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  • Pat Summerall Spent 50 Years With The National ...

    Contributed by Ted Mulder on Nov 20, 2004
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    Pat Summerall spent 50 years with the national Football League. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1952 and played with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants until 1961. After his retirement from the game, he joined CBS as a broadcaster, and in 1993 switched to Fox. During his CBS years he ...read more

  • A Man Was Walking On The Beach One Afternoon ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ivan Robinson on Dec 21, 2000
    based on 195 ratings
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    A man was walking on the beach one afternoon kicking up the sand, discussed with certain things. There on the beach was a bottle and as he walked he kicked the bottle into the surf. POP Out of the bottle came a mysterious being... a Jeannie. “Because you have freed me you are granted three ...read more

  • Back In The 17th Century, The Dutch Artist ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Feb 25, 2005
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    Back in the 17th century, the Dutch artist Rembrandt painted two portraits of a famous Roman heroine named Lucretia. One portrait was painted the 1664. Two years later, he painted a second portrait of Lucretia in a different pose. For over 300 years, the two paintings were never seen together. ...read more

  • Hold On! Wait!

    Contributed by Robert Garrett on Apr 11, 2005
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    "HOLD ON! WAIT!" A young convert told of his experience in the First World War. He was in the "Lost Battalion." We were cut off from our main army and all around us were Germans. Our food and water gave out and every once in a while a +German would come to say "Surrender." Only one shell was ...read more

  • Do We Sometimes Plough On With A Project ...  PRO

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 12, 2005
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    Do we sometimes plough on with a project regardless, without any thought or concern for those people that the Lord has already given to us? It’s the Achilles heel of the evangelist, but Paul knows he cannot ignore the needs of his brothers and sisters who are already in Christ. Neither must we ...read more

  • Follow The Emergency Lighting To The Exit

    Contributed by E. Venn on Nov 23, 2005
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    Follow the Emergency Lighting to the Exit Our family flew to Texas for a speaking engagement last week. My young son listened attentively to the flight attendant’s safety demonstration. After looking at the safety card, the questions starting flying . . . "Where are the emergency lights?" "Dad, ...read more

  • A Middle Aged Woman Had A Heart Attack And Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
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    A middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she had a near death experience. Seeing God, she asked "Is my time up?" God said, "No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live." Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the ...read more

  • Two Baseball Teams Had Battled To A Five-All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    Two baseball teams had battled to a five-all deadlock as darkness enveloped the diamond. In the last half of the ninth inning with the bases loaded and the count three and two, the pitcher called for a conference with the catcher. “I’ll wind up and pretend to throw the next pitch. You wham your ...read more

  • The 2000 Edition Of The Yearbook Of American & ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    The 2000 edition of the Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, published by the NCC reports that for first time, the Southern Baptist Convention had a loss (1.03%) rather than a gain in membership last year. Membership totals for the 3 largest denominations are reported as follows: Roman ...read more

  • Life Caching: With The Experience Economy Still ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Life Caching: With the experience economy still gaining ground—with consumers more often favoring the intangible over the tangible--collecting, storing and displaying experiences is ready for its big moment. This emerging mega trend is being dubbed Life Caching. The necessary enablers are now all ...read more

  • It's What You Do—not When You Do It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    IT’S WHAT YOU DO--NOT WHEN YOU DO IT Ted Williams, at age 42, slammed a home run in his last official time at bat. Mickey Mantle, age 20, hit 23 home runs his first full year in the major leagues. Golda Meir was 71 when she became Prime Minister of Israel. William Pitt II was 24 when he ...read more

  • Fear To Joy, Bondage To Freedom  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 15, 2006
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    FEAR TO JOY, BONDAGE TO FREEDOM A poor German girl announced that she was going to give a piano concert. In order to attract people to come, she mentioned in the advertisements that she was the student of the famous Hungarian professor, Franz Liszt. But it was a falsehood. To her dismay, she ...read more

  • In The Spirit Of Jeff Foxworthy, The Guy Who Does ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 16, 2006
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    In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who does “You might be a Redneck if…” is this useful list, “You might be selfish if...” So, just listen, and you judge whether or not this sounds like you. If so, you might be selfish. You might be selfish if… • You have a genuinely difficult time ...read more

  • Dorothy Rodefeld Is Known In Madison, Wisconsin, ...

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Dec 18, 2006
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    Dorothy Rodefeld is known in Madison, Wisconsin, as the "light lady" because of the elaborate Christmas displays she builds each year at her 19th century farmhouse. Last year, however, Dorothy’s nativity scene was robbed. Among the missing items were a shepherd and a wise man. But it was the loss ...read more

  • Two Hunters Got A Pilot To Fly Them Into The Far ...

    Contributed by Stephen Boldin on Dec 29, 2006
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    Two hunters got a pilot to fly them into the far north for elk hunting. They were quite successful in their venture and bagged six big bucks. The pilot came back, as arranged, to pick them up. They started loading their gear into the plane, including the six elk. But the pilot objected and he said, ...read more

  • U.s. Workers Feel Rushed On The Job, But Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    U.S. Workers feel rushed on the job, but are getting less accomplished due to technology intended to make work quicker and easier. “Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it’s slowed everything down, paradoxically,” says John Challenger, Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...read more

  • There Have Been Those, Some Of The Notable Men, ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    There have been those, some of the notable men, who have refused to cooperate with Christ and have come to a very ignoble finish in their lives. Two such people were the famous writers H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. They were brilliant men with worldly wisdom, yet they rejected the message ...read more

  • Alec ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    ALEC SHEAR Alec Shear has spent the last twenty-five years of his life collecting stuff. He has 6 stars and stripes lunch boxes, 400 transistor radios that look like name brand products, 10,000 match books, and countless other items of vintage Americana. When his wife divorced him over his ...read more

  • Live Like You Were Dying: The Bucket List

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jun 5, 2009
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    LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYING: THE BUCKET LIST A couple of years ago my wife and I saw a movie entitled “The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Both men discovered that they had incurable diseases and wound up being roommates in the hospital. They became good friends and ended ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll: Joseph's Life Story

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 2, 2009
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    Chuck Swindoll: In the fifty chapters of Genesis Joseph’s life story takes up one-fourth of the chapters. His life can be divided up into three sections: • Birth to Seventeen Years (Genesis 30:24-37:2) o During this time Joseph’s family was is transition-everyone was unsettled, on the move. A ...read more