Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 4, 2011
THE HISTORY OF HAPPY BIRTHDAY
In the secular world, Happy Birthday is the best known song in the English speaking world. The song's base lyrics have been translated into at least 18 languages.
It was written in 1893 by 2 sisters: Mildred J. Hill came up with the tune, and her sister Patty added
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Brethren
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 18, 2012
based on 1 rating
| 5,860 views
Billy Graham told of a meeting he had with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, former mayor of Cologne, imprisoned by Hitler for opposing the Nazi regime, and later chancellor of the West German Federal Republic. Adenauer truly deserves the title of "statesman" as he picked up the broken pieces of
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
When Henry David Thoreau was on his deathbed, he was visited by a minister who urged his dying friend to be ready for death: “Do you know where you’re going in the next world?”
Thoreau waved him away with the words, “One world at a time.”
His attitude has caused humanists to uphold him as a man
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Alan Chandler on Mar 11, 2002
based on 4 ratings
| 2,042 views
Quote from FM Bishop Joe James “The freedom we have in Christ was made believable to an unbelieving world through the Love that was
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2002
I read a statement by William Lyon Phelps that sums it up: “If happiness were based on ease and freedom from worry, the happiest
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
based on 3 ratings
| 2,271 views
"As long as I can remember, I've been absolutely hagridden with ambition. I think that if I could wish to have anything in the
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 1,465 views
"The dreams of childhoodits airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 1,811 views
"I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life, as an emancipation from a world which, beautiful
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 2 ratings
| 1,357 views
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge until you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges in their imaginations
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 1,895 views
"The future belongs to the learners not the knowers. In times of massive change, its the learner who will inherit the earth, while the learned stay
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
based on 6 ratings
| 1,516 views
"One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem,
...read more
Tags: