Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
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Aliteracy—capable of reading, but choosing not do so—is on the rise. A ‘99 Gallup Poll found 7% of us read more than a book a week, and 59% read fewer than 10 books a year. We read books, magazines, and newspapers less and less. In ‘91, over 50% of all Americans read a half-hour or more every
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
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Teens Read: According to a poll conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the National Education Association, teens rate reading higher in importance in terms of its impact on their future success than they do math, writing, science, and even computers. The survey asked 12-18-year-olds
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Amy Biehl died a violent death in 1993. She was a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar who had gone to South Africa to help register black voters for their first free election. But even though she was seeking to help the people of South Africa, as she was driving one day, she was dragged out of her
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Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 22, 2007
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ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS
My dad says I am ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS. I wonder if I really am.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS...
Sarah says you need to have beautiful, long, curly hair like she has. I don’t.
To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS...
Justin says you must have perfectly straight white teeth like he has. I
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Pentecostal
There is a crew at our house in Thomasville. They’ve been working for the past few months putting two new rooms on the back of our house for Mom and Dad to come live there. Next to the house is a dumpster…it is about 8’ x 25’ and full of scrap wood, shingles, discarded Pepsi bottles and sandwich
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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CECIL B. DEMILLE told this wonderful experience: "Many years ago I was commissioned by David Belasco to write a play, ’The Return of Peter Grimm.’ The play was being written for David Warfield, and the story hinged upon the continuation of life after death.
"I got the inspiration for that story
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We’re going to study a book of the Bible that is often called the LETTER OF JOY. Paul uses the word JOY 20 times in the short little book of Philippians.
What makes that really impressive is that Paul wrote the letter from a prison cell. He was not only in prison; he was literally chained to a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
I was reading a book called "Scared" the other day by Ken Davis. It is the story about a journalist in Africa and his encounter with an orphan girl who is starving. Although it is a novel, as I sat in the loungeroom reading, I felt a deep sorrow for the tragedy of her situation, and I could not
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
GOD OPPOSES THE PROUD AT MT. ST. HELENS
In the spring of 1980, the mountain showed signs of awakening. There were earthquakes. There was volcanic activity. Residents were told to leave the area. But Harry Truman would have nothing to do with that. He believed the danger was exaggerated "I don't
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Baptist
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A broken parent came to me and said, "Pastor Larry, I raised my kids in church. I raised my kids to follow Christ, know His Word and put Him first in their lives. They all made decisions for Christ in our church and were baptized. But, now that they have all graduated from high school, not
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This is a story about a painting in a famous art gallery in France. The painting depicts two chess players, one of whom is Satan, who appears arrogantly confident, and the other is a man who looks forlorn. If Satan wins, he wins the man's soul. (The painting is now popularly known as
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Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
In 1818, Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis was born into a world of dying women. The finest hospitals lost one out of six young mothers to the scourge of "childbed fever." A doctor’s daily routine began in the dissecting room where he performed autopsies. From there he made his way to the hospital to
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Baptist
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a. Here are a series of quotes from the Founding Fathers warning us not to forsake the Bible and its teachings these quotes are form the same website above and from lectures by Peter Marshall on Restoring America: “The very men who WROTE the Constitution admit that this nation and its Judicial
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 20, 2008
1 Peter 5:8 –
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Any of you watch those nature shows? Growing up, we’d always watch “Mutual of Omaha’s ‘Wild Kingdom,’” with Marlin Perkins. Remember that? We loved that show.
My
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 26, 2008
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THE WORLD'S A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE...
The worlds a better place because a German monk named Martin Luther did not say, "I don't do doors."
The world's a better place because an Oxford don named John Wesley didn't say, "I don't do preaching in fields."
The world's a better place because Moses
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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COUNTING ON THEM
The wise farmer can usually depend on expected timetables of seedtime and harvest. Not so in the spiritual life. One of the greatest frustrations in the Christian ministry, and principal cause for "weariness in well doing" is the inability to calculate the spiritual outcome of
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