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  • When Sherry And I Lived In Pottstown, We Shopped ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 22, 2003
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    When Sherry and I lived in Pottstown, we shopped at the ShopRite Supermarket I town. In fact I would say that at that time it was probably the most popular of the Super Markets. Well there was really only one easy way to get to ShopRite, and that was to cross a small bridge. Well, the time came ...read more

  • The California Coast Was Shrouded In Fog The ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 17, 2004
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    The California coast was shrouded in fog the morning of July 4, 1952. Twenty-one miles to the west, on Catalina Island, a thirty-four year old woman waded into the water and began swimming toward California. She was determined to be the first woman to ever swim the twenty-one mile strait. Her ...read more

  • When Dr. W.a. Criswell, Pastor Of The Largest ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Rogers on Nov 16, 2004
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    When Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the largest Southern Baptist Church in North America, was preaching I the North Shore Baptist Church in Chicago, he was entertained at the home of deacon James L. Kraft who was the superintendent of the Sunday School and founder of Kraft foods. Kraft said that as ...read more

  • Someone Once Asked Radio Commentator Paul Harvey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Someone once asked radio commentator Paul Harvey to reveal the secret of his success. Here’s what he said: "I get up when I fall down," Bits & Pieces, March 3, 1994, p. 16. That’s pretty simple, but I think race-car-driver Bill Vukovich might have him beat. When someone asked Vukovich the Secret ...read more

  • I Remember A Few Years Ago, When I Was Stationed ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Sep 18, 2007
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    I remember a few years ago, when I was stationed at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, some of the students had designed and created a satellite that was launched during one of the space shuttle missions. I wrote an article about it, and while interviewing the professor in charge of ...read more

  • And What About Other Examples From Fictional ...

    Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Oct 27, 2007
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    And what about other examples from fictional stories: in Beauty and the Beast we find the Beauty having a preconceived notion of what the Beast is like…in the movie Shrek…which by the way is Anne’s nickname for me when I shave my head…. the princess in that movie…she had a preconceived notion of ...read more

  • One Discovery That Has Affected Just About All Of ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 10, 2007
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    One discovery that has affected just about all of us occurred in 1946. As Dr. Percy Spencer was testing a component of a military radar called the magnetron tube he reached into his pocket to grab a chocolate bar that he had stashed for those times he felt a little hungry. When he grabbed it he ...read more

  • You've Heard The Story. Jetblue Angered A Lot Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    You’ve heard the story. JetBlue angered a lot of people when they cancelled a thousand flights in the course of a few days. Negative customer reaction was enough to make the average CEO want to hide. Instead, JetBlue CEO David Neeleman took the pilot’s seat and responded quickly with sincere ...read more

  • Victoriously Living Over The Flesh  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Victoriously Living Over the Flesh Romans 8:12-14, "Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, ...read more

  • The Tarsier Is One Of The Smallest Primates And ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 19, 2009
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    “The Tarsier is one of the smallest primates and lives in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra and the Philippines. Tarsiers have a maximum body length of 6⅓ inches and a 10½ inch tail. Their eyes are so large that they would be equivalent to grapefruit-sized eyes in a human being. Tarsiers, ...read more

  • The Teddy Bear Lady

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 11, 2009
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    THE TEDDY BEAR LADY Most of the people at Chicago’s Children’s Hospital did not know her name. They just knew her as the sweet elderly lady in the red suit who wanted to make sure that every sick child had a teddy bear to hug and caress. She kept bringing the stuffed animals, purchased with her ...read more

  • Family Stages

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
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    FAMILY STAGES Now you know why I say, "The family takes a lot of work!" A healthy family will go through several stages that require perseverance and a good work ethic. Stage One -- The family begins at the, "I do"s and a couple is birthed. Now comes the dying to self. Stage Two -- The couple's ...read more

  • Blackaby In His Book

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
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    Blackaby in his book "Power of the Call" shares on pages 14-17 what the qualifications of a spiritual leader are: i. A leader has an absolute sense of urgency (Matt. 9:35-37) ii. A leader has an absolute priority and commitment to prayer (Matt. 9:38). iii. A leader is unconditionally related to ...read more

  • Others Have Developed Dysfunctional Ways To View ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 14, 2010
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    Others have developed dysfunctional ways to view life in hope it would bring contentment, fulfillment and eternal life! a. Optimism: By looking through rose-colored glasses, we can convince ourselves that we live on Fantasy Island, existing under cloudless skies and surrounded by oceans of love, ...read more

  • Philip Yancey's Wife Shares The Suffering Of An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2010
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    Philip Yancey’s Wife Shares the Suffering of an Elderly Man Philip Yancey- My wife worked with some of the poorest people in the city of Chicago, directing a program of a church that intentionally seeks out lonely and abandoned senior citizens no one else cares for. Many times I have seen her pour ...read more

  • A Christ-Like Schedule

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 14, 2010
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    A CHRIST-LIKE SCHEDULE If Jesus Christ were here today, do you think He would serve on three church committees; drive in the car pool on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; attend two services on Sunday; manage a boys' organization; serve on the lunch committee at the local synagogue or church; and ...read more

  • Be Not Terrified By Adversity

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
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    BE NOT TERRIFIED BY ADVERSITY One of the most treasured pieces in the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, is a rug bearing the Latin inscription Nec Aspera Terrent (Be Not Terrified by Adversity). It always has had special meaning for Baroness Maria von Trapp and her children—the famous Trapp ...read more

  • Furtick On Audacious Faith

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 18, 2011
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    FURTICK ON AUDACIOUS FAITH "We set a goal of reaching over one thousand people in our first year of ministry. Since the average church size in America is fewer than one hundred and twenty, and the first rule of goal setting is attainability, I guess we were overshooting it a bit. But we wanted to ...read more

  • Beholden To Money

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2011
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    BEHOLDEN TO MONEY In his book How Much Is Enough? Hungering For God In An Affluent Culture author and Founder of Bread for the World: Arthur Simon writes about Bryce and Ellen, "a couple in their mid-thirties. They have two sons and a daughter, and on Sundays the family attends church more often ...read more

  • Spiritual Consumerism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
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    SPIRITUAL CONSUMERISM In February 27 2009 article from the website “Slate” titled, “Why American churchgoers like to shop around” also caught my attention. That article cited statistics from a Barna Group survey that revealed that one in seven adults changes churches each year, and another one in ...read more