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  • When French Soccer Star Zinedine Zidane ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Oct 5, 2006
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    When French soccer star Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest during the final 10 minutes of the 2006 World Cup he sealed his own fate and the fate of his team. When Zidane was sent off with a red card France lost its best scorer. And this, just as the match ...read more

  • Tim Bowden, In His Book One Crowded Hour About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 22, 2004
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    Tim Bowden, in his book One Crowded Hour about cameraman Neil Davis, tells about an incident that happened in Borneo during the confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia in 1964. A group of Gurkhas from Nepal were asked if they would be willing to jump from transport planes into combat against ...read more

  • The Flame In The Marathon Tower In Each Olympic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The flame in the Marathon Tower in each Olympic stadium is the most recognized symbol of the Olympics, dating back to the Games of ancient Greece, when athletes competed in a relay race, passing a torch from one to another until the last runner, in a long procession of runners, would sprint to the ...read more

  • Who Has Ever Heard The Name, Edward D. Kimball? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Who has ever heard the name, Edward D. Kimball? Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, let me tell you about him. Many years ago, Mr. Kimball was a Sunday School teacher at Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Chicago. It was a tiny little church, and Mr. Kimball’s class consisted of just a handful of teenage ...read more

  • Oscar Did Not Know What Would Be In Store For His ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Sep 10, 2007
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    Oscar did not know what would be in store for his family as they disembarked at Ellis Island. There were times during their long journey from Sweden that young Oscar wondered if they would ever get to this wonderful place called America. Yet Oscar and his family settled in Minnesota and began to ...read more

  • Google: Thinking On A Grand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    GOOGLE: THINKING ON A GRAND SCALE If I were to ask you to pick a number, any number, what number would you choose? (Pause) How many picked a number between 1 and 100? How about 100 and 1,000? Or maybe you picked an even higher number. Anyone pick a number over one million? If you didn’t, why ...read more

  • Basement People Vs. Balcony People

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2009
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    BASEMENT PEOPLE VS. BALCONY PEOPLE Keith Miller, in his book Passionate People, which he co-authored with Bruce Larson, describes two kinds of people -- "basement people" and "balcony people." "Basement people" are the discouragers in our lives. They may be people from our past, or present, but ...read more

  • Boli Zhang, A Young Chinese Writer, Was Born In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on May 26, 2002
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    "Boli Zhang, a young Chinese writer, was born in Heilong Jiang Province in China. He studied writing at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing University. His news reporting had won several literature awards in mainland China and Taiwan. In 1989, Zhang participated in the ...read more

  • However, This Is Christmas So I Don't Want To Get ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Dec 29, 2002
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    However, this is Christmas so I don’t want to get you too down and out . So let me share a story that some of you may have heard before. It is about the Christmas truce that occurred during World War I, on Christmas Eve of 1914, that first year of the War German and British forces were facing ...read more

  • Tonight At 11:59 Pm, Over One Billion People All ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 31, 2006
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    Tonight at 11:59 pm, over one billion people all across the world will be watching as the “ball” drops in New York City’s Times Square. That got me to wondering about the history of the New Year’s Eve “ball” and what I discovered was intriguing: · The 1st "time-ball" was installed on top of ...read more

  • Aron Ralston Did. The 27 Year-Old Mountain ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Aron Ralston did. The 27 year-old mountain climber spends his holidays climbing the Rocky Mountains. He’s done it over 45 times, alone, and always in the winter – most of the time after midnight. Life on the edge is nothing new for him. But life under an 800 pound boulder? He was climbing off one ...read more

  • Kneeling With Runkie

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    KNEELING WITH RUNKIE Have you heard the story of the incident that took place in a Church youth group in Akron, Ohio, at Christmas time? What took place started a tradition in that church, a pattern for us to follow. The high school boy's name was Howard, but he was best known as "Runkie". He had ...read more

  • Our Lives Are Like A...

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
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    OUR LIVES ARE LIKE A... Listen to what the Bible compares our lives to, and as you do, notice that the central theme of each comparison is the idea of the BREVITY of our lives upon this earth: * First, our lives are compared to A VAPOR (James 4:1) - Think about the vapor from a teapot. It is ...read more

  • On Nimrod

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 16, 2012
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    ON NIMROD Josephus wrote: "Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe ...read more

  • David & Goliath

    Contributed by Christian Jones on Jun 4, 2023
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    Illustration 1: In a vast valley surrounded by towering cliffs, a young shepherd named David stands confidently with his slingshot in hand. His eyes are focused, and his face displays determination as he gazes up at the formidable figure of Goliath. Goliath, a giant of a man clad in gleaming armor, ...read more

  • Compassion

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
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    “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson She was a nurse employed at a residential care home in Western Oklahoma. It was a muggy summer night and many of the residents seemed more restless than usual. One of the patients, an ...read more

  • Sir Earnest Shackleton's Epic Tale Of Survival ...

    Contributed by Dr. C. David White on Apr 6, 2002
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    Sir Earnest Shackleton’s epic tale of survival and courage began with dreams of being the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. En route, the Endurance became beset in the ice deep within the Weddell Sea and drifted with the pack for ten months before finally being crushed and sunk in ...read more

  • One Of The Most Beloved And Colorful Sports ...

    Contributed by David Ward on Aug 16, 2005
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    One of the most beloved and colorful sports personalities of our time was a man named Jim Valvano, "Jimmy V" as he was known affectionately to sports fans around the country. Jim Valvano tragically died just a few years ago after a year-long battle with cancer. He was just 47 years old. He will be ...read more

  • Quoting The English Preacher John Daniel Jones: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 11, 2005
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    Quoting the English preacher John Daniel Jones: He lived from 1865-1942, this is from his sermon The Sovereignty of God In our absorption in the thought of God as Father, we have almost lost sight of the fact that He is the Holy Sovereign, ruling the world in righteousness. The result has been ...read more

  • What Would Have Happened Had Moses Tried To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    What would have happened had Moses tried to figure out what was needed to accomplish God’s command? One of the biggest arithmetical miracles in the world was required in the desert. Moses led the people of Israel into the desert….Now what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and ...read more