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  • The Other Day I Stumbled Across A Website Called ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The other day I stumbled across a website called myheritage.com. The site is a genealogical database designed to help people reconstruct their family history. That in and of itself is nothing new, but this one is different because it uses face recognition software to do so. The idea is for people ...read more

  • On May 23, 1863, Nearly 30,000 Union Soldiers ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On May 23, 1863, nearly 30,000 Union soldiers were camped in a semi-circle around one of the most unlikely places in the country. Just 35 miles north of where we are right now there was a fort built on a high bluff overlooking a sharp bend in the Mississippi River. From the earthen walls of that ...read more

  • Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart And He Will ...

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 3, 2007
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    Trust in the LORD with all your heart and HE will acknowledge and HE will light your way. This prayer has been sent to you for good luck. The original copy is from the Netherlands. It has been around the world nine times. The luck has now been brought to you. You will receive good luck within ...read more

  • Judge Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., The Chief ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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    Judge Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., the Chief Juctice of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, tells a story about what happened when his daughter Zoe was just three years old. Sanders came home from work one day to find his home – and especially his young daughter – in a state of turmoil. Zoe’s pet ...read more

  • Evil In Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
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    EVIL IN US ALL In 1960, Israeli undercover agents kidnapped one of the worst killers in Hitler’s army from his hideout in South America. His name was Adolf Eichmann. They took him to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Prosecutors called a long list of witnesses who had either seen ...read more

  • Return Good For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    RETURN GOOD FOR EVIL Let me share with you the story of a lesser known man, Rev. John Perkins. He was a black minister in the South "lived through the worst nightmares of the civil rights movement." Perkins started a church, then a Bible Institute, a radio program, followed by a health clinic, a ...read more

  • Mother Rescues Son From Alligator And Leaves ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2009
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    Mother Rescues Son From Alligator and Leaves Scars on His Arms Some years ago, on a hot summer day in South Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks, and ...read more

  • On The Pharisees

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
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    Who are the Pharisees? In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Middle East, bringing Greek culture and philosophy to Israel. By 200 BC, Greek philosophy and its worldview called Helenism were significantly impacting Jewish young men. More and more of them were abandoning the Hebrew faith and ...read more

  • Gehenna: The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 17, 2017
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    The Hinnom Valley was the place Jesus had in mind when He talked about Hell. The Hebrew word for this valley is, "Gehinnom", and the Greek word is, "Gehenna." The Hinnom Valley was located on the south and west side of the city of Jerusalem. It was a very dark place and many believe it is the ...read more

  • Humphery The Whale

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Sep 6, 2017
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    Remember Humphrey the humpback whale? Humphrey became a national celebrity in 1985 when he made his way into the San Francisco Bay and headed up the Sacramento River into fresh water which, of course, could have been fatal for him. Each evening a large local television audience would tune in for ...read more

  • Humphery The Whale

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Sep 6, 2017
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    Remember Humphrey the humpback whale? Humphrey became a national celebrity in 1985 when he made his way into the San Francisco Bay and headed up the Sacramento River into fresh water which, of course, could have been fatal for him. Each evening a large local television audience would tune in for ...read more

  • The Most Tragic War In American History Was The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The most tragic war in American History was the Civil war, sometimes referred to as the War Between the States. As you know it began in 1861 and lasted until 1865. More American’s lost their lives during the Civil War than in all of the other wars we have fought put together. And one of the real ...read more

  • Bishop Will Willimon Is The Resident Bishop For ...

    Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
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    Bishop Will Willimon is the resident bishop for the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. But before he was elected bishop in 2004, he was dean of the chapel at Duke University – one of the most prestigious universities in America. He tells this story from his days at Duke about ...read more

  • Let Me Share With You The Story Of A Lesser Known ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    Let me share with you the story of a lesser known man, Rev. John Perkins. According to Philip Yancey in his book "Soul Survivor", John Perkins, a black minister in the South "lived through the worst nightmares of the civil rights movement"(Philip Yancey, Soul Survivor, p 31). Perkins started a ...read more

  • Dumpster-Diving God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    DUMPSTER-DIVING GOD Being from the South, David Slaigle loves ribs. He remembered hearing about this particular restaurant that had amazing ribs, and a bunch of his friends and him drove 50 minutes to get there. The place was packed, and the food was great. It was "all you can eat rib night," and ...read more

  • The Good Ship Commerce Under Captain Riley And ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 13, 2007
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    The good ship Commerce under Captain Riley and his 11-man crew Wrecked on the north coast of Africa in 1815. They were alone on the edge of the largest desert in the world – the Sahara. They were men without hope. Desert nomads came upon them and they thought they were saved, But they turned ...read more

  • Josh Mcdowell, A Dedicated Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 23, 2001
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    Josh McDowell, a dedicated Christian intellectual, wrote, "I was invited to speak in a university in South America. Because of the university’s Marxist leanings, I was the first American to speak there in four years, & it was a tense situation. "Big photographs of me had been posted all over ...read more

  • In The Second Half Of Verse Five, James Writes, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Miano on May 6, 2001
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    In the second half of verse five, James writes, “See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!” In May of 1864, a conflict that many military leaders in our country predicted would last but a few months was now in its third year. The Civil War, the bloodiest conflict ever fought on ...read more

  • Sing To The Children  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
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    SING TO THE CHILDREN A tradition that Evelyn Knowles has chosen for posterity is to sing to her babies. The very first time she held each of her newborn grandchildren cheek to cheek and heart to heart, they heard their grandmother softly sing-- Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells ...read more

  • If We Could Shrink The Earth's Population To A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2006
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    ’If we could shrink the Earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: ’57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South 8 Africans 52 would be ...read more