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  • Billy Graham: Growing Old Has Been A Surprise  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 7, 2012
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    BILLY GRAHAM: GROWING OLD HAS BEEN A SURPRISE Billy Graham, in his book "Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well" (pp. 1-2, Thomas Nelson), he writes: Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life. The young live for the here and now. Thinking ahead seems to be in the form of dreams ...read more

  • Sanctity Of Life Sunday. Life, Every Life, Is A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 30, 2009
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    Sanctity of life Sunday. Life, every life, is a miracle. No matter what you’ve been through. No matter what your parents have said about you or failed to say, you are God’s miracle. I showed you one baby picture… here is one where you are at three days old. At this point you have 16 cells. You ...read more

  • 2002 Winter Olympic Men's 1000 Meter Speed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 26, 2003
    based on 18 ratings
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    2002 Winter Olympic Men’s 1000 Meter Speed Skating Race - A few years ago, at the 2002 Winter Olympics, there were five finalist for the Men’s 1000 Meter Speed Skating Race. During the final lap, the American and Chinese were out front with the Canadian and Korean skaters hot on their heels. ...read more

  • Don't Get Tangled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    DON’T GET TANGLED UP A few years ago, at the 2002 Winter Olympics, there were five finalists for the Men’s 1000 Meter Speed Skating Race. During the final lap, the American and Chinese were out front with the Canadian and Korean skaters hot on their heels. Australia trailed behind obviously ...read more

  • Kokomo Tribune Writer Scott Smith Wrote An ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
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    Kokomo Tribune writer Scott Smith wrote an article for the Kokomo Tribune headlined, "Dam destruction part of Wildcat Creek’s revival." It reads: "The water upstream from the old Continental Steel dam looks almost stagnant. The streambed is deep, and the surface untroubled. But the lack of rills ...read more

  • Poem: I Met A Traveler From An Antigue Land By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2010
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    Poem: I Met A Traveler From an Antigue Land by Percy Bysshe Shelley In 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley published a poem on the ephemeral nature of human kings and political powers: I MET A TRAVELER FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of ...read more

  • In 2003 Mike Tyson Was Declared Bankrupt He Owed ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 1, 2006
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    In 2003 Mike Tyson was declared bankrupt he owed a stretch limo firm $309,000. A year earlier he had spent $174,,000 on a white gold necklace with 80 carats of diamonds. He once splashed out $140,000 on two white Bengal tigers and $1.5 million on four Bentleys in one afternoon. The staff at ...read more

  • Questions Help You Learn...?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    QUESTIONS HELP YOU LEARN...? A father and his small son were out walking one day when the lad asked how electricity could go through the wires stretched between the telephone poles. "I don't know," said his father. "I never knew much about electricity." A few blocks farther on, the boy asked ...read more

  • Waiting To Be King

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 3, 2011
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    WAITING TO BE KING In April 2011 Prince Charles became the longest serving heir apparent in British history, having waited 59 years, 2 months and 14 days. Charles overtook the record set by his great-great grandfather king Edward VII; and ...read more

  • The Bruised Reed

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 29, 2010
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    THE BRUISED REED As I talked with Nancy that day she said,"I pray to God every night and ask Him why He has been so unfair to me. Why did He leave me alive?" She is an elderly woman suffering the results of a stroke. She said "My Mother died of a stroke. Why didn't He take me too, instead of ...read more

  • Pastor! Tell Them!

    Contributed by Fred Parker on Oct 23, 2014
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    Written by Pastor Fred Parker Sat, 21st January, 2012 Proverb 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.KJV Frankie was a dynamic woman. Her whole life has been spent in ministering to others in her quiet gentle way. As she sat in her wheel chair ...read more

  • Frederick M. Lehman Strove To Convey This ...

    Contributed by Sam Peters on Mar 1, 2007
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    Frederick M. Lehman strove to convey this measureless love when he penned these words in the song “The Love of God” Could we with ink the ocean fill and were the sky of parchment made were every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God ...read more

  • Phillip Keller Visited A Potter In Pakistan A...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    Phillip Keller visited a potter in Pakistan and gained the most understanding ever of the meaning found in "Your will be done in earth as it is in heaven." The words of the prophet came to mind: "Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words" (Jer. 18:2). ...read more

  • It Was A Cold, Winter Day. A Carcass, On An Ice ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
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    It was a cold, winter day. A carcass, on an ice floe, floated slowly down the Niagra River. An Eagle, flying overhead, spied the easy prey below, and descended upon it. He began to eat. As he did, the water of the river began slowly pushing the flow toward the falls. But could not the eagle, ...read more

  • Sin Is Like A Vacuum Cleaner

    Contributed by Daniel J. Little on Nov 15, 2011
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    SIN IS LIKE A VACUUM CLEANER SIN we said, is stretching our will and our actions past the limits of God’s laws. The result is not unlike pulling a vacuum cleaner beyond the length of its cord, you still have the machine (your body) but now it is disconnected from the power that makes it behave ...read more

  • Long Process Of Crucifixion

    Contributed by John Bright on Apr 6, 2025
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    Roman crucifixion was a long, drawn-out process that often lasted for several days. This was not the case for Jesus - "Pilate marveled that He was already dead…" Mark 15:44. What happens on that cross? • With weight on the wrists - the chest is stretched when the person is slumped ...read more

  • The Praying ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
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    The praying hands Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table, the father, who was a goldsmith by profession, had to work almost eighteen hours a day and he took on any other paying work ...read more

  • But, Perhaps, The Greatest Piece Is Fyodor ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 5, 2005
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    But, perhaps, the greatest piece is Fyodor Dostoevski’s book The Brothers Karamazov. The book is possibly the finest literature ever written by human hand. In it is found a chapter entitled “The Grand Inquisitor.” Ivan Karamazov is telling his brother a story that he has just written. The ...read more

  • Careless Living

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    CARELESS LIVING We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically ;has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like ...read more

  • Bird Of Paradise

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 13, 2012
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    BIRD OF PARADISE Reminds me of an Easterner, was being driven by a Texas rancher over a barren stretch of West Texas, on a smothering hot day, when a large, brightly-colored bird scurried across the road in front of them. The visitor asked what it was, and the rancher said, "That's a bird of ...read more