Contributed by Paul Barreca on May 23, 2011
THE POST-IT NOTE
In his book, "Built to Last," Jim Collins describes how 3M employee Art Fry invented the Post-It Note:
"One day in 1974, while I was singing in the church choir, I had one of those creative moments. To make it easier to find the songs we were going to sing at each Sunday’s
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HARRY POTTER: TEMPTATION
Every great story has great characters. And in truly great stories, the characters go through significant change. This change is called a character arc.
For example, if you’re familiar with the Harry Potter series, you know that Harry starts off in the story as an
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Contributed by Eugene Morell on Jan 15, 2012
DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING
A high school teen came home from school to find his mother in the kitchen making supper. She asked what was new in school today. He said that a lot of the teens in his class were saying that the world was going to end that night and I was wondering what you
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Apr 11, 2013
GOD "SUBDUES" OUR SINS
The word "subdue" is such a powerful word. In the Hebrew, it is the word "kabash" (kaw-bash) meaning to "tread down, disregard, conquer, bring into subjection". The Hebrew word for "cast" is "shalak" (shaw-lak) which means "to hurl, to throw away".
What an amazing
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Contributed by Shine Thomas on Aug 28, 2017
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A man has been visiting a therapist because he has had a fear of monsters living under his bed. The man has been seeing this doctor for months. Every time he would come in the doctor would ask “have you made any progress?”. Every time the man would say “no”. The man decided to go and see another
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
Jack Ma has a lot to be happy about.
He is the founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, a tech company in China. Among the things going his way:
- His company went public in September 2014 and its worth shot up to $25 billion.
- He is the richest man in China.
- His company is the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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C.S. Lewis said, “The gospel means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us. As a sinner who has been
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The Results of Spiritual Blindness.
On November 30, 1991 fierce winds from a freakish dust storm triggered a massive freeway pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. At least 14 people died and dozens more were injured as topsoil whipped by 50 mile-per-hour winds reduced visibility to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I love to tell the story about the little boy who was scared to death of bees and their sting - one day a bee came flying into his room and he was so afraid.
His Dad walked in the room and saw what was going on. He snatched the bee out of the air and squeezed it. When he did the bee stung him and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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THE FLAG AND THE CROSS - Several times during my ministry I shared in military funerals. Finally a very significant lesson dawned. I’ve seen military funerals on the news, and have participated in six or seven across the years. And not once have I seen the American flag go down with the deceased.
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