Total Sermons: 291
The "Mick" and the Gospel
Baseball great Mickey Mantle played hard both on and off the field. The belief that he would die young like his father may have led to Mantle’s failure to take care of himself. In the early 1990s, Mantle entered a clinic to combat alcoholism. Several years later, he was hospitalized for cancer. The former New York Yankees slugger had admitted years earlier that there was a void in his life.
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Stump the Preacherman
Gary uncovers the latest news from the Middle East and the terrorist agenda of the Muslim world. Gary contrasts this to recent history of America's presidents and their relationships to the Middle East. "The Muslims could take over the world simply through demographic growth," says Gary. He goes further to make a unique connection between Osama bin Laden's agenda and global warming fighting liberals.
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Little Goody Toe-Shoes
No one wants to be called a “goody two-shoesâ€â€”someone who is prudish and self-righteous. But years ago American colonists considered the term “goody two-shoes†a compliment. The colonists believed that good literature had two purposes: to delight and to instruct. By the early eighteenth century interest in children's literature (and a rise in literacy) led to new markets and a flourishing of new publishers, particularly in England.
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The Detroit of the South
“In 1921, automotive tycoon Henry Ford, accompanied by Thomas Edison, came to Muscle Shoals with a vision of transforming this area into a metropolis. ‘I will employ one million workers at Muscle Shoals and I will build a city 75 miles long at Muscle Shoals,’ stated Mr. Ford. The instant rumors of Ford’s plan hit the streets, real estate speculators began buying up land and parceling it out in 25 foot lots and putting in sidewalks and street lights.
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An Infidel Experiment
Was the title of an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of May 2, 1885, written about the city Liberal, Missouri. Creating “a town without a church, where unbelievers could bring up their children without religious training,†and where Christians were not allowed was the objective for founding Liberal in 1880.
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Saviors from Space
Science fiction movies have always done well at the box office. Probably the most noteworthy is The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), adapted from the 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" written by Harry Bates. Like so many movies of the era, their storylines were often set against the backdrop of the Cold War.
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Fact or Myth?
After Marco Polo returned home from his extensive tour of the East, he enlisted in the Venetian army in Venice’s battle against Genoa in 1298. During a sea battle, he was captured and imprisoned in Genoa, Italy. While Marco was serving time, he did not waste time. Instead, he collaborated with another prisoner, a scribe named Rusticiano of Pisa, to write the story of his travels in the East
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Let the Hearer Understand . . .
Gary DeMar interviews Dr. Ken Gentry discussing Ken's new book The Book of Revelation Made Easy (published by American Vision). For those new to and uneducated in the book of Revelation, Ken lays out the major interpretive approaches and themes of the book. Together, Gary and Ken shed light on specific accounts in Revelation and how they are interpreted by the major positions in Christianity for the end times.
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The Great White Hurricane
Weather forecasters couldn’t have been more wrong with their prediction of fair weather. A legendary blizzard struck the northeastern United States in March of 1888. The blizzard paralyzed the East Coast. Telegraph and telephone wires snapped, isolating New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington for days. Two hundred ships were grounded, and at least one hundred seamen died.
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A City in Ruins
Yerba Buena was a tiny village of sand dunes and small oaks populated with fleas that tormented the few people who lived there. The Gold Rush transformed the sleepy town into the booming city of San Francisco. This cosmopolitan center was jolted awake on the morning of April 18, 1906 as an earthquake hit the city.
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