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  • Engineers Tell Us That The Only Way That Metal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Smith on Jul 21, 2001
    based on 89 ratings
     | 2,576 views

    Engineers tell us that the only way that metal can safely be used is after testing it. And it must exceed the testing requirements. Repeatedly. The metal to be used must be pure. And in order for it to be purified, it must go through fire. It must be melted, and molded to fit the designers ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Poem By Will Carleton  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Ledermann on Jul 23, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,815 views

    Poem by Will Carleton “Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds; You can’t do that way when you’re flying words: ‘Careful with fire,’ is good advice we know, ‘Careful with words,’ is ten times doubly so. Thoughts expressed ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Engineers Tell Us That The Only Way That Metal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jul 15, 2003
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     | 1,461 views

    Engineers tell us that the only way that metal can safely be used is after testing it. And it must exceed the testing requirements. Repeatedly. The metal to be used must be pure. And in order for it to be purified, it must go through fire. It must be melted, and molded to fit the designers ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Our Churches Today Need To Be A Spiritual House. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Oct 7, 2008
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    Our churches today need to be a spiritual house. Many times our churches have become a social house where as one old preacher said: We traded our upper room into the board room, the fire of the Holy Spirit for a warm heater, our prayer meetings for chicken dinners, ...read more

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  • The Progress Of The World Depends Upon The Men ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,930 views

    "The progress of the world depends upon the men who walk in the fresh furrows and through the rustling corn; upon those whose faces are radiant with the glare of furnace fires; upon the delvers in mines, and the workers in shops; upon those who give to the Winter air the ringing music of the axe; ...read more

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  • We Grow Great By Dreams. All Big Men Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,799 views

    "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winters evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the ...read more

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  • In John Gibson's Book "The War On Christmas" He ...

    Contributed by David Selleck on Dec 7, 2005
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    In John Gibson’s book “The War on Christmas” he share several case studies of places where Christmas is under fire. It talks about a school in Georgia that had a suit declared from the ACLU changing Christmas vacation to Holiday break. In Mustang, OK at Lakehoma elementary in their annual ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • When God Builds A Church  PRO

    Contributed by Dru Ashwell on Dec 19, 2001
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    “Growing Christians are more evangelistic than evangelistic sermons. Inspire the members of your church—get them on fire for Jesus and excited about growing spiritually—and then they can’t help but tell their friends about it. The best evangelism is that which comes as a natural outpouring ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Dry Wood: There Is A Difference Between A Dead ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ryan Yandris on Mar 8, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
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    DRY WOOD: There is a difference between a dead saint and a dry saint. A dead saint is like a statue that never moves and eventually the pigeons will land on it and build their nest. But a dry saint is like dry wood, easily kindled. Dry wood just seems to catch on fire faster. Even though they have ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • This Past Thursday, Alabama's Chief Justice Was ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Nov 17, 2003
     | 2,310 views

    This past Thursday, Alabama’s chief justice was fired for the stand he took in trying to protect a monument with the 10 Commandments on it. Now, I will not debate with you the rightness or the wrongness of his actions, but I will confess this. I am afraid there is a line being drawn in this ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Abe Lemmons Was Head Basketball Coach At The ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 28, 2007
     | 1,418 views

    Abe Lemmons was head basketball coach at the University of Texas for years. One day he was asked if he was bitter at the athletic director (Texas Athletic Director Deloss Dodds) who fired him as the Longhorn’s basketball coach, he replied, “Not at all, but I ...read more

    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

  • In 1982, "Abc Evening News" Reported On An ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,087 views

    In 1982, "ABC Evening News" reported on an unusual work of modern art-a chair affixed to a shotgun. It was to be viewed by sitting in the chair and looking directly into the gun barrel. The gun was loaded and set on a timer to fire at an undetermined moment within the next hundred years. The ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
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    The Day The evidence in Scripture seems to indicate that God gave the Law to Moses on the Day of Pentecost, as the Jews believe. Many first century Jews believed that God made the Rainbow Covenant with Noah on this day as well. If so, we might think of Pentecost as "covenant initiation day." God ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • The Cost His Father Paid

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Mar 24, 2007
     | 2,130 views

    A young boy had to feed his father every day when he came home from school. His father had been so injured and couldn’t do many things for himself and to help with things the mother gave him one job to do and that was to feed his father every day, once a day. But on this particular day, the boy, ...read more

    Denomination: Methodist

  • A History Of Halloween  PRO

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Oct 25, 2001
    based on 53 ratings
     | 4,787 views

    A HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN The Celtic festival of Samhain is probably the source of the present-day Halloween celebration. The Celts new year began on November first. A festival that began the previous evening honored Samhain, the Celtic lord of death. The celebration marked the beginning of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Reading Their Names  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
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    READING THEIR NAMES Jeff Greenfield is a news correspondent for ABC News. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticutt and has attended the same Memorial Day observance in his community for the last 15 years. He writes: "At 10 a.m., the parade begins moving down Main Street. It is a small parade: ...read more

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  • Your Affirmation Can Help To Effect That Sense ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,326 views

    Your affirmation can help to effect that sense of importance in another. Sometimes the touch of love is more verbal than physical. Sherman Rogers has written a book about logging in the Pacific Northwest. As a young man he worked in a logging camp, and on one occasion the boss needed to be away ...read more

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  • When We Had Abbey Andrews Here For The October ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 2, 2008
     | 733 views

    When we had Abbey Andrews here for the October meetings with Dr. Nichols she sang a song that she wrote called, “Saturate Me.” The song is a prayer to the Lord to have Him saturate us with His holy presence, His love and His awesome fire. This song has become a favorite of mine and Ashley has ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • A Mother Dies So Her Boy May Live

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
     | 3,233 views

    A MOTHER DIES SO HER BOY MAY LIVE When the California gold fever broke out, a man went there, leaving his wife in New England with his boy. As soon as he got on and was successful he was to send for them. It was a long time before he succeeded, but at last he got money enough to send for them. The ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Miraculous Protection Of Hutu ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,089 views

    Miraculous Protection of Hutu Preacher Psalm 91:5 goes on to say, “You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day.” And vs. 11 says, “He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” ILL. Tribal wars are nothing new in Central Africa. In fact, a ...read more

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