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  • Gandhi Can't Compare To Christ, Citation: ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 1,769 views

    [Gandhi Can’t Compare to Christ, Citation: Michael Green, The Message of Matthew (IVP, 2000), p. 141] Author Michael Green writes: Only Jesus fully understands God the Father. Great people have discovered and taught many true and noble things about God. Nobody has known him with the intimacy of ...read more

  • A Recent Television Documentary Pointed Out That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
    based on 15 ratings
     | 1,815 views

    A recent television documentary pointed out that the cheetah survives on the African plains by running down its prey. The big cat can sprint seventy miles per hour. But the cheetah cannot sustain that pace for long. Within its long, sleek body is a disproportionately small heart, which causes the ...read more

  • In Times Of War, Acts Of Heroism Were Performed ...

    Contributed by Mark Mccool on Apr 21, 2003
     | 2,530 views

    In times of war, acts of heroism were performed when men sacrificed their lives for a platoon of soldiers, or even one man, who was wounded by enemy fire! On October 6, 1944, Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch, Seventh Army Commander, placed the Congressional Medal of Honor on 2nd Lieutenant ...read more

  • A Clear Picture  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Sep 18, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,972 views

    A CLEAR PICTURE There is a painting in a palace in Rome by Reni. It is painted into the ceiling of the dome, over 100 feet high. To stand at floor level and look upward, the painting seems to be surrounded by a fog that leaves its content unclear. But, in the center of the great dome room is a ...read more

  • Anyone Who Knows The History Of The Adventist ...  PRO

    Contributed by Adam Deibert on May 7, 2004
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,736 views

    Anyone who knows the history of the Adventist church knows that our founders started out believing they knew when Jesus would return. As they studied the prophecies of the Word of God, they became convinced that His return was imminent. When it didn’t happen as expected – that day we mark as the ...read more

  • A Little Over 75 Years Ago A Little Known ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Oct 12, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
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    A little over 75 years ago a little known American inventor, born of Russian descent named Vladimir Kosma Zworykin began to work for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Over the next few years Mr. Zworykin worked on an idea called an iconoscope and a kinescope. The kinescope would eventually ...read more

  • Christmas Joy: A Cnn/Usa Today/Gallup Poll Finds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,125 views

    Christmas Joy: A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 96% of all U.S. adults celebrate Christmas (consistent over the past decade). This includes a high level of participation, 84% among non-Christians. Most Americans feel positive toward Christmas. 50% say it is a great time, including 15% who say it ...read more

  • I Am Trying To Prevent Anyone Saying The Really ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 24, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,662 views

    “I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say, A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said ...read more

  • I Remember That Our First Church Took Over The ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Oct 1, 2006
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    I remember that our first church took over the building of another prominent church that had moved. Westcor, a major builder, had purchased it from this other church. It was a great deal. The church sold the property for a little over 12 million and they were given a new church at another ...read more

  • A Wealthy Man Who Had Lost His Son In The War Put ...

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 14, 2009
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    A wealthy man who had lost his son in the war put up his priceless art collection for sale by auction. The first item that was presented was not one of the great works from the masters, but a portrait of his beloved late son done by a local artist. The experienced and seasoned art buyers showed no ...read more

  • Founding Fathers' Faith

    Contributed by Jeffrey Powell on May 25, 2009
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    FOUNDING FATHERS' FAITH John Adams once remarked, "It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. For example, if exorbitant ambition and venality are predominant, ought ...read more

  • One Of My Distant Relatives, A Young Man, Came To ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on May 26, 2009
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    One of my distant relatives, a young man, came to me once and showed me four photos of four different girls. This was before Twitter and Facebook… He said: - Man, I love all of them and I wish to have the power to combine them all in one. Cecilia – great body; Martha – a face like an angel; ...read more

  • Keep Up Your Spiritual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,307 views

    Keep Up Your Spiritual Guard The 4,000-mile-long Great Wall of China was built to keep invaders from the north. The first wall was constructed by Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China, who lived between 259 - 210 BC. But in AD 1644 the Manchus broke through the Great Wall and overran China. They ...read more

  • Dad's Advice On Humility

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 21, 2011
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    DAD'S ADVICE ON HUMILITY When I was a teenager, I remember telling my father that I wanted to be a successful businessman when I grew up. He asked me what type of business I wanted to work in, and I told him I didn't know, I just wanted to be a businessman. Looking back, I was seeing myself as ...read more

  • Pavarotti's Grandmother

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
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    PAVAROTTI'S GRANDMOTHER Luciano Pavarotti, the famous opera star, almost missed his calling. As a young man, he taught elementary school and sang only occasionally. But several people made the difference for him. One was his grandmother who, when he was a boy, would hold him in her lap and say, ...read more

  • Wearing 30,000 Bibles

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Feb 26, 2012
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    WEARING 30,000 BIBLES Years ago a missionary returned to England for a brief furlough after many years of faithful service in India. He was invited to a dinner at a great summer resort where he met many women of prominence and position. After dinner he went to his room and penned a ...read more

  • Time To A Pig

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2012
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    TIME TO A PIG There’s the story of a man walking past a farm and noticed a farmer feeding pigs in a most unusual manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another until the ...read more

  • Dads: Out Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2013
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    DADS: OUT OF THE FRAME A little boy whose father was away from home a great deal because he was a high ranking military official with great national security duties, was seen standing staring at his father's picture on a shelf at home. The little boy's mother had placed several pictures of her ...read more

  • On March 6, 1987, Eamon Coughlan, The Irish ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On March 6, 1987, Eamon Coughlan, the Irish world record holder at 1500 meters, was running in a qualifying heat at the World Indoor Track Championships in Indianapolis. With two and a half laps left, he was tripped. He fell, but he got up and with great effort managed to catch the leaders. With ...read more

  • There Is A Story Of The Congregational Pastor ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 20, 2007
     | 822 views

    There is a story of the Congregational Pastor Henry Ward Beecher who was a great Congregational pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York for several years. He was one of the greatest preachers of the 19th Century. People would travel for hundreds of miles just to hear him speak. Henry ...read more