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  • I Have Learned Quite A Bit About Wolves This Year ...

    Contributed by Jane Willis on Dec 25, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,783 views

    I have learned quite a bit about wolves this year in preparation for a winter trip to Yellowstone. One of my favorite photographs of a wolf pack shows them traveling over the crest of a hill, through very deep snow. It is an aerial photograph, which shows an exquisitely organized approach to such ...read more

  • E. One Time While Doing Training At Fort Riley, ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 22, 2007
     | 733 views

    e. One time while doing training at Fort Riley, I got out of my vehicle. There was no moon light and it was very cloudy. I figured I could find the remainder of my vehicles because I could hear them running. I started walking towards the next vehicle when all four of my vehicles shut off. I ...read more

  • Just Give Me Jesus-But Don't Make Me Change My ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 8, 2007
     | 2,293 views

    Just give me Jesus-but don’t make me change my ways In the Answers magazine Dr John MacArthur quotes a person from an article in Christianity Today on the Emerging Church. “A young lady said she wants to be religious but isn’t prepared to let religion alter her lifestyle. “I’m a Jesus girl,” she ...read more

  • The Family Sat Down At The Table And Dad Asked ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 8, 2008
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    The family sat down at the table and dad asked his young son to “say grace” over the meal. While the family waited, the little boy quickly eyed every dish which his mother had prepared; then he bowed his head and prayed, “Lord, I don’t like the look of it, but thank you — I’ll eat it anyway.” ...read more

  • T.h. Huxley, A Well-Known Agnostic, Was With A ...

    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Jun 22, 2008
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    T.H. Huxley, a well-known agnostic, was with a group of men at a weekend house party. On Sunday morning, while most of them were preparing to go to church, he approached a man known for his Christian character and said, "Suppose you stay at home and tell my why you are a Christian." The man, ...read more

  • A Group Of Infantry Soldiers Were Going Through ...

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 7, 2008
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    A group of infantry soldiers were going through Airborne School at Fort Benning Georgia. As they prepared for their first jump, the jumpmaster explained that when the green light went on, everyone was to stand up, hook up, jump out, count to four and the chutes would open. If that failed, they ...read more

  • The Beggar At The Table

    Contributed by Ashton Alexander on Jun 7, 2009
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     | 4,134 views

    THE BEGGAR AT THE TABLE Many years ago, as the story is told, a devout king was disturbed by the ingratitude of his royal court. He prepared a large banquet for them. When the king and his royal guests were seated, by prearrangement, a beggar shuffled into the hall, sat down at the king’s table, ...read more

  • Mother, Is The Moon God's ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 28, 2009
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    “Mother, Is the Moon God’s Light?” A mother and her little four-year-old daughter were preparing to retire for the night. The child was afraid of the night. The child was afraid of the dark, and the mother, alone with the child, felt fearful also. When the light was out, the child caught a ...read more

  • Anne Graham Lotz On The Solar Eclipse

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 6, 2024
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     | 331 views

    "The warning is triggered by the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, nicknamed America's Eclipse. For the first time in almost 100 years, a total solar eclipse will be seen from coast to coast in our nation. People are preparing to mark this significant event with viewing parties at exclusive ...read more

  • Sin Separates. Sin Divides. Sin Brings Death To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 23, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 8,816 views

    Sin separates. Sin divides. Sin brings death to relationships and destroys fellowship. God unites. God brings oneness and unity. On the day of Pentecost, God reversed the Babel process, and with one language from heaven, He demonstrated that all in Him will be sharers of one divine ...read more

  • The Beginning Of Lee  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
    based on 23 ratings
     | 6,492 views

    THE BEGINNING OF LEE Lee, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a self-professed atheist was sitting at his desk on Christmas Eve. A slow news day he found himself reminiscing about the Delgado family that he had featured while writing a series of articles about Chicago’s neediest people a few ...read more

  • Morrie: In His Own Words  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Oct 16, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,759 views

    1. Morrie: In His Own Words By Morrie Schwartz: · Learn how to live, and you’ll know how to die. Once you know how to die, you know how to live. · Death ends life, not a relationship. · Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. · Everything that gets born ...read more

  • When I Think Of The Promises Of God, I'm Reminded ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Montgomery on Jun 9, 2007
    based on 13 ratings
     | 7,678 views

    When I think of the promises of God, I’m reminded of the story of the young man who had a dream to go to America. He scrimped and saved, and did everything in his power to save enough money to buy a ticket on a boat bound for America. The day came when he had precisely the amount of money ...read more

  • Come Down Off The Chair

    Contributed by Michael Milton on Sep 11, 2011
     | 2,977 views

    COME DOWN OFF THE CHAIR There is a pastor who was once a professor--a very creative professor--at RTS in Jackson, Mississippi. One day he had the responsibility of leading the chapel service. Most of us prepare for chapel messages by Bible study and prayer. This professor prepared by not only ...read more

  • It Just Seemed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,593 views

    IT JUST SEEMED LONG George Buttrick is considered one of the top ten preachers of the 20th Century. He served nearly thirty years as pastor of New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. From that distinguished pulpit, Buttrick began a teaching career at Union Theological Seminary, then as ...read more

  • Several Centuries Ago, A Learned German ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
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    Several centuries ago, a learned German philosopher began investigating a new philosophy coming out of Japan. This philosophy was called, “Zen.” The philosopher poured through every piece of written material he cold find on this Zen philosophy, but there was scarce information available. Then one ...read more

  • The More You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 1,280 views

    THE MORE YOU KNOW Allen Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world--who has deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion ...read more

  • Listening To The Master's Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,248 views

    LISTENING TO THE MASTER'S VOICE One of the first exposes of the beliefs of our future ministers was made by Redbook magazine in August of 1961. The publishers hired one of the top pollsters in the nation to survey a full representation of our seminaries which are supposedly preparing men for ...read more

  • In God We Trust

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 17, 2011
     | 5,730 views

    IN GOD WE TRUST I think it quite appropriate that on this day we celebrate who we are as a nation and reflect on how we came to be the nation we are. It is because we still stand firm in our national motto,” IN GOD WE TRUST”. Did you ever wonder where it came from – how did these words come to be ...read more

  • Giving The Poor A Reason To Live

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 9, 2011
     | 3,995 views

    GIVING THE POOR A REASON TO LIVE So let's humble ourselves before each other and experience His grace. It's the way to true glory and dignity even if we find ourselves down and out. That's what Abbe Pierre discovered when he founded the Emmaus Communities in 1949. The Emmaus Communities today ...read more

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