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  • Case In Point: One Of The Biggest Fools In Us ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 1, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,024 views

    Case in point: One of the biggest fools in US Government History was Thomas Jefferson: He and George Washington did not agree on much because of his twisted and distorted religious beliefs: Thomas Jefferson had bought into the lie of the Enlightenment, French promoted Age of Reason and he ...read more

  • Humphery The Whale

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Sep 6, 2017
     | 6,700 views

    Remember Humphrey the humpback whale? Humphrey became a national celebrity in 1985 when he made his way into the San Francisco Bay and headed up the Sacramento River into fresh water which, of course, could have been fatal for him. Each evening a large local television audience would tune in for ...read more

  • Humphery The Whale

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Sep 6, 2017
     | 6,657 views

    Remember Humphrey the humpback whale? Humphrey became a national celebrity in 1985 when he made his way into the San Francisco Bay and headed up the Sacramento River into fresh water which, of course, could have been fatal for him. Each evening a large local television audience would tune in for ...read more

  • Old Wives' Tales: The Truth

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 9, 2009
     | 2,902 views

    OLD WIVES' TALES: THE TRUTH Have you ever believed something, only to find out that it wasn’t true? Consider these old wives tales: "If you go outside with wet hair, you’ll catch a cold." Cold weather, wet hair, and chills don’t cause colds; viruses do. "Reading in dim light will damage your ...read more

  • D.w.i.!  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 4, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,935 views

    D.W.I.! (06.07.05--Family--Eph. 6:1-4) The American family under assault! Did you know that one out of three children in the United States are growing up without a father present in the home or that last year in a number of major U.S. cities more children were born out of wedlock than within? ...read more

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

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
     | 1,781 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

  • Sowing Seeds Of Peace  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Feb 11, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,919 views

    SOWING SEEDS OF PEACE In Europe, 1934, Hitler’s plague of anti-Semitism was infecting a continent. Some would escape it. Some would die from it. But eleven-year-old Heinz would learn from it. He would learn the power of sowing seeds of peace. Heinz was a Jew. The Bavarian village of Fourth, ...read more

  • Sing To The Children  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,636 views

    SING TO THE CHILDREN A tradition that Evelyn Knowles has chosen for posterity is to sing to her babies. The very first time she held each of her newborn grandchildren cheek to cheek and heart to heart, they heard their grandmother softly sing-- Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells ...read more

  • Christmases Past  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 2,800 views

    CHRISTMASES PAST Christmas was not celebrated during the 1st 2 centuries after Christ’s life on earth. In AD 245, when a group of scholars attempted to pinpoint the exact date of Christ’s birth, a church council denounced the endeavor, declaring it wrong to celebrate the birthday of Christ "as ...read more

  • Canadian Thanksgiving  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 2, 2004
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,486 views

    CANADIAN THANKSGIVING The first North American Thanksgiving is traced back to 1578 when the English navigator Martin Frobisher held a formal ceremony in what is now called Newfoundland. We don’t believe this is when the kissing-of-the-cod tradition began, but there was indeed a great party to give ...read more

  • Private First Class Milton L. Olive Iii Was Born ...

    Contributed by Richard Arnold on Dec 7, 2004
     | 2,001 views

    Private First Class Milton L. Olive III was born November 7, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on October 22, 1966, just shy of his 20th birthday in Phu Cuong, Vietnam. The citation for his Medal of Honor reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above ...read more

  • The Church Service Ended At The Lutheran Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 1, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,223 views

    The church service ended at the Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine as everyone “passed the peace.” It was the first Sunday after Easter, and the 50 people in attendance headed to the fellowship hour to have some coffee. Some of the people complained that the coffee was bitter, but people ...read more

  • How Basketball Weighed In On Racial ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2010
     | 3,257 views

    How Basketball Weighed in on Racial Integration On Friday we watched the film, Glory Road, the 1966 story of how the integrated Texas Western basketball team defeated Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats. At a time when schools in the Southeastern Conference refused scholarships to black ...read more

  • The City And Its Crosses

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
     | 3,452 views

    THE CITY AND ITS CROSSES Two water towers have always served as landmarks for travelers heading for their homes near Wauconda, Illinois. But especially at the holidays. More than 40 years ago, John Kuester, then village police chief, suggested mounting large twin crosses on the towers to ...read more

  • The Story Of The Gipper

    Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Feb 2, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,755 views

    THE STORY OF THE GIPPER It was halftime of the 1928 Army vs. Notre Dame Game that legendary head coach Knute Rockne gave his "win one for the Gipper" speech to his beleaguered players. Notre Dame was having one of its worst seasons on record and Rockne was trying to salvage what he could of the ...read more

  • The Power Of Presence

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Sep 7, 2021
     | 2,707 views

    The Neil Diamond song, Sweet Caroline” is played at every Red Sox home game in Boston's Fenway Park before the bottom of the 8th inning. The tradition is said to date back to 1997 when the stadium DJ played it in honour of a newborn baby girl born of one of the staff members. The baby was of ...read more

  • In The Early 1700's A Congregation Of Some 300 ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Mar 29, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,320 views

    In the early 1700’s a congregation of some 300 Hussites, Anabaptists, Calvinists and various disciples of non-conforming Christian doctrines came together seeking refuge on the estate of Count Zinzindorf in Saxony, East Germany also called Moravia. Like the Count who was 27 years old at the time ...read more

  • A New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 1,963 views

    A New Song? The preface to this radically contemporary version of the Bible included this plea from the translators for patience and acceptance: a new translation, “deserveth much respect and esteem, but yet findeth cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion instead of love…. ...read more

  • A Film Made In 2002, The Magdalene Sisters, Told ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 22, 2008
     | 1,256 views

    A film made in 2002, The Magdalene Sisters, told the sad story of the "maggies" of Ireland. They got that nickname from Mary Magdalene, from whom Jesus had driven seven demons. Tradition says that Mary Magdalene was the prostitute who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair. Hence when a strict order of ...read more

  • People Mark Off Times And Celebrations In ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 2, 2009
     | 1,994 views

    People mark off times and celebrations in different ways. In Belgium (since 1394, in Binche), Brazil (a four-day celebration in Rio de Janeiro), Italy (in Venice, six months of celebrating in the 18th cent., now 12 days), Trinidad and Tobago (featuring a daylong competition among calypso bands), ...read more

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