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  • In My "Reader's Digest - Jesus And His Times" ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
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    In my "Reader’s Digest - Jesus and His Times" (copy write 1987 - from which much of this information is derived), there is a picture of a "Mikvah" that has been discovered in Masada (the ancient fortress built by Herod which held off the Romans for so long after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.). ...read more

  • There Are Exceptions, But Almost Every Team Goes ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Beehler on Apr 16, 2003
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    There are exceptions, but almost every team goes through some lean years where they, in a word, stink. They don’t have the talent and, more importantly, no leadership. Kind of like the 1971 NBA Championship series when Willis Reed, the NY Knick center, had a knee injury. The rest of the team ...read more

  • Of Course Most Of You Know That Country Legend ...

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 15, 2003
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    Of course most of you know that country legend Johnny Cash died early Friday morning. Famous for such songs as “I Walk the Line”, “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Ring of Fire”, the 71-year-old entertainer died of complications of diabetes, just 4 months after his wife, June Carter Cash, passed away. His ...read more

  • In His Book, "How Great Generals Win", Bevin ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on Nov 23, 2004
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    In his book, "How Great Generals Win", Bevin Alexander tells of "The General Who Beat Hannibal". One of Hannibal’s most effective tactics was the use of elephants in battle. For years Roman soldiers and horses were ineffective against the elephants - until the Roman general Scipio Africanus made ...read more

  • The Devil Always Fights The Church When The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
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    The Devil always fights the church when the church is on the move. Charles Spurgeon used to say that Satan never kicks a dead horse. Satan knew that the church was on the move, so he attacked it. In Acts 2 we read that 3000 people were converted. Then what happened? According to Acts 4, Satan came ...read more

  • Michaelangelo Buonoarti Was One Of The World's ...

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 8, 2006
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    Michaelangelo Buonoarti was one of the world’s most talented sculptor. Many have enjoyed his work in pictures or photos. Others of us have seen the real thing. There is a set of 4 sculptures Michaelangelo done around 1453 that some claim were never finished. The were commissioned for the tomb ...read more

  • Author Thom Rainer Tells Of A Man Name George Who ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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    Author Thom Rainer tells of a man name George who learned a few weeks after becoming a Christian that at least 4 people were praying for him daily. George said: “I wasn’t surprised (my wife) was praying for me….then George learned about others. ‘A friend of mine who lives over seven hundred miles ...read more

  • A Farmer Loaned His Mule To A Neighbor To Help ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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    A farmer loaned his mule to a neighbor to help with some plow work. After an hour or so, he came back for help. “That mule won’t do a thing. I can’t even get him to move over to the plow.” The farmer said, “Let’s go have a look at him.” He picked up a 2 x 4 and followed his neighbor out to the ...read more

  • Bob James Of Paint Rock, Texas, Shares This Story ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jan 27, 2008
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    Bob James of Paint Rock, Texas, shares this story in Leadership, Vol.7, no.4: “Recently I laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up and carry them throughout the colony. I returned later to see how ...read more

  • Someone Has Said That If You Could Convince A Man ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 14, 2008
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    Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built to US Navy ...read more

  • The June 23, 2008 Issue Of Newsweek Ran A Feature ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    The June 23, 2008 issue of Newsweek ran a feature article "The Mythology of Munich". It cited a gathering of the War Cabinet in London to consider an offer from Hitler in which, if Britain would agree to stop fighting, he would let them keep most of their empire. While many were thinking it ...read more

  • Golden Years

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    GOLDEN YEARS New research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest. Older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests, social activity can help keep away the blues. Duke Univ. aging expert Linda George reports the odds of being happy increase 5% with every ...read more

  • Women ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    WOMEN GIVING Women make 84% of all philanthropic decisions and 80% of all major consumer-buying decisions. The number of women-owned businesses with 500 or more employees grew by 125% from ’97 to ’03. Business owners give an average of 7% of their annual income vs. 2% for the average household, ...read more

  • Idolatry Is Like Poisoning

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 2, 2009
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    IDOLATRY IS LIKE POISONING More than 25 years ago (1982), seven residents of the Greater Chicago area made an assumption that proved fatal. They all took a dose of Extra Strength Tylenol® that had been laced with potassium cyanide. What they thought was medicine proved to be poison. This crime, ...read more

  • Two Young Boys In A Catholic School Had Been ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 2, 2009
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    Two young boys in a Catholic school had been continually misbehaving and were sent to the principal’s office on several occasions. The principal knew what they really needed was to have God in their lives, so she brought the first boy in and set him down. “I want to ask you a question. Where is ...read more

  • Good Jealousy

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 19, 2009
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    GOOD JEALOUSY Dennis De Haan illustrates: Shep, the newest member of our family, is a young Shetland sheepdog who openly displays his jealousy when I kiss my wife. He doesn’t snarl or bite, but in the language of barking he seems to be saying, "Hey, Master, you belong to me!" His jealousy gives ...read more

  • Branded As Christ's Disciple

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
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    BRANDED AS CHRIST'S DISCIPLE Two Texans were trying to impress each other with the size of their ranches. One asked the other, "What's the name of your ranch?" He replied, "The Rocking R, ABC, Flying W Circle C, Bar U, Staple Four, Box D, Rolling M, Rainbow's End, Silver Spur Ranch." The ...read more

  • Charles Stanley On The Difference Between ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    Charles Stanley on the Difference Between Decision and Commitment Charles Stanley says in his book, Confronting Casual Christianity, in answer to that question, “because these couples made a decision but did not make a commitment. Every person who married made a decision! They stood before the ...read more

  • A Personal Surgery

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Aug 21, 2012
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    A PERSONAL SURGERY Dr. Evan Kane was the head of Summit hospital in New York, in the 1920s. At that time when they operated they used general anesthesia. Dr. Kane felt, local anesthesia would do and would help patient do better, and recovery would be quicker. His theory seemed true, but no one ...read more

  • This Was The Second Time That Someone Has Died For Me

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
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    James Harnish tells the story of a woman in Tampa who probably received the best Christmas present of anyone. It came the week before Christmas. In August she had been diagnosed with severe cardiomyopathy, a rare heart disorder which causes the muscels of the heart to become inflexible. In fact, ...read more