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  • From The Movie "Daylight" Starring Sylvester ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2003
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    From the movie "Daylight" starring Sylvester Stallone: After a car crash in an underwater tunnel the resulting explosion traps a group of people underground. Former emergency medical technicians, Kit Latura, (Stallone) happens to be on the scene and begins his rescue efforts. Making his way into ...read more

  • A Church Secretary Who Had What She Felt Was A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2004
     | 2,022 views

    A church secretary who had what she felt was a discreet sexual affair with her boss but was found out. When the affair was out in the open and because of the ensuring investigations her boss went to jail for 45 years and his wife divorced him and married his very close friend. She considers ...read more

  • We Have A Custom Of Viewing The Body, Not Just ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
     | 900 views

    We have a custom of viewing the body, not just out of curiosity or to judge the mortician’s skill but to face reality. In doing that we grieve, which ventilates our sorrow and helps to bring emotional healing and relief. A young boy in my former pastorate suffered the death of his thirty-year-old ...read more

  • Danny Wuerffel

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2010
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     | 1,293 views

    DANNY WUERFFEL Danny Wuerffel attended high school in Ft. Walton Beach, FL and played at the University of Florida, winning the Heisman Trophy in 1996. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and then played for several NFL teams. He was offered to rejoin to the Washington Redskins and his former ...read more

  • Not The White House, But Your House

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jul 28, 2011
     | 2,428 views

    NOT THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT YOUR HOUSE As part of a commencement address, former First Lady Barbara Bush said the following to a group of graduating college students: "As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer, or business leader will be, you are a human being first, and those human ...read more

  • Being Subjected To Extended Aloneness Kills The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 6, 2008
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    Being subjected to extended aloneness kills the spirit, introduces insanity, and destroys a person. Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain describes the elation he experienced when he was reunited with fellow prisoners after a horribly long and brutal separation: "I was overwhelmed by the ...read more

  • To Be God's Property Mean That We Are Owned By ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Feb 26, 2002
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    To be God’s property mean that we are owned by God. There is a powerful story about an English missionary whose house was being looted. "An English missionary died in the early part of this century [the 20th century]. Immediately after his death his former neighbors broke into his house and ...read more

  • The First Computers, Built Around The End Of The ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 10, 2002
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    The first computers, built around the end of the Second World War, were large machines that could have taken up most of this sanctuary. But, over a period of 30 - 40 years, they shrunk in size and grew in power. A man by the name of Douglas Engelbart, a former Navy Radar Technician, established ...read more

  • Are You For Real?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
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     | 1,696 views

    ARE YOU FOR REAL? The misuse of God’s name for personal profit is easily applied to certain televangelists who use the name of God to make a buck off of overly trusting people, or politicians who mention God’s name in the right places and the right times in order to gain a certain constituency of ...read more

  • In 1980, Mt St. Helens In Washington State ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Mar 2, 2004
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    In 1980, Mt St. Helens in Washington State erupted - spewing lava out for miles around. 83 year-old Harry Truman (not to be confused with the former US President) was the owner of Mt. St. Helens Lodge. He had been a resident there for nearly 50 years and became nationally famous for his refusal to ...read more

  • Last Week Mitch Daniels, The Republican Candidate ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 4, 2004
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    Last week Mitch Daniels, the Republican candidate for Governor here in Indiana wrote a tribute to Ronald Reagan a few days after his death earlier this month. He began, “arriving back late at the White House, I was observing my usual respectful silence when Ronald Reagan asked, "Going straight ...read more

  • Philip Yancey, Writing In Christianity Today, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Tkachuk on Jan 20, 2005
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    Philip Yancey, writing in Christianity Today, offers these three reasons why this topic of heaven is being neglected. 1. “Affluence has given us in this life what former generations longed for in anticipation of heaven. 2. A creeping paganism invites us to accept death as the culmination of life ...read more

  • Sheep Know Shepherd's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    Sheep Know Shepherd’s Voice The contrast with the shepherd is even greater for the shepherd knows each sheep by name and his sheep follow his voice alone. Lloyd Ogilvie, the former Chaplain of the Senate and Pastor of Hollywood Presbyterian Church tells of being in the Middle East and watching a ...read more

  • What Was The Point?

    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Apr 1, 2010
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    WHAT WAS THE POINT? Alan Scholes, a former agnostic, testifies from his experience: "I had often heard my religious friends say, 'Jesus died for our sins' or 'Jesus died to save the world.' I could see how the good example of Jesus’ actions might possibly influence some men and women to live ...read more

  • Generosity

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Oct 21, 2010
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    You all probably remember the photos that Eve [our former children’s worker] brought back from Zambia of bags of grain lying in church as people had brought a true tithe, ten per cent of their crop to give to God. People in Africa have very little and yet are very generous. In this country ...read more

  • Earlier This Month, President George W. Bush ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 15, 2007
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    Earlier this month, President George W. Bush granted a pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a 2 ½ year prison term in a CIA leak case. Libby was the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was convicted in March of lying to authorities and obstructing the ...read more

  • In The Not So Distant Past, Was A Movement That ...

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Sep 20, 2008
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    In the not so distant past, was a movement that swept across the country that was started by former Colorado University football coach Bill McCartney, called Promise Keepers. It started small, but before long, hundreds of thousands of men would gather for huge conferences that focused on men ...read more

  • Today We Seek To Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
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    Today we seek to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we will start with a portion of Dr. King’s "I have a dream speech". …And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this ...read more

  • Live What You Believe  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    LIVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, no person in all of East Germany was more despised than the former Communist dictator Erich Honniker. He had been stripped of all his offices. Even the Communist Party rejected him. Kicked out of his villa, the new government ...read more

  • The Beginning Of Marilyn Manson

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 27, 2012
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    THE BEGINNING OF MARILYN MANSON Brian Warner started going to church with a friend years ago. Brian was a skinny pizza faced nerdy looking kid that nobody liked. He was also a loner who looked out of place most of the time. The youth group took a trip to an amusement park one weekend and when ...read more