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  • How's Business?

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on May 16, 2008
     | 2,327 views

    HOW'S BUSINESS? Peter Drucker, as you probably know, is a management consultant without equal. He says in one of his many books that there are two questions that people in any organization ought to ask themselves -- whether it be a manufacturing plant, the sales division of a large ...read more

  • Where Is The Ark

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 27, 2009
     | 2,019 views

    WHERE IS THE ARK The Ethiopian legend described in the "Book of the Glory of Kings," relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba...The legend relates that Menelik, as an adult, ...read more

  • Tryvertising Is A New Breed Of Product Placement ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,773 views

    Tryvertising is a new breed of product placement in the real world, integrating goods and services into daily life in a relevant way, so that consumers can make up their minds based on their experience, not your message. It includes everything from traditional supermarket product sampling and free ...read more

  • Don't Miss This: Not Even Good, Humanitarian ...

    Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 26, 2006
     | 2,376 views

    Don’t miss this: not even good, humanitarian performance fills up the soul! Bob Geldof was a British rock musician who decided to do something about the famine in Ethiopia during the early 1980’s. He put his own career on the back-burner and spent an entire year of his life organizing fund-raising ...read more

  • Lewis Smedes, A Seminary Professor And Author Of ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Oct 3, 2002
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    Lewis Smedes, a seminary professor and author of the book "Shame and Grace," tells in the opening chapter of that book of two different events, close in time that opened him to the reality of shame in his life. The first event was a conversation with a close friend who, in response to Smedes’ ...read more

  • The Author Will Make Things Clear  PRO

    Contributed by Rich Young on Jan 18, 2001
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     | 6,514 views

    THE AUTHOR WILL MAKE THINGS CLEAR Author Marshall Shelley, who suffered the deaths of two of his children, writes in Leadership: "Even as I child, I loved to read, and I quickly learned that I would most likely be confused during the opening chapters of a novel. New characters were introduced. ...read more

  • Back In The Ninth Century, The Very Powerful ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jan 7, 2008
     | 1,976 views

    Back in the ninth century, the very powerful Roman emperor Charlemagne made an unusual request with regard to his burial. He asked to be buried sitting upright on his throne with his crown on his head, his scepter in his hand, his royal cape draped around his shoulders and with an open book placed ...read more

  • I Remember A Young Couple, They Joyfully ...

    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on May 10, 2008
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    I remember a young couple, they joyfully discovered, after years of trying, they were going to have a baby. However, they were both perfectionists They did what a lot of expectant parents do, they purchased books on how to raise a child. But they went over board. They read every book they could ...read more

  • We Read In The Papers, We Hear On The ...

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Jun 16, 2008
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    We read in the papers, we hear on the air, Of killing and stealing, and crime everywhere. We sigh, and we say, as we notice the trend, "This young generation! Where will it all end?" But can we be sure that it’s their fault alone? That maybe most of it isn’t really our own ? Too much money to spend ...read more

  • Word Of God - Is Alive

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Feb 28, 2026
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     | 158 views

    The Scriptures are clear ... Crystal clear Quote ... "For the word of God .... is living" Unquote (Hebrews 4:12) The Scriptures, .... the Word of God, .... is unlike any other book you have ... in your home ... or that is in the library. The Library of Congress lays claim ... to be ...read more

  • Martha Ballard: Revolutionary Helper

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
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    MARTHA BALLARD: REVOLUTIONARY HELPER Historian Laurel Ulrich received a Pulitzer Prize for her book The Midwife's Tale. The book was based on the diary of Martha Ballard, who lived during the American Revolution. Martha was a midwife who traveled by canoe, horse, or sometimes on foot to assist ...read more

  • Have You Ever Seen A Billy Mays Commercial? He ...

    Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Jul 2, 2010
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    Have you ever seen a Billy Mays commercial? He has unfortunately passed away, but he was known for endorsing a lot of products, always keeping a loud voice volume, and enthusiastically selling some of the most ridiculous items on the market. One of the items he endorses is called the Awesome ...read more

  • The Bible Found Me

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
     | 1,687 views

    THE BIBLE FOUND ME G. Campbell Morgan had already enjoyed some success as a preacher by the time he was 19 years old. But then he was attacked by doubts about the Bible. The writings of various scientists and agnostics disturbed him (e.g., Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Thomas Huxley, and Herbert ...read more

  • The Bible Found Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 18, 2011
     | 3,954 views

    THE BIBLE FOUND ME G. Campbell Morgan had already enjoyed some success as a preacher by the time he was 19 years old. But then he was attacked by doubts about the Bible. The writings of various scientists and agnostics disturbed him (e.g., Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Thomas Huxley, and Herbert ...read more

  • Taste Is All Wrong

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
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    TASTE IS ALL WRONG I remember one of the stories from the Chronicles of Narnia from the book "The Last Battle." It was the story of a number of dwarfs who just didn't believe in Aslan (who represented Jesus Christ in all the books). They were blind to reality refusing to be "taken in" by those ...read more

  • The Difference Between Life And Death  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
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    THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH In his book Winning Life’s Toughest Battles, psychologist Julius Segal wrote about the 25,000 soldiers who were held by the Japanese in POW camps during World War II. "Forced to exist under inhumane conditions, many of them died. Others, however, survived and ...read more

  • Praying For Change  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Sunstrom on Mar 8, 2006
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     | 3,178 views

    PRAYING FOR CHANGE “To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to the heartbeat of God the more we see our need and the more we ...read more

  • There Is No Mention Of Jesus Being Married) In ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on May 10, 2006
     | 2,041 views

    “(There is no mention of Jesus being married) in the four gospels and not in Paul’s writing. And Paul writes about marriage. If Jesus were married, you would certainly think that Paul would at least mention it since he addresses marriage in the book of 1 ...read more

  • A Mother Was Asked By A Neighbor, "Do You Do Any ...  PRO

    Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
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     | 2,022 views

    A mother was asked by a neighbor, “Do you do any literary work?” “Oh, yes,” replied the mother, “I’m writing two books.” “What are their titles?” asked the surprised neighbor. Replied the mother, “John and Mary. My business is to write on the mind and heart of ...read more

  • Christian Counselor, Gary Collins Writes, "[anger ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 22, 2006
     | 2,631 views

    Christian counselor, Gary Collins writes, “[Anger can] be constructive if it motivates us to correct injustice…” and again, “Human beings created in the image of God, were given emotions, including anger. Such anger is a useful and necessary reaction which was seen in Jesus and is not sinful in ...read more