Contributed by Todd Stiles on Mar 27, 2007
I was introduced to “different” the summer I took about 30+ Jr. Highers to Mexico. What an experience! Yes, our own Mike Hain was with me (and what a trip he had). The things I saw on that trip changed my life -- forever! I can’t begin to tell you the broadening I experienced during that two week
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 23, 2007
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I want to share a story from Reader’s Digest, December 2002, which was taken from a story by Lee Hill Kavanaugh, of the Kansas City Star. It goes like this:
Perry Bice turned off the engine but remained behind the wheel. Parked in his driveway was a wheelchair-accessible van, a huge red and gold
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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THE ONE-DOLLAR BILL
Take out a one dollar bill and look at it.
The one dollar bill you’re looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design. This so-called paper money is in fact a cotton and linen blend, with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it. It is actually
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 25, 2001
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A Power Higher Than I
After trying everything else, Shelly was present for her first Alcoholics
Anonymous meeting. Skeptical and listening half- heartedly at first, the
words of Martha caught her attention. Martha told the group, "I just knew
that I could handle alcohol and my other problems on my
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2002
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KEEPING PROMISES
It’s the story of a friendship forged during one of the worst battles of World War II, and a promise made almost 60 years ago, a promise that was finally kept Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001. HAROLD HUGGINS, a veteran of 10 major campaigns in World War II and the last survivor of his
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 24, 2004
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CONCLUSION... The Matrix (http://www.ozsermonillustrations.com/frames/truth_&_error_frameset.htm)
One of the great films of 1999 was The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves. It’s a futuristic sci-fi movie, where the world has been taken over by computers. The computers need the energy that comes from
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 29, 2005
Let me tell you a story about a small island in the South Seas inhabited by a group of people who had very little contact with the outside world. Theirs was a beautiful island – lush vegetation, wonderfully sweet-tasting fruit, and many domesticated animals good for eating. It was a tropical
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Sep 16, 2006
On that fateful day in 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a “hurricane party” in the face of a storm named Camille. They were not ignorant of the dangers; they were overconfident. They let their egos and their pride influence their decisions. What else
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
Pastor Mark Buchanan speaks of going to Uganda, Africa. He went to a little township called Wairacka. On Sunday evening, about 100 Christians from neighboring areas would gather to worship. They met under a tin roof lean-to that was set at the edge of a corn-field. They sat (when they did sit) on
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
Facing The Storm
In 1969, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, a group of people were preparing to have a "hurricane party" in the face of a storm named Camille. Were they ignorant of the dangers? Could they have been overconfident? Did they let their egos and pride influence their decision? We’ll never
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The authors give hard evidence to back up there opening statement about the need for healing today. They shared the following statistics from pages 4-7 "Caring for People God’s Way":
Marital Discord: Studies show 35% of persons who marry get a divorce, and 18% of those divorced are divorced
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY
Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Nov 2, 2009
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon in the Apollo 11 space mission. Michael Collins third member of the group, was in charge of the command module, essential for their return to earth, which circled the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed. The moon lander
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