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  • The Dead Sea Is So Salty That It Contains No Fish ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 5, 2006
     | 911 views

    The Dead Sea is so salty that it contains no fish or plant life. What accounts for this unusual condition? The are absolutely no outlets! Great volumes of water pours into this area, but nothing flows out. Many inlets plus no outlets equal a Dead Sea. This law of nature may also be applied ...read more

  • Pharmaceutical Companies Are Reaping A Windfall ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,263 views

    Pharmaceutical companies are reaping a windfall for drugs for low income people under the new Medicare Part D drug program. The law exempts Part D drugs from “best price” rebates drug makers have been required to give to the state Medicaid programs since ‘91. U.S. ...read more

  • Quote: Arthur Pink Declares, "Any Preacher Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 2, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,367 views

    Quote: Arthur Pink declares, “Any preacher who rejects God’s law, who denies repentance to be a condition of salvation, who assures the giddy and godless that they are loved by God, who declares that saving faith is nothing more than an act of the will which every person has the power to perform is ...read more

  • Ethics In Inaction

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 4, 2021
     | 1,534 views

    The Law Professor specialized in teaching ethics: “You’re currently failing your ethics course,” he told me. So I slipped him a $200 in crisp bills across the table. “How about now?” I asked. The professor pocketed the money and ...read more

  • In 1886, Karl Benz Drove His First Automobile ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    In 1886, Karl Benz drove his first automobile through the streets of Munich, Germany. He named his car the Mercedes Benz, after his daughter, Mercedes. The machine angered the citizens, because it was noisy and scared the children and horses. Pressured by the citizens, the local officials ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of Two Brothers Who Grew Up On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,163 views

    The story is told of two brothers who grew up on a farm. One went away to college, earned a law degree, and became a partner in a prominent law firm in the state capital. The other brother stayed on the family farm. One day the lawyer came and visited his brother, the farmer. He asked, “Why don’t ...read more

  • The Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Baba Metsia, Page ...

    Contributed by Mark Kennicott on Mar 20, 2008
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    The Babylonian Talmud (tractate Baba Metsia, page 59b) tells a story of Rabbi Eliezer, one of the greatest of the rabbinical sages, and instructor of the great Rabbi Akiva. One day he was engaged in a fierce debate with a group of rabbis about a small matter of interpretation. When he could not ...read more

  • Spiritual Acne

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Feb 29, 2012
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    SPIRITUAL ACNE Have you seen ads for Clearsil, Proactiv, or other acne treatments? They usually exaggerate things and show the face before and aft the application of the "miraculous" product that makes you look good and perfect. They also make sure you get hooked to the remedy so they can bank on ...read more

  • Augustine And The Four States Of Man  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Mar 5, 2012
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     | 6,254 views

    AUGUSTINE AND THE FOUR STATES OF MAN In the 5th century AD, St. Augustine wrote about the "4 States of Man": * The first state of man (the haec sunt prima) is "living according to the flesh -- with reason making no resistance." This can be seen in so many ancient cultures and religions (and ...read more

  • Pastor Makes A Tough ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
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    Pastor Makes A Tough Decision In his book The Jesus Revolution, pastor and author Leith Anderson shares a story about the tension that sometimes comes between obeying God and obeying the law of the land. A number of years ago, he and three others were traveling to a Communist country where ...read more

  • This Past Thursday, Alabama's Chief Justice Was ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Nov 17, 2003
     | 2,229 views

    This past Thursday, Alabama’s chief justice was fired for the stand he took in trying to protect a monument with the 10 Commandments on it. Now, I will not debate with you the rightness or the wrongness of his actions, but I will confess this. I am afraid there is a line being drawn in this ...read more

  • Lambie Renounces Citizenship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,621 views

    Illustration: 5179. Lambie Renounces Citizenship Dr. Thomas Lambie went to Ethiopia as a medical missionary. After some time he wanted to buy land for a mission station. An Ethiopian law said that no land could be sold to foreigners. Because Dr. Lambie had great love for Christ and the Ethiopians, ...read more

  • Fewer Abortions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 2,490 views

    FEWER ABORTIONS A study led by Michael New, Univ. of Alabama Political Science Professor, reveals that while the abortion rate in the overall population fell 29% between '85 and '99, it fell almost 50% among minors. Parental involve-ment laws reduced the minor ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,619 views

    The Day The evidence in Scripture seems to indicate that God gave the Law to Moses on the Day of Pentecost, as the Jews believe. Many first century Jews believed that God made the Rainbow Covenant with Noah on this day as well. If so, we might think of Pentecost as "covenant initiation day." God ...read more

  • The Command To Love God And Love Our Neighbor Is ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 23, 2008
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     | 3,300 views

    The command to love God and love our neighbor is not new to Jesus. It comes right from Torah. The Pharisees had finessed that fundamental law right out of everyday life, but Jesus not only showed us that we can’t live without it, he took it to the limit when he loved us all the way ...read more

  • Grace: Jean Valjean From Les Miserables

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Feb 6, 2013
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    GRACE: JEAN VALJEAN FROM LES MISERABLES The story of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables is a great example of grace. * I read the book many years ago. Liza and I just saw the movie adaptation of the musical. * "Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that ...read more

  • Not Allowed To Die  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 22, 2012
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,993 views

    NOT ALLOWED TO DIE Back in March of 2008, the mayor of a city in SW France had a problem. It seems his village was running out of space. Not in housing, nor in the retail district, nor even at City Hall. It seems they were running out of space... in the cemetery. There was no room for any more ...read more

  • Don Richardson, In His Book Eternity In Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 11, 2005
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     | 1,511 views

    Don Richardson, in his book Eternity in Their Hearts, tells an amazing story of spiritual harvest. In an area once called Burma, which is now modern Myanmar, lying between China and Thailand, and touching the border of Laos, there lived about a quarter-million tribal people called the Lahu. For ...read more

  • Rick Warren In His Book The Purpose Driven Life ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 31, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
     | 3,282 views

    Rick Warren in his book The Purpose Driven Life says, “Life is all about love!” “Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love. It is in loving that we are most like him, so love is the foundation of every command he has given us; ...read more

  • Rick Warren In His Book The Purpose Driven Life ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 16, 2005
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     | 3,248 views

    Rick Warren in his book The Purpose Driven Life says, “Life is all about love!” “Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love. It is in loving that we are most like him, so love is the foundation of every command he has given us; ...read more

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