Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A little boy came back from Sunday school one morning and his father asked him:.
“Well, what did you learn?”.
The little boy replied: “How the people of Israel were kept in Egypt and used as slaves by this guy called Pharaoh.”
“Oh?” said the father. “Then what happened?”
The little boy went on
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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Mar 13, 2009
In the world of sports, when an underdog is victorious it’s known as an upset. Here is a list of 5 of sport’s biggest upsets.
1) 1980 Olympics-Lake Placid: USA defeats Russia in hockey 4-3. Ragtag group of Americans defeats the Russian team that had dominated the sport for 15 years.
2) 1990
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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PEER PRESSURE AND FLIES
Once a spider built a beautiful web in an old house. He kept it clean and shiny so that flies would patronize it. The minute he got a "customer" he would clean up after him so the other flies would not get suspicious.
Then one day this fairly intelligent fly came buzzing
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
So how do we avoid deception? There’s only one main way to do that:
By studying the truth.
I had heard years ago that bank tellers and such are trained to spot counterfeit money by studying the real stuff so much that they can spot the phony stuff right away.
I wasn’t sure if that was really
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 8, 2009
Traders vs. Investors
We all have seen the effect of those who have given up on the economy.
In his newspaper column called “Market Report,” Bill Barnhart once explained the difference between investors and traders in the stock market.
“A trader in a stock,” writes Barnhart, “is making
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 15, 2009
I have never really had a problem with anger, but the closest I have come was in a classroom. Teaching in a high school can be very stressful, and I had put some guys on detention and was supervising them. They had behaved badly in class but were equally disruptive in the detention room, swearing,
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
It wasn’t long ago in Australia we saw race horses being put down because of a disease that spread through the racing industry, threatening the lives of people also. Whatever the plague was in Egypt, it was severe, contagious and fatal. The only animals under the Lord’s quarantine were those in the
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
I can’t imagine what it would be like to lose my son. When he and his wife were living in New Zealand, we went to visit them. On my return I dreamed that he had died and woke up in tears. I quickly rang him to say how much I loved him. He must have thought I was losing it, but my grief was real and
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Contributed by Vera Hughes on Jan 20, 2010
Let me share with you my story of the “Great Cake Bake”.
The great cake bake is the story of the day I was to prepare the ultimate cake for Thanksgiving dinner with my new in-laws. I mean this cake was going to be better than Betty Crocker could imagine. I remember waking up on Thanksgiving Day
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Contributed by Timothy Brown on Mar 14, 2010
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SOLA FIDE: BY FAITH ALONE
To prove his point Paul includes a quotation from Habakkuk 2:4, "The just shall live by faith." It was this text--quoted by Paul in Romans 1:17--that ultimately shook Martin Luther to the core and brought him to saving faith in Jesus Christ. On this point, I quote from a
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 26, 2010
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TRUE THANKFULNESS: JOHN WESLEY
John Wesley was about 21 years of age when he went to Oxford University. He came from a Christian home, and he was gifted with a keen mind and good looks. Yet in those days he was a bit snobbish and sarcastic.
One night, however, something happened that set in
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Contributed by David Rumley on Aug 19, 2010
In 2009 Picher Oklahoma closed it’s doors… the entire city closed, evacuated, and shut down. Once it was a town of 20,000 people… in the first quarter of 1900’s it was a boomtown and had abundant lead and zinc.
The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State
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