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  • While Visiting The U.s. After World War Ii, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    While visiting the U.S. after World War II, Winston Churchill was aboard a train bound for Missouri with President Harry Truman. They were in a special car which had the presidential seal hung up on a wall. Truman noticed Churchill studying the seal and he pointed out that he had changed it so that ...read more

  • Swindoll States, "His Journey Reversed Direction. ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 20, 2006
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    Swindoll states, “His journey reversed direction. His mind did a turnaround that would ultimately transform him from the inside out. That’s the essence of genuine repentance-the mind does a turnaround…So many things within Saul’s thinking changed-and changed completely. He changed his mind about ...read more

  • May 2000 Mr.kevin Storey, Was Driving Down The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 28, 2006
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    May 2000 Mr.Kevin storey, was driving down the M3 from Poole to Winchester He was pulled up by the traffic police he was doing 68mph in 50mph zone. However the officer was not intrested in his speeding but more interested in the Kit Kat he had been eating whilst driving. He explained it was a ...read more

  • Results Of Tract Ministry

    Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
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    Results of Tract Ministry A man was giving out gospel tracts on a steamer. One gentleman whom he approached accepted a tract graciously but said, "I haven’t much faith in that kind of work." The Christian worker replied, "It was through a gospel tract given to me twenty years ago that I was ...read more

  • Listen To Me Now. There Was This Christian Man ...

    Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 9, 2006
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    Listen to me now. There was this Christian man who was asked if he could remember the sermon that was preached recently. When told ‘no’, he was asked why he even went to church if he seemingly got so little out of it. His reply went something like this: ‘well I don’t recall all the meals that ...read more

  • We Live In A ‘church World' Of Extremes. Only ...

    Contributed by David Butcher on Oct 21, 2006
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    We live in a ‘church world’ of extremes. Only this week in the paper, Terry Waite, who was the Archbishop’s envoy to Lebanon. He shot to fame by being held captive for five years. He spoke out about the modern trends in the Church of England. He was disgusted that a vicar did not wear his robes and ...read more

  • There's An Incredible Market Today In Counseling. ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Dec 18, 2006
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    There’s an incredible market today in counseling. Many people even seek out astrologers and psychics for counsel and advice. Listen to this counsel: Jesus Christ is the wisest man alive. He is the Perfect Counselor Who has all the right answers all the time. What’s more, He gives free advice. ...read more

  • The Process Of Refining Silver Is A Long Process ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chad Garrison on Dec 23, 2006
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    The process of refining silver is a long process of heating the metal until all the imperfections have boiled out. Once the silver is cooled, it is then re-heated again to remove any other imperfections. This process is repeated until there are no signs of anything that isn’t the precious ...read more

  • Our Favorite Psychologist, Dr. Phil Mcgraw ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 30, 2006
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    Our favorite psychologist, Dr. Phil McGraw speaks a truth that is too commonly true for a lot of people. He writes, “Common sense might suggest that one of the easiest steps in getting what you want from life is to “place your order”: to stand up and declare what it is that you desire. Nothing ...read more

  • Gehenna

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 23, 2009
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    GEHENNA Ben-Hinnon is also known as Gehenna, a word Jesus used for hell. At the time of Jesus, it was a garbage dump, where a fire constantly burned, consuming the relentless supply of garbage from a large city like Jerusalem. Gehenna is a place on earth which communicates the nature of hell. ...read more

  • Dr. Neil Warren - (The E-Harmony Guy) Said,

    Contributed by Tim Harlow on May 13, 2009
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    Dr. Neil Warren - (the e-Harmony guy) said, "My years as a psychologist have slowly taught me a difficult-to-believe fact. The amount of conflict in a marriage only determines the speed at which the marriage is moving towards greatness or destruction. If you want to sit still in your marriage, rule ...read more

  • When A Worker At An At&t Building In San Jose, ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
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    When a worker at an AT&T building in San Jose, California, took it upon herself to clean out an office refrigerator during her lunch hour Tuesday, the smell from the moldy food was so noxious that it sent 28 of her co-workers to the hospital and prompted the evacuation of all 325 people in the ...read more

  • With One Accord

    Contributed by Marianne Unger on May 28, 2009
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    WITH ONE ACCORD But notice one very important phrase that some of the translations left out: "They were all with one accord in one place." This word in the Greek, "Homothumadon" has two parts to it--a sense of coming together, but in unison, in one accord. This word in the T.R., Homothumadon, ...read more

  • Larger Than The Universe

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
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    LARGER THAN THE UNIVERSE Paul is telling us here that the love of Christ is too large to be confined by any measurements. It is larger than the universe. The invention of the Hubble telescope has revised our thinking about outer space. Astronomers are amazed to find out that the number of ...read more

  • Our Reflection

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 11, 2009
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    OUR REFLECTION Recently was looking out of the kitchen window as I held my youngest son, Ephram. I was trying to get him to look at the birds on the other side of the window but he seemed consumed with something in the window itself. I realized that I could see my reflection in the glass and so ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom Lived Through The Terrible Life ...

    Contributed by Gerald Steffy on Aug 28, 2009
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    Corrie ten Boom lived through the terrible life of Nazi concentration camps, a place where hope was lost for many people. She survived to tell her story of unfaltering faith and tight-fisted hope in God. She saw the face of evil up close and personal. She saw some of the most atrocious and ...read more

  • Not Too Many Years Ago Newspapers Carried The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2009
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    Not too many years ago newspapers carried the story of Al Johnson, a Kansas man who came to faith in Jesus Christ. What made his story remarkable was not his conversion, but the fact that as a result of his newfound faith in Christ, he confessed to a bank robbery he had participated in when he was ...read more

  • The Late Bishop Edwin Hughes Once Delivered A ...

    Contributed by Carl Kolb on Oct 24, 2009
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    The late Bishop Edwin Hughes once delivered a rousing sermon on "God’s Ownership" that put a rich parishioner’s nose out-of-joint. The wealthy man took the Bishop off for lunch, and then walked him through his elaborate gardens, woodlands, and farm. "Now are you going to tell me," he demanded when ...read more

  • Charles Malik, Former Lebanese Ambassador To The ...

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Nov 23, 2009
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    Charles Malik, former Lebanese ambassador to the United Nations, asked in a speech: “What has been the greatest American contribution to the rest of the world? Has it been money? Has it been food? Has it been medical skill? Has it been military might? Has it been industrial know-how?” Then he ...read more

  • The Rhino Calf Was Taking A Drinking At The ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
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    The rhino calf was taking a drink at the water hole. The tiger leaped at it. Soon the calf would have been ripped to shreds. But the mother rhinoceros charges out of the tall grass and drives the tiger away with her horn. "He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant ...read more