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  • The Story Is Told That When Leonardo Da Vinci ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The story is told that when Leonardo Da Vinci was painting The Last Supper, he had an intense and bitter argument with a fellow painter. Da Vinci was thinking of a way to get this guy back. He came up with a devious plan. He decided to paint the face of his enemy onto the face of Judas Iscariot so ...read more

  • A Little Camel Asks Mummy Camel, "Mummy, Why Have ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jun 27, 2007
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    A little camel asks mummy camel, “Mummy, why have I got such big flat feet?” She replies, “Well darling, in the desert you need big flat feet because the sand is soft and they help us to keep stable.” The little camel goes away but then comes back. “Mummy, why have I got such big eyelashes?” “Well ...read more

  • Growing Up, The Only Source Of Heat We Had In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
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    Growing up, the only source of heat we had in the house was a fireplace. Each winter it was my brother & my responsibility to keep the wood box full. Now, in the early days my dad thought that we were too young to use the chainsaw, so the majority of the wood we used we had to cut with an axe. It ...read more

  • As We Look Today At The Eighth Commandment, "You ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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    As we look today at the eighth commandment, “You shall not steal,” here are a couple of stories to remind us that crime does not pay. A London taxi driver found an ingenious way to keep his cab clean. He would wrap up the leftovers from his lunch together with any other garbage he found in the cab ...read more

  • My Family Is Different Than Many Of Yours. My ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
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    My family is different than many of yours. My parents hate my work and hate my relationship with Christ. As long as I never say anything, they will tolerate it but I can’t keep quiet about Christ. Since I became a Christian back around 2000, I have had to live with the fact that I was no longer ...read more

  • Cast In A Line For Yourself

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 30, 2007
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    Cast In A Line For Yourself A poor, hungry man stood idly on a bridge watching some fishermen. Seeing one of them with a basket full of fish by his side, he said, "if I had a catch like that, I’d be happy. I’d sell it and buy some food and clothes." "I’ll give you that many fish if you do a ...read more

  • There Is A True Story About The Great ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 14, 2008
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    • There is a true story about the great scientist, Michael Faraday, when he was taken ill. When it became evident that the sickness that had fastened itself upon him would soon result in his death, a group of fellow scientists came to see him--not so much to talk about science as to talk about ...read more

  • Ill - In 2006 Elizabeth Shoaf Was Abducted While ...

    Contributed by Michael Wiley on Mar 20, 2008
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    ILL - In 2006 Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted while walking home from school. The predator was a local man – weird past… He put Elizabeth in a bunker he had dug in the woods, and there molested her for 14 days! How do you survive that? Elizabeth used several techniques to shut her mind down and keep ...read more

  • Ten Commandments For Spouses  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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    TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR SPOUSES I. Thou shalt not wrap thy husband’s sandwiches in magazine articles about a man’s responsibility to love his wife. II. Thou shalt not leave Scripture verses about submission taped to they wife’s hairdryer. III. If thou teachest Sunday School, thou shalt ...read more

  • I Want You To Imagine With Me For A Minute We Are ...

    Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Jul 3, 2008
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    I want you to imagine with me for a minute we are all living in a time when we had no fire. We have no way to produce a great deal of warmth at night; we have no way to cook what we kill in the forest. Someone has told that all we need to do is pray for it and it will come. So imagine we want to ...read more

  • Ernest Hemmingway Was Once Asked To Write A Story ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Jul 8, 2008
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    Ernest Hemmingway was once asked to write a story in just six words. He wrote a sad one ... "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." The world's shortest story inspired writer Larry Smith who wondered what memoirs people might be able to concoct in just six words. So he began a website which, to date, ...read more

  • The Visit

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Dec 9, 2008
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    THE VISIT As Dr. Charles B. Hardwick points out (in his sermon “The Promise”, 2nd Presbyterian Church, 12/24/07): "On that Silent Night, God kept His promise: the God of the universe became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood – moved into a stable, moved into a feeding trough.. . God ...read more

  • John Wesley: Desired Personal Holiness, But Felt ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    John Wesley: Desired personal holiness, but felt like a failure. A serious man speaking to John Wesley, "Sir, you wish to serve God and to heaven? Remember that you cannot serve him alone. You must therefore find companions or make them; the Bible knows nothing of solitary religion." Wesley's ...read more

  • Moving The Fence

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    MOVING THE FENCE Millard Erickson wrote, "The church is the repository of grace...it possesses the gospel, the good news of salvation" During World War II, some American soldiers took the body of their buddy to a local cemetery. The priest stopped them saying, "You can't bury your friend here if ...read more

  • Messaging Errors

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on May 19, 2009
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    MESSAGING ERRORS How skilled are we at communicating? Perhaps not as skilled as we think. It is easy to send the wrong message without knowing it. There is a famous example of a message that was sent in WWII "Send reinforcements we’re going to advance." But by the time it reached its destination ...read more

  • Betty Crocker ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    BETTY CROCKER SALVATION In 1952, when the Betty Crocker company first began selling cake mixes, they offered a product which only needed water, and you would get a perfectly moist cake every time. But it bombed, and they couldn’t understand why! So they commissioned a study and found that people ...read more

  • Note: The Following (Point I) Is Directly Quoted ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 30, 2009
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    NOTE: The following (point I) is directly quoted from Melton, Donnie www.learnthebible.com and he answers the questions for the Tithes and Offering quiz (he designed) handed out to the congregation: I. The tithes and offering test: a. Malachi 3 - Tithes and Offering Test: i. The first problem ...read more

  • The Worst Industrial Accident In History ...

    Contributed by Wayne Presnell on Feb 10, 2009
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    "The worst industrial accident in history occurred on April 26, 1986, in the town of Chernobyl in north central Ukraine of the former Soviet Union. It was caused by two electrical engineers who were playing around with one of the nuclear reactors. They were conducting an unauthorized experiment ...read more

  • Satisfied ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 13, 2009
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    “Satisfied Completely!” The daughter of a New York rabbi tells this story. “My father taught me to read the Bible in Hebrew as a young child. We began at Genesis. When we came to Isaiah, he skipped the fifty-third chapter. I asked him why. He said it was not necessary for Jews to read that ...read more

  • Make Sure Your Ax Is Sharpen

    Contributed by Edward Hardee on Feb 16, 2023
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    When we were young we did not have central heating and air. As a matter of fact I do not remember us having a window unit. What we had was a fireplace in the winter time and a screen door in the summer. I remember that old fire place. If it was real cold we would put a blanket over the door ...read more