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  • Lady Nancy Astor, The First Woman Ever Seated In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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    Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism – but proved herself capable of giving as well as receiving in that arena. Once, at a formal dinner, Lady Astor said to her neighbor that she considered men to be more conceited than ...read more

  • Six Ways To Learn Everything You Ever Need To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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    Six ways to learn everything you ever need to know about a man before you decide to marry him: 1. Watch him drive in heavy traffic. 2. Play tennis with him. 3. Listen to him talk to his mother when he doesn’t know you’re listening. 4. See how he treats those who serve him (waiters, maids). ...read more

  • Lady Nancy Astor, The First Woman Ever Seated In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism -- but proved herself capable of giving as well as receiving in that arena. Once, at a formal dinner, Lady Astor said to her neighbor that she considered men to be more conceited than ...read more

  • Six Ways To Learn Everything You Ever Need To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Six ways to learn everything you ever need to know about a man before you decide to marry him: 1) watch him drive in heavy traffic. 2) Play tennis with him. 3) Listen to him talk to his mother when he doesn’t know you’re listening. 4) See how he treats those who serve him (waiters, maids). 5) ...read more

  • Dietrick Bonhoeffer Says In His Book "Life ...

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on May 8, 2006
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    Dietrick Bonhoeffer says in his book "Life Together": " God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother/sister, in the mouth of a man/ woman. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him/her. He/she needs him again and ...read more

  • A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, The ...

    Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
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    A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, the man cub, asks the animals what’s the most feared thing in the jungle. He’s told that when two animals meet on a narrow path that one must step aside and let the other pass. The animal that steps aside for no one would then be the most ...read more

  • I Read In The Biography Of A Missionary ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 30, 2006
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    I read in the biography of a missionary concerning an Indian law student who became a Christian. He asked the missionary if he could be baptised secretly as, if he was baptised in a public service, his Hindu father would cut off his allowance and disown him. The missionary insisted that baptism ...read more

  • A Story Is Told About A Wood Chopping Challenge ...

    Contributed by Raleigh Richter on Nov 2, 2006
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    A story is told about a wood chopping challenge between two wood workers. One man challenged another to an all-day wood chopping contest. The challenger worked very hard, stopping only for a brief lunch break. The other man had a leisurely lunch and took several breaks during the day. At the end ...read more

  • A Closing Quote From Dietrick Bonhoeffer From His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    A closing quote from Dietrick Bonhoeffer from his book "Life Together" says it best: " God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of a man. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him/her. He needs him ...read more

  • The Life Of Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    THE LIFE OF YOUR MIND "The French sculptor Auguste René Rodin, an innovative and sometimes controversial artist, created masterpieces such as The Man with the Broken Nose, St. John the Baptist, The Bronze Age, or the uncompleted Gates of Hell. But he is most likely known for his work entitled The ...read more

  • William Tyndale On Romans

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    William Tyndale on Romans William Tyndale, the pioneer English Bible translator, wrote these famous words in his prologue to Romans (in the 1534 edition of the English New Testament): "Forasmuch as this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament, and most pure [gospel]. ...read more

  • God Settles His Accounts  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009
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    GOD SETTLES HIS ACCOUNTS An atheist farmer often ridiculed people who believed in God. He wrote the following letter to the editor of a local newspaper: "I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled in my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday. Yet I ...read more

  • Working Late In The Cemetery  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 29, 2009
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    WORKING LATE IN THE CEMETERY Late one dark night, two men were walking home after a party. They were tired and desperate to get home, so they decided to take a shortcut through a cemetery. They got to about the middle of the graveyard, and they were startled and stopped moving. There was a ...read more

  • ¿desanimarme Yo...por Qué? — Why Be Discouraged?  PRO

    Contributed by Luis Marquez on Jan 17, 2010
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    ¿Desanimarme yo...por qué? Un niño está viendo su equipo jugar beisbol, el recién llegado le pregunta: ¿Cómo va el juego?, él contesta: Vamos perdiendo 18 a 0. Oh, no te desanimes, le dice el espectador a lo que el niño contesta: ¿Desanimarme yo...por qué? Mi equipo aun no ha ido a ...read more

  • Spurgeon And Murray On Who Makes The Biggest ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2010
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    Spurgeon and Murray on Who Makes the Biggest Impact For Christ God used Charles Spurgeon’s preaching in the 19th Century to bring thousands of people to faith in Christ. Even so, Charles Spurgeon himself once said, “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” That’s because he ...read more

  • Insuring Your Voice

    Contributed by John Perry on Dec 13, 2010
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    INSURING YOUR VOICE Friends of George Burns have always kidded him about his singing. Burns, a master of self-deprecating humour, decided to take advantage of this and insure his voice for a million dollars. He thought it would be a wonderful publicity stunt. "I was so excited," said Burns, "I ...read more

  • The Public Scavenger

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    THE PUBLIC SCAVENGER A long time ago in Greece, some politicians decided to play a joke on a fellow politician in their group. They got him appointed to the post of Public Scavenger. It was a dirty, lowly post. But instead of being humiliated, the man decided he would show everybody what he could ...read more

  • Who Is John Three-Sixteen?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2011
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    WHO IS JOHN THREE-SIXTEEN? A few years ago the principal of the English Mission College at Cairo, Egypt, received a letter from a Japanese Buddhist of the city whose children were attending his school. "Who is John three sixteen? My children are always talking about him?" The principal sent a ...read more

  • Ever Heard A Sheep Call?

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 6, 2011
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    EVER HEARD A SHEEP CALL? Sheep don’t respond to calls they respond to Shepherds. A man in Australia was arrested for stealing a sheep but he claimed that it was one of his own that had been missing for many days. When the case went to court, the judge was puzzled, not knowing how to decide the ...read more

  • Quotations On Humility

    Contributed by Billy Nale on Apr 20, 2011
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    QUOTATIONS ON HUMILITY "I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before ...read more