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  • It Has Been Said That "There Are None So Blind As ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Mar 20, 2002
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     | 1,533 views

    It has been said that “there are none so blind as those who refuse to see”. The Morning of the day of the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was conferring with his general, planning the tactics of the day. After telling him what the infantry should do, he said, “And by tonight Wellington will be in our ...read more

  • I Am Told That There Was A Rock On The North ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 12, 2002
    based on 40 ratings
     | 2,663 views

    I am told that there was a rock on the North Sea, just off the Firth of Tay, Scotland. This rock proved very dangerous to many ships, because when the high tide came in, the rock was hidden just below the surface. There was a warning bell attached to the rock by the Abbot of Aberbrothok, so ...read more

  • How Much Do You Know?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,482 views

    HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? In a recent Constitution Poll commissioned by the National Constitution Center, fewer than 50 percent of the respondents knew how many U.S. Senators there are; only 6 percent could name the four rights guaranteed by the First Amendment; and 84 percent thought the ...read more

  • A Genuine Free Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,469 views

    A Genuine Free Spirit It took just a few hours for budget carrier Spirit Airlines to give away 13,400 free tickets on 90 flights to 14 cities - every seat for an entire day. The catch? That day is Sept. 11. Like most airlines, Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit had found few willing to fly on the first ...read more

  • William P Barker Wrote, "If The Last Mighty Act ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Brincefield on May 28, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,043 views

    William P Barker wrote, "If the last mighty act of God had been the resurrection and ascension, today there would be no church. If the pattern outlined in the first chapter of Acts had continued, the apostles and others would never have left Jerusalem to witness. They would have formed a ...read more

  • Ever Since Our Fathers Died, Everything Goes On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Harold Orndorff on May 25, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,660 views

    "Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." This charge could be summarized by saying, "If Jesus is coming back, what’s taking Him so long?" This is a question that has been asked not only by skeptics, but by believers who have assumed that Jesus ...read more

  • A Common Sense And Satisfying Interpretation Of ...

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 31, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,895 views

    "A common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.… There is, I shall argue, no contradiction between holding a staunch belief in supernatural design and being a creative scientist.… Just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines ...read more

  • The Late Larry Burkett, A Christian Financial ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
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    The late Larry Burkett, a Christian financial counselor & founder of Crown Ministries, gives these statistics. 40% borrow more than they can make monthly payments on. The average American family is always only 3 weeks away from bankruptcy. According to Burkett and social security statistics, 85 out ...read more

  • In His Little Book On Christian Truth, Harry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,939 views

    In his little book On Christian Truth, Harry Blamires suggests that we think of the human race aboard a hijacked jet-liner flying through time. “God himself directed its takeoff from the divine control-tower. The initiator of all evil, whom we call the Devil, managed to get a boarding pass.” When ...read more

  • On June 4, 1783 At The Market Square Of A French ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
     | 3,004 views

    On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rags. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of “a respectable assembly and a ...read more

  • New Church Research * Hartford Institute For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,144 views

    New Church Research * Hartford Institute for Religion Research has just completed the most extensive survey ever conducted on American churches and reveals that · 50% of all congregations have fewer than 100 adults, and 25% have fewer than 50. · Fewer than 10% have more than 1,000 adults. · 52% ...read more

  • Bible Fact & Fiction: Tyndale House In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,728 views

    Bible Fact & Fiction: Tyndale House in cooperation with the Barna Research Group discovered the following about American adults: · 80% name the Bible as the most influential book in human history. · 58% believe the Bible to be totally accurate in all it teaches. · 91% of all households own at least ...read more

  • A Professor In A World-Acclaimed Medical School ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 41 ratings
     | 3,857 views

    A professor in a world-acclaimed medical school once posed this medical situation -- and ethical problem -- to his students: "Here’s the family history: The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children. The first is blind. The second had died. The third is deaf. The ...read more

  • On June 4, 1783 At The Market Square Of A French ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,137 views

    On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rages. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of "a respectable assembly and a ...read more

  • More Of A Miracle Than Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,770 views

    Lee Strobel put it like this… “If we were holding a trial to determine the facts concerning the resurrection, and if we were to call to the witness stand every witness who personally encountered the resurrected Jesus and we cross-examined them for only 15 minutes, and if we went around the clock ...read more

  • Quote: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address Jan. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 8, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,580 views

    Quote: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address Jan. 20, 1961 “…my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Finally, whether ...read more

  • Legitimacy Vs. Abnormality

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,025 views

    Legitimacy vs. Abnormality In the mass-media age, journalism is more than the transmission of neutral information. It traffics in the kind of information and spectacle calculated to embarrass western leaders. But the media doesn’t confine itself to embarrassing politicians. It also works to create ...read more

  • Royalty Receives The Punishment

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 10, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,266 views

    Royalty Receives The Punishment Throughout history, royal families have received special treatment. Often they were exempt from keeping the law or receiving punishment or even discipline. But the royal children still needed to know that when they misbehaved they deserved to be punished. When a ...read more

  • Our Own Folly

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 3, 2008
     | 2,217 views

    Our Own Folly The murder of millions by the hands of the Nazi's during WWII is seen as one of the most evil acts of history. Considering how this was allowed to occur, a group of ministers met to discuss why the church in Germany had failed to take a stand against the evils of the Third Reich. ...read more

  • Defining Moments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
     | 1,951 views

    DEFINING MOMENTS The American director, Ken Burns (Born: 1953), once said; and, I quote: "Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being." The American public servant, Donald Evans (Born: 1946), once said; and, I ...read more

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