Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 15, 2007
Hoag’s Ladder of Learning
We remember:
- 5 % of what you hear
- 10 % of what you hear and see
- 50 % of what you read
- 30
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Contributed by Brent Bond on Feb 21, 2008
MULTIMEDIA: Walking Across Egypt: The Casket (00:01:02)
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For those who have had to make funeral arrangements, the business of it can seem cold – as in the video clip, Walking Across Egypt. While many funeral directors and cemetery
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 15, 2008
"We cannot be profoundly influenced (or encouraged) by that which we do not know. The comfort and strength of God's Word will avail us not at all if we do not know it"
Source: Hughes, R. K. (1993). Hebrews: An
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 23, 2008
Have you ever wondered why a pigeon walks so funny? According to an interesting article in the Detroit Free Press, a pigeon walks the way it does so it can see where it's going. Because it can’t adjust its focus as it moves, the pigeon
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GOD DOES THE REMEMBERING
A 91-year-old lady reads the Scriptures regularly, but now her memory is failing her. Friends commented, "So what’s the use of all this reading when you cannot remember what you’ve read." Her answer is always the same. "God has blessed me richly. I eat well and sleep
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The great musicologist and Congregational minister Erik Routley was once greeting his parishioners as they left church on Sunday. He noticed one of the teenage girls carrying one of the popularizing versions of the Scriptures. "I see you have the new translation of the Bible," he said. "How do
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Nov 20, 2008
"The best food for you is the Word of God itself. Sermons and books are well enough, but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow, and they lose the cool freshness with which they started from the spring head.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
POST-IT NOTES
In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, developed a "low-tack", reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive. For five years, Silver promoted his invention within 3M, both informally and through seminars, but without much success. In 1974, a colleague of his,
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 17, 2009
STUDENT OF LOVE
I know a man named James Bailey, from Marks, Mississippi, who was one of my former deacons. James Bailey was a grown man when he became a Christian. He had only gone to school through the 4th grade and never learned to read when he was in school. James Bailey was a hard man and
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Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 26, 2009
Old Testament scholar Christopher Wright states in his book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament,
"I find myself aware that in reading the Hebrew Scriptures, I am handling something that gives me a closer link with Jesus than any archaeological artifact could do...Above all, this is where he
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Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 26, 2009
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Again, I want to refer to Christopher Wright’s book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament. He asks the question, Why does Matthew start his gospel with the genealogy of Jesus? Why didn’t he go straight to the wonderful story of the Magi? It's "because, says Matthew, you won’t understand that
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SHARPEN THE AX
Back in the 1800’s a young man was looking for a job and went to the local logging company to apply for a job. The foreman asked him if he could cut a tree down with an ax. The young man said yes, and proceeded to take his ax, walk over to a tree and drop it like an old pro.
The
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