Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Apr 9, 2007
"One such symbol is located in Washington D.C. High atop Capital Hill sits the Capital Building of the U.S.A. The cornerstone of that building was laid in 1793, but the crowning touch, is the statue that stands on top of the rotunda which is called the “Freedom Lady”. The Freedom Lady was placed
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Baptist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 6, 2007
Movie – Saving Private Ryan. It is loosely based on the story of four brothers who served during WW II. Because it was believed three of them had died in battle, a Division was sent deep into enemy lines to bring the last one home alive. It is this scene where Tom Hanks, playing Captain John
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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Charles Van Gorder was a doctor with the 101st Airborne on June 6, 1944. Captain Gorder and many other doctors were going to do something new on that day. They flew behind enemy lines in gliders made out of tubing, plywood and canvass. Many crashed in the French fields and were severely wounded
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 21, 2005
“What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived.”
Capt. James T. Kirk to Capt. Jean Luc Picard, on “Star Trek – Generations”
That declaration may be true to the degree that the phrase ‘what we leave behind’ refers only to material and tangible things. But
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Orthodox
Contributed by Jim Kane on Oct 19, 2001
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One of the things about the planet earth is that she contains many interesting and mysterious places. One such place is the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle is an area of the Atlantic Ocean that is bordered by the island of Bermuda on the north, the island of Puerto Rico on the south, and
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 21, 2007
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WATCHING THE NEWS CAN BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH, that is, your psychological health. Since most of the news is of a negative nature, if one is not careful, he/she can develop a very pessimistic view of human nature. Consider the following:
The year is 2065. An astronaut has been stranded alone
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 20, 2007
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There is a true story of an old man who visited an old broken pier every Friday on the eastern sea coast of Florida until his death in 1973 his name was Eddie Rickenbacker whilst at the pier he would feed the sea gulls with a bucket of shrimps.
Many years before in 1942 Eddie was a captain on
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Mar 2, 2009
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A MERCIFUL GAME
A high school basketball player’s mom passed away on the day of a game. He made it to the game and his coach invited him to sit on the bench. But he wanted to play.
Since he arrived late, putting him in the game was a technical foul and the other team would shoot two free
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Pentecostal
SPOCK'S RAZOR OF BELIEF
Have you ever watched Star Trek? Mr. Spock, "the pointy-earned Vulcan" who served as Captain Kirk's first officer said, "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
This quote is an offshoot from a scientific
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Lutheran
Contributed by John Sloat on Apr 3, 2001
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What it means to live under grace is illustrated by the life of John Newton. Newton was born in London, half a century before the American Revolution, to a mother of superb spiritual qualities and a nondescript father. His mother died when he was six. Five years later he went to sea with his father
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 15, 2003
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On Saturday, December 23, 1972, Richard Knecht of Prospect, Oregon, set out to shatter the existing world sit-up record. For the past six months a Marine Corps captain had held the record, with an amazing 17,007. Knecht was determined to capture the title for his family team, which tours the nation
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Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
A shipwrecked man managed to reach an uninhabited island. There, to protect himself against the elements and to safeguard the few possessions he had salvaged, he painstakingly built a little hut from which he constantly and prayerfully scanned the horizon for the approach of a ship. Returning one
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