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  • The Empty Assignment

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 31, 2010
     | 2,453 views

    THE EMPTY ASSIGNMENT I was assigned to retrieve box number 673 A. I took my little pink piece of paper with my assignment for the afternoon - find box #673 A, Humana Hospital, February 1970. I had just started to working at this medical file warehouse and so I naively thought that the boss was ...read more

  • Alone On Christmas  PRO

    Contributed by Bernard Dawson on Dec 14, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 5,359 views

    ALONE ON CHRISTMAS George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. Instead he ...read more

  • William Shakespeare Immortalized The Battle Of ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Sep 7, 2006
     | 1,826 views

    William Shakespeare immortalized the Battle of Bosworth with the words, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" King Richard the Third was preparing for the fight of his life. An army led by Henry, Earl of Richmond, was marching against him. The contest would determine who would rule ...read more

  • Alone On ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009
     | 2,171 views

    ALONE ON CHRISTMAS George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. Instead he ...read more

  • The Man Who Missed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
     | 3,664 views

    The Man Who Missed Christmas George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. ...read more

  • Quaker John Woolman's Longstanding Anti-Slavery ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2010
     | 3,745 views

    Quaker John Woolman’s Longstanding Anti-slavery Campaign John Woolman was a Quaker who grew up in Pennsylvania in the early eighteenth century. He was a contemporary of George Washington. When he was a boy he was given to the things boys often do—in this case throwing rocks at a robin’s nest ...read more

  • The Last 3 Days Have Been Painful. Literally ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 1, 2010
     | 1,947 views

    The last 3 days have been painful. Literally painful! I was playing with my grandson and crawling, on my knees, through tunnels that we made out of the cushions on the lounge – our secret castle to hide in (I know, castles aren’t normally secret but this one was). The next day I felt the pain ...read more

  • In God's Eyes," By Candace Carteen Of Portland, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Atwood on May 5, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,801 views

    "In God's Eyes," by Candace Carteen of Portland, Oregon. By the time I was ten, I was totally ashamed of my father. All my friends called him names: Quasi-Moto, hunchback, monster, little Frankenstein, the crooked little man with the crooked little cane. At first it hurt when they called him ...read more

  • How To Get Kicked Out Of Church On Christmas Eve  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 15, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,685 views

    HOW TO GET KICKED OUT OF CHURCH ON CHRISTMAS EVE Christmas Eve 1990. I came this close to being physically thrown out of church. We were new to town and we heard that a certain church in town had a fantastic Christmas Eve service. So, we went with some friends, about ten of us total, to this ...read more

  • In Early 1991, The Cosmic Background Explorer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Normand Cote on Aug 24, 2001
    based on 61 ratings
     | 2,881 views

    In early 1991, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite sent back information to Earth that caused a sensation in scientific circles. This satellite had been hurled into space to peer into the depths of the universe. But what it eventually produced was far more than pictures and measurements ...read more

  • The Pre-War Setbacks Of Winston Churchill

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,470 views

    THE PRE-WAR SETBACKS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL Winston Churchill is remembered as perhaps the greatest prime minister in the history of Great Britain. By the steel of his will, he led his island nation to stand against Hitler and eventually triumph in World War II. But years before that victorious ...read more

  • A True Story That Speaks About Mary's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,598 views

    A true story that speaks about Mary’s extravagant love for Jesus. A nine-year-old boy who lived in a rural town in Tennessee. His house was in a poor area of the community. A church had a bus ministry that came knocking on his door one Saturday afternoon. The kid came to answer the door and ...read more

  • The Story Of Ernest Gordon

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2011
     | 6,846 views

    THE STORY OF ERNEST GORDON There is a book (and now a movie) called To End All Wars that tells of the extraordinary life of Ernest Gordon, a British Army officer captured at sea by the Japanese at the age of 24. Gordon was sent to work on the Burma-Siam railway line that the Japanese were ...read more

  • A Story Of Doubt

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 1, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 17,792 views

    A STORY OF DOUBT The little boy cried out over and over, "Mom where are you?!" He was walking back and forth in the front of the store. People with shopping carts full of milk, bread, fruit, and other household items rattled past the frantic boy as they raced to wait in line for a check out ...read more

  • Evangelism And Football  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 28, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,299 views

    Evangelism and Football We are now in the midst of one the hottest seasons of the year. No, I'm not talking about the weather and its accompanying temperatures. After all we have just finished having summer this past week and autumn is upon us. And also some trees up on the mountains in Grant and ...read more

  • Mike The Headless Chicken

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,680 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • Mike The Headless Chicken

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,094 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • Mike The Headless Chicken  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,800 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • Love Of God

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 16, 2010
     | 5,802 views

    LOVE OF GOD Let’s say you had a child who kept getting in trouble, you kept bailing him out as a child, and eventually as he grew up even you couldn’t bail him out anymore, you had to let him go live his life the way he was choosing because nothing you or anyone else did could stop ...read more

  • Sully And Second Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
     | 4,134 views

    "SULLY" AND SECOND NATURE Thursday, January 15, 2009, was another ordinary day in New York City. Or so it seemed. But by that evening people were talking of a miracle. They may have been right. But the full explanation is, if anything, even more interesting and exciting. And it strikes just the ...read more

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