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  • Serious Video Games Are Gaining Momentum Against ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Serious Video Games are gaining momentum against the shoot-em up variety. Eventually, “serious games will take over the world” of gaming, predicts Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Assn. People will use video games for learning so easily and so often that ...read more

  • Belief Vs. Reality: More Than Four Out Of Five ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Belief Vs. Reality: More than four out of five Americans claim to be Christian and half as many can be classified as born again Christians. Nine out of ten adults own a Bible. Most adults read the Bible during the year and a huge majority claims they know all of the basic teachings of the Bible. ...read more

  • George Muller, Who Was Known For His Strong ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    George Muller, who was known for his strong faith, confided. "The first 3 years after conversion, I neglected the Word of God. Since I began to search it diligently, the blessing has been wonderful. I have read the Bible through one hundred times and always with increasing delight!" John Bunyan, ...read more

  • George Muller, Who Was Known For His Strong ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 5, 2006
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    George Muller, who was known for his strong faith, confided. "The first 3 years after conversion, I neglected the Word of God. Since I began to search it diligently, the blessing has been wonderful. I have read the Bible through one hundred times and always with increasing delight!" John Bunyan, ...read more

  • Most Of Us Have Gone To The Zoo Before And At The ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
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    Most of us have gone to the zoo before and at the zoo, even if we cannot stand the snakes there is always that pull to go and see them. There are some places that have pythons that are 12 to 18 feet long. In my mind he wasn’t pretty, in fact my thinking is that the only good snake to me is a dead ...read more

  • Surprise Attack

    Contributed by James Chandler on Feb 20, 2007
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    Earlier this week, I was wrestling my 14 year old son. I accomplished the near impossible feat of tackling and pinning him to the floor. Just when I thought that victory was mine, my 12 year son decided to jump in and throw himself onto my back. I was ...read more

  • A Worthless Piece Of Paper  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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    A WORTHLESS PIECE OF PAPER In 1830, a man named George Wilson was convicted of killing a government employee while robbing the U.S. Mail. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. Andrew Jackson, then the President, issued a pardon for Wilson, but Wilson did a strange thing: he refused to ...read more

  • Common Lies  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2002
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    Common Lies The check is in the mail. I'll start my diet tomorrow. We service what we sell. Give me your number and the doctor will call you right back. Money cheerfully refunded. One size fits all. This offer limited to the first 100 people who call in. Your luggage isn't lost, it's only ...read more

  • Test Pilots Have A Litmus Test For Evaluating ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
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    Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there’s no immediate danger, no need to overreact. When Apollo 12 took off, the spacecraft was hit by lightning. The entire console began to glow ...read more

  • The Population Of This Country Is 200 Million. ...

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Aug 12, 2002
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    "The population of this country is 200 million. 84 million are retired. That leaves 116 million to do the work. There are 75 million in school, which leaves 41 million to do the work. Of this total, there are 22 million employed by the federal government. "That leaves 19 million to do the work. 4 ...read more

  • A Genuine Free Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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    A Genuine Free Spirit It took just a few hours for budget carrier Spirit Airlines to give away 13,400 free tickets on 90 flights to 14 cities - every seat for an entire day. The catch? That day is Sept. 11. Like most airlines, Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit had found few willing to fly on the first ...read more

  • The Population Of This Country Is 200 Million. ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Mar 24, 2003
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    "The population of this country is 200 million. 84 million are retired. That leaves 116 million to do the work. There are 75 million in school, which leaves 41 million to do the work. Of this total, there are 22 million employed by the federal government. "That leaves 19 million to do the work. 4 ...read more

  • Perhaps One Of The Most Poignant Stories Of A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2004
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    Perhaps one of the most poignant stories of a rich person’s sacrificial giving gone awry is found in the account of the life of the great Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy. In his attempt to live out the lifestyle he believed that Jesus prescribed, this extremely wealthy man sold his vast farmlands ...read more

  • John Regier, The Founder Of A Ministry Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Kim on Sep 21, 2004
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    John Regier, the founder of a ministry called Biblical Concepts in Counseling is a very successful marriage counselor. His whole ministry is based on using Bible truths. Over his years of counseling, he has discovered that there are 12 consequences to premarital sex. Now what I am about to share ...read more

  • In "The Hem Of His Garment" A Sermon By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jan 3, 2005
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    In "The Hem of His Garment" a sermon by W.A.Criswell (preached on 12/9/90) Dr.Criswell told this story, "Sir John Simpson, knighted by Queen Victoria in this last century, was a glorious Christian architect. He built those marvelous hospitals in London and in other cities of England- a great ...read more

  • John Piper (Let The Nations Be Glad, ...

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 16, 2003
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    John Piper (Let the Nations Be Glad, 1993,p.12)quotes Charles Misner, a scientific specialist in general relativity theory, who expressed Albert Einstein’s skepticism The design of the universe ... is very magnificient and shouldn’t be taken for granted. In fact, I believe that is why Einstein ...read more

  • Governor John Connally Quote  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 26, 2003
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    ILLUSTRATION… Governor John Connally Quote I was reading recently of events that happened back in 1963 when John F Kennedy was tragically gunned down. It was the Texas Governor of the time John Connally who was wounded in the gun attack. He and his wife Nellie were in the motorcade that day. In ...read more

  • There Is The Story Of A Lady Who Had Just ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is the story of a lady who had just completed university She had been offered a job with an accounting firm She is a mother of three who were at the time were 12, 15 and 18 but just before she takes up the position she has a regular check up and her doctor discovers she has cancer not long ...read more

  • The Eldest Son Of A Widowed Mother Went Out To ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Oct 18, 2007
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    The eldest son of a widowed mother went out to missionary work in Western Africa. In a short time he filled a missionary’s grave. There was another son left at home … by my brother’s grave. I will preach to my brother’s people. …In a short time, he too found a resting place in a missionary’s ...read more

  • The New York Yankees Had Been The World Champions ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
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    The New York Yankees had been the world champions in baseball 26 times when they came to the American League Championship Series in 2004. They trampled the Boston Red Sox by taking the first three games of the championship playoffs. The third game was a complete drubbing at 19-8. But after Game ...read more