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  • Charles Leber, A Presbyterian Missionary, Was In ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Dec 14, 2005
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    Charles Leber, a Presbyterian missionary, was in Westphalia, Germany at a clinic for handicapped children. A wealthy businessman came to tour the facilities and said to the doctor, “These are very pathetic children. What ratio of cures do you get? How many go back to normal life?” “About 1 in ...read more

  • Migratory Birds In The U.s. Were Tagged By The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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     | 2,409 views

    Migratory birds in the U.S. were tagged by the Department of the Interior with metal strips reading “Wash. Biol. Surv.”—for Washington Biological Survey. The code was changed, so the story goes, after a farmer from Arkansas wrote to the department: “Dear Sirs, I shot one of your crows, My wife ...read more

  • 8 In 10 Americans Earning More Than $1 Million A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,528 views

    8 in 10 Americans earning more than $1 million a year leave nothing to charity in their wills. "Philanthropy is part of the unspoken contract that underpins the American dream. If that contract is broken, a backlash is likely. Every American, rich and poor, would lose." This same issue lists ...read more

  • Charitable Misgivings: The Senate Finance ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Charitable Misgivings: The Senate Finance Committee is calling for more oversight of the nations 3 million U.S. tax exempt organizations. One likely outcome is regular review of tax-exempt status. “Charities ought to periodically justify that they are doing the job they said they were doing when ...read more

  • Possessions

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Apr 9, 2006
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    ILLUSTRATION The test of a financial loss would reveal whether or not we are depending on God and whether or not we understand that our possessions belong to him. Once the great evangelist John Wesley was on a trip, he got word that fire had destroyed his home. Instead of being upset, he declared ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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     | 1,405 views

    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside--unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been ...read more

  • William Seymore Was An African American Preacher ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Aug 9, 2006
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    William Seymore was an African American preacher who became filled with the Holy Spirit in 1905. He got kicked out of his Church and found an old run down grain store to meet in, in a Los Angeles street called Azusa. He had a lot standing against him. His race, His lack of education, ...read more

  • According To A New Study By Sociologists At Duke ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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    According to a new study by sociologists at Duke University and the University of Arizona. Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, “This change ...read more

  • Many Of You Don't Know This, But When We Started ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Dec 13, 2006
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    Many of you don’t know this, but when we started FFC, it was our goal to blitz the city – to visit every home in Ankeny. Now remember, there were only about 60 of us at that point, so this was one daunting task. Yet, did you know that right about 80% of our town was visited personally ...read more

  • During World War Ii, There Were Several Soldiers ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 4, 2007
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    During World War II, there were several soldiers huddled in a foxhole and a grenade was thrown in by the enemy. One of the soldiers covered the grenade with his body just before it exploded. He received the serious wounds to his own body and saved the life of his buddies. His legs had to be ...read more

  • Poem: Time, You Old Gypsy Man

    Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Jan 7, 2007
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    “Time you old gypsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day? All things I’ll give you Will you be my guest, Bells for your jennet Of silver the best, Goldsmiths shall beat you A golden ring. Peacocks shall bow to Little boys sing, Oh, and sweet ...read more

  • Sleeping In Church

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 15, 2007
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     | 7,765 views

    Sleeping in Church A Minister, while preaching, noted most of his congregation was asleep. He stopped the sermon and asked a deacon to pass the offering plate. The deacon woke up red-faced and reminded him the offering had already been taken. His response; “Never mind, take up another one. I ...read more

  • I Spent Many Years As A Teacher In Further ...

    Contributed by Joanna Beveridge on Feb 2, 2007
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    I spent many years as a teacher in Further Education. My subject was business studies and one of the topics that I taught was marketing. It is said that to market any product or service successfully you have to pay attention to the 4 ps. These stand for Product, Price, Place and Promotion. In ...read more

  • When I Got Engaged, We Went To A Local Gemologist ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
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    When I got engaged, we went to a local gemologist at his home. He took us to his living room, pulled his hand out of his pocket and held it out with several stones and said, "Pick one." Gemologists/geologists are able to analyze and discern which gems/metals are ...read more

  • Though A Friend Be But The Duplicate Of A Man's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Though a friend be but the duplicate of a man's self, yet there may often happen secrets to one, that may not be convenient to divulge to the other. If they be such as the disclosure of them to a friend shall not only not benefit him, but shall bring grief upon him, I cannot think it an act of ...read more

  • Gentiles V. Jews

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 12, 2009
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    GENTILES V. JEWS It is said that a prominent rabbi, when asked why God created so many Gentiles, replied, "So there might be fuel enough for the fires of hell." It was unlawful for a Jew to help a Gentile who was giving birth, thus helping to bring another Gentile into the world. If a Jew ...read more

  • Dad's Alarm

    Contributed by Paul Collins on Sep 7, 2009
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    DAD'S ALARM A father wrote about what happened when his son David was about five years old. They attended a church where it was common for the preacher to invite children to the front for a special sermon. On one particular morning, he brought up a smoke detector and asked the children if anyone ...read more

  • Consider Little Suzie. Little Suzie Was ...

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 24, 2009
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    Consider little Suzie. Little Suzie was finishing her prayer one night and said: Dear God, Please take care of mommy, take care of daddy, take care of my sister and my brother, and please, God, take care of yourself, because if you don’t, we’re all sunk. – Amen! Suzie ...read more

  • What's A Burden?

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 10, 2011
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    WHAT'S A BURDEN? What a "burden" is according to Scribal Law (re: Sabbath observance): * Food equal in weight to a dried fig * Enough wine for mixing in a goblet * Milk enough for one swallow * Honey enough to put upon a wound * Oil enough to anoint a small member * Water enough to moisten an ...read more

  • Risk Your Life To Save It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2011
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     | 4,877 views

    RISK YOUR LIFE TO SAVE IT Tyrtaeus, an old Greek poet who lived before the time of Christ, wrote, "The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance in saving it; the one who flees to save it is most likely to lose it." (Walter Bauer, A Greek-English ...read more