Contributed by Dru Ashwell on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SHORTED-SIGHTEDNESS
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." 
 --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,          1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." 
 --Thomas Watson,  chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on May 4, 2010
                
                
                
                    No Short Cuts For Revival
Finally, there are no shortcuts when it comes to revival. The church desperately needs revival, but it is not going to come by quick and easy methods. Evan Roberts prayed for eleven years before the Welsh Revival broke out, and his ministry during that remarkable time
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
                
                
                
                    TOO SHORT
Here's all you need to know about the different relationships a guy has with his wife and his mother. I bought two ceiling fans, one for our home and one for my parents. While installing our fan, I had to stand on a chair on my tiptoes. As she watched me struggle, my wife let me know the
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 19, 2011
                
                
                
                    SHORT AND TO THE POINT
The Gettysburg Address was a simple speech made by A. Lincoln to dedicate the cemetery of that great battle. It consisted of 272 words and lasted a little over 2 minutes. Speeches of that day usually went hours, as Everett Edward’s two hour speech just before Lincoln. We
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SHORT-TERM ENTHUSIASM 
The story is told of a minister who was full of energy and enthusiasm for the Lord. One day he went to the hospital to visit one of his parishioners who was critically ill. The minister entered the room and saw the man lying in bed with a whole host of tubes and wires
                    
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                    Contributed by Bledar Valca on Apr 14, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GRATITUDE = SHORT PRAYERS
Few years ago, we had Carl Mitchell of Harding University come to Albania and do series of lectures on family life and issues. Other then the lectures he gave, we asked him to preach for us on Sunday. I vividly remember that as he was talking about gratitude or
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS
In Chicago’s elevated train stations, they hung phony owls from the ceilings of some of the stations to discourage the pigeons. I can remember seeing pigeons right up next to the owls, blithely ignoring them. Now, there are wire spikes everywhere the pigeons might roost up
                    
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                    A pastor was scheduled to address a large Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.   His wife, who often reminded him to preach shorter sermons, said to him, “I am giving you an envelope in which is a message for you.  Open the envelope just before you speak and it will really help
                    
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                    Contributed by John Bright on Mar 10, 2025
                
                
                
                    Roman short whip, also called a flagrum.  It was made of two or three leather (ox-hide) thongs or ropes connected to a handle. The leather thongs were knotted with several small pieces of metal, usually zinc and iron, attached at various intervals. Scourging would quickly remove the skin. According
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
Chapter 1.  I walk down the street.  There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.  I fall in.  I am lost.  I am helpless.  It isn’t my fault.  It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter 2.  I walk down the street.  There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.  I pretend I
                    
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                    Contributed by Wilson Mcmahon on Feb 28, 2007
                
                
                
                    Short and Long Term Survival
     (from  E-Sword)
Here is a spiritual insight from Charles A. Lindbergh: "Short term survival may depend on the knowledge of 
nuclear physicists and the performance of supersonic aircraft, but long term survival depends alone on the 
character of man. We must
                    
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                    Contributed by Daniel Becker on Sep 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A short distance from the Pentagon, inscribed with an iron stylus on blocks of granite, the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington proclaim the words of our third President, 
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in
                    
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