Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 9, 2009
AN OUTSTRETCHED HAND
In Stockholm, Sweden, a woman was injured as she rushed to catch a streetcar. She stumbled in front of the moving car and was caught beneath it. The police sent for a crane to lift the car off her body. While waiting for the crane a crowd of people gathered out of curiosity.
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 18, 2004
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Folks, the Word of God produces spiritual life, as the following story illustrates:
The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty has often been retold. One part that deserves retelling was the transformation wrought by one book. Nine mutineers with six native men and twelve native (Tahitian)
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 30, 2004
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Suicidal Rates in America
Persons under 25 accounted for 15% of all suicides in 2000. (From the 1950’s to the late 70’s the suicide rate increased by 200%, and has remained steady since.)
Psychological autopsy studies show that more than 90% of completed suicides had one or more mental
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Contributed by Ryan Peters on Mar 10, 2009
Suicide has steadily grown since 1999. The LA Times reports that
Suicides for whites ages 40 to 64 rose 17% from 1999 to 2005, researchers said. For middle-age white men, the rate rose 16% to 26.9 per 100,000 in 2005, from 23.1 per 100,000 in 1999. For white women in that age group, the rate rose
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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No Greater Love
During the beginning of World War II, a large British military force on the European continent, as well as English citizens and diplomats, retreated to a French coastal port of Dunkirk.
With it’s back against the English Channel, the British army faced a German army that threatened
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Gay Activists often claim 10% of the population is homosexual, but the facts tell a different story. A new National Center for Health Statistics report finds just 2.3% of men and 1.3% of women view themselves as
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As part of a children’s talk we displayed some optical illusion images that can be seen in two different ways....eg. indian face/eskimo, polar bear/seal, old woman/young woman, saxaphone player/women’s
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Lutheran
Many years ago the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick told of a teenage girl stricken with polio. As he visited with her, she told him about a conversation she’d had with one of her friends, who told her, "Affliction does so color life." To which this courageous young girl agreed, but said that
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 29, 2010
During World War II, a military governor met with General George Patton in Sicily. When he praised Patton highly for his courage and bravery, the general replied, “Sir, I am not a brave man . . . The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2010
COUNSEL OF OUR FEARS
During World War II, a military governor met with General George Patton in Sicily. When he praised Patton highly for his courage and bravery, the general replied, "Sir, I am not a brave man. . . The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2007
Some time ago, the Los Angeles, California City Zoo displayed an exhibit designed to inform, amuse and shock visitors. This slogan was on their cage: the world’s most dangerous animal --the only animal capable of destroying the earth, other animal species, or even its own kind.
What was this
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 16, 2008
Have you had the experience of being asleep late at night, when everyone is gone to bed, the lights are out and suddenly you hear banging on the door? You shock out of your slumber and wonder what in the blazes is going on? Who would dare knock at this hour of the night? And you’re not sure if
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 18, 2022
When Henry David Thoreau was on his deathbed, he was visited by a minister who urged his dying friend to be ready for death: “Do you know where you’re going in the next world?”
Thoreau waved him away with the words, “One world at a time.”
His attitude has caused humanists to uphold him as a man
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Listen to what an English Hymnist named Eric Routley wrote concerning Wesley’s hymns, “These hymns were composed in order that men and women might sing their way, not only into experience, but also into knowledge; --- that the cultured might have their culture
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