Find a dynamic, compelling expression of ideas, edit it if necessary to ensure it fits within the time limit, then present it with enthusiasm.
Note: Famous Speech is a male only category at conventions using the International Student Convention Guidelines.
BUT WHERE DO I FIND A SCRIPT?
Radio or TV broadcast, book or article, interview or seminar, the world is full of preachers, politicians, educationalists, missionaries, and motivators who have had something worthwhile to say. Here are some suggestions for locating them.
Online bookstores such as http://www.christianbooksdistributors.com give biographical details of authors who are also speakers. Many authors write a book then travel around sharing what’s in it. So get the book, or go to a Christian bookstore, survey the back covers for writer-speakers, then look them up on the Internet (many authors have their own website). There may be published scripts or audio files of their speeches.
Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye; Not Even a Hint)
Eric and Leslie Ludy (When Dreams Come True; When God Writes Your Life Story)
Dannah Gresh
Elisabeth Elliot
Angela Thomas (Do You Think I’m Beautiful?)
Ben Carson (Gifted Hands; Think Big)
Liz Curtis Higgs
Barbara Johnson – known for her humour
Patsy Clairmont – known for her humour
Stormie Omartian
Brigitte Gabriel – public speaker and university lecturer on the Middle East Conflict – her Duke University counter-terrorism speech is posted on this siteMax Lucado
David Wilkerson
Ray Comfort – Kiwi evangelist known for his humour – http://www.wayofthemaster.com/ or http://www.livingwatersnewzealand.com/ (see section below on Christian Book Distributors for more details)
Kirk Cameron – actor and speaker – www.WayoftheMaster.com
Josh McDowell
Philip Yancey
Lee Strobel
Bill Hybels
Ken Ham – http://www.answersingenesis.org
Kent Hovind – Creation Science Evangelism at http://www.drdino.com
Dr. S. M. Lockridge
Buy second-hand books about missionaries and evangelists, abolitionists (British and American) and educators, government leaders, soldiers, and sports heroes, or look them up on the internet. Many new biographies about these people are readily available at Christian bookstores.
Amy Carmichael – missionary
Mary Slessor – missionary
C. T. Studd – missionary
Hudson Taylor – missionary
John and Betty Stam – missionary
Rosalie Harvey – missionary
Generals William and Bramwell Booth – Salvation Army founders
Catherine Booth, Evangeline Booth – Salvation Army founders
Jonathan Edwards – preacher
George Whitefield – preacher
George Mueller
D. L. Moody – evangelist
Oswald J. Smith
Smith Wigglesworth
Billy Sunday – evangelist
Charles Spurgeon – preacher
Reuben A. Torrey – evangelist
Corrie ten Boom – author of “The Hiding Place”
Merlin Carothers – author of “Prison to Praise”
Jean A. Rees
Abraham Lincoln – president
Ulysses S. Grant – soldier and president
Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson – soldier
Brother Andrew – Open Doors, Bible smuggler
Eric Liddell – Olympic athlete and missionary
Michael Jones – All Black rugby hero
CHRISTIAN SECOND-HAND BOOKSTORES
New Zealand
Christian Books (Second Hand)
9 Ellis Avenue, Mt. Roskill, Auckland 1041
Phone 09 626 2256
Fax 09 626 3467
Email: cbooks@xtra.co.nz
Web: www.cbooks.co.nz
Christian Value Books
Unit 6, 14 Acheron Drive
Riccarton, Christchurch
Phone/Fax: 03 343 5929
A/H: 03 343 4969
Email: christianvalue@maxnet.co.nz
Web: http://www.christianvaluebooks.co.nz
If you have other stores to recommend, whether in New Zealand, Australia, or elsewhere, please email the details to kyriellepublishing@xtra.co.nz
CHRISTIAN BOOK DISTRIBUTORS
New Zealand
Christian Books (Online)
Web: www.christian-books.co
Email: patrick@christian-books.co
Facebook: ChristianBooksCo
Based in Albany, Auckland
Christian Resource Centre
Web: www.christianresources.co.nz
Email: shop@christianresources.co.nz
323 Queen Street, Auckland City
Oasis Christian Stores
Freephone: 0800 262 747
Main store located in Palmerston North
Fax: 06 357 0281
Email: service@gph.co.nz
Web: http://www.oasis.net.nz/
Manna Christian Stores
Freephone: 0508 4 MANNA (0508 4 62662)
Email: orders@manna.co.nz
Web: http://www.manna.co.nz
If you have other stores to recommend, whether in New Zealand, Australia, or elsewhere, please email the details to kyriellepublishing@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Famous Speech - Brigitte Gabriel
Note: Famous Speech is a male only category at conventions using the International Student Convention Guidelines.
Brigitte Gabriel Speaks the Truth
Author: Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese Christian, former news anchor of World News for Middle East Television and the founder and president of American Congress for Truth
Source: http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=144
Remarks by Brigitte Gabriel
Delivered at the Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Counter Terrorism Speak Out
October 14, 2004
I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.
I was raised in Lebanon where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.
When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in1975, they started massacring the Christians city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Moslem shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christian Lebanese and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injuries. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need, and they helped.
For the first time in my life, I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government about the Jews and Israel that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds as shouts of joy of Allahu Akbar (God is great) would echo through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers; one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.
One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying and holding each other's hands.
What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19-year- old only child, and still able to love me, the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil.
Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle." However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized everywhere in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of God.
Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.
They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation." Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent. On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" or "occupation," but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.
So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up and support and defend the state of Israel, which is the front line of the war against terrorism.
Thank you.
Brigitte Gabriel Speaks the Truth
Author: Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese Christian, former news anchor of World News for Middle East Television and the founder and president of American Congress for Truth
Source: http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=144
Remarks by Brigitte Gabriel
Delivered at the Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Counter Terrorism Speak Out
October 14, 2004
I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.
I was raised in Lebanon where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.
When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in1975, they started massacring the Christians city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Moslem shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christian Lebanese and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injuries. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need, and they helped.
For the first time in my life, I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government about the Jews and Israel that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds as shouts of joy of Allahu Akbar (God is great) would echo through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers; one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.
One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying and holding each other's hands.
What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19-year- old only child, and still able to love me, the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil.
Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle." However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized everywhere in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of God.
Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.
They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation." Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent. On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" or "occupation," but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.
So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up and support and defend the state of Israel, which is the front line of the war against terrorism.
Thank you.
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