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  • Labor Day?

    Contributed by Larry Kettle on Sep 6, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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    LABOR DAY? The title of the Labor Day Holiday always intrigued me as a child. "I asked my mother once why they called it 'Labor Day' if everybody just took off from work?" She ...read more

  • So Thankful  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,973 views

    SO THANKFUL Chuck Swindoll writes: "I recall, as a little barefoot boy with a cowlick of snow-white hair on my forehead, standing erect in my classroom and repeating the "Pledge of Allegiance" one Thanksgiving season. Our nation was at war and times were hard. My teacher had lost her husband on ...read more

  • The Top 14 Upcoming Thanksgiving-Themed Movies  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Nov 15, 2001
    based on 14 ratings
     | 1,918 views

    The Top 14 Upcoming Thanksgiving-Themed Movies 14> To Kill A Walking Bird 13> My Best Friend’s Dressing 12> The Texas Coleslaw Massacre 11> Casserolablanca 10> The Fabulous Baster Boys 9> 12 Hungry Men 8> Silence of the Yams 7> For Love of The Game Hen 6> I Know What You Ate Last Winter 5> All the ...read more

  • Our Forefathers Were Not So Much Thankful For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,984 views

    Our forefathers were not so much thankful for something as they were thankful in something. In bounty or in want they were thankful. In feast or in famine they were thankful. In joy or in misery they were thankful. There is a big difference between being thankful for things and being thankful in ...read more

  • The Gettysburg Address  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,293 views

    THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived ...read more

  • I Can't Always Remember Everything  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,495 views

    I CAN'T ALWAYS REMEMBER EVERYTHING Remembering is sometimes hard work. There were three old sisters who lived together. One sister got up to go to bed, and half way up the stairs she stopped and asked "was I going up or was I coming down" One sister replied with a hint of aggravation, "you were ...read more

  • I Heard A Story That Probably Has More Truth Than ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 2, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,975 views

    I heard a story that probably has more truth than fiction. It is about an employer who brought his employees in once a month for a pep talk. He would inform them of the future plans of the company, & try to excite them about their work so that they would be enthusiastic about what they were ...read more

  • The Origins Of Veterans Day  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 5,849 views

    THE ORIGINS OF VETERANS DAY In 1921, an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This site, on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River and the city of Washington, became the focal point of reverence for America’s veterans. Similar ceremonies occurred ...read more

  • I Tried Counting Backwards, I Tried Counting ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Dec 2, 2002
    based on 81 ratings
     | 1,985 views

    I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep. The leftovers beckoned-- the dark meat and white, But I fought the temptation with all of my might. Tossing and turning with anticipation, The thought of a snack became infatuation. So, I raced to the kitchen, flung open the door And gazed at ...read more

  • The Parents Of A Young Soldier Killed In Action ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 28, 2002
    based on 47 ratings
     | 2,306 views

    The parents of a young soldier killed in action gave their church a gift of money as a memorial to their son. During the presentation service, the mother of another soldier whose son was overseas whispered to her husband, “Let’s give the same amount for our son.” “What’s the matter with you?” he ...read more

  • St. Valentine - Valentinus -- Christian Martyr, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Kins on Feb 7, 2003
    based on 51 ratings
     | 2,826 views

    St. Valentine - Valentinus -- Christian martyr, c270 A.D. -- "Valentine was the name of a young man who lived in Rome during reign of Claudius II when Christians were being persecuted. Although he was not a Christian, he helped them, but he was caught and put into prison. In prison he became a ...read more

  • Trememdous Loss

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,833 views

    TREMEMDOUS LOSS Of the 16.5 million soldiers who served in WWII there are only 5 million left & their number is decreasing at the rate of 1,100 a day. This is a tremendous loss because others will never know what WWII was about from a ...read more

  • On Thanksgiving Day, 1713, The Governor Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Sep 19, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,255 views

    On Thanksgiving Day, 1713, the governor of Connecticut and the Kings commissioners were just preparing to dine when it was announced that the bear prepared for the occasion had been “shot on ye Lord’s Day.” At the dismal news none would touch a morsel of the roast bear, until it was decided that ...read more

  • It Was Thanksgiving Season In The Nursing Home. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Oct 31, 2003
    based on 13 ratings
     | 7,363 views

    It was Thanksgiving season in the nursing home. The small resident population was gathered about their humble Thanksgiving table, and the director asked each in turn to express one thing for which they were thankful. Thanks were expressed for a home in which to stay, families, etc. One little old ...read more

  • I May Not Here Omit How, Notwithstand[ing] All ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kerry Kinchen on Nov 10, 2003
    based on 35 ratings
     | 1,673 views

    "I may not here omit how, notwithstand[ing] all their great pains and industry, and the great hopes of a large crop, the Lord seemed to blast, and take away the same, and to threaten further and more sore famine unto them. By a great drought which continued from the third week in May, till about ...read more

  • Why Do We Celebrate?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 3,191 views

    WHY DO WE CELEBRATE? Lou Whitmire, a reporter in Mansfield, Ohio, asked the all important question "Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?" to students at Sherman Elementary school. Here are a few of the answers he got: Jamie Copley, 7, said people celebrate Thanksgiving because it’s the ...read more

  • Shedding Light On Thanksgiving  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 4,236 views

    SHEDDING LIGHT ON THANKSGIVING The Associated Press, New York, carried this short piece on the first Thanksgiving: "This time of year, classrooms across the United States are filled with tales of the first Thanksgiving feast. But children might not be getting the whole story, says Kenneth C. ...read more

  • The Turkey  PRO

    Contributed by George Rennau on Nov 23, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,515 views

    The turkey shot out of the oven and rocketed into the air, it knocked every plate off the table and partly demolished a chair. It ricocheted into a corner and burst with a deafening boom, then splattered all over the kitchen, completely obscuring the room. It stuck to the walls and the ...read more

  • Ann Graham: Thanksgiving Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,774 views

    Lord, Thank you for this Thanksgiving Day. Thank you for all the many many blessings you bestow on us each and everyday. Thank you for the little things we over look from day to day. Lord, I pray you feed the ones today less fortunate. Draw up real close to them and let them know how very precious ...read more

  • Holy Father, We Gather Together To Ask Your ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 26, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,344 views

    Holy Father, We gather together to ask your blessing this Thanksgiving Day; God bless America, land that I love; You stand beside us in times of need, as of September 11, giving Peace and Love to all; Stand beside her and guide her, through the night with the Light from above; Your ...read more