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  • Last Year, Ken Griffey, Jr. Chose Not To Attend ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 22, 2000
    based on 113 ratings
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    Last year, Ken Griffey, Jr. chose not to attend "The Players Choice Awards" to receive the "Player of the Decade" award. Junior beat out three time MVP winner Barry Bonds and four time Cy Young Award winner, Greg Maddux for the honor. The award is a big deal. He joins the ranks of baseball ...read more

  • Thus The Whole Book From Beginning To End ...

    Contributed by N A on Oct 29, 2008
     | 1,733 views

    “Thus the whole book from beginning to end teaches the great truths – Christ shall triumph! Christ’s enemies shall be overcome! They who hate him shall be destroyed; they who love him shall be blessed unspeakably. The doom alike of Jew and of Gentile is already imminent. On Judea and Jerusalem, ...read more

  • Becoming Young  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 22, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,789 views

    BECOMING YOUNG In an exhibit hall in Cannes Hundreds of Picasso’s paintings were in chronological display from what he had painted as an adolescent all the way up to his experiments as an 85 year old master. During the exhibit one lady approached Picasso and told him she did not understand. His ...read more

  • Never Really Connected  PRO

    Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on May 21, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
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    NEVER REALLY CONNECTED One night I saw my 7 year old daughter walking around with a cell phone. She was talking away. She would ask questions, wait for a reply, and give answers to apparent questions: "Yes...no...maybe...I’ll have to check on that..." and so on. Finally, worried about the bill ...read more

  • Teen Eye View Between 1990 And 2000, The Number ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
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    Teen Eye View Between 1990 and 2000, the number of teens aged 12 to 19 soared to 32 million, an increase of nearly 4.5 million. Mediamark Research reports this 17% growth rate far outpaced the rest of the population. They’re also wielding increasing influence on household purchases. In ‘03, 47% of ...read more

  • Growing Up Too Fast Youth Are Maturing At An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Growing Up Too Fast Youth are maturing at an accelerated pace. Preschoolers are playing with toys that would have been considered suitable for an 11-year-old a decade ago. A Sesame Street Parents survey finds moms with kids under 12 are more afraid of exposing kids to pop media-dictated pop-culture ...read more

  • In Our Church There Are Several Couples Who ...

    Contributed by Tim Stutler on Mar 27, 2006
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    In our church there are several couples who built houses last year. All of them lived in rental homes until their new homes were completed. How many of them do you think spent a lot of time fixing up those rental homes? Yes, they wanted it to be clean and comfortable and functional, but they did ...read more

  • In The Movie "It's A Wonderful Life", George ...

    Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 5, 2006
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    In the movie "It’s A Wonderful Life", George shares with Mary all his wishes and plans. After throwing a rock at the old house he explains how he knows what he will do today, tomorrow, and the next day. How he’s going to see the world, and go to college, and build things. You can tell that ...read more

  • Memorials  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
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    • Noah’s Memorial was an Ark. • Abraham’s Memorials was found in his altars. • Isaac’s Memorials flowed from his wells. • Moses’ Memorial was the Law (which included the Tabernacle and it’s furnishings). • Caleb’s Memorial was a mountain discovered in his youth but captured in his old ...read more

  • In The Days Before Connecticut Became A State, ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 1, 2007
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    In the days before Connecticut became a state, the colonial legislature was in session when a thick black cloud blocked out the sunlight. Someone shouted, "It is the day of judgment! Let us go home and get ready!" But one member of the legislature, who happened to be an old church deacon, stood ...read more

  • Around The Corner I Have A Friend, In This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by, and weeks rush on, And before I know it a year is gone, And I never see my old friend's face, For life is a short and terrible race... Tomorrow, I say, I will call on Jim, Just to show that I'm thinking of him. ...read more

  • Allure Of Lust And Greed

    Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 10, 2009
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    ALLURE OF LUST AND GREED Last night they had another one of those Dateline stings. In the sting, an undercover agent poses as a 13-15 year old on the internet, in one of those on-line chat rooms. Almost every man who came to a house to meet an underage girl for immoral purposes had seen previous ...read more

  • Renoir: Pain Passes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    RENOIR: PAIN PASSES In old age, Pierre Auguste Renoir, the great French painter, suffered from arthritis, which twisted and cramped his hand. Henri Matisse, his artist friend, watched sadly while Renoir, grasping a brush with only his fingertips, continued to paint, even though each movement ...read more

  • Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph

    Contributed by Gerald Steffy on Aug 28, 2009
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    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S EPITAPH In one of his lighter moments, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph. He didn’t profess to be a born-again Christian, but it seems he must have been influenced by Paul’s teaching of the resurrection of the body. Here’s what he wrote: "The body of Benjamin Franklin, ...read more

  • From Exaggeration To Lies. Illicit Cola Says ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Nov 8, 2009
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    From exaggeration to lies. Illicit Cola says this. Life wouldn’t be much fun without a bit of entertainment and mischief. Don’t grow old and boring – live life on the edge. Take a dirty big gulp of illicit and get amongst it! Illicit cola – it’s good to be bad. Well the times I’ve been bad weren’t ...read more

  • Ghost

    Contributed by Allan Quak on Jan 8, 2010
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    Ghost Perhaps you have seen the movie "Ghost". Admittedly it came out in 1990 so maybe it is a bit old for some of you. It stars Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Early in the movie Patrick dies and becomes a "ghost". Near the end of the movie Demi has to let him go as he walks to a group of ...read more

  • Buddy Wasisname And The Other Fellers ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 16, 2010
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    Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers (Newfoundland comedy group) feature a song on one of their albums called “Only 19”. It is the story of a young man who married what he thought was his young bride until they got ready for their first night together. She removed her cork leg, make-up that’s ...read more

  • Targums

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 13, 2010
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    TARGUMS More than 500 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the Jews returned to Judea from their long time of captivity Babylon. About that time, Jewish religious leaders began to write commentaries on various Bible books that they called "Targums." One of these Targums dealt with the ...read more

  • What We Can Learn From Noah

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 9, 2011
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    WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM NOAH God has much too teach us, one person observed a few things they learned from Noah: 1. Don't miss the boat! 2. Plan ahead. It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark. 3. Stay ready. It was not until Noah was 600 years old that God asked him to do ...read more

  • Supporting The Poor  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 8, 2013
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     | 4,961 views

    SUPPORTING THE POOR In a 1998 article in Christian History magazine, Rodney Stark said: "In a world lacking social services, Christians were their brothers' keepers. At the end of the second century AD, Tertullian wrote that while pagan temples spend their donations "on feasts and drinking ...read more