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  • A Common Sense And Satisfying Interpretation Of ...

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 31, 2003
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    "A common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.… There is, I shall argue, no contradiction between holding a staunch belief in supernatural design and being a creative scientist.… Just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines ...read more

  • The Late Larry Burkett, A Christian Financial ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
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     | 1,879 views

    The late Larry Burkett, a Christian financial counselor & founder of Crown Ministries, gives these statistics. 40% borrow more than they can make monthly payments on. The average American family is always only 3 weeks away from bankruptcy. According to Burkett and social security statistics, 85 out ...read more

  • More Of A Miracle Than Resurrection  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
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     | 6,330 views

    Lee Strobel put it like this… “If we were holding a trial to determine the facts concerning the resurrection, and if we were to call to the witness stand every witness who personally encountered the resurrected Jesus and we cross-examined them for only 15 minutes, and if we went around the clock ...read more

  • Quote: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address Jan. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 8, 2005
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    Quote: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address Jan. 20, 1961 “…my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Finally, whether ...read more

  • In His Little Book On Christian Truth, Harry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2005
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    In his little book On Christian Truth, Harry Blamires suggests that we think of the human race aboard a hijacked jet-liner flying through time. “God himself directed its takeoff from the divine control-tower. The initiator of all evil, whom we call the Devil, managed to get a boarding pass.” When ...read more

  • On June 4, 1783 At The Market Square Of A French ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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    On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rags. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of “a respectable assembly and a ...read more

  • New Church Research * Hartford Institute For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    New Church Research * Hartford Institute for Religion Research has just completed the most extensive survey ever conducted on American churches and reveals that · 50% of all congregations have fewer than 100 adults, and 25% have fewer than 50. · Fewer than 10% have more than 1,000 adults. · 52% ...read more

  • Bible Fact & Fiction: Tyndale House In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Bible Fact & Fiction: Tyndale House in cooperation with the Barna Research Group discovered the following about American adults: · 80% name the Bible as the most influential book in human history. · 58% believe the Bible to be totally accurate in all it teaches. · 91% of all households own at least ...read more

  • A Professor In A World-Acclaimed Medical School ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    A professor in a world-acclaimed medical school once posed this medical situation -- and ethical problem -- to his students: "Here’s the family history: The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children. The first is blind. The second had died. The third is deaf. The ...read more

  • On June 4, 1783 At The Market Square Of A French ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,195 views

    On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rages. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of "a respectable assembly and a ...read more

  • On The Windy Brittany Coast Of France The Abbe ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On the windy Brittany coast of France the Abbe Adolph Juelienne Foure spent nearly ten hours a day every single day for 25 years carving more than 300 figures out of a huge section of rock above the sea. The statues tell the fantastic history of the Rotheneuf family, a 16th century tribe of ...read more

  • Legitimacy Vs. Abnormality

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
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    Legitimacy vs. Abnormality In the mass-media age, journalism is more than the transmission of neutral information. It traffics in the kind of information and spectacle calculated to embarrass western leaders. But the media doesn’t confine itself to embarrassing politicians. It also works to create ...read more

  • Royalty Receives The Punishment

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 10, 2007
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    Royalty Receives The Punishment Throughout history, royal families have received special treatment. Often they were exempt from keeping the law or receiving punishment or even discipline. But the royal children still needed to know that when they misbehaved they deserved to be punished. When a ...read more

  • Our Own Folly

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 3, 2008
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    Our Own Folly The murder of millions by the hands of the Nazi's during WWII is seen as one of the most evil acts of history. Considering how this was allowed to occur, a group of ministers met to discuss why the church in Germany had failed to take a stand against the evils of the Third Reich. ...read more

  • Defining Moments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    DEFINING MOMENTS The American director, Ken Burns (Born: 1953), once said; and, I quote: "Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being." The American public servant, Donald Evans (Born: 1946), once said; and, I ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more

  • Peace On ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Dec 2, 2009
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    “Peace on Earth” Peace on earth, with a world at war? O what were the angels singing for That far-away night when the Star shown down With a glorious light on Bethlehem’s town? Peace on earth! They were singing of Him Who was born that night to redeem from sin; Who still has the power to cleanse ...read more

  • As Of 2010, There Are More Than 20 Major Civil ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 28, 2010
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    As of 2010, there are more than 20 major civil and international conflicts involving, among others, the nations of: India Afghanistan Somalia Iraq Pakistan Mexico Myanmar Iran Israel Nigeria Colombia Peru Indonesia the Philippines Turkey Iraqi ...read more

  • Spurgeon And Murray On Who Makes The Biggest ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2010
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    Spurgeon and Murray on Who Makes the Biggest Impact For Christ God used Charles Spurgeon’s preaching in the 19th Century to bring thousands of people to faith in Christ. Even so, Charles Spurgeon himself once said, “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” That’s because he ...read more

  • Tenth Hours

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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     | 1,519 views

    TENTH HOURS Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step ...read more