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  • When The 1960s Ended, San Francisco's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    When the 1960s ended, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district reverted to high rent, and many hippies moved down the coast to Santa Cruz. They had children and got married, too, though in no particular sequence. But they didn’t name their children Melissa or Brett. People in the mountains around ...read more

  • When The 1960s Ended, San Francisco's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,872 views

    When the 1960s ended, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district reverted to high rent, and many hippies moved down the coast to Santa Cruz. They had children and got married, too, though in no particular sequence. But they didn’t name their children Melissa or Brett. People in the mountains around ...read more

  • Three Mischievous Boys Went To The Zoo One Day ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jul 27, 2004
    based on 8 ratings
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    Three mischievous boys went to the zoo one day for an outing, since they had been at school all week. They decided to visit the elephant cage, but soon enough, they were picked up by a cop for causing a commotion. The officer hauled them off to security for questioning. The supervisor in charge ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Your Reputation

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
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    OBJECT LESSON: YOUR REPUTATION (Light a candle on stage.) It’s easy to keep a fire going. What do you do to it? Not much. You work to get it started, and then it pretty much burns on its own. You may have to protect it, maybe do a little maintenance on it. But the fire is automatic. But if ...read more

  • An Elderly Couple Had Dinner At Another Couple's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Dec 14, 2001
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    An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, & after eating, the wives left the table & went into the kitchen. The two gentlemen were talking, & Albert said, "Last night we went out to a new restaurant & it was really great. I would recommend it very highly." Ben said, "What is the name ...read more

  • Is It Dangerous To Spend So Much Time Talking ...

    Contributed by Marty Boller on Oct 29, 2005
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    Is it dangerous to spend so much time talking about Narnia & Aslan? One little girl named Hila wrote to Lewis asking him to tell her Aslan’s OTHER NAME. Lewis responded with clues from the stories. “Well, I want you to guess. Has there ever been anyone in THIS world who… Arrived at the same time ...read more

  • Fool

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Apr 28, 2013
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    FOOL D.L. Moody was preaching once and got a note before he preached. All that was on the note was the word "Fool". He stepped up to the front and said, "This is interesting. I usually get letters from people without a name on it. ...read more

  • Andrew Murray Once Said About This "Christ's ...

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 28, 2005
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    Andrew Murray once said about this “Christ’s servants have the spiritual power to use the Name of Jesus only insofar as they yield themselves to live only for the interests and thework of the Master. The use of the name always supposes the surrender of our ...read more

  • Martin Luther: In 1540 He Had An Assistant And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 7, 2002
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    Martin Luther: In 1540 he had an assistant and friend named Friedrich Myconius. Friedrich had become sick and was on his deathbed and wrote Luther a farewell letter. Luther immediately sent a reply, ‘I command you in the name of God to live because I still have need of you in the work of ...read more

  • Life Lesson:  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
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    LIFE LESSON: Jaime Rodriguez, a schoolteacher in Chicago, Ill., was named as the worst offender on the city’s list of employees with unpaid parking tickets. After checking into things, he discovered it was actually his 26-year-old son, also named Jaime, who had run up $11,040 in unpaid tickets. ...read more

  • Cnidius, A Skillful Architect, Building A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
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    Cnidius, a skillful architect, building a watchtower for the King of Egypt, caused his own name to be engraved upon a stone in the wall in great letters, and afterwards covered it, with lime and mortar, and upon the outside of that wrote the name of the King of Egypt in golden letters. This was all ...read more

  • What Do You See?  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jul 7, 2009
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    WHAT DO YOU SEE? I don’t know if you’ve heard of Scott Ginsburg, but he is known for something very strange. As of today, he has worn a "Hello my name is..." tag for 3140 days. On one occasion he had given a speech to an employee group in South Dakota and told how he started wearing the name tag. ...read more

  • A Local Sportscaster, Doing Radio Coverage Of An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    A local sportscaster, doing radio coverage of an Indiana high-school football game from the stands, used a chart listing the names, numbers, and positions of the players to help him describe the action. Then it began to rain; the ink on the chart ran, and the numbers on the backs of the players ...read more

  • When Ptolemy Was In Charge Of Egypt, He ...

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Aug 1, 2012
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    When Ptolemy was in charge of Egypt, he commissioned a great architect named Sostratus of Cnidius, a skillful architect, to build, what came to be one of the great seven wonders of the ancient world. The Light House of Alexandria was over 400 feet tall and built it with the masonry stones, which ...read more

  • The First Thing I Ask Is That People Should Not ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come ...read more

  • There Is A Bridge Built Across Panther Creek In ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 9, 2006
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    There is a bridge built across Panther Creek in Western Kentucky. It was built by the United States government. It was a source of pride and a symbol of recovery. Today, years later, the bridge looks as new as the day in which it was built because there is no road leading to it or from it. A ...read more

  • There Is A Bridge Built Across Panther Creek In ...

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Mar 15, 2008
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    There is a bridge built across Panther Creek in Western Kentucky. It was built by the United States government. It was a source of pride and a symbol of recovery. Today, years later, the bridge looks as new as the day in which it was built because there is no road leading to it or from it. A ...read more

  • Are You For Real?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
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    ARE YOU FOR REAL? The misuse of God’s name for personal profit is easily applied to certain televangelists who use the name of God to make a buck off of overly trusting people, or politicians who mention God’s name in the right places and the right times in order to gain a certain constituency of ...read more

  • Have You Ever Noticed How Many Hispanic Last ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Archer on Jan 13, 2004
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    Have you ever noticed how many Hispanic last names end in -ez? Have you ever wondered why that is? In Old Spanish, -ez meant "son of." Therefore Gonzalo’s son would be called Gonzalez, Domingo’s son would be called Dominguez, etc. And almost every language has the same thing. For the Armenians, ...read more

  • In His Book Dare To Believe, Dan Baumann ...

    Contributed by Rev. Roberto D. Abella on Nov 21, 2004
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    In his book Dare to Believe, Dan Baumann illustrates the unique experience of knowing that something is ours, yet longing to enjoy it more fully. He explained that at Christmas time he would always do a lot of snooping, trying to find the gift --wrapped presents and figure out what was in them. ...read more