Contributed by Tim Richards on May 24, 2005
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This bomb was tested above the Arctic Circle on October 30, 1961. The explosion was so intense that the flash was visible over 600 miles away. People felt the air move over 160 miles away. Everything in a radius of 15.25 miles was completely destroyed. Very severe damage extended to a distance of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011
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VACANT HOMES, VACANT LIVES
TIFTON, GA — The most interesting thing about Tifton is an abandoned Victorian house filled with thousands of bats. Tift County declared the once-elegant house in the town’s historic district off limits after a bat specialist said that maybe 20,000 bats had moved in,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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Pastors Older: Several Protestant denominations report that their corps of pastors is not just decreasing but aging, with less than 10% age 35 or younger, compared with rates as high as 24% a generation ago. More than 30% of pastors in several denominations are above 55, higher than a generation
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 7, 2007
Fact: Since 1900, the percentage of the world’s atheistic and non-religious peoples (agnostics, secularists, communists, and so on) has grown from 0.2 percent to 21.3 percent - in other words from less than one-fifth of one percent to over one fifth of the world’s population. This is the most
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Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 25, 2005
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When it comes to life’s circumstances and what goes on each day, how do you respond with gratitude, grit, or grouch? And is your response determined by your circumstance or by your character?
I have come up with a quiz to assess your response. Let’s start with question 1: You are in the 10 item,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
A ‘05 CDC Study reports 47% of U.S. high school students have had sexual intercourse, vs. 54% in ’91. Yet the nation is the world leader in teen pregnancies and STDs. A Child Trends report revealed less than 30% of females and less than 50% of males consistently use condoms, and nearly 20% of
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 11, 2007
When 53-year-old Danny Anderson was feeding his horses Monday night, a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property.
Anderson and his 27-year-old son, Benjamin, pinned the snake with an irrigation pipe and cut off its head with a shovel. A few more strikes to the head left it
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 9, 2008
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Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace (Judges 6:24)
Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd
To satisfy the law's demand;
By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd,
Before the Father's face I stand.
To reconcile offending man,
Make Justice drop her angry rod;
What creature could have form'd the plan,
Or
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 29, 2001
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One of the most powerful prayers in the midst of suffering I have read was uncovered from the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp. Ravensbruck was a concentration camp built in 1939 for women. Over 90,000 women and children perished in Ravensbruck, murdered by the Nazis. Corrie Ten Boom, who
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Contributed by Edward Frey on Jul 18, 2001
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There’s another beautiful picture of baptism given here: “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” Did you catch it? Baptism clothes us with Christ. We’re wrapped up in Jesus and all of his goodness in baptism. We’re clothed with his work and his
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Contributed by Terry Dashner on Dec 21, 2001
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How valuable is salt? 40 million tons are required each year to fill our needs. Homer called it divine. Plato called it a "substance dear to the gods." Shakespeare mentioned salt 17 times in his plays. Perhaps Leonard da Vinci wanted to send a subtle message about purity lost when he painted "The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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THEY PAID THE PRICE
Americans, you know the 56 men who signed our Declaration of Independence that first 4th of July--you know they were risking everything, don’t you? Because if they won the war with the British, there would be years of hardship as a struggling nation. If they lost they would
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