Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
GET UP STRONGER
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, about three million African slaves had been transported to the Americas on British ships. People being stolen from their homes, ripped from their families, robbed of their dignity, transported on ships 3 decks deep, squalid conditions,
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 22, 2011
THE BELLS TOLL FOR SOMEONE ELSE
We began the week with the story of the Chicago nightclub fire in which 21 people were killed as they rushed to the exit. The club had already been cited for overcrowding and other safety violations--like not enough doors and windows. What happened was that a
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 12, 2002
National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats)
Only 39% of elderly Americans report that they are in good health
Over 33 million Americans have arthritis to the point it alters their daily lives
Nearly 150 million Americans suffer with some sort of disability dealing with the
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Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 31, 2005
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As Christian workers, worldliness is not the trap which most endangers us; nor is it sin. The trap we fall into is extravagantly desiring spiritual success. Never seek after anything other than the approval of God. Unless the worker lives a life hidden with Christ in God, he is apt to become
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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Overweight Kids are lonely and sad more often than other children, and they are often bullied, ridiculed and teased by their peers, says child psychologist Sylvia Rimm. Many “fight their sadness by cheating on eating,” creating a vicious cycle, she says. Nationally, about 20% to 30%
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Contributed by Pete Pawelek on Mar 19, 2006
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Farley wrote this in his book Outrageous Mercy “The Cross is our teacher. The cross is a window through which we learn everything we need to know about God, humanity, wisdom, worship, the purpose of suffering, the purpose of life, and a host of other issues. If you knew nothing else but the
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Consider a great scientist and thinker Albert Einstein, developed the theory of relativity and many others, he was quoted as saying the following “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jul 26, 2006
A. In November, 1975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them had
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Contributed by Dale Harlow on Mar 8, 2007
It is sort of like the two guys that were going hiking through the woods. They didn’t have any weapons and they were discussing the possibility that they might encounter a bear. One guy says, “do you think we can out run a bear?”
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In 1800 a man named William Miller predicted that Christ would return on or around April 3, 1843. All over the Northeast, half a million of his followers awaited the end of the world. Reportedly some of them made their way to the top of mountains, hoping for a head start to heaven. Others were in
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