Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jul 28, 2002
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Have you ever cleaned your living room and thought that it was clean only to have the sun shine in through the window and reveal all the dust that was left behind? Ruth Graham tells of the time that the TV news wanted to interview she and her husband Billy at their home. They got the house all
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Contributed by Don Mcclain on Jan 22, 2003
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NGISC Commissioner Richard C. Leone - June 2001:
"In my view, state lotteries have paved the way for great increases in legalized gambling. They have promoted the notion of beating the odds, they have been able to advertise while others have not, and they have propagated the myth that gambling is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 13, 2003
There is a study listed in the Journal of Neuroscience that shows certain electrical switches in the brain, known as L-type voltage-gated calcium channels (LVGCCs), are required to overcome fear. These switches only allow you to "unlearn" or conquer a specific fear or phobia.
Right now,
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Contributed by Tom Doubt on Oct 29, 2003
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That Thursday evening, just as Isabel was reaching the peak of her fury, we were watching TV news of the storm. A reporter, standing on the beach at Nags Head, rain hat blowing all over the place, was telling us how the high waves were producing a storm surge. Reporters are obliged to speak from
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Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 1, 2005
Richard Foster in Celebration of Discipline - “Celebration is at the heart of the way of Christ. He entered the world on a high note of jubilation: ‘I bring you good news of a great joy,’ cried the angel, ‘which shall come to all the people.’ He left the world bequeathing his joy to the
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Contributed by James Tidwell on Aug 7, 2005
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News story on Sunday, January 12, 2003; CHICAGO, Jan. 11 -- Illinois’s outgoing Republican Gov. George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 people to life in prison today after concluding that the capital punishment system was "haunted by the demon of error."
Friends and foes of
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Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
When England closed it’s Libyan Embassy Muammar Qaddafi became so angry that he ordered England to be removed from all maps in Libya. If you buy a map in that country today, that area will be represented by a new arm of the North Sea bordered by Scotland and Wales. Simply removing England from all
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Baptist
Here’s an example from nature shared by another fellow Preacher. When Mt. St. Helens erupted in May 1980, hundreds of square kilometers were obliterated under a sea of mud and ash. Every living thing was destroyed, buried, or burned. But within four months, the first flowers were blooming, within a
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
JESUS DID RISE
Pollster George Gallup said even 84 percent of people who never go to church believe Jesus rose from the dead. It is historical fact; it wasn’t done in secret. The whole city of Jerusalem and the whole Roman Empire knew about it. It was news. If CNN had been there, they would have
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Contributed by Kent Kessler on Dec 9, 2006
G. Campbell Morgan speaks of it like this, “Luke thus gives us a graphic suggestive picture of the time and conditions, as he introduces His forerunner. The king is there, degenerate. The Temple is there, desecrated. The priesthood is there, degraded. The people are there, debased. Nevertheless,
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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Hispanics remain the USA’s fastest-growing minority group, but most of the population increase comes from births here rather than immigration, according to the Census Bureau. 60% of the 1.3 million new Hispanics in ‘05 are U.S. citizens by birth. In effect, even if immigration came to a standstill,
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 7, 2007
God wants to spread His Word through us to the World. He wants to use the whole man, spirit, soul and body.
In 1936 a radio broadcast was transmitted to America from England. Just before the voice of King Edward VIII was to be heard, someone stumbled over a wire in the control room of WJZ (now
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 15, 2007
Defining Deviancy Down
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recently published a disturbing essay entitled “Defining Deviancy Down.” In the November 22 issue of The New Republic, commentator Charles Krauthammer writes that “Moynihan’s powerful point is that with the moral deregulation of the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Last Tuesday night on Prime Time they showed the new Christ, De Jesus from Puerto Rico. He claims to be the better Christ and declares there is no sin, no Satan, and no one will go to hell. They interviewed several church members as to what they thought about their Christ. And they believe in him
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