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  • About 1930, The Communist Leader Bukharin ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Galasso on Mar 16, 2002
    based on 61 ratings
     | 2,215 views

    About 1930, the Communist leader Bukharin journeyed from Moscow to Kiev. His mission was to address a huge assembly. His subject, atheism. For a solid hour, he aimed his heavy artillery at Christianity, hurling arguement and ridicule. At last he was finished and viewed what seemed to be the ...read more

  • The Position Of Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 4,885 views

    THE POSITION OF PRAYER In Texas, when a cold air mass moves down from Canada, people sometimes refer to it as a "Blue Northern," and it makes its presence felt! You can feel the wind blow as the high pressure cold air rushes into the warmer area of lower pressure. The greater the difference in ...read more

  • Amdrei Bitov, A Russian Novelist, Grew Up Under ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 6, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,213 views

    Amdrei Bitov, a Russian novelist, grew up under the atheistic Communist regime. But God got his attention one dreary day. He recalls, “In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, ...read more

  • A Son's Best Friend, Citation: Jeanette ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 22, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,863 views

    A Son’s Best Friend, Citation: Jeanette Naaktgeboren, Maple Lake, MN. Christian Reader, "Lite Fare." My three-year-old grandson obviously had food on his mind when he headed for the church kitchen, leading his father by the hand. However, neither his father nor the ladies he approached were ...read more

  • A Catholic Critic Speaks  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Feb 26, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,071 views

    A CATHOLIC CRITIC SPEAKS Roger Ebert – film critic in Chicago said: “What Gibson has provided for me, for the first time in my life, is a visceral idea of what the Passion consisted of. That his film is superficial in terms of the surrounding message — that we get only a few passing references to ...read more

  • If You Are An Adult Of Average Weight, Here Is ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
     | 2,051 views

    If you are an adult of average weight, here is what you accomplish in 24 hours: · your heart beats 103,689 times · your blood travels 168,000,000 miles · you breathe 23,040 times · you inhale 438 cubic feet of air · you eat 3.25 pounds of food · you drink 2.9 quarts of liquids · you lose 7/8 ...read more

  • A Mother's Influence

    Contributed by Scott Malone on Apr 5, 2005
     | 4,412 views

    A Mother’s Influence I took a piece of plastic clay And idly fashioned it one day; And as my fingers pressed it still It moved and yielded at my will. I came again when days were past, The form I gave it still it bore, And as my fingers pressed it still, I could change that form no more. I took a ...read more

  • In 1937 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Built A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,108 views

    In 1937 architect Frank Lloyd Wright built a house for industrialist Hibbard Johnson. One rainy evening Johnson was entertaining distinguished guests for dinner when the roof began to leak. The water seeped through directly above Johnson himself, dripping steadily onto his head. Irate, he called ...read more

  • Different Meanings: 80% Of Adults In The U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,606 views

    Different Meanings: 80% of adults in the U.S. call themselves “Christian,” while 68% self identify as “committed Christian,” and 45% “born again Christian.” Only half of the “born again” group prayed to God, read from the Bible and attended a religious service in the past week vs. 90% of “committed ...read more

  • Sacrifice Is What Milton Olive Iii Was All ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Nov 16, 2006
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    Sacrifice is what Milton Olive III was all about! As a Pfc. in the Vietnam War, he and four other soldiers were moving through a Vietnam jungle together when a grenade was thrown into their midst. Pfc. Olive saw the grenade, and then saved the lives of his fellow soldiers at the sacrifice of his ...read more

  • My Older Sister Sue Is Panicked By Mice. She ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 26, 2009
     | 2,364 views

    My older sister Sue is panicked by mice. She lives in an old farm house, next door to the house we grew up in. One night she went into her kitchen and saw a mouse scury underneath the pantry door. Wanted it eradicated, she called Dad who went over the house to take care of the problem. He was ...read more

  • When The Golden Gate Bridge Of San Francisco Was ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Oct 18, 2010
     | 2,549 views

    When the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco was being built, there was a great fear of workers falling. Bridge builders have a superstition that one man will die for every million dollars spent on the project. This bridge was budgeted for $35 million, so the fear was pervasive. The chief engineer, ...read more

  • Haydn: Not From Me, But From Thee

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
     | 1,846 views

    HAYDN: NOT FROM ME, BUT FROM THEE Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was present at the Vienna Music Hall where his oratorio The Creation was being performed. Weakened by age, the great composer was confined to a wheelchair. As the majestic work moved along, the audience was caught up with tremendous ...read more

  • Cirrhosis Of The Giver  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Campbell on Jun 23, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,129 views

    CIRRHOSIS OF THE GIVER Many in our day seem to be afflicted with that terrible disease known as Cirrhosis of the Giver. This terrible malady renders the afflicted person’s hand incapable of moving from the wallet to the offering plate. The only known cure is to remove the sufferer from the Lord’s ...read more

  • We Live In A World Today That We Should Sift All ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 31, 2011
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    We live in a world today that we should sift all our children’s activities and things that they are exposed to each day as though we were looking and inspecting the candy they get on Halloween night and throw out the things that look suspicious. I know it’s hard and most of the time just impossible ...read more

  • Set The Church Back

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 3, 2011
     | 1,413 views

    Billy Graham that great and uncompromising preacher once in a Revival meeting held at Los Angeles, shared a passionate message on the Early Church, outlining what needs to be done for the Churches of modern era to become more effective. While many were moved by it, some “cannibal” Christians ...read more

  • Some Years Ago, On New Year's Day During The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,584 views

    Some years ago, on New Year’s Day during the Tournament of Roses Parade, a beautiful float sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The entire parade was stalled until someone could find a gas can and get this giant, flower-covered float moving again. The ironic thing was this float represented the ...read more

  • There Is A Story About The Apostle John At The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is a story about the Apostle John at the end of his life. He was the pastor at the church in Ephesus, and at this point he was so old that he could no longer walk. Sunday after Sunday they other elders would carry him in on a mat and set him in the middle of the assembly. From this mat he ...read more

  • The Man Groaned But Didn't Budge. The Usher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The man groaned but didn’t budge. The usher became impatient. "Sir, if you don’t get up from there, I’m going to have to call the manager." Again, the man just groaned, which infuriated the usher who turned and marched briskly back up the aisle in search of his manager. In a few moments, both the ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, I Was Working On Replacing An ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
     | 1,345 views

    Several years ago, I was working on replacing an old, falling-over retaining wall on the side of my house. Some of the stones I replaced were too big for me to move and some were cemented together into “blobs” of rock and concrete. So I set out to bust them up with a sledge hammer. I struck ...read more