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  • Driven To God By Science  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,386 views

    DRIVEN TO GOD BY SCIENCE The more deeply scientists see into the secrets of the universe, you’d expect, the more God would fade away from their hearts and minds. But that’s not how it went for Allan Sandage. Now slightly stooped and white-haired at 72, Sandage has spent a professional lifetime ...read more

  • Skuvbalon Took On The Nuance Of A Vulgar ...

    Contributed by Roger Miller on Apr 27, 2010
     | 1,416 views

    Skuvbalon took on the nuance of a vulgar expression with emotive connotations (thus, roughly equivalent to the English “crap, s**t”) is probable. . .” http://bible.org/article/brief-word-study- skuvbalon. If you study the use of this word outside the Bible especially in the first Century it is ...read more

  • The Angel Of Music

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jun 14, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 872 views

    In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera, a young chorus girl named Christine Daae receives voice training from a mysterious musician she calls the “Angel of Music.” Christine believes this is the angel her dying father had promised to send to complete her musical training. As ...read more

  • One Pleasant Surprise While In Mexico Last Month ...

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Dec 10, 2004
     | 1,727 views

    One pleasant surprise while in Mexico last month was seeing a total lunar eclipse. It would have been nice to have had Rick’s telescope down there but most nights there was just too much light from the area to really see many stars. Yet, as the moon took on its orange glow from the shadow of the ...read more

  • Even When He's Silent

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,031 views

    Even When He’s Silent The Holocaust is one of the terribly traumatic episodes of modern history, yet it has also yielded some astounding stories of bravery and faith. In France a Jewish family were hidden by some concerned French nationals in the basement of their house. The Jewish family waited ...read more

  • When The Garden Tomb Was Discovered In 1885, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,014 views

    When the Garden Tomb was discovered in 1885, the godly General Gordon was convinced that this was the place where the body of Jesus had lain. There is a traditional tomb inside the wall of modern Jerusalem, but no certainty attaches to the site. The Garden Tomb, hidden for centuries, was covered ...read more

  • Joy Goes Deeper

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Aug 2, 2010
     | 1,884 views

    JOY GOES DEEPER "Joy is like the hidden note in the glass. Joy is tuning in to what God is doing around you, seeing the world through his eyes, picking up on his delight in us as his children. Anyone can find happiness for a while...Happiness depends on what is happening to you. Joy is different; ...read more

  • Pursued By The Atoning Love  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 6, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 4,636 views

    Pursued by the Atoning Love One evening a woman was driving home when she noticed a huge truck behind her that was driving uncomfortably close. She stepped on the gas to gain some distance from the truck, but when she sped up the truck did too. The faster she drove, the faster drove the truck. Now ...read more

  • Matryoshka Doll

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 30, 2010
     | 2,005 views

    I purchased this doll a few years back when I visited in Russia. It’s called a Matryoshka doll (Russian Nesting doll). (taking dolls apart) If you’re familiar with these dolls, you know that you open up one and there’s another inside … and so on and so on. This continues until you get to the ...read more

  • Can You Explain Jesus  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Mar 18, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,278 views

    CAN YOU EXPLAIN JESUS G. Campbell Morgan summed up the diety of Christ when he said, “He was the God-man. Not God indwelling a man. Of such there have been many. Not a man deified. Of such there have been none save in the myths of pagan systems of thought; but God and man, combining in one ...read more

  • The Origin And Cause Of Our Redemption Is The ...

    Contributed by Mark Haines on Mar 21, 2011
     | 3,145 views

    The origin and cause of our redemption is the [inexpressible] love of God the Father, who willed to redeem us by the blood of His own Son; the grace of the Son, who freely took our curse upon Him, and imparts His blessing and merits to us; and the Holy Spirit, who communicates the love of the ...read more

  • Religious Books Were Top Choice Among America's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,599 views

    Religious books were top choice among America’s most avid readers in '06. An AP-Ipsos poll found that 66% of U.S. adults read a religious book (including the Bible), the most-read category, followed by popular fiction, histories, bio-graphies, and mysteries. One in four did not read any book during ...read more

  • The Light That Some Christians Give Off Is Like ...

    Contributed by W F on Jul 23, 2007
     | 1,406 views

    The light that some Christians give off is like the moon – it gives light, but it’s pretty dim. So dim in fact that you can look directly at the moon without it effecting you. You can’t look at the sun like that. But this is the kind of light that is needed. The sun light’s up everything; nothing ...read more

  • Rembrandt's Sin

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
     | 2,997 views

    REMBRANDT'S SIN If you were to look at Rembrandt’s painting of The Three Crosses, your attention would be drawn first to the center cross on which Jesus died. Then as you would look at the crowd gathered around the foot of that cross, you’d be impressed by the various facial expressions and ...read more

  • Quotes From Napoleon On Jesus

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 8, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,903 views

    QUOTES FROM NAPOLEON ON JESUS I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. ...read more

  • Philip Yancey's Book The Jesus I Never Knew ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Mar 5, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,765 views

    Philip Yancey’s book The Jesus I Never Knew (1995,p.188) picked up on this, and he noted, of the many biographies he had read, “few devote more than ten percent of their pages to the subject’s death – including biographies of men like Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, who died violent and ...read more

  • A Positive Stillness

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 30, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,906 views

    A POSITIVE STILLNESS "The greater mystery, surpassing all words, summons us to silence. It must, of course, be a silence with content, not just the absence of speech and action. We should expect the liturgy to give us a positive stillness that will restore us. Such stillness will not be just a ...read more

  • Finding One's Purpose With God Can Be A Strange ...

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Apr 14, 2008
     | 2,210 views

    “Finding one’s purpose with God can be a strange and mysterious journey; or, it can be as plain as asking God for a task and then watching your desire for that task grow within you. Problem is, most of us forget to ask God to fill us with a fervent spirit to serve Him. Then, years later, we wake ...read more

  • Revelation And Ovaltine

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Jun 27, 2009
     | 3,297 views

    REVELATION AND OVALTINE The word often translated "revelation" or as I translated it, "unveiling," could also be understood as "decoding." Ever heard of those Ovaltine Decoder Rings in the '40s? Ovaltine drink advertisements used to have a coded message on them (as did some of the Ovaltine radio ...read more

  • Jesus The Rosetta Stone

    Contributed by Stephen Collins on Dec 11, 2008
     | 2,237 views

    JESUS THE ROSETTA STONE Do remember the Rosetta Stone from history class in school? What was it? It was a tablet that was discovered that allowed archeologists to translate ancient, Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern-day languages. Without the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, all the ancient ...read more

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