Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 23, 2007
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Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), the world-famous violinist, earned a fortune with his concerts and compositions, but he generously gave most of it away. So, when he discovered an exquisite violin on one of his trips, he wasn’t able to buy it. He Later, having raised enough money to meet the asking
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Baptist
Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
One traveler, who toured that area of the world before it became commercialized, wrote this description of how evening banquets at rich guys’ houses went in 1894. He said,
“…entertainment is a public affair. The gateway of the court, and the door… stand open… A long, low table, or more often
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Baptist
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Aug 20, 2007
Dan Huxley owns a world record in an unusual category: he pulls airplanes. The most remarkable happened on October 15, 1997 when he broke his own record. On that day at the Mascot Airport in Sydney, Australia he strapped a harness around his upper body, attached one end of a steel cable to it and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 22, 2007
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Near the end of World War II, members of the Allied forces were often found searching farms and houses for snipers. At one abandoned house, which had been reduced to rubble, searchers found their way into the basement.
There, on a crumbling wall, a victim of the Holocaust had scratched a Star of
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Pentecostal
Don’t expect the Kingdom of this World to respect the Kingdom of God. Far from it, citizens of God’s Kingdom have always been --- and will always be criticized and misunderstood and (as we see in this case) even DEMONIZED.
I think of a man like Jerry Falwell --- who died recently. He was most
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jerry Mckee on Dec 12, 2007
Let’s find the world of dangerous wonder. It’s a real place, you know. It is the place where children and grownups can find God, located just beyond where the sidewalk ends. The directions just might be found in your church, your Bible, or even a friendship. Dull people and dream stealers are not
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*other
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
Our world has plenty of knowledge and education, but not much wisdom.
Wisdom can often be learned from the fairly uneducated. Take children for instance.
Patrick, age 10 “Never trust a dog to watch your food.”
Michael, age 14 “When your dad is mad and asks you, ‘Do I look stupid?’ don’t answer
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When a dream dies the world is not the same you realize in an instant that everything has changed tomorrow will be different the plans will all be new for the dream that you were chasing no longer lives inside of you
to know the race is over and you’ve been left behind is like a snowflake in the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Michael West on Mar 29, 2008
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Our religion has become ineffective in the world. We are being rejected more each day. The world wants us to take our little god and go somewhere else. Our religion has become powerless because we believe in a powerless god. Our religion is weak because our god is weak. Our faith is weak because we
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 30, 2008
In a big world, the small church has remained intimate. In a fast world, the small church has been steady. In an expensive world, the small church has remained plain. In a complex world, the small church has remained simple. In a rational world, the small church has kept feeling. In a mobile
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
Top Business Books Good to Great, The World is Flat, and Blink were the top 3 most recently read books by senior-level marketing execs. All -time favorite business books they’ve ever read Good to Great, Positioning, and 7
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
During World War II’s Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force’s valiant defense of the skies over Britain foiled Hitler’s plans for an invasion of the British Isles, prompting Prime Minister Winston Churchill to say in the House of Commons, “Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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Rules. The world, our culture, our families... all have rules. Without rules, our world would be in anarchy, chaos. Some rules are called laws. We have civil laws and criminal laws. Break a civil law and it can cost you a lot of money or other material wealth. Break a criminal law, and you could
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Biochemists like Michael Behe showed the world the enormous complexity of biochemical systems, like the bacterial flagellum and the translation of light into electrical signals in the retina. They argued–and still haven’t been refuted–that the biochemicals–enzymes and proteins–used to create these
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Catholic
Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 16, 2008
We live in a world where the truth is often elusive, like shifting sand. Just west of Yuma, Arizona lay the imperial sand dunes. This is a system extends for more than 40 miles along the eastern edge of the Imperial Valley agricultural region. The dunes are really interesting phenomena of that
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Christian Church