Contributed by Steven Chapman on Mar 26, 2001
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Voltaire was one of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment of the 1700’s. He has an exceptional talent for writing, and to this day, he is known as one of the world’s greatest philosophers. He had money, intelligence, and political influence, which never had been seen by men before his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
I read about a person who went to a concert at a beautiful old theatre. At the end of the concert, this person noticed two ushers standing near his seat who were applauding harder than anybody else in the whole place. The man said that he was thrilled with this concert because of the talent of the
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I watched a brilliant film with my son Jared a short while ago called, “Downfall”. It is about the last ten
days of Hilter’s Nazi Germany, the last ten days in an underground bunker when the realization of the colossal failure of Nazism and of its war efforts was dawning on Germany’s leaders at the
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
Six hundred teenagers found in New England’s prisons gave these startling facts as to why they were there:
Six out of ten had fathers who drank to excess.
Many had mothers in the same condition.
Three out of four were permitted by parents to come and go as they pleased.
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 11, 2003
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Josh McDowell writes, in his book, Answers To Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About The Christian Faith;
Lest anyone think this isn’t something marvelous, we’d like to give you this challenge. Find ten people from your local area having similar backgrounds, who speak the same language, and
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In her famous book and film, “The Hiding Place” Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family - her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people
Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the salvation of the Jews.
And
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
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According to Dr. Lana Staneli, author of a book on marital triangles, “Of those who break up their marriage to marry someone else, eighty percent are sorry later. Of those who do marry their lover, which is only about ten percent, about seventy percent of them get a divorce. Of that twenty-five
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
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In his book “The Weight of Your Words” author Joseph Stowell tells the following story:
My junior high school had scheduled its annual operatic production. Talented students were quick to try out for the various parts. I was not so certain of my abilities and had decided that singing in an
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all
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