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  • Richard M. Nixon Served As The 37th President Of ...

    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
     | 1,869 views

    Richard M. Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States. He was a polarizing figure who won the presidential office by a landslide and then later resigned in disgrace just 21 months later. His disgrace culminated with the Democratic party getting their man, Jimmy Carter, into the White ...read more

  • The Boston Marathon Is The World's Oldest Annual ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,323 views

    The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world’s most prestigious road racing events. The race is run over a grueling course covering 26 miles, 385 yards. In order to run in that prestigious race, you must have either won a sanctioned marathon elsewhere, ...read more

  • Bronze ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Nov 7, 2009
     | 1,443 views

    BRONZE MEDALLISTS There is a fascinating research study done by Vicki Medvec, a professor at Northwestern University. She studied Olympic medallists and she discovered that Bronze medallists were happier than Silver medallists. Here’s why. Medvec found that Silver medallists tended to focus on ...read more

  • Macbeth Sins For False Ambition

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
     | 2,127 views

    MACBETH SINS FOR FALSE AMBITION Macbeth is a striking example of an ambitious man desiring and then using any means to acquire some power beyond his possession. The tragedy tells us that this faithful soldier, fresh from the wars in Norway, is met by spirits who greet him as Thane of Glamis, ...read more

  • John Wooden: Won Many College Basketball ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2001
    based on 156 ratings
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    JOHN WOODEN: won many college basketball national championships in a row while at UCLA. Was asked, ‘What does it take to make a winning team? THREE THINGS 1) Get players in right condition (right with God/Salvation) 2) Team them the fundamentals ...read more

  • Atheistic French Philosopher Voltaire Declared, ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 31, 2008
     | 3,698 views

    Atheistic French philosopher Voltaire declared, "Christianity win be non-existent 100 years after my death." But exactly 100 years after his death, the European Bible Society bought his house and turned it into the continents' largest ...read more

  • Missions

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Aug 22, 2009
     | 3,182 views

    Missions While churches concern themselves with missions abroad, many miss the opportunity afforded by the 400,000 international students who study in the U.S.A. each year. Many of them are open to new ideas and would be responsive to the gospel. We ...read more

  • Make No Mistake About It, The Society In Which ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2001
    based on 71 ratings
     | 1,461 views

    Make no mistake about it, the society in which we live does everything in its power to deny the fact of death. Every plucked gray hair, every chemical peel, every tofu diet, every bottle of Viagra, every tummy tuck is a putting ...read more

  • The Air War  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,432 views

    THE AIR WAR It was said of Desert Storm, “the air war won the ground war.” The fervent, faithful praying of a few in a well-developed prayer center can win the ground war for the troops of Christians going out into their places of work and ...read more

  • A Bishop Of A Century Ago Pronounced From His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    A bishop of a century ago pronounced from his pulpit and in the periodical he edited that heavier-than-air flight was both impossible and contrary to the will of God. Oh, the irony that Bishop Wright had two sons, Orville and Wilbur! Wright was wrong. ...read more

  • Two Football Teams Were Playing A Very ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Oct 21, 2008
     | 1,573 views

    Two football teams were playing a very competitive game. One team scored first and led most of the game by one point. But for some reason, the team with the lead started complaining and criticizing each other and became negative. With time running out, the other team scored and ...read more

  • God Knows I Tried! (10.25.05--Making It!--Genesis ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 21, 2005
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    God Knows I Tried! (10.25.05--Making It!--Genesis 31:1-2) Success is a measure of looking down and not looking up. It all about winning and losing. For me that winning and losing began when I left college over thirty years ago. I had spent four years and a lot of money along with thousands of ...read more

  • Lucky Guess?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 4,647 views

    LUCKY GUESS? It was a case of rags to riches and back to rags again for a Thai street hawker who briefly became a millionaire when a computer glitch on a popular TV game show fed her the answers intended for the host. Lertrak Panjanawaporn, 44, stunned the producers of the popular "Who Wants to ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Local Fitness Center, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,738 views

    There’s a story about a local fitness center, which was offering $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that they were stronger than the owner of the place. Here’s how it worked. This muscle man would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and then hand the lemon to the next ...read more

  • Moment Of Truth" Is A Television Show Where ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 28, 2008
     | 1,451 views

    "Moment of Truth" is a television show where contestants can win money by confessing the truth. Lauren was on a recent episode and went through some routine questions working her way up to $25,000. Then the questions got tough about adultery and lying. With her husband in the audience, she ...read more

  • President Lincoln Was, In Some People's Opinions, ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 15, 2010
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    President Lincoln was, in some people's opinions, our most powerful president - able to hold the nation together in the face of civil war and to do so as he simultaneously strengthened the issue of abolition that led to it. What many people today don't realize is that he did this with a cabinet ...read more

  • Burning The Cargo

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2011
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    BURNING THE CARGO There’s a story of two paddleboats that left Memphis about the same time, travelling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they travelled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the other. Words were exchanged. Challenges were ...read more

  • Be Found Faithful

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Mar 31, 2025
     | 340 views

    Remember the movie, Ben Hur? It came out in 1959. The movie won 11 Oscars and was over three and a half hours long. The most memorable scene in the film is the chariot race. Charlton Heston was trained for five weeks before the shooting of that scene. Heston was grateful for the trainer's ...read more

  • A New Kind Of Teamwork

    Contributed by N A on Aug 15, 2009
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    John Piper: "Luke celebrates this solution. The widows were cared for, and the ministry of the Word of God was not forsaken. Both were utterly crucial. Either could have undermined the church and ended its amazing growth. The solution was the diversity of gifts and calling. The solution was a ...read more

  • It Is Distinctly Stated That The Son Of Man Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Gresham on Jan 19, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,543 views

    “It is distinctly stated that the Son of Man is come to seek…Seeking the lost is more than a mere attempt to locate unsaved men, for they are present on every hand. The term ‘seeking the lost,’ therefore, suggests a divine preparation of the unsaved that will bring them into adjustment with the ...read more