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  • I Read The Story Of A Young Englishman Named ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
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    I read the story of a young Englishman named George Atley. While serving as a missionary years ago in Central Africa he was attacked by a party of natives. He had with him a Winchester repeating rifle with ten loaded chambers. He could have easily killed them and driven them back. But as they ...read more

  • Bowling

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 25, 2005
     | 2,298 views

    BOWLING I knew of a couple who, when they were first married, the husband wanted to still go out bowling with his guy friends every Thursday night. But he’d stay out late, and when he came home he smelling like smoke, and the wife hated it. “Why would he want to do that when he could be with ...read more

  • In The Movie John Q, Denzell Washington Plays ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 25, 2005
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    In the movie John Q, Denzell Washington plays John Q and during the movie his son becomes develops a heart disease. Throughout the movie it is shown that because the family does not have enough money and there are not enough heart donors the child will not make it. Finally Denzell holds up the ...read more

  • Recently, I Have Starting Reliving The Early-90s! ...

    Contributed by Lisa Delay on Nov 16, 2005
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    Recently, I have starting reliving the early-90s! It was bygone time of discovery and mayhem. An acquaintance (a friend of a friend) from that era still sends an update newsletter on rare occasion. I find this correspondence very amusing because the “news” is laden with a string of accomplishments ...read more

  • A Number Of Years Ago The Douglas Aircraft ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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    A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the DC-8 were close to ...read more

  • Six Ways To Learn Everything You Ever Need To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
     | 1,288 views

    Six ways to learn everything you ever need to know about a man before you decide to marry him: 1. Watch him drive in heavy traffic. 2. Play tennis with him. 3. Listen to him talk to his mother when he doesn’t know you’re listening. 4. See how he treats those who serve him (waiters, maids). ...read more

  • Great Pr: Companies Are Becoming More Creative In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 1,656 views

    Great PR: Companies are becoming more creative in how they support philanthropy. More are offering employees paid time off for volunteer work. Such policies make for excellent public relations. In today’s still-tight labor market, companies are also betting that work-life benefits such as volunteer ...read more

  • In Perspective Bureau Of Labor Statistics And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
     | 1,615 views

    In Perspective Bureau of Labor Statistics and Current Population Survey data puts recent large-scale layoff announcements in perspective: Annually, job creation is still outpacing job elimination, and has since ’95; mass layoffs account for only 20% of unemployment—as they have for the past 5 ...read more

  • The Preacher Then Went On To Criticise The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006
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    The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. “If there is still a feeling of hostility between them ... it is no longer the fault of religion. There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is so no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or ...read more

  • A Number Of Years Ago The Douglas Aircraft ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,336 views

    A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the DC-8 were close to ...read more

  • Six Ways To Learn Everything You Ever Need To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,615 views

    Six ways to learn everything you ever need to know about a man before you decide to marry him: 1) watch him drive in heavy traffic. 2) Play tennis with him. 3) Listen to him talk to his mother when he doesn’t know you’re listening. 4) See how he treats those who serve him (waiters, maids). 5) ...read more

  • How Would It Have Felt To Grow Up In Slavery, To ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 23, 2006
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    How would it have felt to grow up in slavery, to give birth to children who were slaves, and then to die in slavery? Wouldn’t you wonder, "Where is God in all this? If we are God’s people, why isn’t he doing something?" But God thinks in the long term --decades, centuries, and even millennia. ...read more

  • Something Positive Always

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 19, 2006
     | 1,567 views

    SOMETHING POSITIVE ALWAYS When Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a lonely island he thought of both the good and the bad. - He was cast onto a desolate island, but he was still alive, not drowned as all of his ship’s company was. - He was separated from mankind, but he was not starving. - He had ...read more

  • What Does This Faith Look Like? I Know A Young ...

    Contributed by David Heflin on Feb 8, 2007
     | 1,604 views

    What does this faith look like? I know a young lady from a Muslim family. She’s not Arab. Stephanie is from OK. Some people shared the gospel with her at OU and she wanted to give her life to Christ. Her family told her that if she made that choice she would be dead to them. She made her ...read more

  • There Is The Story Of A Lady Who Had Just ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is the story of a lady who had just completed university She had been offered a job with an accounting firm She is a mother of three who were at the time were 12, 15 and 18 but just before she takes up the position she has a regular check up and her doctor discovers she has cancer not long ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, The Wall Street Journal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several years ago, the Wall Street Journal carried a story about Sally, an overly conscientious youngster who made herself miserable over the smallest failures and setbacks. Early one fall, while the leaves were still on the trees, there was an exceptionally heavy snowstorm. Sally’s grandfather ...read more

  • Two Men Were Hunting In The Jungles Of Africa. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Two men were hunting in the jungles of Africa. Fear and trembling overtook both of them as they saw their first set of lion tracks. One said to the other, “Let’s split up. You find out where he went; and I’ll find our where he came from” Not aware he had been conned, the dummer of the hunters ...read more

  • It Was Said That Socrates Taught For 40 Years, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,661 views

    It was said that Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ’s 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity. ...read more

  • Poem: Love For Others By Anonymous

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,102 views

    Poem: Love For Others by Anonymous Lord, let me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way, That, even when I kneel to pray, My prayer shall be for others. Help me, in all the work I do, Ever to be sincere and true, And know that all I’d do for Thee, Must needs be done for Others. Let “self” ...read more

  • Swedish Hymnist Lina Sandell Berg Served With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Swedish hymnist Lina Sandell Berg served with her father in an evangelistic ministry. As they were traveling by ship, he accidentally fell overboard and drowned. In need of the comfort that only God can supply, she wrote the following words that are still sung by Christians around the world: Day by ...read more

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