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  • Former President Ronald Reagan Once Had An Aunt ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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    Former president Ronald Reagan once had an aunt who took him to a cobbler for a pair of new shoes. The cobbler asked young Reagan, “Do you want square toes or round toes?” Unable to decide, Reagan didn’t answer, so the cobbler gave him a few days. Several days later the cobbler saw Reagan on the ...read more

  • Hello Kitty, Goodbye Money? Last Year Visa ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Hello Kitty, Goodbye Money? Last year Visa introduced a Hilary Duff gift card in five denominations and urged tween girls to “shop like a star.” Now MasterCard has announced a Hello Kitty debit card. That can be reloaded. The primary target is younger girls ages 10-14. Legend Credit Inc., ...read more

  • Where Are You Leading?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 18, 2014
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    David Wheeler tells of a funeral procession that illustrates a leader’s influence. David officiated at a funeral. In accordance with custom, after the funeral, the attenders filed out of the funeral home and into their waiting cars to form a processional to the cemetery. The hearse led the ...read more

  • Eternity Magazine Contained A New Item On ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 9, 2008
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    Eternity magazine contained a new item on immortality and people's fascination with it. The article read: “The quest for pseudoimmortality took a giant leap forward with the announcement that you can send your remains "to the heavens" when you die. The Celestis Group of Melbourne, Florida, has ...read more

  • Reverend Gregory Dawson Of The North ...

    Contributed by Carl Benge on Jul 2, 2007
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    Reverend Gregory Dawson of the North Congregational Church in New Hartford, CT. In the mid-17th century, Oliver Cromwell sent his secretary to the continent on some important, state business. One night during his travels he found he was unable to sleep. According to an old custom a servant slept in ...read more

  • Herod The Great

    Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Dec 15, 2023
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    "In modern research on Herod, the most discussed issue concerns the impact of his reign on his Jewish subjects. Opinions vary. Some scholars paint a picture of a cruel tyrant, even a maniac suffering from a personality disorder, who introduced the ancient version of a Gestapo state with an ...read more

  • The Ministry Of Truth And Honesty

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 6, 2024
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    Introduction: If there’s one thing that’s sorely and surely needed these days, it’s truth and honesty. It’s no secret that both and each are in short supply. Just look at some of the so-called testimony which “witnesses” utter before either house of the U S Congress, for example. The concept if not ...read more

  • A Young Man Left His Employer, A Lumber ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
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    A young man left his employer, a lumber merchant, and began business in opposition to him. For a while he prospered greatly and got many orders that would have gone to the firm he had left. But just when his business seemed to be most flourishing, and he had more orders than he could supply, a ...read more

  • The Thieves Broke In At Night. It Was A Large ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 22, 2005
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    The thieves broke in at night. It was a large department store in a major metropolitan area. They got in, stayed long enough to do the crime, and scurried away undetected. It is not what you think. They took nothing. Not one item was missing. No merchandise stolen. No money removed. What they did ...read more

  • 11 Internet Direct Mail Tips: Robert Bly, Writing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    11 Internet Direct Mail Tips: Robert Bly, writing it the 6/12 issue of DM News notes the following techniques that seem to be successful in e-marketing. · Use short statements that tease the reader. · Use incentives, discount, gift, free shipping, etc. · Free money is a powerful offer. · With a ...read more

  • The Bridal Cup  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 16, 2007
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    Listen to this insight from Dr. Ray Vander Laan: In the first century, when a young Jewish man reached marrying age and his family selected an appropriate wife for him, the young man and his father would meet the young woman and her father to negotiate the “bride price,” the figurative cost of ...read more

  • A Traveling Man Came Into A Hotel To Secure A ...

    Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 2, 2005
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    A traveling man came into a hotel to secure a room for the night. Upon being informed that every room in the building had been taken, he was naturally quite perturbed, until a portly gentleman standing nearby kindly offered to share his room with him. The offer was thankfully accepted. Upon ...read more

  • Should Christians Attend Church?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    SHOULD CHRISTIANS ATTEND CHURCH? An old question: "Can I be a Christian without joining the church or attending worship?" Answer: "Yes, it is possible. But it is something like being: a. A student who will not go to school; b. A soldier who will not join the army; c. A citizen who does not pay ...read more

  • Adoption: The Potrea Protestus

    Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Mar 27, 2010
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    ADOPTION: THE POTREA PROTESTUS Our concept of adoption is far different from the concept of adoption in the New Testament. In most cases, an adopted child, at that time, was most honored than natural children. And in all cases, to be adopted by someone was considered a special privilege. In the ...read more

  • The White Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    THE WHITE MAN When Wycliffe translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil’s Fulnio Indians, he was referred to simply as "the white man". The term was by no means complimentary, since other white men had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. But ...read more

  • Wanting To Give Up

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 1, 2011
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    WANTING TO GIVE UP "In 1965 a divorced mother of two found a classified ad offering a restaurant for sale. She mortgaged her house to purchase the restaurant, the original Chris's steakhouse. In 1976 a fire forced her to relocate. Under the original purchase agreement, the name 'Chris Steak House' ...read more

  • Stuttering  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    STUTTERING A enormously muscular guy with a bad stutter goes to a counter in a department store and asks, "W-w-w-where’s the m-m-m-men’s dep-p-p-partment?" The clerk behind the counter just looks at him and says nothing. The man repeats himself: "W-w-w-where’s the m-m-m-men’s dep-p-p-partment?" ...read more

  • Spiritual Anarchy  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 23, 2003
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    SPIRITUAL ANARCHY In his [Barna’s] new volume he flatly states that moral anarchy has arrived and rules our culture today. The argument hinges on a substantial amount of attitudinal and behavioral evidence: record bankruptcy levels, frivolous lawsuits, the rapid growth of the pornography industry, ...read more

  • A Company By The Name Of Hetronics, Makes Remote ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2003
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    A company by the name of Hetronics, makes remote controls for heavy equipment, like cranes and tractors. This company has a room, called the ‘Thumper Room.’ Here, several of their remotes are put in a mechanical device that simulates the action of a human hand moving the arm of the remote. ...read more

  • A Large Group Of European Pastors Came To One Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 31, 2004
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    A large group of European pastors came to one of D. L. Moody’’s Northfield Bible Conferences in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. Following the European custom of the time, each guest put his shoes outside his room to be cleaned by the hall servants overnight. But of course this was America and ...read more