Contributed by Dave Kinney on Nov 22, 2008
H.G. Wells -- here's the whole quote, "I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily
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Contributed by Dean Courtier on Nov 17, 2009
THE GREATNESS OF JESUS
"When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone upon the stage. All the great figures of history – Pharaoh, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Churchill, Stalin, Johnson, Mao Tse-tung – will realise
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The Bully and the Boy
Bavaria. 1934. It was the wrong time and the wrong place to be a Jew. And Heinz was a Jew. The little Bavarian village of Fürth was already overrun with Hitler’s young thugs. To be a Jew…of any age…was to be a target. And Heinz was only eleven. It was the first minute of a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2003
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WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING OUR KIDS
A few years ago, the U.S. Dept. of Education released a 680-page report about the teaching of History in our schools today. Researchers had taken the 60 most popular history textbooks, used by 88% of the nation’s students, & went through them to see what we’re
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2005
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ALL THE EVIDENCE
Professor Thomas Arnold, for 14 years a headmaster of Rugby, author of the famous, History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. This great scholar said:
"I have been used
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
ILLUSTRATION
The example of EVIL in the 20th century.
1. 6,000,000 Jews murdered in gas chambers.
2. 7,000,000 gypsies/others
3. Russia slaughtered 20,000,000 Ukrainians
4. 1.5 million Armenians killed
5. tens of thousands
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
Book of Ezra. Why was the Lord’s temple begun first, even before the city wall? The temple was used for spiritual purposes; the wall, for military and political purposes. God had always been the nation’s protector, and the Jews knew that the strongest stone wall would not protect them if God was
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There is the story of Simon Wiesenthal who was a famed hunter of Nazi war criminals. As a prisoner, Wiesenthal was sent to a labor camp during World War II. "He found himself on a work detail in a hospital where a young SS officer lay wounded and dying. The Nazi mad Simon sit and listen while he
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Story: When I was younger, I used to wonder why on earth Matthew and Luke recorded the genealogies of Christ. That is until I met Gideon Miller.
Gideon Miller was an extraordinary man. He was about 5’6” and had size 16 shoes. He was married to a German woman who had been a member of the Hitler
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 5, 2007
Claude Hickman in the book Life on Purpose says, "There are more people alive today than have ever lived and died in all of history combined. The growth curve has taken a sharp turn upward, as over 6 million new people arrive on earth every month. This means that our generation
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, WHO WAS ARRESTED BY ADOLPH HITLER IN WORLD WAR II, SAW IT COMING AND HE SAID, “WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE FEDERALISTS, I DIDN’T SPEAK UP.
H. WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS, I DIDN’T SPEAK UP. WHEN THE NAZIS CAME FOR THE CATHOLICS, I DIDN’T SPEAK UP. WHEN THEY CAME FOR ME,
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1265 - Thomas Aquinas wrote about the gift of tongues in the New Testament, which he understood to be an ability to speak every language, given for the purposes of missionary work. He explained that Christ did not have this gift because his mission was to the Jews, "nor does each one of the
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Contributed by Doug Lyon on May 11, 2008
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On the way home from church one Sunday, a father asked his little boy what he learned in Sunday School that morning. The son said, “We learned about the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea.” The father smiled and asked the boy to tell him about it.
“Well,” his son said, “the Israelites
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 3, 2011
Many clearly Biblical, crucial beliefs are under assault these days. One of those beliefs is our conviction that Christ died as our substitute, that he took our sins upon himself when he died on the cross, and that he paid the penalty for our sins and offered himself as a sacrifice to the Father,
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