Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
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A woman in West Palm Beach, Florida, died alone at the age of 71. The coroner’s report was tragic. “Cause of death: Malnutrition.” The dear old lady wasted away to 50 pounds. Investigators who found her said the place where she lived was a veritable pigpen, the biggest mess you could imagine.
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
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Some of you are familiar with the television show Deal, or No Deal. It consists of 26 cases, each containing a different amount of money. The contestants don’t know the sum of money in each case, and they try to pick the one with the greatest amount of money. They open the cases, one by one,
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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Let me read to you; A Story of friendship
Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2007
On the middle day of a three day fishing trip to Barkley Lake (Eddyville, KY) I would have done equally well had I taken no fishing gear with me. I went all day without a single bite. Rarely has that ever happened to me. I was skunked.
As we were returning our boat to the dock that evening at
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One discovery that has affected just about all of us occurred in 1946.
As Dr. Percy Spencer was testing a component of a military radar called the magnetron tube he reached into his pocket to grab a chocolate bar that he had stashed for those times he felt a little hungry.
When he grabbed it he
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Lutheran
Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
WORLD WAR 1 FRIENDS – Powerful Illustration
Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 19, 2009
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PLANET OF THE YEAR
Time Magazine in 1989 celebrated not the Person of the Year but the Planet of Year. It was a wakeup call for me and convicted me and my faith.
"Through most of his 2 million years or so of existence, man has thrived in earth's environment -- perhaps too well.... The reason is
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Methodist
MINISTRY DURING BLACK PLAGUE
Many years ago, in Europe, there was a great plague that killed one third of the population. It was called the black plague. Tens of thousands were killed each and every month and the population was terrified by the thought of facing death in their families and homes,
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 13, 2018
The business meeting at First Baptist was well into its second hour. It had been another cantankerous one. Lots of angry comments, snide remarks, and power plays. And, making it especially sad, the issue on the table wasn’t even an important one. The debate was over a relatively minor recent
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