Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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THE STEWARDSHIP OF TIME
John Taylor recently invented a clock called the chronophage. Literally it means "time eater." It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, "chronos," and the word "phageo," meaning "to eat". A monster-looking grasshopper with
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PERPETUA'S STORY
In A.D. 202, Emperor Septimius Severus disallowed conversions to Christianity. In the wake of that act, severe persecution broke out against Christians, particularly in North Africa.
Living in Carthage at the time was a young woman of nobility named Perpetua, age 22. She had
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Mar 23, 2011
EDISON AND LINCOLN: PICTURES OF COMMITMENT
Look at the life of Thomas Edison. At 21, he patented his first major invention: the Electrical Vote Recorder (a device 100 years ahead of its time!). At 26, he invented the automatic telegraph and paraffin paper. At 30, the phonograph (earliest record
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IN PHILADELPHIA
My father died in a Philadelphia hospital in 1999. Some weeks before his death, I was able to spend a few days with him. I stayed at the home of some friends in Washington Crossing, just a few miles north of Philadelphia, and each day I would drive into the city.
The first morning
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Contributed by Alan Tison on May 26, 2008
Some people will do anything to avoid confrontation, I heard of a man who was going through a mid life crisis. He went out and bought a new car, but not just any car, but a new Corvette. As he pulled up on I-95 he noticed he was going 80 MPH, he thought boy that was easy. At that point, he wanted
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 25, 2008
IN THE END, WHAT IS IT THAT HONESTLY, REALLY MATTERS?
When I was a student chaplain at a hospital in Philadelphia, I spent a great deal of my time in the geriatric wing. The general routine was to start the shift by checking in with all the patients on the floor to see if anyone needed to talk or
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 3, 2003
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“The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"You have an ego a consciousness of being an individual. But that doesn't mean that you are to worship yourself, to think
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Lifes battles dont always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who
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