Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 29, 2000
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Mother Teresea
“We have drugs for people with diseases like leprosy. But these drugs do not treat the main problem, the disease of being unwanted. That’s what my sisters hope to provide. The sick and poor suffer even more from rejection than
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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The Pellicano is the world's most unwanted ship. Since 1986 she has been the hobo of the high seas. No one wants her. Sri Lanka doesn't. Bermuda doesn't. The Dominican Republic turned her away. So did the Netherlands, the Antilles, and Honduras.
The problem is not the boat. Though
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Mother Teresa said, “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the
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Baptist
Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 26, 2012
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THE DOOR
There is a small metal door painted white in the side of a tiny mission church in Johannesburg South Africa. This door is changing lives. On it are painted the words “door of hope.” That is exactly what it is for various babies within the city. On average some forty to fifty babies were
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 23, 2014
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Rubel Shelly tells of his friends Rich and Patty White, who traveled to a 3rd world country to adopt a little girl named Olona. After 2 years of effort and paperwork, the Whites stood before a judge who read words from an official document: “Inasmuch as Olona Morgan is orphaned and unwanted by
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rich Young on Jan 20, 2001
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Dr. Leo Alexander was a consultant to the Secretary of War in the Nuremberg Trials. He had extraordinary access to accused Nazi war criminals in the medical community. He wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine in
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
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Abortion, child sacrifice, and other forms of infanticide were both legal and acceptable in pagan societies from the earliest times. One of the major signs of depravity in ancient Rome was that its unwanted babies were abandoned outside the city walls to die from exposure to the elements of from
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Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 26, 2002
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In New York City a few weeks ago a 25-year old freshman art student’s project got him in jail for “reckless endangerment”. He distributed throughout the city in public places 37 black boxes with the word “fear” on them, which was supposed to make some kind of statement, but this “conceptual
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Congregational
Contributed by Rodney Fry on Jan 13, 2007
All of us have heard the notion of “Safe Sex” proclaimed by the media. Is there any such thing? Some seem to suggest that if you could remove the specter of AIDS, STD’s, or unwanted pregnancy, it would be all right for people to have as much sex as they wished. Sex involves more than
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Baptist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 23, 2007
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hoplessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a little love. The poverty in
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Denomination:
Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 15, 2006
Male Harassment Growing: More and more men are coming forward to file sexual harassment charges about behavior that employers once dismissed as simply horseplay or locker-room antics, according to employment lawyers and government regulators. While some of these men are complaining of unwanted
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2006
Abortion Down: In ’02, 14% of births by U.S. women of childbearing age were unwanted vs. just 9% in ’95, report federal researchers. In ’95, for every 100 pregnancies that ended in abortion or birth, almost 26 ended in abortion, in ’04 that had dropped to 24,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2003
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Ninety-two percent of the Christians attending a recent Bible conference admitted in a survey that feelings of loneliness are a major problem in their lives. All shared a basic symptom: a sense of despair at feeling unloved and a fear of being unwanted or unaccepted. This is a tragic commentary
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2002
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Teen sexual activity declining
According to a July 28 CNSNews.com story by Rick Docksai, sexual activity among teenagers is now on the decline, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their findings were compiled in the 2001 Youth Risk Behavior
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 14, 2002
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Teen sexual activity declining
According to a July 28 CNSNews.com story by Rick Docksai, sexual activity among teenagers is now on the decline, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their findings were compiled in the 2001 Youth Risk Behavior
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Introduction: Some folks, perhaps well-meaning, will take a verse completely out of its context in order to use the words for something much different than what was intended. This verse is one that to my knowledge has never been used as the person (L, to protect the identity) said to me many years
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Baptist