Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 28, 2009
UNLIKELY PREDICTIONS
Toronto Maple Leafs – rough start to their Season. First eight games were loses. Then hope was born... we got Phil Kessel of the Boston Bruins! Haven’t won the cup since 1967 – yes, I was only 5 years old. People laugh. Leaf jokes are now hotter than Newfie jokes!
Things are
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Salvation Army
Consider these famous predictions that underestimated the incredible power of vision.
• Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM in 1943 said, "I think there is a market for maybe five computers in the world."
• Ken Olson, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation said in 1977, "There is
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jan 2, 2015
The book The World’s Worst Predictions lists some of history’s all-time prophetic goofs.
King George II said in 1773 that the American colonies had little stomach for revolution.
An official of the White Star Line, speaking of the firm’s newly built flagship, the Titanic, launched in 1912,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2008
Circular Entertainment Nokia predicts that by 2012 up to a 25% of the entertainment consumed globally will have been created, edited and shared within their peer circle rather than coming out of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
This is my prediction for the future whatever hasnt happened will happen and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the heavens will be at half-past eleven tonight. He can
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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The only way to predict the future is to have power
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Dec 20, 2000
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For example, back in 1967, experts predicted that by the turn of the century technology would have taken over so much of the work we do that the average American work week would be only 22 hours long, & that we would work only 27 weeks a year. As a result, one of our biggest problems would be in
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 2, 2006
Barna Research predicts that 100 million individuals will be listening to sermons online from their homes by ‘10. (Foster
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 21, 2002
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PREDICTIONS OF HIS 2ND COMING:
Earliest known prediction by Tichonius 381 A.D.; Then 500 A.D. by Hippolytus (170-236). Later, predictions surrounded the 1st millennium:
1000 A.D., 1009 A.D., & 1033 A.D. were popular.
1533 A.D. was agreed upon by both Michael Stiefel (1486-1567) a friend of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2006
Planned Parenthood predicts 43% of women will have had at least one abortion by the time they are age 45. (Foster
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 30, 2007
This past week, scientists were predicting that they will someday, in the next 10 years or so, be able to “create artificial life.” Interesting. As it turns out, they were talking about being able to put together a cell – a membrane, a nucleus, and the other parts that make it “live,” all in the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Its tough to make predictions, especially
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on Aug 19, 2004
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Numbers 24:17 had predicted that “A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel.” That star was a young boy by the name of Jesus - who would save His people from their sins. Every evening when you wake up you can look at the stars and depend on the fact that it will be in the
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Denomination:
Lutheran
In 1800 a man named William Miller predicted that Christ would return on or around April 3, 1843. All over the Northeast, half a million of his followers awaited the end of the world. Reportedly some of them made their way to the top of mountains, hoping for a head start to heaven. Others were in
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
It was a dramatic performance in Game 7 of the World Series about a month ago: Madison Bumgarner coming in as a relief pitcher and proceeding to sow up the win for the San Francisco Giants. An impressive performance.
Let’s go back to the spring – before the first pitch was thrown on the 2014
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Baptist
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
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Growing up is so common and predictable it’s taken for granted. Until May 1975, when our first child was born, my wife, Mary, and I thought we could just stand back and watch it happen. We had been eagerly planning and anticipating the miracle as only first-time parents can. We had prepared the
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Denomination:
Baptist