Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 5, 2006
March 16th, 1942 General Douglas MacArthur is ordered out of the Philippines after a siege of America’s last stronghold in the country. All that is left is the island of Bataan. A reluctant MacArthur finally leaves Bataan for Australia, but before he leaves says “I shall return.” Eventually the
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
General John B. Sedgwick, May 9,1864, on the battlefield in Spotsylvania. A soldier, just in front of him, heard a sharpshooter’s bullet go overhead and he ducked to the ground. Why, my man, I am ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn’t hit an
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 8, 2007
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Quote from Generation Me by Jean Twenge- Young people have learned these self-lessons very well. In a letter to her fans in 2004, Britney Spears, 23, listed her priorities as "Myself, my husband, Kevin, and starting a family." We don’t have to hear that twice to get the point. We take it for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
Gay-Themed content ads generated $212 million in revenue in ‘05, a 2.5% increase over ’04. This represents 50.3% of total advertising in gay-themed publications—up from 9.9% in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
At the end of World War II, General George S. Patton had the occasion to lament the war’s end in a quiet walk that he took with his friend and mentor General Omar Bradley. He told “Brad” that he actually was sad to see the war ending in Europe and that he would miss the “struggle” and the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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General George Patton of WW II fame was a great student of the history of warfare. During the battles of North Africa, Patton’s troops and tanks were engaged in a series of attacks and counter-attacks with the German Panzer Divisions under the command of General Erwin Rommell, generally considered
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Contributed by John Perry on May 11, 2010
We learn an impt lesson about change in General Stonewall Jackson's famous valley campaign. Jackson's army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side. After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross, he called his wagon master in to
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 30, 2025
People generally don't like change.
As Mark Twain famously said, "The only person who likes change is a wet baby." There's a lot of truth to that quote. Many times, we think of change as being a bad thing, and we older people have seen a lot of bad changes in our lifetimes.
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Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 15, 2001
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“God certainly can, and sometimes does, heal people in a miraculous way today. But the Bible does not teach that He will always heal those who come to Him in faith. He sovereignly reserves the right to heal or not to heal as He sees fit.” [Joni
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Contributed by Jeff Kolk on Oct 26, 2000
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I read a book called Return with Honor. The book is about Captain Scott O’Grady the U.S. Air Force pilot shot down over Bosnia in June of 1995. Shortly after he landed hostile enemy troops stood as close as five feet from O’Grady who was hiding behind a small tree root. Miraculously he remained
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on May 29, 2001
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In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had them push his car
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2001
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon had this type of experience. Even as a young lad he was conscious of sin, but couldn’t find peace. It so happened under the providential over-ruling of God that one Sunday morning he was prevented from attending his usual place of worship because of a snowstorm. He was
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Contributed by Adam Cruse on Jul 18, 2001
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In the Nineteenth century there was a successful attorney in Chicago by the name of Horatio Spafford. He was intelligent, successful, and godly. Early on in his success, he came to the realization that he needed to have balance both in his home and church as well. He loved them and He loved his
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