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  • Elie Wiesel Asks,

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 29, 2010
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    Elie Wiesel Asks, "Where Is God?" Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Prize winner and survivor of the Holocaust, tells of his time in the concentration camp. He and a few others were forced to witness the hanging of two Jewish men and one Jewish boy. The two men died right away, but the young boy struggled on ...read more

  • One Of My Favorite Songs Right Now Is A Song By A ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jun 5, 2009
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    One of my favorite songs right now is a song by a man named Jeremy Camp. It’s entitled "There will be a Day." I want to share the first verse and chorus with you in closing today. It goes like this: I try to hold on to this world with everything I have But I feel the weight of what it brings, ...read more

  • Years Ago I Remember The Kings Commandoes Going ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
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    Years ago I remember the Kings Commandoes going camping and coming back with insect bites all over their skin. They had been attacked through the night by blood sucking insects which deposit their eggs on living things so the larvae can feast upon it. So under their skin were deposits of larvae ...read more

  • A Father's Protection

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 8, 2012
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    A FATHER'S PROTECTION Certain Native American tribes had a rite of passage for their teenage boys. At age 13 a boy would be blindfolded and led to a certain spot in the woods. He would be forced to sit down while the men of the tribe returned to their camp. The boy would be required to sit all ...read more

  • Many Years Ago C.s. Lewis Wrote The Screwtape ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 4, 2003
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    Many years ago C.S. Lewis wrote the Screwtape Letters. Screwtape was an assistant devil writing to his nephew Wormwood. Screwtape was telling his nephew how to make the "patient" leave the camp of the arch enemy, the Prince of Peace, and dwell in the camp of the real boss, the prince of darkness. ...read more

  • Why Was Hitler So Successful? Because The Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 23, 2006
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    Why was Hitler so successful? Because the church rolled over and let him. Germany had been beaten to the ground and humiliated after World War I. The Treaty of Versailles put such demands on Germany that it looked like it would never dig itself out. Its economy took a nosedive, and the ruling ...read more

  • A Friend Of Mine Told Me About A Time He Was A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A friend of mine told me about a time he was a youth counselor at church camp. During the week they had various types of activities. They had bible classes, and prayer groups, and hiking, and worship services, and of course some type of sporting competition every day. All the kids were having a ...read more

  • So You Won't Be Afraid

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 16, 2010
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    "SO YOU WON'T BE AFRAID" In one of the Nazi death camps, Solomon Rosenberg lived and suffered with his family. It was a work camp, which meant a person had value and stayed out of the ovens as long as he or she could work. Solomon’s parents, aged and broken, were already gone. Now he feared his ...read more

  • B. In The War Being Waged In Iraq There Are ...

    Contributed by Sean Lester on Jan 8, 2007
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    b. In the war being waged in Iraq there are soldiers of various ranks and experience who have different tasks. All soldiers receive the same pay but some enjoy an easier way of life than others. Infantrymen, for instance, live in small compounds and have few conveniences. They are vigilant ...read more

  • The Bread Of Comfort  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2003
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    THE BREAD OF COMFORT In his book entitled God’s Psychiatry, Charles Allen tells this story: As World War II was drawing to a close, the Allied armies gathered up many hungry orphans. They were placed in camps where they were well-fed. Despite excellent care, they slept poorly. They seemed nervous ...read more

  • And Which One Were You?  PRO

    Contributed by Stan Martin on Aug 25, 2003
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    AND WHICH ONE WERE YOU? Maybe you heard about the Desert Storm soldier who while he was overseas received a Dear John letter from his girlfriend back home in the states. To add insult to injury, she wrote, "Will you please return my favorite photograph of myself-- I need it for ...read more

  • Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, Gold And Tellurium ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Dec 27, 2003
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    Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap. One day a miner mistook a lump of ore for coal and tossed it into his stove. Later, while ...read more

  • In 1838 And 1839, As Part Of President Andrew ...

    Contributed by Charles Holt on Jul 7, 2007
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    In 1838 and 1839, as part of President Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. They were driven from their homes, herded into internment camps, and moved by force to ...read more

  • Obedience  PRO

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Aug 19, 2007
    based on 13 ratings
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    Obedience I used to have problems getting my son to clean his room. I would insist that he, “Do it now,” and he would always agree to do so, but then he wouldn’t follow through – at least, not right way. After high school, he joined the Marine Corps, which is where he is now. When he and I were ...read more

  • There Was A Man Who Used To Have Problems Getting ...

    Contributed by Todd Brock on Nov 13, 2008
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     | 2,894 views

    There was a man who used to have problems getting his son to clean his room. He would insist that his son, “Do it now,” and he would always agree to do so, but then he wouldn’t follow through – at least, not right way. After high school, the son joined the Marine Corps. When he and his dad were ...read more

  • Freedom To Choose One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
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    FREEDOM TO CHOOSE ONE’S ATTITUDE There is a book called, “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl. Frankl was a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Everything was taken away from these prisoners. They were stripped of their clothing, their pictures, ...read more

  • Phobias Into Faith

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 5, 2011
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    PHOBIAS INTO FAITH As most of you have read in my past e mails I hate to camp. I hate the dark. I hate spiders and you show me a snake I am finished. But the Lord has used all these phobias for me to put my faith into practice. If we had everything we ever needed we wouldn’t need God. Left to ...read more

  • Very Few Things Take Away The Power Of Someone As ...

    Contributed by Kevin Barron on Dec 30, 2012
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    Very few things take away the power of someone as much as being ridiculed. In Von Ryan’s Express by David Westheimer, they do it by burning their clothes. The book is an account of Allied prisoners during World War Two. One of the trials of prison camp is that their Italian guards will not give ...read more

  • Born To Trouble.

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 30, 2021
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer died in a German concentration camp right before it was liberated. This is what he wrote: In me there is darkness, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. ...read more

  • The Story Of Ernest Gordon

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
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    THE STORY OF ERNEST GORDON There is a book (and now a movie) called To End All Wars that tells of the extraordinary life of Ernest Gordon, a British Army officer captured at sea by the Japanese at the age of 24. Gordon was sent to work on the Burma-Siam railway line that the Japanese were ...read more