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  • As A Schoolboy, One Of Red Skelton’s ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kent Lenard on Jun 29, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,930 views

    As a schoolboy, one of Red Skelton’s teachers explained the words and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance to his class. Skelton later wrote down, and eventually recorded, his recollection of this lecture. It’s followed by an observation of his own. I - - Me; an individual; a committee of ...read more

  • Seared Conscience, Citation: J. Douglas Burford, ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 25, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,566 views

    [Seared Conscience, Citation: J. Douglas Burford, Mission, Kansas] During my college years—in my infinite wisdom—it occurred to me that it made no sense to stop at red traffic lights when there was clearly no traffic around. So I began to stop only briefly—just long enough to ...read more

  • C. S. Lewis, The Great British Christian Writer, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,066 views

    C. S. Lewis, the great British Christian writer, has another answer in his book The Problem of Pain. Some of you may have seen the Anthony Hopkins’ movie Shadowlands which tells the story of Lewis’s faith and grief at the death of new bride. Lewis married late in life to an American women after ...read more

  • The Cohen Brothers And Mr. Ford  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,789 views

    The Cohen Brothers & Mr. Ford It was a sweltering August day when all three Cohen brothers entered the posh Dearborn, Michigan, offices of Henry Ford, the car maker, "Mr. Ford," announced Norman Cohen, the eldest of the three. "We have a remarkable invention that will revolutionize the automobile ...read more

  • The Story Of Frida

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 20, 2009
     | 2,555 views

    THE STORY OF FRIDA Frida Gashumba tells something of her story in her book Frida: Chosen to Die, Destined to Live, a miraculous escape from the Rwandan genocide. Frida was born in 1980. She was a Tutsi, one of the tribes 'created' during colonial rule based primarily upon height, head size, shape ...read more

  • Are We Really Who We Say We Are?  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Aug 9, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,879 views

    “Are We Really Who We Say We Are?” It was a typical night on the streets of Lansing. As the bars began to open and the nightlife found its pulse again, the little storefront building, which held The Lansing Street Ministry – The Harvest House, was just beginning its evening ministry. The ...read more

  • Persecution In Uganda, Story Of Kefa ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009
     | 8,074 views

    Persecution in Uganda, Story of Kefa Sempangi Kefa Sempangi (whose story is told in the book A Distant Grief, Regal Books) was a national pastor in Africa and barely escaped with his family from brutal oppression and terror in his home country of Uganda. They made their way to Philadelphia, where ...read more

  • The Eden Project

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
     | 1,812 views

    In Cornwall, England, you can visit a place called “The Eden Project.” The Eden Project attempted to build the perfect environment in which plants and trees could flourish. Obviously named for the Garden of Eden, this collection of “biomes,” huge domes, provide a tightly monitored atmosphere with a ...read more

  • Anti-Semitism Meets Its Match

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 1, 2024
     | 71 views

    It was a sweltering August day when all three Cohen brothers entered the posh Dearborn, Michigan, offices of Henry Ford, the car maker, "Mr. Ford," announced Norman Cohen, the eldest of the three. "We have a remarkable invention that will revolutionize the automobile industry." ...read more

  • An Atheist In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
     | 2,778 views

    An Atheist in Battle What the people in Gilead did in Judges 11:7 to Jephthah is what our nation has done to God. We only turn to Him when in distress. During the Korean War an atheist soldier was in a foxhole and bullets were flying above him. Some of his comrades were fallen in the field ...read more

  • Leo Thorsness Was From Walnut Grove, Minnesota ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
     | 1,778 views

    Leo Thorsness was from Walnut Grove, Minnesota and fought in the war in Vietnam. He was a Major, U.S. Air Force, in the 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron. His bravery occurred over North Vietnam on April 19, 1967. He received his Medal of Honor from President Richard Nixon, on October 15, ...read more

  • Look Up

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 2, 2009
     | 3,308 views

    LOOK UP I love those scenes in action films, comics, or cartoons where you have one set of bad guys pursuing the hero from one end of a tunnel or corridor and another set of bad guys is converging from the other side. You know the hero is in between them, but when the groups of pursuers meet in ...read more

  • Wartime Speech By Churchill,

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 29, 2009
     | 3,736 views

    Wartime Speech by Churchill, "We Will Never Surrender" On the fifth of June, 1940, not even a month after he became prime minister, Winston Churchill spoke to the British people to encourage them of their desperate situation. Bear in mind that in September of the previous year the Nazis had ...read more

  • Anna's Stories

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,848 views

    ANNA'S STORIES A thirty-four-year-old German woman named Anna Rosmus recently told the tragic story of what happened in her hometown in Germany during World War II. Speaking at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee, she told of growing up in Passau, Germany, years after the war. As a teenager, she ...read more

  • War

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 15, 2019
     | 3,506 views

    WAR My life fell apart in the summer of ‘68. One minute I was the happiest man in the world then wham! It was all over. My countenance changed from a look of total contentment into one filled with agony and anguish. Here I was living in total rapture, married to the woman of my dreams. It’s hard ...read more

  • If You Can't Beat ‘em?" Philippians 1: 12-14 Key ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 5, 2005
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,463 views

    “If You Can’t Beat ‘Em?” Philippians 1: 12-14 Key verse(s): 14:“Because of my chains, most of the brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to speak the word of God more courageously and fearlessly.” If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! We’ve all said it at times when it just seemed hopeless and there ...read more

  • Someday Soon  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,703 views

    SOMEDAY SOON You just know that some things are going to happen sooner or later. That’s the way it was with Michael Parfit, a writer for Smithsonian magazine. For a feature article on the mighty Mississippi River, Parfit rode in a twelve-foot rubber dinghy down the Mississippi from Memphis, ...read more

  • Ruby Was Born In The Delta Region Of The ...

    Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Sep 10, 2005
     | 1,880 views

    Ruby was born in the Delta region of the Mississippi River in 1954. Also in 1954 the Supreme Court heard a case called Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education. After the arguments were made, the high court ruled that separate but equal education for blacks and whites while it was separate it was in no ...read more

  • Coil And Spring! (11.07.05--Christian ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 3, 2005
     | 2,747 views

    Coil And Spring! (11.07.05--Christian Soldiers!--Ephesians 6:10-17) As I walked with her this morning in the dim morning light, she trotted obediently at my side. There was no pulling on her part. She simply walked obediently at heel anticipating each new smell that wafted through the nearby ...read more

  • How Much Land?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,710 views

    HOW MUCH LAND? In his 1886 short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Leo Tolstoy shows how a continual desire for more can ultimately cause us to lose everything. The main character of the story is a peasant named Pahóm, who at the beginning can be heard complaining that he does not own ...read more

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