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  • A Number Of Years Ago Researchers Performed An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Dec 28, 2004
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     | 5,520 views

    A number of years ago researchers performed an experiment to see the affect hope has on those undergoing hardship. Two sets of laboratory rats were placed in separate tubs of water. The researchers left one set in the water, and found that within an hour they had all drowned. The other rats were ...read more

  • There Was A Pastor Who Had A Parrot. All The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,183 views

    There was a pastor who had a parrot. All the parrot would say was, “Let’s pray, let’s pray.” The pastor tried to teach him to say other things but to no avail. He learned that one of his deacons had a parrot. Thet parrot would only say, “Let’s kiss. Let’s kiss.” So the pastor decided to invite ...read more

  • Two Rednecks, Billy Joe And His Friend Bubba Are ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 9, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
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    Two rednecks, Billy Joe and his friend Bubba are out in the woods hunting when Billy Joe suddenly grabs his chest, keels over and falls to the ground. Billy Joe doesn’t seem to be breathing, his tongue is hanging out and his eyes are rolled back in his head. Bubba frantically whips out his cell ...read more

  • A Mother's Touch

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 1, 2005
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     | 7,478 views

    “A Mother’s Touch” A wounded soldier returned from Viet Nam. He was in critical condition. He was blind, his mind was clouded, and his body was mangled. His mother traveled over 2,000 miles to be by his bedside. As soon as she entered the hospital room she laid her hands on his brow without ...read more

  • The Making Of Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,649 views

    THE MAKING OF ME Thomas Edison once said, “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 ...read more

  • We Can Learn A Lot About Being A Friend From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 9, 2005
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     | 1,878 views

    We can learn a lot about being a friend from "MAN’S BEST FRIEND" Someone has said, "Only God and my dog can love me unconditionally". When I pastored in Pensacola, Fl., my wife and I had two Boston Terriers. There names was Sissie and Alphie. My wife said to me one day, "I think you love those ...read more

  • In Addition We Have The Record Of Josephus, A ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 22, 2005
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    In addition we have the record of Josephus, a Jewish writer who was not a Christian either, who records the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. He wrote this: Now there was about this time Jesus a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of ...read more

  • Let's Kiss  PRO

    Contributed by Juan Lane on May 15, 2005
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     | 12,828 views

    “Let’s Kiss” There was a pastor who had a parrot. All the parrot would say was, “Let’s pray, let’s pray.” The pastor tried to teach him to say other things but to no avail. He learned that one of his deacons had a parrot. Thet parrot would only say, “Let’s kiss. Let’s kiss.” So the pastor decided ...read more

  • Hannah W. Smith Wrote: "He Goes Before To Open ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
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    Hannah W. Smith wrote: "He goes before to open the way and we are to follow. It is never a sign of Divine leading when we insist on running rough shod over all opposing things." A.W. Tozer asked, “Is it forced? Or does it flow?” Now, this doesn’t mean we sit back and wait for God to show us the ...read more

  • In One Region Of Africa, The First Converts To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,241 views

    In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these “prayer rooms” by using their own private footpaths through the ...read more

  • A Dirty Dog  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,632 views

    John Barrymore once played the role of a father who disapproved of the man his daughter planned to marry. In one scene, the daughter had to ask Barrymore what he thought of her fiancé, who had just exited. Barrymore was supposed to answer, “I think he’s a dirty dog.” One night, when the ...read more

  • 66% Of Latin American Protestants Attend A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
     | 1,682 views

    · 66% of Latin American protestants attend a Pentecostal church. · Charisma magazine reports its average reader spends more than $570 on Christian products annually and household income averages over $51,000. · It also reports that in the past year: 88% of its readers last year purchased at least ...read more

  • Gen-Y Graduates: The Echo Boom Began Graduating ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Gen-Y Graduates: The Echo Boom began graduating from College last May and they will change our culture. Experience is everything to them. Traditional media won’t work. The most effective businesses offer them an experience, not just a product. Bookstores are popular gathering places for them, but ...read more

  • Consumer Trends: Two Major Trends Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Consumer Trends: Two major trends of paradigm-shifting proportions are changing the face of the entire consumer retail market today. Every consumer business is going to feel the effects. Trend #1: Connecting replaces cocooning as dominant consumer trend. The cocooning and nesting trend that is at ...read more

  • Male Bashing Ads Are Today's Men Incompetent, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Male Bashing Ads Are today’s men incompetent, bumbling idiots? Judging by portrayals in some advertising, the answer seems to be yes. The “man as a dope” imagery has gathered momentum over the last decade, and critics say that it has spiraled out of control. It is nearly impossible, they say, to ...read more

  • Serious Video Games Are Gaining Momentum Against ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,394 views

    Serious Video Games are gaining momentum against the shoot-em up variety. Eventually, “serious games will take over the world” of gaming, predicts Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Assn. People will use video games for learning so easily and so often that ...read more

  • Many Years Ago A Farmer Had An Unusually Fine ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jan 28, 2006
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    Many years ago a farmer had an unusually fine crop of wheat. Just a few days before the wheat was to be harvested, a terrible hail and wind storm came. The entire crop was destroyed. After the storm was over, the farmer, with his little son, went out on the porch. The little boy looked at what ...read more

  • I Was On A Mission Trip To North Carolina A Few ...

    Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Mar 12, 2006
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    I was on a mission trip to North Carolina a few years ago, working on a house that had been flooded by a recent hurricane. A few youth and I were assigned to clean out the pool, which had been filled to the top with floodwaters and creepy-crawlies and sticks that looked liked snakes and made ...read more

  • An American Scientist Once Visited The Offices Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel-prize-winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that over Bohr’s desk was a horseshoe, securely mailed to the wall, with the open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not let it ...read more

  • Those Who Call Themselves "Pagans" Describe Their ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 18, 2006
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    Those who call themselves “Pagans” describe their faith as a “modern faith recently reconstructed from beliefs, deities, symbols, practices, and other elements of ancient religion. Some of the main examples of this pagan revival include the following: • Druids: base their religion on the faith ...read more