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  • We Have All Heard The Expression, "It's Enough ...

    Contributed by Rick D Brackett on Feb 15, 2008
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    We have all heard the expression, “It’s enough to make a preacher cuss”. There’s the story of a boy trying to sell a broken down lawnmower. The local pastor walked up and he was able to persuade him to buy it. The pastor pulled on the rope several times but the mower wouldn’t start. The boy told ...read more

  • A Preacher Remembered When His Daughter Was Two ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sullivan on Feb 19, 2008
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    A preacher remembered when his daughter was two years old and he was watching her at the house. His wife was shopping and he was watching a basketball game, while he was supposed to be watching the little one. You know how that goes, as he was watching the game, all of a sudden he looked up and ...read more

  • An Archaeologist Digging In The Negev Desert In ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
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    An archaeologist digging in the Negev Desert in Israel came upon a sarcophagus containing a mummy. He called the curator of a prestigious museum. “I’ve just discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!” the excited archaeologist exclaimed. The curator replied, “Bring him ...read more

  • Thomas Jefferson And John Adams Were Great ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JOHN ADAMS WERE GREAT FRIENDS, BUT WHEN JEFFERSON DEFEATED ADAMS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ADAMS TOOK IT PERSONALLY. V. "YOU HAVE TURNED ME OUT! YOU HAVE TURNED ME OUT!" NO WORDS FOR 11 YEARS. FRIENDS VISITED OLD, BITTER ADAMS, WHO SAID, "I ALWAYS LOVED JEFFERSON AND I ...read more

  • A New York Times Examination Of Lottery ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    A New York Times examination of lottery documents, as well as interviews with lottery administrators and analysts, finds that lotteries accounted for less than 1% to 5% of the total revenue for K-12 education last year in the 23 states that use lottery money for schools. Most of the money raised by ...read more

  • Modern Fatherhood Formerly Known As Modern ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    Modern Fatherhood formerly known as modern mother-hood—3 or 4 decades ago it was the moms who did it all. They entered the work force and strove mightily. But when they came home, they immediately assumed the “second shift” of kids and housework. It was exhausting, insane, impossible -- and ...read more

  • The Great Wall Of China Is The Largest Wall Ever ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
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    The Great Wall of China is the largest wall ever built. It took 1800 years to build from 220 BC until sometime during the Ming dynasty in the 1600’s. When it was completed, it was 6000 miles long. At one point, 800,000 people were working on that wall day and night Some people spent their entire ...read more

  • Aging Are Leaving No ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    AGING ARE LEAVING NO INHERITANCE An AARP analysis of the Federal Reserve Board’s 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances finds 21% of people born after 1964 thought they would inherit money someday. But with each passing year, the pressures on the nest-eggs of older people will only grow. A lot of ...read more

  • Allure Of Lust And Greed

    Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 10, 2009
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    ALLURE OF LUST AND GREED Last night they had another one of those Dateline stings. In the sting, an undercover agent poses as a 13-15 year old on the internet, in one of those on-line chat rooms. Almost every man who came to a house to meet an underage girl for immoral purposes had seen previous ...read more

  • Being Baptised Is A Bit Like Having A Tap Put In ...

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 18, 2010
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    Being baptised is a bit like having a tap put in your bath room. A tap is rather essential furniture. Putting a tap in makes it a bath room. But you still have to turn it on. Imagine a bath room which stayed there for 80 years before being knocked down, and during that time not one of the taps ...read more

  • The Great Bell Called St Ferdinand At Our ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 7, 2010
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    The great bell called St Ferdinand at our diocesan cathedral tolls solemnly several times each month. Many years ago I heard the toll as my father’s casket was slowly pushed out toward its ultimate resting place. Each day the low sound of bells sound from Haiti to Hong Kong, from Reykjavik to ...read more

  • Process-Oriented God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
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    The following thoughts are from Sy Rogers: God is event and process oriented – Most Christians are only event orientated. But the development of a baby is a process caused by one passionate event in the bedroom. Birth is an event but there is a process of growth and maturity. God will not zap a ...read more

  • Did You Know Part Of The United States Was ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 1, 2010
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    Did you know part of the United States was occupied by the enemy during World War II? Some of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands were held by Japanese troops. To supply the war effort, the United States government hastily built the Alaska Highway through the Canadian Rockies. Some years after the war ended, ...read more

  • No Short Cuts For ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 4, 2010
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    No Short Cuts For Revival Finally, there are no shortcuts when it comes to revival. The church desperately needs revival, but it is not going to come by quick and easy methods. Evan Roberts prayed for eleven years before the Welsh Revival broke out, and his ministry during that remarkable time ...read more

  • Buddy Wasisname And The Other Fellers ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 16, 2010
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    Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers (Newfoundland comedy group) feature a song on one of their albums called “Only 19”. It is the story of a young man who married what he thought was his young bride until they got ready for their first night together. She removed her cork leg, make-up that’s ...read more

  • Money

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 29, 2010
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    Married for many years, Paul had been ignored by his wife, Liz, for some days, so eventually he confronted her with what he perceived as the problem. 'Come on Liz, admit it,' he ranted, 'You only married me because my granddad left me $6 million, didn't you?' 'You really are silly, Paul,' retorted ...read more

  • Is There Any Hope?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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    IS THERE ANY HOPE? Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but all ultimately failed. Near the end of the ordeal, a deep sea diver, who ...read more

  • Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    GOOD FIGHTS A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, according to preliminary results of a University of Michigan 17-year study. The study looked at how suppressed anger and the resulting buildup of resentment in a marriage affect overall mortality rates. Couples in which both ...read more

  • Michael Jordan Averaged 32 Points Per Game Over ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Sep 9, 2008
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    Michael Jordan averaged 32 points per game over his 15 years in the NBA. A reporter asked him how he was able to maintain such a high average and he replied, "I simplify the matter. It takes only takes eight points per quarter to score 32. I find a way every quarter to simply get those eight ...read more

  • What Good Are You?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 12, 2009
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    "WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?" Hideyoshi, a Japanese warlord who ruled over Japan in the late 1500s, commissioned a colossal statue of Buddha for a shrine in Kyoto. It took 50,000 men five years to build, but the work had scarcely been completed when the earthquake of 1596 brought the roof of the shrine ...read more