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  • Lionel Luckhoo Is In The Guinness Book Of Records ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 24, 2006
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     | 1,498 views

    Lionel luckhoo is in the Guinness book of records the most successful trial lawyer 245 successful murder defenses in a row! At 63 he decided to put his analytical skills to the claim that Jesus rose from the dead! He found the resurrection answered his personal needs and his intellectual ...read more

  • When I Was Growing Up I Had Many Role Models. ...

    Contributed by Robert Coats on Nov 23, 2006
     | 2,086 views

    When I was growing up I had many role models. There was my dad, grandparents, television personalities, and when I started playing football there was different football players I looked up to as role models. I remember watching O. J. Simpson when he played for the Buffalo Bills…He was known as “The ...read more

  • Financially Illiterate 17% Of The 5,775 High ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,462 views

    Financially Illiterate 17% of the 5,775 high school seniors that took a 30-question financial test had taken a money management or personal finance class, yet they fared worse than their peers who had not taken such a class. Students only correctly answered 52.4% of the questions. Financially ...read more

  • Switch To Vibrate Companies Are Limiting On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,519 views

    Switch to Vibrate Companies are limiting on the job cellphone use in reaction to the noisy jangle of beeps and tunes emanating from incoming personal calls. 30% of employees say cellphones ringing at work is their #1 pet peeve, according to a Randstad USA study. A Sprint survey finds 53% of workers ...read more

  • What Is It That Causes Trouble In Marriages? It ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,128 views

    "What is it that causes trouble in marriages? It is amazing how many people don't seem to know. Essentially, it is one thing: Sin I don't care whether it the sin of pride, hard-hearted unwillingness to forgive or to humble oneself or to admit mistakes, selfishness, lust, or whatever other sin of ...read more

  • Two Solemn Farewells We Find Our Lord Jesus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,863 views

    "Two solemn farewells we find our Lord Jesus giving to his church, and his parting word at both of them is very encouraging; one was here [in Matthew 28], when he closed up his personal converse with them, and then his parting word was, Lo, I am with you always; I leave you, and yet ...read more

  • Financially Illiterate 17% Of The 5,775 High ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,855 views

    Financially Illiterate 17% of the 5,775 high school seniors that took a 30-question financial test had taken a money management or personal finance class, yet they fared worse than their peers who had not taken such a class. Students only correctly answered 52.4% of the questions. Financially ...read more

  • Ad For Listening

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2009
     | 3,969 views

    AD FOR LISTENING To point out how lonely people can be, Charles Swindoll mentioned an ad in a Kansas newspaper. It read, "I will listen to you talk for 30 minutes without comment for $5.00." Swindoll said, "Sounds like a hoax, doesn’t it? But the person was serious. Did anybody call? You bet. It ...read more

  • My Opinion Of Him

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 3, 2009
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     | 3,203 views

    MY OPINION OF HIM Robert E. Lee was asked what he thought of General Joe Johnston, a fellow officer in the Confederate Army. Lee rated him as being very satisfactory and made glowing comments about him. The person who asked the question seemed perplexed. "General," he said, "I guess you don’t know ...read more

  • Bad Taste  PRO

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,618 views

    BAD TASTE Treating each other in graceless ways is like putting salt in another person's drink. You're sitting there, your friend goes to the bathroom, and while he's gone you pour salt into his soda. And when he takes a sip he gets a terrible taste in his mouth. God says, "Don't do this ...read more

  • Old Fat Bald Hero

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009
     | 8,895 views

    OLD FAT BALD HERO One of the great sports stories of the decade of the 1990’s was of George Foreman regaining the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. At age 45, George Foreman, more than a decade past the prime of most fighters, knocked out his opponent, Michael Moore, and regained the ...read more

  • Every Day Over 25,000 People Die Of Hunger. ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 28, 2010
     | 3,109 views

    Every day over 25,000 people die of hunger. That's over 1,000 people an hour. In other words, as many people die of hunger every hour as are killed in the world's deadliest wars in a year. One person every 3 seconds ... most often, children. If the effects of death by famine in the world today were ...read more

  • Defensive Striving

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 27, 2010
     | 2,406 views

    DEFENSIVE STRIVING There's a term in driver's education - Defensive Driving. Driving to save lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others. Its aim is to reduce the risk of driving by anticipating dangerous situations, despite adverse conditions or the ...read more

  • Melt It, Don't Hammer It

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011
     | 3,899 views

    MELT IT, DON'T HAMMER IT Alexander Maclaren once said, "Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it." The writer from the 1930’s, Somerset Maugham, had a mother who was an extraordinarily beautiful woman his father was an extraordinarily ugly man. ...read more

  • Middle Management

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
     | 2,869 views

    MIDDLE MANAGEMENT Cyril Barber, in his commentary on Nehemiah, transfers this principle into all of life; "Middle management involves being able to translate the ideals of one’s superiors into practice and, at the same time, knowing how to motivate one’s subordinates. It necessitates keeping ...read more

  • Running While Weighed Down

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
     | 1,766 views

    RUNNING WHILE WEIGHED DOWN David Posman was arrested in Providence, Rhode Island, after allegedly knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest 4 bags of money. It turned out they contained $800 in pennies, weighing 30 pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his getaway so ...read more

  • Let Your Adorning Be Hidden

    Contributed by David Hodgin on Oct 9, 2011
     | 2,637 views

    LET YOUR ADORNING BE HIDDEN Author Jennifer McBride wrote, "Ladies and gentlemen, I exhort you to dress in such a way that does not capture anyone’s gaze, but actually gives others something else, besides your attire, to think about. Discretion is a godly trait. At times, it is better to ...read more

  • There Is A Growing Awareness Of The Exalted ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 15, 2012
     | 3,283 views

    There is a growing awareness of the exalted dignity proper to the human person, since he stands above all things, and his rights and duties are universal and inviolable. Therefore, there must be made available to all men everything necessary for leading a life truly human, such as food, clothing, ...read more

  • The Wonder Of The Hummingbird

    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
     | 2,168 views

    A few weeks ago, a hummingbird came and fluttered in front of my face. I was stunned. I've never seen one up that close and personal. It was so close I counted the number of times it flapped its wings - 25 beats per second - or 1500 flaps per minute! (No I looked it up!) It is the only bird ...read more

  • Confidence

    Contributed by Bruce Lee on Jun 12, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,696 views

    2 Corinthians 5:6 says "Therefore we are always confident." Confidence is something that comes from believing. Success or failure is often a result of either our confidence or lack thereof. The Apostle Paul was a person of confidence. He wasn’t always right, but he was sure about his experience ...read more