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  • Memorial Day: Remember The Martyrs

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Jun 4, 2011
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     | 9,361 views

    MEMORIAL DAY: REMEMBER THE MARTYRS It’s honorable and fitting this morning we remember the sacrifice of our nation’s great veterans, who gave their lives on battlefields abroad and here at home. By some estimates, nearly 1.3 million Americans have shed their blood and died for freedom’s cause. ...read more

  • In The First Church I Served, There Was A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    : In the first church I served, there was a man in the community named Lynn. I knew him only in passing. He showed up to church once in a while, but he obviously wasn’t all that interested in “religion” or church. I later found out that Lynn was not somebody you would want to make angry. He had ...read more

  • In An Interview With Time Magazine, Bill Gates Is ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,611 views

    In an interview with TIME magazine, Bill Gates is quoted as saying: “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” Bill Gates has a net worth of 56 billion dollars. To put that in perspective, there are ...read more

  • We Learn To Walk During The Good Times And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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    We learn to walk during the good times and the bad times: One night while conducting an evangelistic meeting in the Salvation Army Citadel in Chicago, Booth Tucker preached on the sympathy of Jesus. After his message a man approached him and said, “If your wife had just died, like mine has, and ...read more

  • Jesus Took Our Place At Calvary

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
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     | 4,501 views

    Jesus Took Our Place At Calvary A man named Goho rose to be chief of the tribe. He was a good man, and far wiser and advanced in understanding than his fellow tribesmen. The year he became chief, the tribe brought in 40 heads. He judiciously suggested that the tribe use one head each year as a ...read more

  • Liberals Give Less Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    LIBERALS GIVE LESS THAN CONSERVATIVES A couple years ago, a Syracuse University professor named Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book called "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism". He was not particularly excited about the outcome of the study he’d done (he’d been raised ...read more

  • Temple Of Greed

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Mar 12, 2009
     | 3,895 views

    TEMPLE OF GREED Stanford Kurland ran Countrywide Mortgage through 2006. Then after the mortgage crisis began (for which Kurland may be partially responsible) he opened up PennyMac, a company that says they will help bail out the mortgage industry by buying the troubled mortgages at a reduced rate ...read more

  • How Do You Make This Thing Work? War Story

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 3, 2026
    based on 2 ratings
     | 165 views

    The story is told ... about an Army sergeant ... who was caught near a beach ... by German artillery ... and managed to protect himself ... by moving to the water's edge. While improving his position with a trench shovel, ... he came upon an ornate crucifix ... the kind that prosperous ...read more

  • The Magi -- Who Were They?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 25, 2019
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    Lambert Dolphin writes: “The ancient Magi were a hereditary priesthood of the Medes (known today as the Kurds) credited with profound and extraordinary religious knowledge. After some Magi, who had been attached to the Median court, proved to be expert in the interpretation of dreams, Darius the ...read more

  • The Bet — Anton Chekhov

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 7, 2006
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    The Bet -- Anton Chekhov We live in a world that knows little about what’s truly valuable. People all around us are pursuing things that have no lasting value. That pursuit is ably treated by Anton Chekhov in his classic short story The Bet. This story gives us great insight into the value system ...read more

  • An Overview Of The Signs - Dr. David Reagan ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
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    An Overview of the Signs - Dr. David Reagan http://www.lamblion.com/articles/articles_signs3.php Let me present you with an outline overview of the signs of the times: I. Signs of Nature (Matthew 24:7; Mark 13: 8; and Luke 21:11) 1. Famine 2. Earthquakes 3. Plagues 4. Signs in the Heavens (Unusual ...read more

  • Authentic Or A Fraud

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Oct 30, 2010
     | 4,347 views

    Yesterday I was reading about a man called Han van Meegeren who was a Dutch artist and an extremely talented ART FORGER. He forged some of the world's most famous paintings so well that the best art critics and art experts of his time thought his paintings were GENUINE. Painting one of the finest ...read more

  • Have You Tasted Jesus?  PRO

    Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 53 ratings
     | 5,955 views

    Have you tasted Jesus? One divinity school hosted an annual picnic, to which they invited one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center. One year, the guest lecturer was a professor, who spoke for two and one-half hours "proving" that the resurrection of Jesus was ...read more

  • Remembering Joseph Bau—communion Meditation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 4,588 views

    REMEMBERING JOSEPH BAU--COMMUNION MEDITATION When someone dies, we remember—we remember all the stories that filled their life. Last week a man named Joseph Bau died. It’s a name you probably don’t know, but a story worth hearing. Joseph Bau was born on June 18, 1920, in Krakow, Poland. ...read more

  • Personal Truth To The Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
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    PERSONAL TRUTH TO THE RESURRECTION Christian author and activist Chuck Colson draws evidence for the resurrection for personal experience. Colson was a part of the Nixon Whitehouse during the Watergate scandal of seventies. He writes: Watergate involved a conspiracy to cover up, ...read more

  • Someone Tells About A Pastor Who Was Late For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jul 1, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,958 views

    Someone tells about a pastor who was late for church. He flagged down a taxicab and instructed the cabdriver to do everything within his power to get him to church on time. So the cab sped off and weaved through traffic for about ten blocks. The dangerous driving ended in a fatal accident. Both ...read more

  • There Is A Moving Scene In The Movie Dr. Zhivago ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 12, 2005
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    There is a moving scene in the movie Dr. Zhivago where the Comrade General is talking with Tanya about a traumatic experience in her childhood. He asks her, “How did you come to be lost?” She replies, “Well, I was just lost.” But he persists and asks again, “No, how did you come to be lost?” ...read more

  • How Do We Know God Is Here With Us?  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
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    *Christmas is a time when God came near. And God comes near today. *Joe McKeever told the story of a little girl named Rachel. Like many preschoolers, Rachel had a problem waking up in the middle of the night, scared and crying. The only thing that would sooth her fears was crawling into bed with ...read more

  • Revenge Vs. Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
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    REVENGE VS. FORGIVENESS There was once a man who was bitten by a dog, which was later discovered to be rabid. The man was rushed to the hospital where tests revealed that he had, in fact, contracted rabies. At the time, medical science had no cure for this disease and so his doctor faced the ...read more

  • One Rascal Among Honest Men

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2011
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    ONE RASCAL AMONG HONEST MEN A king visited a slave ship, and there was a slave galley where they chain men to the oars and they row and a man beats the drum and another man has a lash to make them row. And they would take the prisoners of the state and put them to use, pulling on the oars. The ...read more