Contributed by David Hill on Jul 8, 2004
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Black Bart was a professional thief whose very name struck fear as he terrorized the Wells Fargo stage line. From San Francisco to new York, his name became synonymous with the danger of the frontier. Between 1875 and 1883 he robbed 29 different stagecoach. Amazingly, Bart did it all without
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 29, 2006
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Cradles The Shaped The World
An example Charles Swindoll uses is the year 1809. The international scene was tumultuous and turbulent that year. Napoleon Bonaparte was sweeping through Austria on his quest to rule the world, and blood was flowing freely. Nobody cared much about babies being born in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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Mature Audiences: One person will turn 50 in the United States every 7.5 seconds for the next 18 years! The U.S. Census Bureau projects there are 25.3 million Americans between ages of 50-59, and expect that figure will jump to 37.7 million by 2006. "This aging population is growing and it is one
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Contributed by Daniel Haas on Jan 5, 2011
WINNER AND LOSER
In 1958, a New York City father named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy—well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about him.
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 17, 2012
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A BAD DAY
Mr. Insured had just purchased a new 7509cc Honda motorcycle. After a few leisurely trips around the block to become acquainted with this powerful new machine, he parked the cycle in front of his home to show it off to his neighbors.
It started to rain, however, and not wanting to get
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Oct 17, 2007
The estimated total number of people living in the US with a viral Sexually Transmitted Disease/Sexually Transmitted Infection (STD/STI) is over 65 million.
Every year, there are at least 19 million new cases of STDs/STIs, some of which are curable.
More than $8 billion is spent each year to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Around 10:30 last night, our home phone rang. I didn’t answer it, because when it’s the home phone ringing, it’s almost always for Gladys. A minute or so later, Gladys opened the door to my office and told me the person on the phone wanted to speak to chaplain Gregory. At that news, my heart
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Contributed by David Moore on Dec 9, 2008
A man was walking through an art gallery when he came upon a picture of the Lord Jesus dying upon the cross. He stopped and looked at the beautiful portrait of Calvary’s love. As he stared into the face of Christ, so full of agony the gallery guard tapped him on the shoulder. “Lower,” the guard
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Contributed by Michael Belcher on Nov 26, 2001
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I will close with a record of something God did 130 years go in New York City. It illustrates how God has started every harvest time in history, through the concerted prayer of his people. Toward the middle of the last century the glow of earlier religious awakenings had faded. America was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A couple of years ago I heard a story of a boy named Jeremy. He was born with a twisted body, a slow mind and a chronic, terminal illness that had been slowly killing him all his young life.
One Sunday morning in early Spring Jeremy’s Sunday school teacher told the children the story of Jesus,
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 17, 2004
ILLUSTRATION... US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/cesan.txt
What do we spend our money on?
1. Housing
2. Transportation
3. Food
4.
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 15, 2006
The cost of travel can be expensive. We belong to almost every club and program that gets us award travel. Here is the good news. The trip to the City of God is FREE.
gIt is the gift of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4,
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Contributed by Jim Mazzulla on Jul 18, 2011
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PAUL AND FREEDOM
Paul uses the word FREEDOM 28 times in the Pauline Epistles 10 times in this Epistle to the Galatians. Paul uses the word grace 100 times in his writings. Among all the other writers of the New
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