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  • Robert Fulghum In His Wildly-Popular Book, "All I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 8, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 1,737 views

    Robert Fulghum in his wildly-popular book, “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,?spelled out how things learned as a child will shape the philosophy of an adult. These life-changing kindergarten rules, principles, and advice include: “Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. ...read more

  • On The Evening Of April 25, 1958, A Young Korean ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Mar 29, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,039 views

    On the evening of April 25, 1958, a young Korean exchange student, a leader in student Christian affairs in the University of Pennsylvania, left his flat and went to the corner to post a letter to his parents in Pusan. Turning from the mailbox he stepped into the path of eleven leather-jacketed ...read more

  • Oxymorons  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,354 views

    OXYMORONS (contradictory words) Act naturally Advanced basic Airline food Almost exactly Alone together Artificial intelligence Awful good Campaign promise Civil war Clearly misunderstood Computer jock Definite maybe Diet ice ...read more

  • It Was Robert Fulghum Who Wrote "All I Really ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 16, 2006
     | 722 views

    It was Robert Fulghum who wrote "All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten." It appeared in a number of different places. You’ve probably seen some of it around schools and other places. Fulghum touches on an important fact of life – that we develop our basic values for life by the ...read more

  • America's Spiritual Heritage With The Bill Of ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 28, 2007
     | 1,897 views

    America’s Spiritual Heritage with the Bill of Rights. A century and a half before the Bills of Rights was framed, the early colonist adopted the Constitution of the New England Confederation. The document declared its framers’ devout faith and steadfast purpose. The proclamation read: "Whereas, we ...read more

  • Martin Luther's Depression And The Hymn

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2009
     | 5,656 views

    Martin Luther’s Depression and the Hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" The year 1527 was the most trying year of Martin Luther’s life. On April 22 he was preaching in Wittenberg when he became dizzy and fainted. Over the next several months he dealt with debilitating depression and sickness. It had ...read more

  • Richard Wurmbrand Was A Christian Pastor In ...

    Contributed by James Jack on Jan 8, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,534 views

    Richard Wurmbrand was a Christian pastor in Romania in the middle of the communist era. In 1945 there was great conference run by the communists where one by one the church leaders of Romania got up and pledged allegiance to Stalin and the communist system. Although the Soviet state was by ...read more

  • Public Opinion On Health Care Reform And ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 28, 2010
     | 1,253 views

    Public Opinion on Health Care Reform and Abortion National Right to Life Committee www.nrlc.org/ahc 202-626-8820 January 6, 2010 "Say someone buys private health insurance using government assistance to help pay for it. Do you think insurance sold that way should or should not be allowed to ...read more

  • Who's Educating Our Kids?

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Mar 10, 2010
     | 3,113 views

    WHO'S EDUCATING OUR KIDS? Now here's the thing. Often times we will tell ourselves, "Well it's the church's job to give my children a religious education, and it's the schools job to educate my children in other matters. And the Church will balance out the secular. But let me show you something ...read more

  • The Queen

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 9, 2011
     | 1,870 views

    THE QUEEN Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter (a dress shop?), Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint ...read more

  • Japan's Sea Wall

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on May 31, 2011
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     | 2,433 views

    JAPAN'S SEA WALL New York Times, April 16, 2011: So unshakable was this town's faith in its sea wall and its ability to save residents from any tsunami that some rushed toward it after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeast Japan on the afternoon of March 11. After all, the ...read more

  • In James Michener's "Hawaii", Nyuk Tsin Kee ...

    Contributed by Scott Chambers on Apr 23, 2007
     | 2,789 views

    In James Michener’s “Hawaii”, Nyuk Tsin Kee stands before the officer in her examination for United States citizenship. She has relentlessly driven herself to prepare for this exam. More than anything else, she wants to become a citizen of America. But now she is strangely silent. When the ...read more

  • She Prayed, They Cheered

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,412 views

    She Prayed, They Cheered Recently, in Houston, Texas, a 16-year-old girl backed down from her decision to lead in voluntary prayer before a high school football game. She had been elected by other students at the school to pray before each of the Santa Fe Indians’ home games. The problem was that ...read more

  • After The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall In 1989, No ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,741 views

    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 Honecher. He had been stripped of all his offices. Even the Communist Party rejected him. Kicked out of his villa, the new government refused him and his wife ...read more

  • Telegraph Reports: April 08 ...

    Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
     | 1,529 views

    Telegraph reports: April 08 UK § Murders of children by other children have tripled in three years, as more of the nation’s youth get drawn into a deadly world of guns and knives. § The number of killings in which both victim and assailant were under 18 has jumped from 12 in 2005 to 37 last year, ...read more

  • Afghan Spiritual Harvest

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,036 views

    AFGHAN SPIRITUAL HARVEST In his book What Good Is God?, Philip Yancey writes: "This is a true story from Afghanistan that took place in the early 1970s, before the Russian occupation or the Taliban regime. At the time, the government allowed a small Christian church to service internationals who ...read more

  • With The Dust Settling From Our Recent Elections, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Miano on Dec 8, 2000
    based on 122 ratings
     | 4,289 views

    With the dust settling from our recent elections, I had an opportunity to review some sound bites that were overlooked by mainstream media. One reporter asked the presidential and vice-presidential candidates a very simple question. “Why did the chicken cross the road?” After some thoughtful ...read more

  • Sir Douglas Bader Was A Pilot Who Lost Both His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 2,184 views

    Sir Douglas Bader was a pilot who lost both his legs in a plane crash before WW2. He was fitted with artificial legs & resumed flying. In 1939, when Germany & England went to war, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force. Flying with two artificial legs, he shot down 22 enemy airplanes in the Battle ...read more

  • Jacob Koshy Grew Up In Singapore With One Driving ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Britt on Feb 6, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,504 views

    Jacob Koshy grew up in Singapore with one driving ambition: to be a success in life, to gain all the money and possessions he could. That led him into the world of drugs and gambling, and eventually he became the lord of an international smuggling network. In 1980, he was arrested and placed in a ...read more

  • I Am A Skeptic About Everything, Including God ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,929 views

    I am a skeptic about everything, including God and athiesm. I am not certain about issues of cosmology. Sometimes I believe that our universe is the result of random forces. Other times I believe that there must be some purpose or ordering force, though I do not begin to understand what or who it ...read more