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  • Advice

    Contributed by Kenneth Anthony on Dec 31, 2006
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    ADVICE A man was on the practice golf course when the club pro brought another man out for a lesson. The pro watched the fellow swing several times and started making suggestions for improvement, but each time the pupil interrupted with his own version of what was wrong and how to correct it. ...read more

  • A Bit Of Advice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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     | 3,986 views

    A BIT OF ADVICE It took the Church nearly 400 years to decide about Trinitarian orthodoxy, producing the Nicene Creed that many churches say on a Sunday morning. Most preachers would prefer to preach on any other subject than the Trinity. Perhaps we should heed the advice of Brother Elric, a ...read more

  • Some Good Advice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
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    SOME GOOD ADVICE I am still waiting for my father to talk to me about sex and success, money and marriage, religion and raising kids. Since he died in 1991, I guess I don’t have much chance of ever benefiting from all of the lessons he learned in life. It’s not that he was a bad dad; he was ...read more

  • Bad ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    BAD MEAT Colin Byrne Smith of Australia told of a missionary who called on a tribe of cannibals. Taking his life in his hands, he crossed the inlet in a small boat, and when confronted by the tribe, meekly endured every insult. Long afterwards, when he had succeeded in converting many and ...read more

  • A Bad ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
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    A BAD BOY I once heard of a father who had a prodigal boy, and the boy had sent his mother down to the grave with a broken heart. One evening the boy started out as usual to spend the night in drinking and gambling, and his old father, as he was leaving, said, "My son, I want to ask a favor of you ...read more

  • Bad ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    Bad Medicine In 1982, seven residents of the Greater Chicago area made an assumption that proved fatal. They all took a dose of Extra Strength Tylenol® that had been laced with potassium cyanide. What they thought was medicine proved to be poison. This crime, still being investigated as of this ...read more

  • Dad's Advice On Humility

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 21, 2011
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    DAD'S ADVICE ON HUMILITY When I was a teenager, I remember telling my father that I wanted to be a successful businessman when I grew up. He asked me what type of business I wanted to work in, and I told him I didn't know, I just wanted to be a businessman. Looking back, I was seeing myself as ...read more

  • Seek Spiritual Advice From Spiritually Mature Christians

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Aug 7, 2023
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    Seek Spiritual Advice from Spiritually mature Christians. Albert Einstein ... had difficulty speaking until he was four years old ... and did not read ... until he was seven. Beethovens music teacher said: .... As a composer, ... he is hopeless. When Thomas Edison was a young boy, ... his ...read more

  • A Bad Day  PRO

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 17, 2012
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    A BAD DAY Mr. Insured had just purchased a new 7509cc Honda motorcycle. After a few leisurely trips around the block to become acquainted with this powerful new machine, he parked the cycle in front of his home to show it off to his neighbors. It started to rain, however, and not wanting to get ...read more

  • Bad Blood

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 25, 2012
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    "BAD BLOOD" "Bad blood" is an English phrase referring to enmity between two (or more) people or groups. This is a reference to the breaking of military covenants. Not too long ago in the 19th century leeches were enjoying a golden age. Millions were raised for medical use as their fame as a ...read more

  • Bad Leadership

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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     | 4,541 views

    • 43% of U.S. workers would be willing to leave their current job because they either dislike their boss’s management style ...read more

  • Bad Meat

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jul 3, 2008
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    Bad Meat Colin Byrne Smith of Australia told of a missionary who called on a tribe of cannibals. Taking his life in his hands, he crossed the inlet in a small boat, and when confronted by the tribe, meekly endured every insult. Long afterwards, when he had succeeded in converting many and ...read more

  • Bad Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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     | 4,836 views

    BAD DAY Brian Hise has had his share of bad stuff happen to him. In just a short time -- one day in July -- his apartment in Provo, Utah apartment became flooded because of an upstairs neighbor’s broken pipe. The manager instructed him to go out and rent a wet/dry vacuum. When he went out to his ...read more

  • Bad Company

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    BAD COMPANY George Washington once wrote, "Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. For it’s better to be alone than in bad company." William Gladstone said, "Choose wisely your companions, for a young man’s companions, more than his food or clothes, his home or ...read more

  • Bad Taste  PRO

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
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    BAD TASTE Treating each other in graceless ways is like putting salt in another person's drink. You're sitting there, your friend goes to the bathroom, and while he's gone you pour salt into his soda. And when he takes a sip he gets a terrible taste in his mouth. God says, "Don't do this ...read more

  • Bad Attitude

    Contributed by David Swanger on Jan 24, 2024
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    A mother and daughter, trying to make the most of the sales before Christmas, spent the day shopping. As they went from store to store in the mall, the mom complained about everything: the crowds, the poor quality of the merchandise, the prices, her sore feet. After the mother experienced a ...read more

  • Bad Timing

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
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    On blogger writes, “Today, my school put on a musical. I was one of the leads, and in the middle of my solo, I got a huge ...read more

  • Donald Grey Barnhouse Wrote, "95 Percent Of K...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote, "95 percent of knowing the will of God consists in being willing to do it before you know what it is." (From a sermon by ...read more

  • Does This Mean That Bad Kids = Bad Parents? Of ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 7, 2008
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    Does this mean that bad kids = bad parents? Of course not. 1. Today’s society has this “Blame someone else” mentality. a. “I spilt this McDonald’s coffee on myself, it was to hot” b. Lets sue the tobacco companies for giving people cancer. c. Lets sue the gun manufacturers for gun violence. 2. ...read more

  • Never Trust The Advice Of A Man In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006
     | 3,397 views

    Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop (6th century B.C.), Greek ...read more