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  • One Of The Greatest Philosophers Of Our Age Is ...

    Contributed by Scott Carmer on Jan 31, 2005
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    One of the greatest philosophers of our age is Andy Capp. I remember one comic strip several years ago in which Andy is up to his old tricks, always dodging his pastor because he is in the pub and not in church. One day after Andy’s wife Flo decided to take him back after one of his periodic ...read more

  • Capitol Punishment

    Contributed by James Tidwell on Aug 7, 2005
     | 2,626 views

    Illustration: News story on Sunday, January 12, 2003; CHICAGO, Jan. 11 -- Illinois’s outgoing Republican Gov. George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 people to life in prison today after concluding that the capital punishment system was "haunted by the demon of error." Friends and foes of ...read more

  • Hans The Tailor  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 6, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,356 views

    Consider the story of Hans the tailor. Because of his reputation, an influential entrepreneur visiting the city ordered a tailor-made suit. But when he came to pick up his suit, the customer found that one sleeve twisted that way and the other this way; one shoulder bulged out and the caved in. He ...read more

  • Changing Researchers At The University Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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     | 1,466 views

    Changing Researchers at the University of Chicago report that only 26% of American households are now comprised of married couples with children, compared to 45% in the early ‘70’s. Likewise, married couples with children under 18 living at home dropped from 50% to 36% over the same time span. ...read more

  • Religious Families Stronger: A Survey By The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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     | 1,941 views

    Religious Families Stronger: A survey by the National Study of Youth and Religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that youth ages 12 to 14 reared in religious households are more likely than their peers from nonreligious families to admire their mother and father, to not ...read more

  • The Purpose Of Good Lighting

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
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    THE PURPOSE OF GOOD LIGHTING To convince the people of Philadelphia of the advantage of street lighting, Benjamin Franklin decided to show his neighbors be placing one in front of his house. He purchased an attractive lantern, polished the glass, and placed it on an extended pole in front of his ...read more

  • Who Would You Quote In Outer ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    Who Would You Quote in Outer Space? On Christmas Day 1968, the three astronauts of Apollo 8 circled the dark side of the moon and headed for home. Suddenly, over the horizon of the moon rose the blue and white earth, garlanded by the glistening light of the sun against the black void of space. ...read more

  • God Showing Through  PRO

    Contributed by John Perry on Feb 9, 2010
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    GOD SHOWING THROUGH One Sunday morning a little girl on her way home from Sunday school in the car said to her parents, "I don't understand." Her parents said "What don't you understand, sweetheart?" She said "Well, our Sunday school teacher today told us that God is inside of us!" "That's right ...read more

  • They Didn't Live Happily Ever After

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 4, 2010
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    THEY DIDN'T LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER For the first time in her life, four year-old Suzie had just been told the story of "Snow White." She could hardly wait to get home from nursery school to tell her mommy. With wide-eyed excitement, she retold the fairy tale to her mother that afternoon. After ...read more

  • We Live In A World Today That We Should Sift All ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 31, 2011
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    We live in a world today that we should sift all our children’s activities and things that they are exposed to each day as though we were looking and inspecting the candy they get on Halloween night and throw out the things that look suspicious. I know it’s hard and most of the time just impossible ...read more

  • Flight Check

    Contributed by Brad Froese on Oct 4, 2011
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    FLIGHT CHECK When you're a pilot and you're getting ready to go on a flight, you always run through a checklist: to assess the air worthiness of the aircraft, and the conditions you'll be flying in before you commits to the flight because all the weather information and every surface and ...read more

  • His Promises Are True

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 20, 2011
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    HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE I once went fishing with a friend of mine once, he said he knew of a good spot to fish. We got there and - nothing! We were there for about an hour without one single bite! I was ready to go home, his promise of a great fishing hole wasnt panning out. Then something hit my ...read more

  • How To Be Liked By Your Peers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2012
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    HOW TO BE LIKED BY YOUR PEERS ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2010) — People who pursue happiness through material possessions are liked less by their peers than people who pursue happiness through life experiences, according to a new study...The "take home" message in his most recent study, which appears ...read more

  • Foster: Five Percent Spirituality

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
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    FOSTER: FIVE PERCENT SPIRITUALITY Richard Foster writes this: Many of us live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the ...read more

  • When Things Go Wrong  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2012
    based on 9 ratings
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    WHEN THINGS GO WRONG Several years ago, Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Bob Patterson described one of his pitches, which the Cincinnati Reds’ Barry Larkin hit for a game-winning home run: "It was a cross between a screwball and a change-up. It was a screw-up." (Wall Street Journal, 7/9/96; ...read more

  • The Worst Boss Ever

    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
     | 2,208 views

    What if you had a boss that demanded that you check in with him every ten minutes no matter what? What if he required that even if you were in the middle of other important work in your office? What if he demanded that whether you were at the office or at home? What if he required that even if ...read more

  • A Lady Named Kristin Said: "My Husband And I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A lady named Kristin said: “MY HUSBAND and I took our two-year-old daughter to the home-improvement store. Madison got tired of walking, so my husband let her ride on his shoulders. As he walked, Madison began pulling his hair. Although he asked her calmly to stop several times, she kept on. ...read more

  • From Illustrations Unlimited - ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 24, 2007
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    Illustration from Illustrations Unlimited - PEACE, PEACE: A true story: A retired couple was alarmed by the threat of nuclear war so they undertook a serious study of all the inhabited places on the globe. Their goal was to determine where in the world would be the place to be least likely affected ...read more

  • Someone Once Asked, Why Does A Caged Bird Sing? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joshua Deonarine on Nov 27, 2007
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    Someone once asked, Why does a caged bird sing? Every Sunday morning hundreds of Guyanese meet at the Smokey Oval Park a few blocks from my home. The men have one thing in common a little bird in a cage. It amazes me to see these little birds although caged would sing so melodiously. Why would the ...read more

  • Humility And Its Expression - At A Dinner Party ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
     | 2,124 views

    Humility and its expression - At a dinner party one night Lady Churchill was seated across the table from Sir Winston, who kept making his hand walk up and down -- two fingers bent at the knuckles. The fingers appeared to be walking toward Lady Churchill. Finally, her dinner partner asked, "Why ...read more