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  • Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli

    Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
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    Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli Mike tells of sitting in a hotel ballroom with fifteen hundred college students participating in a weekend faith conference. On the last day of the conference, with school starting the following Monday, the students made it clear they wanted to prolong the ...read more

  • A Science Professor At Westmont College Wrote A ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Apr 1, 2007
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    A science professor at Westmont College wrote a book explaining how only one person could possibly have fulfilled the prophecies. He worked with 600 students to calculate the mathematical probability of just eight of the Old Testament prophecies being fulfilled in any one person up to the present ...read more

  • The Little Satellite That Could

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    THE LITTLE SATELLITE THAT COULD In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time magazine, the satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter’s magnetic field, radiation ...read more

  • Thanksgiving At Plymouth ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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    Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony Think of that little band of people who crossed the Atlantic in a boat that was 26 feet by 112 feet and landed on the New England coast during a bitter cold winter. At times that first year the daily ration of those who were well was only five grains of corn. In ...read more

  • God's Will And The Tablecloth

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 8, 2010
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    GOD'S WILL AND THE TABLECLOTH It happened in 1948, just a few days before Christmas. A flash flood ravaged a small town, leaving a gaping hole in the wall of an old church building--right behind the pulpit. The young pastor knew there was no time to fix the damage and decided to make the best of ...read more

  • Imaginary Jesus

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
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    IMAGINARY JESUS Matt Mikalatos has written a fictional story entitled, "Imaginary Jesus." In that story the main character encounters a wide variety of people who claim to be Jesus, but who actually represent our diverse and ever-changing depictions of who we want Jesus to be and the roles we want ...read more

  • Adoniram Judson Returns To The Lord

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 13, 2011
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    ADONIRAM JUDSON RETURNS TO THE LORD Adoniram Judson graduated at the top of his class in college, then he headed to New York City to seek fame and fortune as an actor and/or writer. He had left the God of his father, thinking he was beyond such "primitive notions." But such a life was empty for ...read more

  • Blind But Now I See  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Buckingham on Jul 8, 2011
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    BLIND BUT NOW I SEE Peter spent a few years trying to cope with his blindness, learning ways of looking after himself so that he wasn’t so much a burden upon his family, although they still continued to visit on the odd occasion. He also learned how to read Braille. Then one day he was informed ...read more

  • Losing The Boys

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 24, 2011
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    LOSING THE BOYS Dr. H Norman Wright tells this story: My wife and I had just arrived home from vacation, and the phone rang. It was our house painter. He said, "I remembered that your son died. My daughter just lost two of her little boys. Can you help her?" We agreed, so my wife and I made an ...read more

  • Pleading The Blood

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Aug 24, 2011
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    "PLEADING THE BLOOD" The singles group at the church I joined in 1978 was fascinated by Mike Warnke's book, The Satan Seller. He wrote about being drawn into Satanism, advancing through the ranks, getting saved, and the struggles he had with other Satanists and even demons after leaving them. It ...read more

  • A Religion Worth Having  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 30, 2011
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    A RELIGION WORTH HAVING Dr. F. E. Marsh used to tell that on one occasion he was preaching on the importance of confession of sin and, wherever possible, of restitution for wrong done to others. Afterward a young man came up to him and said: "Pastor, you have put me in a sad fix. I have wronged ...read more

  • Are You Doing What You Are Called To Do?  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 19, 2011
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    ARE YOU DOING WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO DO? Last week was a very interesting week. About a year ago, when our finances started to dwindle, I sent my resume out to an Executive Search Group (Headhunter). Now that’s a unique name! Last week, I got a call that there was a possibility of an awesome ...read more

  • Humility — Who Would Dare Write About It?

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Feb 16, 2012
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    HUMILITY - WHO WOULD DARE WRITE ABOUT IT? Charlene Ann Baumbich wrote a book about raising her sons. One chapter was about humbling experiences she had. She then felt the Holy Spirit nudging her to study humility. She thought she might write a book about what she would learn. After hours studying ...read more

  • The Witch Of Wall ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 13, 2012
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    THE WITCH OF WALL STREET Hetty Green, nicknamed "The Witch of Wall Street" (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916), was an American businesswoman, known for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street. She was born ...read more

  • Prayer And The Motorcycle  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Nov 13, 2012
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    PRAYER AND THE MOTORCYCLE There was a woman at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left work and stopped by the pharmacy to get some medication for her daughter. She returned to her car to find that she had locked the keys inside the car when ...read more

  • The Vastness Of The Galaxy

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 21, 2013
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    THE VASTNESS OF THE GALAXY Have you ever considered the speed of light? It’s pretty fast you know — about 186,000 miles per second. Since the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, at this speed a "particle" of light can zip around the earth about 7 or 8 times in just 1 second. That’s a ...read more

  • Favorite Child

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on May 14, 2007
     | 5,784 views

    Erma Bombeck. She writes: "Every mother has a favorite child. She cannot help it. She is only human. I have mine--the child for whom I feel a special closeness, with whom I share a love that no one else could possibly understand. My favorite child is the one who was too sick to eat ice cream at ...read more

  • On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln Stood ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on May 22, 2007
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    On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the battlefield at Gettysburg to dedicate a portion of that land as a national cemetery. The featured speaker of the day was Edward Everett, acclaimed as possibly the greatest classical orator of his time. A former United States senator, Governor ...read more

  • Facts About America And References To God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 5, 2007
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     | 2,206 views

    Facts about America and references to God: * All 50 state constitutions refer to "God" and a higher power in them! * Everyone of the country’s major anthems including “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “America” and “My Country Tis of Thee” speaks in some way about pray and God. *The first book printed ...read more

  • George Mueller Was A Great Man Of Faith. He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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    George Mueller was a great man of faith. He believed in the greatness of God, and prayed accordingly. A Christian steamship captain, a contemporary of George Mueller, once told of an experience involving Mueller’s great faith. While sailing off the coast of Newfoundland in extremely heavy fog, ...read more

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