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  • Generation Gap Many Of Today's Young People, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Generation Gap Many of today’s young people, unlike their parents, have never known anything but a world dominated by technology. Even their social lives revolve around the Web, iPods, and cellphones. So they dress down, talk loose, and reveal their innermost thoughts online. The result is a ...read more

  • Generation Gap Many Of Today's Young People, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Generation Gap Many of today’s young people, unlike their parents, have never known anything but a world dominated by technology. Even their social lives revolve around the Web, iPods, and cellphones. So they dress down, talk loose, and reveal their innermost thoughts online. The result is a ...read more

  • Lance Armstrong Won An Unprecedented Seven ...

    Contributed by David Owens on Mar 1, 2007
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    Lance Armstrong won an unprecedented seven consecutive Tour de Frances. 1. During his fifth consecutive victory in the 2003 Tour de France, in the fifteenth stage of the competition, he took a severe tumble off his bike. 2. It occurred when a race fan was leaning over the course barrier to get a ...read more

  • Your Heart Will Have Beat An Average Of 122,400 ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Mar 28, 2004
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    Your heart will have beat an average of 122,400 times every day. None of us want our heart to ask for a vacation or take a day off; we don’t even want to give it a short “coffee break” to skip a few beats. Doctors understand the heart is critically important to our physical well-being; it is so ...read more

  • Dr. Peter Stoner, Professor Emeritus Of Science ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 25, 2004
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    Dr. Peter Stoner, Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, wrote a book entitled Science Speaks, (Moody Press, 1969, P.109) in which he wrote about the law of "compound probability" in reference to just 8 of these prophecies about Jesus coming true. He said that the odds of one man ...read more

  • The Lesson Of "Gee" And "Haw"

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jan 17, 2003
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    THE LESSON OF "GEE" AND "HAW" Amos 3: 3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? In 1974 it was my first year teaching school in Lee County, Virginia. To better know my students, I made home visits. I had 44 students all day long. Wow, no wonder I thought about quitting? I had a student named ...read more

  • A Couple Of Years Back, Susan, Esther And I Flew ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 16, 2003
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    A couple of years back, Susan, Esther and I flew out to Washington DC to spend time with my mentor for two weeks. One night after dinner at my mentor’s house, both Susan and I raced to the kitchen sink to do the dishes. When I beat Susan to the dishes, my mentor’s wife made the comment, "I guess ...read more

  • Comedian Shares How That When The Airline Lost ...

    Contributed by James Crain on Mar 27, 2009
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    comedian shares how that when the airline lost his luggage, he goes to the counter where lost luggage is reported. Now how would you like that job? People come up to the counter and you say. How are you today, Let me guess, you are not happy? Or maybe you angry. Really really angry, Livid. Anyway, ...read more

  • Dr. Benjamin Carson Would Agree Listen To What He ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2009
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    Dr. Benjamin Carson would agree listen to what he says about his mom: Dr. Benjamin Carson, renowned surgeon at John Hopkins, has a story told about his mother by Kevin Lemam. Mrs. Carson insisted that Ben and His brother Curtis write a book report every couple of weeks. This wasn’t for school-this ...read more

  • Knowing Oneself Is Important For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Knowing Oneself is Important for Leadership Mort Meyerson became the CEO of Perot Systems, a computer services company. Within six months, he realized that compared to other companies he had known as CEO, everything was different at this one. It wasn’t just the technology, market, and customers, ...read more

  • Benedict ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    Benedict Arnold In American history, there is a man who became famous for all the wrong reasons. You have probably heard his name, even if you don’t know the details of his life. Benedict Arnold is a name that brings to mind betrayal and treason; yet he actually was a gifted man and a great ...read more

  • Bats

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 10, 2010
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    In the Spring, Marylu and I spent a day at one of our State Parks, McCormick's Creek (my personal favorite). But we could not go into the cave there because of a deadly disease that is annihilating bats. This week, an AP story broke: "A mysterious illness is threatening the bat population in ...read more

  • Giving It Back One More Time

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2011
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    GIVING IT BACK ONE MORE TIME Years ago the Crown Prince of India gave to Queen Victoria the most precious thing he had. He was a child prince and he gave to the Queen of England, the "coroner diamond". The coroner diamond is perhaps the most famous diamond of all history. Do you know how big it ...read more

  • Dirty Laundry

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Mar 15, 2011
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    DIRTY LAUNDRY I have to admit, I dislike washing the laundry, but I detest wearing filthy clothes even more. Okay, truth be told, I don’t usually have to wash the clothes. My wife does most of it, and she does it well. I’m thankful, though, she doesn’t toil in the same manner as our ...read more

  • Set Free

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 2, 2011
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    SET FREE Ray Bakke, the Executive Director of International Urban Associates, tells a great story from World War II. An airman named MacDonald and a Scottish chaplain bailed out behind German lines, were captured and put into a prison camp, with MacDonald in the American barracks and the chaplain ...read more

  • The Pink Bunny Suit

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 11, 2012
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    THE PINK BUNNY SUIT "Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep thy word." There's a memorable scene in A Christmas Story, in which Ralphie, who longs for a BB gun for Christmas, opens a parcel from his dotty maiden aunt. The aunt makes clothing for Christmas presents, and is under ...read more

  • A Salesman Meets The Inventor

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 17, 2012
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    A SALESMAN MEETS THE INVENTOR In 1969, in a science lab in New Jersey, Canadian physicist Willard Boyle and his colleagues invented the concept of an electronic eye. Using their knowledge of mathematics and the behavior of light, they provided the science behind digital cameras known as a ...read more

  • Hyperbole

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
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    I had to have a tooth removed last Thursday. It took me FOREVER to get an appointment. Once I got there and got back in the room where they were going to extract my tooth I felt like I was in an operating room not a dentist office. I remember back in the ‘80’s when I got two eye teeth removed they ...read more

  • A Good Race

    Contributed by Shawn Drake on Mar 7, 2021
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    Many years ago, I coached the High School Swimming team. I had several athletes that went to College on scholarships; but the athlete I was thinking about while I was preparing this sermon, went on to compete in Triathlons. A Triathlon is a 1 mile swim, 25 mile bike ride, and a 6 mile run. ...read more

  • In An Interview With Randy Pope Of Atlanta's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In an interview with Randy Pope of Atlanta’s Perimeter Church, he recalled a "man who called me and said, ’I’m shopping for churches. I live in another state and I want to live near my church when I go to Atlanta.’ He said, ’Tell me a little bit about your church. I understand your church is very ...read more