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  • When David Brainerd Took The Message Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Luthy on Nov 16, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,674 views

    When David Brainerd took the message of redemption to the North American Indians from 1743 to his death at age 29 just four years later, a revival broke out that impacted the Native American community. Baugh writes, "The revival had greatest impact when Brainerd emphasized the compassion of the ...read more

  • 22 Percent Of Married Men And 14 Percent Of ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Mar 30, 2006
     | 1,280 views

    22 percent of married men and 14 percent of married women have strayed at least once during their married lives. -Source: Associated Press According to a 2005 study by Keynote, an Internet industry research firm 30 percent of online daters are married or live with a significant other. In 2002, ...read more

  • President Ronald Reagan Gave One Of The Best ...  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,994 views

    -President Ronald Reagan gave one of the best ‘Memorial Day’ speeches ever given on the 40th anniversary of the D-Day in 1984. D-Day was the invasion of France that led to the destruction and ultimate surrender of Nazi Germany. “We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of ...read more

  • Frank Abagnale Was The World's Greatest Con ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ritter on Feb 2, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,749 views

    Frank Abagnale was the world’s greatest con artist. The movie Catch Me If You Can is based on the true-life story this man, who bilked the government out of more than $5 million by the time he was 21. Raised in the home of a father who cheated the government and a mother who cheated on her husband, ...read more

  • The Most Memorable 4th Of July Celebration For Me ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,780 views

    The most memorable 4th of July celebration for me happened at Fort Devens, Massachusetts in 1986. The fireworks are usually excellent at any military base for the 4th of July, but that is not what I remember. The cannons shooting at the playing of the 1812 Overture was impressive, but not the most ...read more

  • Flight Simulator And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
     | 3,422 views

    Flight Simulator and Grace Grace. A word used in a variety of ways. It is a word that has been used as an alternative term for prayer. It has been used to describe the way a person moves. It has also been used by many parents to name their daughters. Still, none of these uses seem to catch the ...read more

  • The Rise And Fall Of Nine Rich Men  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,351 views

    THE RISE AND FALL OF NINE RICH MEN A popular story recounts a meeting that may have taken place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1923. There is debate whether the meeting in fact occurred, but what is not in question is the actual rise and fall of the men featured in the story, who were ...read more

  • Stephen Ambrose Wrote A Book In 2000 Entitled ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 27, 2004
     | 2,127 views

    -Stephen Ambrose wrote a book in 2000 entitled Nothing Like It In The World. It is the story of the Transcontinental Railroad that was built from 1863-1869. In that book he describes what happens during the building of the rails that led West. There were a series of wagons that were pulled by ...read more

  • Charles Fuller Once Announced That He Would Be ...

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
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     | 1,895 views

    Charles Fuller once announced that he would be speaking the following Sunday on “Heaven.” During that week, a precious letter was received from an old man who was very ill. Here is part of his letter: “Next Sunday you are to talk about Heaven. I am interested in that land, because I have held a ...read more

  • Medicine For ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 1,845 views

    “Medicine for America” “God Rules Over Nations” Psalms 22:28 says, “for dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.” The King James Bibles says, “…He is the governor among nations.” God can restore our Supreme Court system to making decisions like the one made in 1892, ...read more

  • Alcoholics Anonymous And Celebrate Recovery

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AND CELEBRATE RECOVERY By 1934, alcoholic Bill Wilson had ruined a promising Wall Street career because of his constant drunkenness. He was introduced to the idea of a spiritual cure by an old drinking buddy, Ebby Thacher. While in a hospital, Wilson underwent what he believed ...read more

  • Marked As A Possession  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,462 views

    MARKED AS A POSSESSION Phillip Keller writes, "The day I bought my first 30 sheep, my neighbor and I sat on the dusty corral rails that enclosed the sheep pen and admired the choice, strong, well bred sheep that had just become mine. Turning to me, he handed me a large, sharp killing knife and ...read more

  • What Do You Hold ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009
     | 3,982 views

    WHAT DO YOU HOLD SACRED? One of the most profound things I learned in graduate school was taught to me by one of my professors. He is now my Counselor Intern Supervisor, my mentor, and my good friend, Tom Moore. It was really more of a question than a profound fact to puzzle over. On an essay ...read more

  • My Wife Loves Hgtv. (It Drives Me Nuts, But She ...

    Contributed by Grant Sisson on Apr 17, 2010
     | 2,129 views

    My wife loves HGTV. (It drives me nuts, but she doesn’t watch football with me either.) But once in a while I will sit down with her and watch it. The other night there was a show about the HGTV “good guy” construction expert going into a home that was left supposedly 95% complete when a ...read more

  • John D. Rockefeller's Transformation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
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    JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER’S TRANSFORMATION John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was strong and husky when he was a youth. He early determined to earn money and drove himself to the limit. At age 33, he earned his first million dollars. At age 43, he controlled the biggest company in the world. At age 53, he was ...read more

  • Unheeded Warnings

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 10, 2021
     | 2,297 views

    WHAT CAN POOR PLANNING DO? UNHEEDED WARNINGS… NOT READY? UNEXPECTED? THE GREAT MOLASSES TSUNAMI? What are you expecting at 12:40 PM in the afternoon? Children were playing. Those that worked the night shift were sleeping. Let us understand what SORGHUM MOLASSES really is… Molasses is something ...read more

  • I Am…  PRO

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Mar 16, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,341 views

    I am… BLESSED when I come in and BLESSED when I go out (Deut 28:6) SAFE wherever I go (Psa 91:11) REDEEMED from the hand of the enemy (Psa 107:2) The SALT of the earth (Matt 5:13) The LIGHT of the world (Matt 5:14) VALUABLE! (Matt 10:31) Exercising my AUTHORITY over the enemy (Luke 10:19) VALUABLE ...read more

  • All I Really Need To Know I Learned In ...

    Contributed by Stephen Todd on Apr 15, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,597 views

    All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share ...read more

  • Many Years Ago A Senior Executive Of The Then ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,636 views

    Many years ago a senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the firm. On the day the news leaked out most of the executives of the company were finding various ingenious ways of avoiding ...read more

  • Asking Why

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,273 views

    ASKING WHY In his Good Friday sermon for 2005, Dr. Richard Lischer asked these questions: -"Have you ever been tempted? So was (Jesus). Thus your temptations have been redeemed in His. -Have you ever been hated? So was He. You have a place in Him. -Have you ever been lonely, afraid, without a ...read more