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  • It Was January 30, 1994 And Super Bowl Xxviii ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 25, 2007
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    It was January 30, 1994 and Super Bowl XXVIII was being played out at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The NFC champion Dallas Cowboys had just defeated the AFC champion Buffalo Bills, 30–13. Dallas scored 24 unanswered points in the second half, and Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith was named the ...read more

  • H. Page Williams Wrote A Book Called Do Yourself ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
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    H. Page Williams wrote a book called Do Yourself a Favor: Love Your Wife. I wish there were some way to make it required reading for church membership. In it he said, "I asked one wife what it was that her husband was doing that caused her to want to leave him, and her reply was ’Nothing.’ ...read more

  • In His Book Mortal Lessons, Dr. Richard Selzer, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In his book Mortal Lessons, Dr. Richard Selzer, writes, “I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth, has been severed. She will be like this from now on. The surgeon ...read more

  • Our Founding Fathers Believed Very Strongly In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Our founding fathers believed very strongly in God’s presence. When our earliest universities began, most of them were founded to train Christian preachers. * When Harvard was established in 1636, their statement of purpose said, “Every student’s main aim is to know Jesus Christ, & to recognize ...read more

  • Introduction: In 1976 Vince Papale Was A 30 Year ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Introduction: In 1976 Vince Papale was a 30 year old Substitute teacher and bartender in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He and his buddies spent most Sunday afternoons in the Fall either playing football at the park or watching the Philadelphia Eagles play on tv. Week after week they had high hopes, ...read more

  • Years Ago, Before The Day When She Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Bravo on Jul 1, 2007
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    Years ago, before the day when she was moth-balled and transformed into a floating museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, one of the largest, most powerful battleships that the world has ever known, the USS Missouri, was cruising off the coast of Nova Scotia in a gale wind blowing and whipping the waves into ...read more

  • Judge Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., The Chief ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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    Judge Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., the Chief Juctice of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, tells a story about what happened when his daughter Zoe was just three years old. Sanders came home from work one day to find his home – and especially his young daughter – in a state of turmoil. Zoe’s pet ...read more

  • The Following Information Is From The Website ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 29, 2008
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    The following information is from the website legendsofamerica.com. Foolish quotes from famous people: "I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." - Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece “I’ve read about ...read more

  • I Know Because I See

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 21, 2008
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    I KNOW BECAUSE I SEE The fingerprints of God are everywhere in nature! Faith - at least in part - is the spiritual seeing or perceiving of the fingerprints on the things he has made. We see the order, the beauty, the greatness, the complexity of what he has made - and these are the evidence that ...read more

  • This World Is Not Ours; Don't ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    THIS WORLD IS NOT OURS; DON’T UNDERESTIMATE A farmer noticed that every autumn, a tragedy played out in his cornfields. All summer long, families of field mice had made their homes among the growing plants. They ate and slept, they worked and played and raised their families. The mice imagined ...read more

  • A Thanks Offering For Working In Your Life  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    A Thanks Offering For Working in Your Life Philippians 1:6 says, "...being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." The greatest news of redemption for Christians personally is that they do not need stay the ...read more

  • Dr. Clarence Macartney Illustrates This Point By ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
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    Dr. Clarence Macartney illustrates this point by this story Dr. Macartney claims he had a vision were he Saw the King seated upon His throne On either side of the throne, I saw the great angels Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel Before the throne stood another angel The angel of the Book And by his ...read more

  • The Yugo And The Rolls-Royce

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    The Yugo and the Rolls-Royce A man was driving his Yugo when he pulled up next to a Rolls-Royce at a stoplight. The driver of the Yugo rolled down his window and shouted to the driver of the Rolls, "Hey, that’s a nice car. Do you have a phone in your Rolls? I’ve got a phone in my Yugo!" The driver ...read more

  • The True Christmas Gift

    Contributed by David Rogers on Dec 15, 2008
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    The True Christmas Gift Twas the night before the birth, when all the world did not know what was about to happen Not a creature was stirring, and all men were napping The rabbis were safe and secure in their knowledge Old Herod, the king, the Lord he refused to acknowledge King Herod was ...read more

  • Do You Remember Bubba Smith? He Was One Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Do you remember Bubba Smith? He was one of the greatest football players ever to play in the NFL. He once commented that his tactic as a defensive lineman was to tackle the whole offensive backfield and then toss out players one by one until he found the one with the football. After he retired from ...read more

  • Not Just Another Offering

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    NOT JUST ANOTHER OFFERING I had been praying regularly with the deacons for one of our members. His wife, Pat, attended our small congregation faithfully, but John hadn’t been to church in years. So every Sunday afternoon before the evening service, we prayed for ways to communicate our commitment ...read more

  • How You Finish

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Feb 23, 2009
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    HOW YOU FINISH James was excited as he turned the two hundred mark heading towards home. Two and three-quarter laps had gone and he was still in the lead. His one and only goal was to win this race and he was full of confidence that he could do it. His thoughts race ahead to the podium, the ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard The Old Timers Talk About The ...

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Apr 21, 2009
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    Have you ever heard the old timers talk about the great blizzard of ’82 or ’85? When I was young they talked about the great blizzard of ’02 or ’04 – or whatever year it was. I heard and read about those great blizzards that would catch the ranchers unprepared and destroy many of them. Hundreds ...read more

  • A Forever Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    A FOREVER FAMILY Author Keith Miller tells of an outgoing 40-year-old woman who was part of a sharing group he led. Here is her story: "When I was a tiny little girl, my parents died and I was put in an orphanage. I was not pretty at all and no one seemed to want me. But I longed to be adopted ...read more

  • History Will Prove That It Is When The Church Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
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    History will prove that it is when the church has endured great persecution that that is when the church has seen tremendous growth. It was true in the first century and it is true today. Listen to this story of a faithful disciple in China. Pastor Li De Xian (Shee-an) was arrested 13 times in six ...read more