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  • Wife Died

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2015
     | 4,265 views

    Booth-Tucker preached in Chicago one day, and out from the throng a burdened laborer came and said to him, before all the audience, "You can talk like that about how Christ is dear to you, and helps you; but if your wife was dead, as my wife is, and you had some babies crying for their mother who ...read more

  • Evangelist Merv Rosell Relates A Story From His ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 25, 2006
     | 2,440 views

    Evangelist Merv Rosell relates a story from his childhood when he and his brother contracted diphtheria. They were wrapped in white sheets and taken to the contagious ward of the hospital. He could still see his mother’s face, pressed against the glass of the ward, peering lovingly at her two ...read more

  • Perhaps The Most Famous Missing Man In American ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Mar 18, 2008
     | 1,807 views

    Perhaps the most famous missing man in American history is Judge Joe Crater, who was an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court when he vanished without a trace in August, 1930. One of the most recognizable people in New York City, he was vacationing with his wife in Maine when he received ...read more

  • Back In The 1880's Nietzsche Declared That "God ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 120 ratings
     | 1,972 views

    Back in the 1880’s Nietzsche declared that "God is dead," and before the turn of the Twentieth Century, Shaw and Wells chimed in saying the 20th Century would mark the end of the world’s "religious phase." Yet, today a church now meets in Russia’s Museum of Religion and Atheism-the former center ...read more

  • Skip Gray In His Book, The Way Of The Cross ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 26, 2001
    based on 85 ratings
     | 2,573 views

    Skip Gray in his book, The Way of The Cross says, Tradition tells us that around the time when Jesus was a teenager, there was a rebellion near where he lived. The Roman army crushed the rebellion but they didn’t want it to happen again, so they crucified an Israelite every 10 meters along the ...read more

  • Even Though The Two Copies Of Isaiah Discovered ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2001
    based on 60 ratings
     | 1,927 views

    "Even though the two copies of Isaiah discovered in Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea in 1947 were a thousand years earlier than the oldest dated manuscript previously known (A.D. 980), they proved to be word for word identical with out standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text. The ...read more

  • On One Occasion Michelangelo Turned To His Fellow ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Beehler on Apr 16, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,139 views

    On one occasion Michelangelo turned to his fellow artists and said with frustration in his voice, "Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures on the one theme of Christ in weakness, Christ on the cross, and most of all, Christ hanging dead?" he asked. "Why do you ...read more

  • A Muslim In Africa Became A Christian And Some ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Jun 19, 2003
    based on 22 ratings
     | 3,505 views

    A Muslim in Africa became a Christian and some of his friends asked him, “Why have you done such a thing?” He answered, “Well, its like this: Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions. You didn’t know which way to go; and there at the fork were two men—one ...read more

  • Dan Brown Makes A Major Flaw In Logic In The Da ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 14, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,156 views

    Dan Brown makes a major flaw in logic in The Da Vinci Code. his two main points actually contradict each other. His conclusion is that we should worship Mary Magdalene, whom he refers to as the “sacred feminine” because he claims she was married to Jesus. However, his earlier argument was that ...read more

  • Lionel Luckhoo Is In The Guinness Book Of Records ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 24, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,393 views

    Lionel luckhoo is in the Guinness book of records the most successful trial lawyer 245 successful murder defenses in a row! At 63 he decided to put his analytical skills to the claim that Jesus rose from the dead! He found the resurrection answered his personal needs and his intellectual ...read more

  • Dr. Seamands Tells Of A Muslim Who Became A ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Apr 1, 2007
     | 819 views

    Dr. Seamands tells of a Muslim who became a Christian in Africa. "Some of his friends asked him, ’Why have you become a Christian?’ He answered, ’Well, it’s like this. Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions, and you didn’t know which way to go, and ...read more

  • Admiral Grau  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,101 views

    ADMIRAL GRAU At all the military reviews in Peru there have a custom by which they pay honor to Admiral Grau, Peru’s noblest naval hero, killed in battle off the coast of Chile. Always at roll-call, Admiral Grau’s is the first name called. An orderly steps forward and pointing upward answers, ...read more

  • Dr. Seamands Tells Of A Muslim Who Became A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,105 views

    Dr. Seamands tells of a Muslim who became a Christian in Africa. "Some of his friends asked him, ’Why have you become a Christian?’ He answered, ’Well, it’s like this. Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions, and you didn’t know which way to go, and there ...read more

  • There Was An Interesting Article By David Marr In ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jan 7, 2010
     | 1,725 views

    There was an interesting article by David Marr in the Sydney Morning Herald on 19 December. He concludes that God is not dead in Australia. Rumours of his failing powers are exaggerated. The default setting of this country is faith without belonging to a religious organisation. A recent Nielson ...read more

  • Frank Boyd On Revival

    Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
     | 2,867 views

    FRANK BOYD ON REVIVAL Frank M. Boyd, an early Pentecostal instructor, said, "He expected all the students to be more filled with fire and love and zeal and more filled with the Spirit when they left than when they came. He said that when men had the Word without the Spirit they were often dead ...read more

  • Do It Again

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 28, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,408 views

    DO IT AGAIN G. K. Chesterton wrote: "Because children have abounding vitality, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged... They always say, 'Do it again,' and the grown-up does it again until he is nearly dead... But perhaps God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every ...read more

  • Kids And Global Warming

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 4, 2009
     | 1,364 views

    KIDS AND GLOBAL WARMING This past April, the Washington Post interviewed a 9-year-old who said the Earth is "just starting to fade away." In 20 years there will be "no oxygen" he said, and he’ll be dead. The Post went on to say, "for many children and young adults, global warming is defining their ...read more

  • We Live In An Incredible World That Has Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,034 views

    We live in an incredible world that has been wonderfully designed and marvelously created by God. When the last tubes of the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River for the Pennsylvania Railroad were about to be joined in 1927, a young civil engineer named Richardson was chosen for the task because ...read more

  • Leadership

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Dec 13, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,036 views

    Leadership Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a V formation? As with most animal behavior, God had a good reason for including that in their instincts. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. In a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying ...read more

  • Miraculous Protection Of Hutu ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,089 views

    Miraculous Protection of Hutu Preacher Psalm 91:5 goes on to say, “You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day.” And vs. 11 says, “He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” ILL. Tribal wars are nothing new in Central Africa. In fact, a ...read more