Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 26, 2003
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Lynn Anderson, in "They Smell Like Sheep," relates this story: “Several years ago in Palestine, Carolyn and I rode a tour bus through Israel’s countryside nearly mesmerized as the tour guide explained the scenery, the history, and the lifestyle. In his description, he included a heart-warming
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THE SPILLED FRUIT SALAD!
Here is a bowl of fruit salad for you!
I always make fruit salad for Christmas, it has been a family tradition for many years.
While at home, my Mom and Dad always received a lot of fruit for Christmas.
We would always make fruit salad out of the fruit and top it with
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Assembly Of God
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The life of Andrew Urshan is remarkable to say the least. There is a biography of him available from the Pentecostal Publishing House that every one ought to read. He wrote that his own disappointments had turned into being God’s appointments. There came a song from his own hand that was
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2004
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A little boy, not more than eleven or twelve years of age, somewhat delicate in health, and rather backward, once went to a large boarding school. The first night that he slept there, when they came to go to bed, he glanced timidly round the room to see what other boys were doing, and then he saw
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 4, 2005
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The Cohen Brothers & Mr. Ford
It was a sweltering August day when all three Cohen brothers entered the posh Dearborn, Michigan, offices of Henry Ford, the car maker, "Mr. Ford," announced Norman Cohen, the eldest of the three. "We have a remarkable invention that will revolutionize the automobile
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C.S. Lewis is portrayed in the movie Shadowlands as a man struggling with doubts about God. Shadowlands is about his life and reveals the awful ordeal he had to go through with his wife dying of cancer: I discovered these thoughts on the internet about this movie:
1. Jack’s grief was intense. His
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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A little boy who lived far out in the country in the late 1800s had reached the age of twelve and had never in all his life seen a circus. You can imagine his excitement, when one day a poster went up at school announcing that on the next Saturday a traveling circus was coming to the nearby
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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When the 10-year-olds in Mrs. Imogene Frost’s class at the Brookside, N.J. Community Sunday School expressed their views of "What’s wrong with grownups?" they came up with these complaints:
1. Grownups make promises, then they forget all about them, or else they say it wasn’t really a promise,
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Aug 14, 2006
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STATS ON GRACE
How many gallons of water are in the ocean?
Answer: 3.612 x 10²º gallons of sea water in the ocean. That is 3.612 x 1 with 21 zeros.
How many stars are in the known universe?
Answer: 70 sextillion (7 followed by 22 zeros) was calculated by a team of stargazers based at the
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Contributed by John Weeks on Dec 9, 2006
I have visited Japan three times in the past several years. It is a fascinating place of great contrasts – primarily – great beauty contrasted with great sadness. You see from my observation, the Japanese culture is one of materialism, self-satisfaction, rigid order and sexism – all of this
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Maximilian Kolbe was a Catholic priest, who was put in a Nazi concentration camp for his faith. On May 28, 1941, he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. One day a man in Kolbe’s block escaped. All of the men from that block were brought out into the hot sun and made to stand
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Contributed by Adam Couchman on Jun 18, 2007
Many people remember former New York Mayor Rudy Gulliani specifically because of his leadership following the World Trade Centre attacks in September, 2001. But he will also be remembered for dramatically reducing the crime levels in New York City.
For many years New York’s reputation throughout
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Anglican
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THE CHURCH’S MISSION—A PARABLE as told by Philip Anderson:
Not long ago I visited my sister, a director of patient services for the children’s unit of a large southern California hospital. She was conducting me on a tour through that unit. All the time—echoing through the halls—we could hear the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 22, 2008
Do you desire God’s honor above your own?
My first ministry after seminary was back home in Rochester, NY. I was one of two chaplains at the Monroe County Jail. Every Saturday evening we would hold a worship service in the auditorium at the jail for the inmates. One of the deputies was
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