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  • Parents, If You Get Angry With Your Kids For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bev Sesink on Feb 5, 2005
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    Parents, if you get angry with your kids for something they do wrong, and you lose it, do you wait for your children to apologize or do you set the example and go to them? Teenagers, do you find it beneath your dignity to humble yourself to obey your parents’ reasonable expectations? I remember ...read more

  • A Number Of Years Ago, When The New Volkswagen ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Nov 26, 2007
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     | 1,988 views

    A number of years ago, when the new Volkswagen Beetle was introduced, one of the features that received significant attention was that it was burglarproof. Volkswagen bragged there was no way anybody could steal their car. To demonstrate their point, VW hired a professional burglar and called a ...read more

  • Boating On The Chesapeake Bay

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 4, 2008
     | 1,924 views

    BOATING ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY One family was filled with skilled boaters and water-skiers. They often skied not on nice, glassy lakes but on the huge, choppy Chesapeake Bay. To one preschool nephew, however, the experience was absolutely horrifying. It seemed to him that everyone would be thrown ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago, When The New Volkswagen Beetle ...

    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Jan 28, 2009
     | 2,227 views

    A few years ago, when the new Volkswagen Beetle was introduced, one feature that received lots of attention was the claim to be burglarproof. Volkswagen bragged there was no way anybody could steal their car. To demonstrate their point, VW hired a highly skilled burglar and called a news ...read more

  • Worried That She'll Stop Clapping

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Jul 3, 2009
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    WORRIED THAT SHE'LL STOP CLAPPING David Buttrick tells of a baby who claps her hands over most anything. "Shove breakfast cereal in the front of her, you’ll get a hand clap. Sit her in a circle of toys, and she’ll break into applause. Her parents took her to the seashore to watch the waves roll ...read more

  • The Author Inside You: Americans Write 750,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,506 views

    The Author Inside You: Americans write 750,000 book-length manuscripts a year, of which fewer than 60,000 are published. A ‘02 Jenkins Group survey found: 81% of Americans feel they should write a book., 28% see it as a self-help or DIY book, 27% a non-fiction book, 27% a fiction work, and 20% ...read more

  • One Day A Gentleman Walked Into One Of Ben ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 13, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,995 views

    One day a gentleman walked into one of Ben Franklin’s book stores. As one of the clerks went to assist him, the gentleman asked the clerk the price of the book he wished to purchase. The young clerk looked at the price posted on the book and said, "That book is one dollar, sir." The gentleman ...read more

  • There Was A Military Officer Who Happened To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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    There was a military officer who happened to stop by an island in the South Pacific. The military officer discovered that the island was inhabited by cannibals. Cannibals are humans who eat other humans. One day he came cross an old tribal chief. He saw the chief reading the Bible in the ...read more

  • In November, 1987, A Large Group Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2001
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    In November, 1987, a large group of anti-government rebels in Soroti, Uganda, had targeted a rural army post and airstrip for take over. A company numbering in the hundreds gathered in the dense surrounding brush for the attack. But this was to be no ordinary invasion. The task force would use ...read more

  • Sincerely Wrong  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2002
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    SINCERELY WRONG In November, 1987, a large group of anti-government rebels in Soroti, Uganda, had targeted a rural army post and airstrip for take over. A company numbering in the hundreds gathered in the dense surrounding brush for the attack. But this was to be no ordinary invasion. The task ...read more

  • Restroom Use Policy  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,982 views

    FROM: YS OPERATIONS SUBJECT: Restroom Use Policy In the past, employees were permitted to make trips to the restroom under informal guidelines. Effective immediately, a Restroom Trip Policy will be established to provide a more consistent method of accounting for each employee’s restroom time and ...read more

  • Why Was Hitler So Successful? Because The Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 23, 2006
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    Why was Hitler so successful? Because the church rolled over and let him. Germany had been beaten to the ground and humiliated after World War I. The Treaty of Versailles put such demands on Germany that it looked like it would never dig itself out. Its economy took a nosedive, and the ruling ...read more

  • A $200 Life-Changing Miracle

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Aug 23, 2007
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     | 5,536 views

    *Did you see the story in the Baptist Message about the two seminary students in New Orleans, who stopped at a local grocery store? It happened years ago, and one of the students was Don Wilton. *In the store they noticed a scruffy looking couple with a baby dressed only in a diaper. God’s Spirit ...read more

  • Learning To Get Up Quickly  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2010
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    LEARNING TO GET UP QUICKLY In the book A View From the Zoo, Gary Richmond tells about the birth of a giraffe: The first thing top emerge are the baby giraffe's front hooves and head. A few minutes later, the little newborn is hurled forth, falls ten feet, and lands on its back. Within seconds, ...read more

  • Those Of You That Are Familiar With Elvis Presley ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Apr 14, 2002
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    Those of you that are familiar with Elvis Presley will know that "TCB" (which stand for "Taking Care of Business") was Elvis’ personal saying. It was kind of a slogan. He even had a diamond ring made with the letters "TCB" on it. Elvis was, in his day, bigger than life and his business was to ...read more

  • Two Rednecks, Billy Joe And His Friend Bubba Are ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 9, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,620 views

    Two rednecks, Billy Joe and his friend Bubba are out in the woods hunting when Billy Joe suddenly grabs his chest, keels over and falls to the ground. Billy Joe doesn’t seem to be breathing, his tongue is hanging out and his eyes are rolled back in his head. Bubba frantically whips out his cell ...read more

  • A Number Of People Think Of Satan As The ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
     | 2,765 views

    A number of people think of Satan as the personification of evil. Like Uncle Sam is the personification of patriotism, the devil is the representation of all evil. Or they think that people are evil and need no one to tempt them. But if they could, just for a moment, have the curtains of this seen ...read more

  • During One Of His Political Campaigns, A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    During one of his political campaigns, a delegation called on Theodore Roosevelt at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The President met them with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up. “Ah, gentlemen,” he said, “come down to the barn and we will talk while I do some work.” At the barn, ...read more

  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, I pulled into my driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when I returned to the car, I found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors—and I had left the key in the ignition. For an hour ...read more

  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the ...read more