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  • Your God Is God" From ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Jul 14, 2008
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    "Your God is God" from wingclips.com In 1994, Heidi and Rolland Baker arrived in Mozambique amidst the hard times following the Mozambique Civil War. Even the Red Cross trucks were not safe and were bombed. During the hard times, sometimes even threatened by death, Heidi and ...read more

  • Running

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 9, 2010
     | 2,976 views

    RUNNING Herb Caen wrote, "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t ...read more

  • Shakespeare's Mistake

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
     | 2,624 views

    SHAKESPEARE'S MISTAKE In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II, Caesar asks Brutus, "What is't o'clock?" Brutus replies, "Caesar, 'its strucken eight." The great Bard had forgotten that mechanical clocks were not invented until 14 ...read more

  • Theologian Helmut Thielicke Said, "A Salty Pagan, ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 19, 2008
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    Theologian Helmut Thielicke said, "A salty pagan, full of the juices of life, is a hundred times dearer to God, and also far more attractive to men, than a scribe who knows his Bible...in whom none of this results in repentance, action, and above ...read more

  • Aesop's Fables, The Fox And The Lion – Fox First ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jan 13, 2009
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    Aesop’s Fables, The Fox and the Lion – fox first sees lion, scared to death and runs away; second time sees the lion, stands at a safe distance and watches; third time sees the lion, walks up to him and strikes up a conversation, walks away ...read more

  • Bad News Travels Fast. Within Two Hours The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on May 15, 2002
    based on 56 ratings
     | 3,629 views

    Bad news travels fast. Within two hours the whole world knew that President Kennedy had been killed, who killed him, where he was killed and how he was killed. Today, still half the world does not know the good news that Jesus died, where ...read more

  • People Have Long Realized The Importance Of Being ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 2, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
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    People have long realized the importance of being proactive. Aesop told his famous fable of the grasshopper and the ant. While the grasshopper was obliviously enjoying the freedom of warm weather, the ant was storing up food for the cold winter. When the weather changed, the grasshopper starved ...read more

  • God ... Does Not Lavish His Children With A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Thornton on Nov 23, 2006
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    God ... does not lavish his children with a jolly discipleship so that they may swim in spiritual ecstasy between conversion and death. God is a giver, but he does not give happiness. He gives redemption, meaning, security, love, victory, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And happiness is ...read more

  • Look At The Human Body. It Is Being Created As ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2004
    based on 36 ratings
     | 1,665 views

    Look at the human body. It is being created as we speak. Can you hear death and resurrection occurring? Each second 8 million blood cells die in our body. The good news is that in the same second 8 million blood cells are born. Our red blood cells ...read more

  • History Tells Of A Statue That Was Erected To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    History tells of a statue that was erected to celebrate the victory of the Grecian games. It so aroused the envious hatred of the rivals that one of them sneaked out at night to topple the statue. He found it so heavy he had to put quite an effort into rocking it back and forth. When he ...read more

  • Tombstone Inscription

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Tombstone inscription. Pause now as you pass by, As you are now once was I, As I am now, so you must be. Prepare yourself and follow me. • Bertrand Russell said, “Death is a night of nothingness.” Friends the Bible says we are destined to die ...read more

  • Warren Wiersbe Said This, "The Church Is Always ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chad Bolfa on Jan 12, 2008
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    Warren Wiersbe said this, “The Church is always one generation short of extinction, If our generation fails to guard the truth and entrust it to our children, then that will be the end! When you think of the saints and martyrs who suffered and died so that we might have ...read more

  • Former Professional American Football Player And ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 12, 2008
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    Former professional American football player and now coach of the Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy had an 18-year-old son James who died of an apparent suicide. Many newspapers and magazines wrote about Dungy's courage and strength in the wake of his son's death. Dungy ...read more

  • The Uppertaker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    THE UPPERTAKER Alexander MacLaren said, "The primitive church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death or about heaven. The early Christians were not looking for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. They were watching not for ...read more

  • If There Is A Lack Of Respect For The Right To ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 6, 2010
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    If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and to a natural death, if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryos are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and, along with it, that of environmental ...read more

  • About 6am On A Wed Morning James Lawson Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeffrey Stewart on Oct 21, 2000
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    About 6am on a Wed morning James Lawson of Running Springs, CA left home to apply for a new job. An hour later his 36 yr old wife, Pasty left for her 5th grade teaching job down the mountain with her 2 children, 5 yr old Susan and 2 yr old Jerry. Unfortunately they never got that far. 81/2 hours ...read more

  • Missionary Robert Porteous And His Wife Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
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    Missionary Robert Porteous and his wife were taken prisoners by Chinese communist bandits in 1931. This missionary couple was led to a lonely spot on top of a hill where they were to be executed. The Chinese leader said, “This is the place.” and the executioner took a long knife from its holder ...read more

  • The Wheat Of Heaven  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
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    The Wheat of Heaven Taken from the stalk of Calvary Placed within the dark, cold earth Silent lies the Wheat of heaven There to wait resurrection birth Left alone in fragrant seed coat Till the time had come to pass It would soon give way to victory Life eternal sprang forth at last When ...read more

  • Triumph  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    TRIUMPH (By Jim L. Davey) It was a dark & sullen morn, as several women approached the tomb, With breaking hearts and deepest gloom, The furthest thing from their minds.....was triumph Why did He have to die they asked, each other on the road that morn, It made no sense, their hearts were ...read more

  • James Michener, Writing In His Book, The Source, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 7, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,134 views

    James Michener, writing in his book, The Source, tells the story of a man named Urbaal, who was a farmer living about 2200 B.C. He worshiped two gods, one a god of death, the other a goddess of fertility. One day, the temple priests tell Urbaal to bring his young son to the temple for ...read more