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  • Is It Worth The View?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,285 views

    IS IT WORTH THE VIEW? In May of 2001, Congress heard a final vote on a monument that will be erected on the Washington Mall to honor those who fought in World War II. The vote was 400-15. However, it took longer to decide on the location than it did to fight the war. The turf war is over one ...read more

  • I Can't Always Remember Everything  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,735 views

    I CAN'T ALWAYS REMEMBER EVERYTHING Remembering is sometimes hard work. There were three old sisters who lived together. One sister got up to go to bed, and half way up the stairs she stopped and asked "was I going up or was I coming down" One sister replied with a hint of aggravation, "you were ...read more

  • When The First Memorial Day Was Celebrated, A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 88 ratings
     | 6,864 views

    When the first Memorial Day was celebrated, a group of women from Washington D.C. asked the War Department for permission to put flowers on the soldiers graves at Arlington Cemetery. After a lot of haggling, permission was finally granted to do so. But a stern order was attached to the permission. ...read more

  • Reading Their Names  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,394 views

    READING THEIR NAMES Jeff Greenfield is a news correspondent for ABC News. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticutt and has attended the same Memorial Day observance in his community for the last 15 years. He writes: "At 10 a.m., the parade begins moving down Main Street. It is a small parade: ...read more

  • Towering Over Edinburgh, Scotland, Is The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 1,993 views

    Towering over Edinburgh, Scotland, is the Edinburgh Castle. And in the midst of very old buildings is the comparatively new World War I memorial. It carries a quotation from Thucydides: "The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men, and their story is not graven only on stones over their clay, but ...read more

  • Saving The Ship, Remembering The Past  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 20, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,796 views

    SAVING THE SHIP, REMEMBERING THE PAST "Their hair is gray, their shoulders are slumped and they walk with the shuffle of the aged. Their ship, a rusty antique, wallowed through the Atlantic, battered by a winter storm. For the elderly crew of LST-325, a creaking World War II troop ship that had ...read more

  • In The Last Days Newsletter, Leonard Ravenhill ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,936 views

    In The Last Days Newsletter, Leonard Ravenhill tells about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque village who walked by an old man sitting beside a fence. In a rather patronizing way, one tourist asked, "Were any ...read more

  • Note: As The Congregation Turns To The Scripture ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2002
    based on 99 ratings
     | 1,821 views

    Note: As the congregation turns to the Scripture Text you may tell them about a "peace-board" that is based on verse 12: In 1250, in England, the Archbishop of York introduced a "peace-board" which was first kissed by ...read more

  • An Honest Day's Work  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,989 views

    AN HONEST DAY'S WORK The USS Astoria (C-34) was the first U.S. cruiser to engage the Japanese during the Battle of Savo Island, a night action fought 8-9 August 1942. Although she scored two hits on the Imperial flagship Chokai, the Astoria was badly damaged and sank shortly after noon, 9 ...read more

  • Thief Gets The Bird  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,420 views

    THIEF GETS THE BIRD A man in Ontario, Canada returned home one evening to find his more valuable and easily-fenced goodies stacked neatly beside the door. When the homeowner saw the living room was also spattered with blood, he feared the worst for his beloved house pet, a large African parrot. The ...read more

  • In January 1997, A Brink's Truck Carrying 3.7 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,352 views

    In January 1997, a Brink’s truck carrying 3.7 million dollars worth of coins and currency crashed on an elevated highway in Miami, Florida. The money flew everywhere. For nearly two hours, news cameras captured the mad scramble of residents as they scooped up cash, stuffing nearly five hundred ...read more

  • Working Hard?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,712 views

    WORKING HARD? Workers around America frankly admit that they spend more than 20 percent of their time (seven hours a week) at work goofing off. That amounts to a four-day work week across the nation. Almost half of Americans admit to chronic malingering, calling in sick when not sick, and doing ...read more

  • When We Look Down At Earth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,052 views

    WHEN WE LOOK DOWN AT EARTH On December 24, 1968 the world watched as Commander Frank Borman and his crew made history during the first manned flight to orbit the moon. The members of the Apollo 8 mission had an important message for the world that Christmas Eve -- they read from the biblical Book ...read more

  • In 1996, The Chicago Tribune Ran A Story On Buddy ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
    based on 42 ratings
     | 2,579 views

    In 1996, the Chicago Tribune ran a story on Buddy Post, a lottery winner who is “living proof that money can’t buy happiness.” In 1988, he won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery. Since then, he has been convicted “of assault, his sixth wife left him, his brother was convicted of trying to ...read more

  • Fatherless America  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
    based on 23 ratings
     | 4,264 views

    FATHERLESS AMERICA Tonight, 40% of all American children will go to sleep in a house in which their fathers do not live. Before the age of eighteen, more than 50% of our children will spend a significant portion of their childhood living apart from their fathers. A generation ago, an ...read more

  • Get Some Rest!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 6,328 views

    GET SOME REST! Our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years—Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the fatal navigational error of Korean Air Lines 007—all occurred in the middle of the night. When the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian A300 airbus killing all 290 people aboard, ...read more

  • Sincerely Wrong  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,612 views

    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

  • Doesn't God Run The Rain?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,821 views

    DOESN'T GOD RUN THE RAIN? In his book, The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel introduces us to the puzzling life of John Templeton. You’ve probably never heard his name, but Templeton was a contemporary of Billy Graham. In fact, they were both behind an evangelistic crusade in the 1940’s through Europe. ...read more

  • Dilemma Of American Atheist Society  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,307 views

    DILEMMA OF AMERICAN ATHEIST SOCIETY For some reason, Christians feel intimidated by atheism. They assume that the atheist and the intellectual are on the same level. The assumption is groundless: A recent article published by the American Atheist Society was written by a zealous but discouraged ...read more

  • Science Without Religion Is Lame, Religion ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,547 views

    Science without religion is lame, religion without science is ...read more

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