Sermon Illustrations about Mistakes
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Look-Alike Contest Fails to Recognize the Original
Charlie Chaplin was a huge movie star in the silent-picture era. One of the by-products of his popularity were the look-alike contests that sprung up ...
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Captain Refused to Acknowledge He Was Lost
On September 3, 1989, Varig Airlines Flight 254 was at Brazil's Maraba Airport preparing for takeoff. Under normal circumstances the hop to nearby ...
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Secretary of State's Translation Is Worthless
The state of Washington has a significant percentage of citizens with Chinese or Korean ancestry. When he was Secretary of State, Sam Reed hoped to reach ...
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Mistakes Are Not an Option in Parachute Packing
The Texas Army National Guard has a group of special workers called riggers. Their job is to fold and pack the parachutes soldiers use when jumping from ...
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Pickler Finds Satisfaction in the Process
Rick Field is a 41-year-old bachelor, with degrees from Andover and Yale, who has decided to spend his life making pickles. The career change came after ...
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Firefighter Red Adair on Hell
Paul "Red" Adair was the oil field firefighter first made famous by a 1968 John Wayne movie The Hellfighters. After the first Gulf War, he led ...
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Man Fearfully Clutches a "Bomb"
For four hours he held the cylinder, waiting for rescue or an immediate death. After digging up what appeared to be an unexploded WWI bomb, David Page ...
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Fire-Walkers Get Burned
At a self-help seminar in Rohrbach, Austria, participants were urged to walk over hot, fiery coals. The purpose of the exercise was to "mobilize ...
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State Wastes Money on Non-existent Problem
In 2002, the state of Missouri awarded a grant to their police department's Youth Outreach Unit. The purpose of the $273,000 grant was to battle Goth ...
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Woman Uses Valuable Coin for Parking
When we possess something of great value, we generally safeguard it. Through a series of errors, a South African woman failed to properly care for a collection ...
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