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  • Charles Swindoll Gives Us Some Interesting Advice ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 21, 2006
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    Charles Swindoll gives us some interesting advice when he states: When you live in darkness, you not only have no ray of light, you don’t even know where home is. That is the way it is for the majority in the world. Some folks are born, raised, and die in cultures that have never seen their first ...read more

  • Robert Fulghum Wrote In The Kansas City Times, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. "These are the things I learned: ...read more

  • Paraphrase Of Part Of The Fatwa From Osma Bin ...

    Contributed by John Donnelly on Aug 30, 2006
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    Paraphrase of part of the fatwa from Osma Bin Laden, 1998. ”Praise be to God, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in ...read more

  • In April 1997 39 Devotees To A Ufo Cult Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
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    In April 1997 39 devotees to a UFO cult called Heaven’s Gate cult led by Marshall Applewhite, killed themselves believing after their deaths they would join an alien space they said was riding piggy-back on a comet. This event brought to the forefront again just how many people actually believe ...read more

  • If You Honestly Want To Be A Disciple Of Jesus ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Oct 14, 2006
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    If you honestly want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ in the twenty-first century, “Sunday Morning Is Not Enough”: "GENTLEMEN, THIS IS A FOOTBALL!" “This quote comes from a story about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers. Each year he would gather his players for ...read more

  • No Atheist In Foxholes

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 11, 2006
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    No Atheist in Foxholes The world has come along ways in a short time. They refuse to believe in anything evil yet our world grows more evil every day. Unfortunately your decision to believe in hell does not lower the temp. of hell one degree, brighten the darkness in the least not calm the ...read more

  • I Remember The Scene From The Movie "Pearl ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
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    I remember the scene from the movie “Pearl Harbor” where the crews of B-17 bombers are inside their heavy bombers, trying to “lighten them up” so that the Doolittle raiders can take off from aircraft carriers and bomb Tokyo. They had to jettison every pound they could drop, otherwise the planes ...read more

  • Did You Come Here In A Car This Morning? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
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    Did you come here in a car this morning? Somewhere around 100 people die in the US in car wrecks everyday. No one plans on that happening to them today, but for around 100 people, that’s what will happen…today. Today, somewhere around 1,300 people will die of heart attacks in the US. None of ...read more

  • No More Players

    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 10, 2007
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    Being a kid on the 6th grade playground, I remember the awful experience of running to the ball field at recess only to hear those awful words shouted just before I joined in the game…”No more players!” How many games I had to sit and watch because the kids wouldn’t ...read more

  • Another Young Man Was Looking Through The ...

    Contributed by Jerry Caddell on Feb 16, 2007
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    Another young man was looking through the classifieds in search of a used car when he came upon an ad for a brand new Jaguar being sold for only $50. Surely he thought this was typo, but calling the number listed he was assured that $50 was correct. The next day he went by to see the car and to his ...read more

  • Black Owned Businesses Are Among The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Black Owned Businesses are among the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy, says the Census Bureau. The number of black-owned businesses grew by 45% from ‘97 to ‘02, more than 4 times the overall rate. Blacks now own 5% of all non-farm U.S. businesses. Revenues increased 25%, to about $89 ...read more

  • Singer Sheryl Crow Said Recently, In A New York ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 4, 2007
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    Singer Sheryl Crow said recently, in a New York Post interview: “I believe in God. I believe in Jesus and Buddha and Mohammed and all those that were enlightened. I wouldn’t say necessarily that I’m a strict Christian. I’m not sure I believe in heaven.” Sheryl Crow is where many people are ...read more

  • Integrity Test  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
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    Integrity Test: We might be like the Salesman I read about. He was waiting to see the Purchasing Agent so he could submit his Company’s bid. While he was waiting, he couldn’t help but notice that his Competitor’s bid was sitting on the Purchasing Agent’s desk. Unfortunately, the actual figure ...read more

  • At A Meeting Of The American Psychological ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    At a meeting of the American Psychological Association, Jack Lipton, a psychologist at Union College, and R. Scott Builione, a graduate student at Columbia University, presented their findings on how members of the various sections of 11 major symphony orchestra perceived each other. The ...read more

  • Well, In Nascar Racing, Nearly Every Car Has A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Well, in NASCAR racing, nearly every car has a sponsor. Sponsors are the people who supply the racer with the resources to run the race. Often they’ll supply the car, the engine, the tires, and the funding for the pit crew. They are the people that make it possible for the driver to win the race. ...read more

  • D. At One Time, Most Every Church Founded Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    D. AT ONE TIME, MOST EVERY CHURCH FOUNDED WAS ALIVE AND VIBRANT, BUT THEN THAT CHURCH BECOMES FOCUSED INWARD, AND THEY THINK ONLY OF THEMSELVES. E. IT’S LIKE A CHURCH IN DALLAS I KNOW MUCH ABOUT, THAT STARTED WITH A LOT OF EVANGELISTIC ZEAL AND FERVOR, SO THEY BUILT A BIG BUILDING SEATING 700 AND ...read more

  • It Was 103°f In Hell Creek, South Dakota, One ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    It was 103°F in Hell Creek, South Dakota, one day in September 1993. Dinosaur hunter Michael Hammer was amazed at what he saw. Sticking out of the ground were the remains of a Thescelosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur. The skeleton was almost complete. Hammer says he knew right away that it was "very ...read more

  • I Heard The Story Of A 31-Year-Old Woman In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard the story of a 31-year-old woman in Massachusetts who learned she had cancer. She was treated and they were in hope that all would be well. She got married, became pregnant but the cancer reoccurred, and shortly afterwards she died. The reason she died is that she refused treatment and ...read more

  • B) Albert Ackley Series Of Evangelistic Meeting, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    B) Albert Ackley series of Evangelistic meeting, when young Jewish man asked “Why should I worship a dead Jew?” … Ackley searched it out, and would resolve “He lives I tell you, he is not dead…I can prove it by my own experience: "I serve a risen Savior, He’s in the world today; I know that he is ...read more

  • The Cover Story Of Time Magazine Once Featured ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The cover story of Time magazine once featured actor Peter Sellers (Mar 3, 1980). Appearing on The Muppet Show, he was told by Kermit the Frog that it was all right to "just relax and be yourself.’ To which Sellers replied, "I could never be myself. You see, there is no me. I do not exist." ...read more