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  • Parents, If You Get Angry With Your Kids For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bev Sesink on Feb 5, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,174 views

    Parents, if you get angry with your kids for something they do wrong, and you lose it, do you wait for your children to apologize or do you set the example and go to them? Teenagers, do you find it beneath your dignity to humble yourself to obey your parents’ reasonable expectations? I remember ...read more

  • John Wooden, Former Basketball Coach At Ucla, ...

    Contributed by David Ward on Sep 27, 2006
     | 1,462 views

    John Wooden, former basketball coach at UCLA, was the antithesis of many of today’s coaches. He seldom left his seat on the Bruins bench during a UCLA game. "I tried to teach players that if they lose their temper or get out of control, they will get beat," he says. Pressed in an interview to be ...read more

  • Then He Appeared  PRO

    Contributed by John Shaw on Dec 2, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,641 views

    Then he appeared THE TRAMP SAID HE had walked 70 miles from a dry brook in Israel SAID His name was ...... something Jewish and unprouncable Slicker or HE..LIKE..HER .......Whatever SAID his name meant .. My god is Jehovah SAID he had shut up the skies Stopped the rain Him ...read more

  • Financially Enslaved Americans *90% Buy Things ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,476 views

    Financially Enslaved Americans *90% buy things they can’t afford. *80% of graduating college seniors have credit card debt. *49% can’t cover one month’s living expenses if they lose their income. *75% of airline miles “rewarded’ are never redeemed. *Most people carry a car loan, paying $378 a ...read more

  • Thomas Edison

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
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    Thomas Edison “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become ...read more

  • Achieving Goals: The Phillies

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 21, 2010
     | 3,176 views

    ACHIEVING GOALS: THE PHILLIES The team with the most errors in a single season was the 1883 Philadelphia (Quakers) Phillies who played 99 games and ended the season in last place with 17 wins, 81 loses, and one tie. They averaged 6.3 errors per game with 639 errors. They played for 67 years before ...read more

  • Compromise

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on May 20, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,489 views

    COMPROMISE A hunter went out into the forest to shoot a bear. With winter fast approaching he planned to make a warm coat out of the bearskin. Soon he saw a bear coming toward him, he raised his gun and took aim. "Wait," said the bear, "why do you want to shoot me?" The hunter replied: ...read more

  • Hudson Taylor's Example

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2013
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    HUDSON TAYLOR'S EXAMPLE Years ago the communist government in China commissioned an author to write a biography of Hudson Taylor with the purpose of distorting the facts and presenting him in a bad light. They wanted to discredit the name of this consecrated missionary of the gospel. As the author ...read more

  • He Died On January 28, 814. Many Years Later, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 17, 2007
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    He died on January 28, 814. Many years later, archaeologists discovered the tomb of Charlemagne, the great king and emperor of France. When the tomb was opened, after being closed for centuries, the men who entered it found something amazing. They found certain treasures of the kingdom, of course. ...read more

  • In Spite Of What They Say, 90% Of The Chronic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,497 views

    In spite of what they say, 90% of the chronic patients who see today’s physicians have one common symptom. Their trouble did not start with cough or chest pain or hyperacidity. In 90% of the cases, the first symptom was fear. This is the opinion of a well-known American internist as expressed in a ...read more

  • I Read An Article In The Atlantic Journal The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,861 views

    I read an article in the Atlantic Journal the other day; it said, “The world is too big for us. Too much going on, too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will you get behind in the race…It’s an incessant strain, to keep pace… and you still lose ground. Science empties its ...read more

  • During The 1992 Summer Olympics, All U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,520 views

    During the 1992 Summer Olympics, all U.S. athletes were required to wear Reebok warm-up suits at the awards ceremony. Charles Barkley of the U.S. basketball "Dream Team" anticipated the probability that his team would win the gold medal. He said, "Us Nike guys are loyal to Nike because they pay us ...read more

  • Guard Your Name

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2007
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     | 2,046 views

    Guard Your Name You got it from your father, it was all he had to give So it’s yours to use and cherish, for as long as you may live. If you lose the watch he gave you, it can always be replaced. But a black mark on your name, son, can never be erased. It was clean the day you took it, and a ...read more

  • On Day 6 Of Ill-Fated Apollo 13 Mission The ...

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
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    On day 6 of ill-fated Apollo 13 mission the astronauts needed to make a critical course correction. If they failed they might never return to earth. To conserve power, the onboard computer that steered the craft had been shut down. yet the astronauts needed to conduct a 39 second burst of the main ...read more

  • In A Wycliffe Bible Translators Publication, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    IN A WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS PUBLICATION, THERE WAS A RECENT STORY ABOUT A WOMAN WHO SERVED AS A HOUSE-PARENT FOR MISSIONARIES’ CHILDREN IN THE PHILIPPINES. SHE LOVED BOOKS. THOUGH SHE LOANED OUT SOME, OTHERS SHE TREASURED IN A FOOTLOCKER. ONCE, IN THE QUIET OF THE NIGHT, SADIE HEARD A FAINT ...read more

  • Our Solar System Bears Witness To Orderly, ...

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 28, 2008
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    Our solar system bears witness to orderly, careful design. Consider the slant of our earth, tilted at a 23° angle. If it wasn't so tilted, we would lose not only our seasons, but life itself, as the vapors from the ocean would move north and south, piling up continents of ice. Or the distance to ...read more

  • Sitting Down For Jesus

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 3, 2008
     | 2,103 views

    Sitting Down for Jesus In his book entitled, "The Trouble With Jesus," Joe Stowell tells the story of the mayor's prayer breakfast in Chicago. If it were not for the performance of Wheaton College choir, the name of Jesus would not have even been mentioned. The keynote speaker was saying that ...read more

  • The Candle

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 2, 2021
     | 1,835 views

    *THEY WILL ONLY SEE THE LIGHT OF HOPE. (AUTHOR UNKNOWN) HIS LIGHT AM I TO SHINE WHERE HE SHALL SAY; AND LAMPS ARE NOT FOR SUNNY ROOMS NOR FOR THE LIGHT OF DAY. BUT FOR THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH, WHERE SHAME AND WRONG AND CRIMES GIVE BIRTH. OR FOR THE MILKY TWILIGHT GRAY, WHERE WANDERING SHEEP ...read more

  • Prayer Customer Service  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
    based on 217 ratings
     | 3,575 views

    Good afternoon, I am God. Today I will be handling all of your problems. Pleae remember that I do not need your help. If the devil happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, DO NOT attempt to resolve it. Kindly put it in the SFJTD (something for Jesus to do) box. It will ...read more

  • Eugene Peterson In A Long Obedience In The Same ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2002
    based on 41 ratings
     | 5,344 views

    Eugene Peterson in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction writes, “It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the Gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people in our culture make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful ...read more