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  • Perspective On Troubles

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 26, 2005
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    PERSPECTIVE ON TROUBLES A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it fills the whole world andputs everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet, ...read more

  • The First Ever Vocal Radio Broadcast On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Dec 26, 2005
    based on 22 ratings
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    - The first ever vocal radio broadcast on December 24, 1906 - Consisted of a reading from Luke chapter two. - A Canadian engineer and inventor, Reginald Fessenden - 1866-1932 - The eldest son of an Anglican minister growing up near Niagra Falls On Christmas Eve, 1906, from his workshop in Chestnut ...read more

  • On Most Days, Elkhorn Creek Is A Narrow Stream ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on May 21, 2007
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    On most days, Elkhorn Creek is a narrow stream that flows placidly through southern West Virginia of McDowell and Mercer counties. But on July 8 2002, after a flash flood dumped six inches of rain on the area in a couple of hours, the creek became a monster. One of the region’s worst floods ever ...read more

  • John Sculley Was President Of Pepsi Co During The ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jun 3, 2007
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    John Sculley was president of Pepsi Co during the 1970s and early 1980s He is best known for his marketing skills, particularly in his introduction of ’the Pepsi Challenge’ at Pepsi Co, He became CEO of Apple from 1983-1993. What caused Pepsi Cola president John Sculley’s dramatic shift to become ...read more

  • A Master Martial Artist Asked Bruce Lee To Teach ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jun 3, 2007
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    A master martial artist asked Bruce Lee to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. ...read more

  • Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart And He Will ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 3, 2007
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    Trust in the LORD with all your heart and HE will acknowledge and HE will light your way. This prayer has been sent to you for good luck. The original copy is from the Netherlands. It has been around the world nine times. The luck has now been brought to you. You will receive good luck within ...read more

  • Team Hoyt  PRO

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 19, 2007
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    TEAM HOYT - Team Hoyt loves to race -Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts - Since 1975 who together compete just about continuously in running cycling swimming crossing 1000 finish lines - 64 marathon races. - 204 10 K runs - 206 triathlons - 6 of these triathlon ...read more

  • Someone Has Said That If You Could Convince A Man ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jul 14, 2008
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    Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built to US Navy ...read more

  • Attitude Is Everything

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING Harry Emerson Fosdick once told how as a child, his mother sent him to pick a quart of raspberries. Reluctantly he dragged himself to the berrypatch. His afternoon was ruined for sure. Then a thought hit him. He would surprise his mother and pick two quarts of raspberries ...read more

  • The Meaning Of Bitterness

    Contributed by David Tack on Dec 23, 2011
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    THE MEANING OF BITTERNESS "Eadie [A Scottish Theologian 1810-1876] says that Pikria [bitterness] is 'a figurative term denoting that fretted and irritable state of mind that keeps a man in perpetual [constant] animosity--that inclines him to harsh and uncharitable opinions of men and things--that ...read more

  • British Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham Wasn't A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham wasn’t a great admirer of the music of his fellow Briton, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. During the rehearsal of a Williams symphony, Beecham seemed to be doing little more than listlessly beating time. In fact, he was still beating time after the orchestra ...read more

  • What Is Man…?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable inscription for the stone lintel over the doors of the new home of the philosophy department. After some reflection, James sent Eliot a line ...read more

  • Paper Mud ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2012
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    PAPER MUD BALLS I heard of a traveler going through China who visited a temple where the people were making paper mud balls, wadding them up, and throwing them at an idol they were worshiping. If the mud ball stuck to the idol it meant that the idol would answer their prayers. If the mud ball ...read more

  • Down Through The Years We've Discovered That ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. David Hart on Mar 26, 2008
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    Down through the years we’ve discovered that many people try to keep you the way that you were. They would say that “A leopard cannot change it spots” and “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” And they believe that there is a slight chance for us changing. It reminds me a of my favorite comic ...read more

  • The Multi-Tool  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2011
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    THE MULTI-TOOL In 1975 Tim Leatherman was touring Europe & Asia with a broken-down Fiat. Its hoses leaked and the wiring failed constantly. He used his pocketknife for everything, from slicing bread to adjusting screws. He wished his pocketknife had pliers attached to it. He came home to design ...read more

  • We Shall All Be Changed  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Mar 28, 2002
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    WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED The first Law of Thermodynamics says that no mass or energy is ever destroyed, that it merely changes form. When a piece of wood is burned, it is not gone. Some of it becomes heat; some deteriorates into the ashes. But it is not destroyed - it just changes. When a lake ...read more

  • More On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    MORE ON PRAYER Leonard Ravenhill - Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way. Harry Emerson Fosdick - Prayer is putting oneself under God’s influence. Pope Pius XII - A man without ...read more

  • Humanism

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Nov 17, 2020
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    "During the construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable inscription for the stone lintel over the doors of the philosophy department. After some reflection, James sent Eliot a line from ...read more

  • Lying, Cheating, And Stealing Are Becoming An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    Lying, cheating, and stealing are becoming an "acceptable norm" among high-school and college students, says Ralph Wexler, speaking for the Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics. In a recent survey, the Institute reported that 61 percent of the high-school and 32 percent of the college ...read more

  • A Prison Chaplain Writes Of A Study In Which He ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Mar 4, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
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    “A prison chaplain writes of a study in which he talked with twelve inmates in the penitentiary. He asked each “Why are you here?” The answers were instructive: “I was framed.” “They ganged up on me.” “It was a case of mistaken identity.” “The police had it in for me.” Not one said he was guilty of ...read more