrous. A bloody day of fighting culminated in what was almost ...read more

  • The Sacrifice These Men Made For Freedom

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 31, 2021
     | 1,433 views

    Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Their conviction resulted in untold sufferings for themselves and their families. Of the 56 men, five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the ...read more

  • Jay Fondren Is A Recent Hero. When My Wife ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Surber on May 24, 2007
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    Jay Fondren is a recent hero. When my wife Christina was an auditor for the Department of Veterans she met Jay in a Veteran’s Regional Office in Waco, Texas. She was conducting interviews to determine the timeliness of transition between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans ...read more

  • A Few Weeks Ago I Spent A Lot Of Time Watching ...

    Contributed by Jason Duncan on Oct 30, 2007
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    A few weeks ago I spent a lot of time watching Ken Burn’s documentary called The War on PBS. The documentary ran for 7 nights and was about 14 ½ hours long. It chronicled the history of WWII not through the eyes of historians or professors but through the eyes of the men who served in Germany and ...read more

  • Good Soldiers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    GOOD SOLDIERS I am told as a young man Winston Churchhill was in a heated battle. The war planes were dropping bombs all around the soldiers assignments. Several died, but many were running away and hiding and not following commands. One soldier ran past Winston Churchhill. The soldier asked if ...read more

  • Stay In The Refuge For Protection

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    STAY IN THE REFUGE FOR PROTECTION As long as the accused remained within the refuge, they were safe and protected. [CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS, ST. AUGUSTINE, FL] Castillo De San Marcos- Spanish fort, made of stone, protected town, during battle, all towns people ran to the fort, the town was ...read more

  • Keep Waiting

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 20, 2010
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    There’s a story from the 1800’s of a young couple, William & Elizabeth, madly in love, and engaged to be married. Elizabeth enjoys planning for their future. William on the other hand knows that it’s only a matter of time before he is called away to sea to fight various enemies in far-off lands. ...read more

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