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SURVIVAL: WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE?
About 20 years ago I went on a training conference when I was working as a Patent Attorney for a Swiss multinational company called Sandoz. And one of the conundrums they set us to test our ingenuity was this:
You are in a plane flying over the desert and as you are
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 10, 2011
PHIL SHELDRAKE'S STORY
At the age of 14 Phil Sheldrake was invited by a school friend to attend an event called Festival ’89. The event was being held on Sun Corner in Billericay and hosted by the preacher J. John. That night, Phil came to find a personal faith in Jesus.
With his best friend,
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Contributed by Kelly Mitchell on Aug 15, 2012
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In May of 1846, 187 men, women and children left from Missouri in a wagon train headed to California. There was nothing exceptional about the group or this journey and we would have never known about them had they not made the decision to try a shortcut. The “Hastings Cutoff”, as it was known,
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 9, 2001
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Many years ago there was an emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all of his money on them. He did not give himself any concern about his army; he cared nothing about the theater or for driving about in the woods, except for the sake of showing himself off in his new clothes. he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
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In the closing days of World War II, Allied bombings of the munitions factories around Essen, Germany, became more and more frequent and fierce. When the air raid sirens sounded, armed guards would rush to bomb shelters, leaving the slave laborers (often Jewish and female) to huddle in the rubble
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 8, 2004
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- Luke 23:39-43
> v43 . . . Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.
You know, I have seen a few things and a few places in life. I haven’t seen as much nor traveled as extensively as some of you who’ve been around since the continents first divided, but I have seen a few
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2004
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Tony Campolo, who for years was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and now teaches at Eastern College, says that every year, usually in May, students come into his office, look at him across the desk, and say, “Doc, I’m not coming back next semester.”
Campolo then whips off his
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Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
W.A.Criswell, long-time beloved pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, told a story about an evangelist who loved to hunt. The man bought two setter pups that were topnotch bird dogs. He kept them in his backyard, where he trained them. One morning, an ornery, little, vicious
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Introduction: Robert Kirkpatrick had some good news and some bad news. The good news: he had been extended a written invitation to a dinner with President Bush in Washington, DC. The invite and letter were signed by Vice President Cheney himself. It is not every day you receive an invitation like
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2007
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ODE TO MOM (from Pearl Sewell and Patti Cowell).
POSITION: Mother, Mom, Mama
JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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ODE TO MOM (from Pearl Sewell and Patti Cowell).
POSITION: Mother, Mom, Mama
JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable
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Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 24, 2007
The people of God:
Individuals, and in a state of distinctness from all the nations amongst which, in their calamitous dispersion, they are scattered; but they have no national existence -- no king, no country, no organization, no government, no political being. Just so the great community of
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Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 26, 2008
Television psychic Sylvia Brown, who appears regularly on the Montel Williams show, fared even worse. On the December 27, 2006 airing of Montel, Sylvia made her predictions for 2007. They were all wrong. Every last one of them. For instance, Ms. Brown predicted that a tsunami would cause
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Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Sep 22, 2009
A few years ago I had the opportunity to travel to Italy on a Mission trip to work with some local missionaries and help them get their church developed. It was a great trip we got to go to Rome which I was really excited about. On our way back we had an 18 hour layover in Munich. So rather than
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