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  • Distortions

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012
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    DISTORTIONS I know you have heard the story of the man that was on the ocean on a huge yacht. They had cruised for days and somehow had gotten lost. The captain noticed the owner’s little son had placed his toy magnet next to the casing around the compass. The magnetic force had distorted the ...read more

  • Leonardo Da Vinci Painted The Last Supper Scene ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2012
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    Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Last Supper scene on a dining room wall in Milan. As a visitor stood viewing the finished work, he commented on the realism of several goblets on the table, exclaiming that they were so real he felt as though he could reach out and pick them up. Upon hearing those ...read more

  • In The Movie The Passion Of Christ, One Scene ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on May 21, 2007
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    In the movie the Passion of Christ, one scene shows Jesus carrying the cross on the way to Golgotha (Calvary) and he stumbles. His mother, Mary, comes before him, and holds him. And there is a flashback to his childhood when Mary picked him up after he had fallen, and he says to his mother, "I ...read more

  • In 1961 A.w. Tozer Was Given The Opportunity To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In 1961 A.W. Tozer was given the opportunity to speak to a group of ministers on a subject of his choice. Not surprisingly he chose to speak to them about the holiness of God. During that talk he said the following words: “I believe we ought to have again the old biblical concept of God which makes ...read more

  • Right After The 9/11 Attacks, The President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Right after the 9/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, “A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of America” In other words, “even though we just ...read more

  • Claria Knall, A Young Mother From Oklahoma ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Claria Knall, a young mother from Oklahoma writes, “It was one of the worst days of my life. The washing machine broke down, the telephone wouldn’t stop ringing, my head ached, and the mailman brought the bill that I had no money to pay. Almost at the breaking point I lifted my one-year-old into ...read more

  • The Rev Martin Luther King Lived A Short But High ...

    Contributed by W F on Jul 15, 2007
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    The Rev Martin Luther King lived a short but high impact life. He once said … “…if I can help somebody as I pass along, If I can cheer someone with a word or a song, If I can show somebody he is travelling wrong, Then my living will not be in vain. If I can do my duty as a Christian ought, If I ...read more

  • British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith Once Spent ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
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    British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the 19th-century Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: “Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?” “Tea, please,” answered ...read more

  • David Who Wrote This Psalm Was The Greatest Of ...

    Contributed by Robert Fa’atoia-Collins on Sep 16, 2007
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    David who wrote this Psalm was the greatest of all the offenders in human values. David broke five of Ten Commandments. 1) Thou shall not steal, 2) Thou shall not Kill, 3) Thou shall not commit adultery, 4) Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour and 5) Thou shall not covet. And ...read more

  • Comment On A Blog Said, "Christianity Is Boring. ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 5, 2007
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    Comment on a blog said, “Christianity is boring. It's the same stuff over and over, and sometimes they try to throw some fun stuff in there to get you to come, but sitting around studying a 2000 year old book, singing dull songs with words like thee, thou and thine and tunes out of the Victorian ...read more

  • Today, More Than 200 Million Christians In Over ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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    Today, more than 200 million Christians in over 60 countries around the word – our brothers and sisters in the faith – face brutal opposition and persecution because of their faith in Jesus. The number one request they have when asked, is always “please pray for us”. So today we bring their ...read more

  • Charlie Peace, A Criminal In England, On The Day ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
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    Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found out he was reading about heaven and hell, he looked at the preacher and said, "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say, and even if ...read more

  • A Gallup Poll Conducted Some Years Ago Revealed ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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    A Gallup poll conducted some years ago revealed that 60 percent of Americans did not know what "the Holy Trinity" was. Sixty-six percent couldn’t say who delivered the Sermon on the Mount, and 79 percent were unable to name a single Old Testament prophet. How is your Bible knowledge? Do you ...read more

  • Agent Orange In The Vietnam War

    Contributed by James Owens on Feb 6, 2008
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    a) AGENT ORANGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR It would affect your eyes and cause blindness to occur. Breathing would become increasing difficult and choking would occur. It would affect the nervous system – unable to control bodily functions. b) SATAN’S ATTACK ON GOD’S PEOPLE IN THESE LAST ...read more

  • There Are Two Questions That Will Be Ultimately ...

    Contributed by James Cloud on Mar 8, 2008
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    There are two questions that will be ultimately asked on the Day of Judgment: “Did you love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind….Did you love your neighbor as yourself?” Both of these cannot be accomplished if you do not know God’s Word. How can you purport to love and honor a ...read more

  • As We Read This Text, According To Dr. Schmit, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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    As we read this text, according to Dr. Schmit, and I quote, “we know that we too are individual members of a large flock of faithful disciples who seek to live as citizens of the kingdom of heaven. In other words, the work we do is never ours alone to accomplish. We do our part and trust that God ...read more

  • Woman's Husband Gave Her A Hard Time… One Day ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Woman’s husband gave her a hard time… one day disconnected battery cables… car wouldn’t crank so without a word to her husband she started walking… he later felt bad, showed up at services & then obeyed the gospel They live in a Barbie world wanting everything their Barbie had! Think: “If Barbie ...read more

  • Do You Realize That The More Prosperous America ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE MORE PROSPEROUS AMERICA BECOMES, THE MORE STINGY SHE BECOMES?? S. IN 1933, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, THE AVERAGE CHURCH MEMBER GAVE AN 3.3% OF THEIR DISPOSABLE INCOME TO THE LORD, THROUGH THEIR CHURCH. U. IN THE YEAR 2004, CHURCH MEMBERS GAVE 1.94% OF THEIR ...read more

  • Amazon.com Has Notified Some Print-On-Demand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    Amazon.com has notified some print-on-demand publishers that if they wish to continue selling books directly through their site, they must use Amazon-owned BookSurge to print their books. Amazon currently places orders through the POD publishers’ distributors. But soon, publishers will be required ...read more

  • Someone You Know

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
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     | 2,860 views

    SOMEONE YOU KNOW A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know." What is often missed is that God’s word ...read more