Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 29, 2008
An Australian mining town will always remember the year of the dramatic rescue. An earthquake killed one miner and trapped two others 3,000 feet under the ground. Days turned into weeks as miners bore through tons of rock; rescuers could only work one at a time on their backs in a cramped rescue
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Contributed by Chris Smith on Jul 21, 2001
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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
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Contributed by Mark Winter on Jan 18, 2003
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In the NT, the word for peace means “to reconcile or join.” Some missionary Bible translators were working very hard to find a word for peace in a particular tribal language. At last, a native who was working with them found a combination of words that captured the concept—“a heart that
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jul 15, 2003
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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
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Contributed by David Butcher on Dec 8, 2006
I read a story in a paper this week of Mark Baylis who through quite amazing circumstances was reunited with his birth mother. Adopted at birth and brought up by wonderful parents, yet there was still the longing to know what had happened, was he really loved. The came the moment of reunion,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
Bible Readership plummeted to a 20-year low of just 31% in ‘95, and began to slowly climb back to levels, finally returning to the 40% mark in ‘00. Increases began again in ‘04, continuing through ’06 with 47% of adults reading the Bible during a typical week,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2007
Bible Readership plummeted to a 20-year low of just 31% in ‘95, and began to slowly climb back to levels, finally returning to the 40% mark in ‘00. Increases began again in ‘04, continuing through ’06 and now 47% of adults read the Bible during a typical week,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Game Boys In the USA, over 70% of males in the 18 to 34 demographic play video games, according to NPD Group. Young men play 12.5 hours of video games a week, while they watch television 9.8 hours, and 75% of households with a male member age 8
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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A LITTLE DOUBT
The whelk is a this little ocean creature can ruin an oyster’s day. The whelk has an appendage that works like an corkscrew, With which it can bore a small hole in the top of an oyster’s shell.
Then through this very small hole a whelk can devour an entire oyster, It simply sucks
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Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 24, 2007
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Jonah lost God’s voice. The word of the Lord had come to Jonah, but now God was speaking to Jonah through the sea, the storm, & even the great fish instead of visions & His Word.
Samson lost the voice of God. When Samson’s hair was cut, we are told that he got up,
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