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  • A Recent Lutheran Brotherhood Poll Reveals Adults ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    A recent Lutheran Brotherhood poll reveals adults spend about the same amount time shopping in December as they do attending religious services. Men spend an average 12.7% of their time shopping vs. 13.6% attending religious services, while women spend 19.1% and ...read more

  • Grandparent Gap: There Are About 50 Million ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Grandparent Gap: There are about 50 million grandparents in the U.S., but their grandchildren do not know many of them. Only a third of grandparents live close enough to visit once or more each week. However, research shows that the relationship with a grandparent is second only to the emotional ...read more

  • The Way This Works Out In Each Of Our Lives Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Jun 22, 2005
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    The way this works out in each of our lives is going to be different. You may not be a boxing fan, but you’ve got to admire George Foreman, the former heavyweight boxing champion. A few years ago, at the age of 42, he came out of retirement for one last fight. Was it for the glory? Not according to ...read more

  • Marriage Mayhem: Recent Research Data Reveals A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Marriage Mayhem: Recent research data reveals a continued erosion of marriage in America. * More than half of all couples now live together before getting married compared to just 10% three decades ago, claims a study, The Relationship Between Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability, by ...read more

  • Most Of Our Adult Lives Are Spent Working. If A ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 30, 2007
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    Most of our adult lives are spent working. If a person works outside the home for eight hours a day and five days a week, then you work 2,080 hours a year. There are only 8,760 hours in a year, and if you spend the same amount of time sleeping as you do working, you only have 4,600 hours remaining. ...read more

  • Legendary Baseball Player Jackie Robinson's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2009
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    Legendary Baseball Player Jackie Robinson’s Humble Act of Kindness to a Boy As a 7-year-old, Richard Bernstein admired Jackie Robinson’s athletic ability and courage as the first African-American man to play Major League baseball in the modern era. A few years later, while working at a small-town ...read more

  • Surprise Gift

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
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    SURPRISE GIFT When Gabriel Hurles turned six a couple of years ago (January 2009), he was so focused on eating his birthday cake, that he hardly noticed the giant package in the corner of the room. When another child pointed out the large gift, Gabriel ran over and began to tear off the wrapping. ...read more

  • When I Think Of The Idea Of Antichrist, I Think ...

    Contributed by Benjamin Karner on Mar 7, 2008
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    When I think of the idea of antichrist, I think of the Pillsbury Doughboy, no not really, I think of Judas. Judas was named as one of Jesus’ disciples, but yet he was really never one of them because he did not stay true to Jesus’ teachings. There is one occasion recorded in John 12 where Jesus ...read more

  • Generaton Gap Danger

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    GENERATON GAP DANGER In America adolescence is taken for granted, but until recently, the idea of adolescence was unknown in many parts of the world, says Cynthia B. Lloyd, author of Growing Up Global, a National Research Council and Institute of Medicine report. International demographers are ...read more

  • An Increasing Number Of People In America And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    An increasing number of people in America and around the world don't believe in God. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found 20% of Americans ages 18 to 25 say they have no religious affiliation or consider themselves atheists or agnostics, nearly double the rate of 20 years ...read more

  • Rescue From The Biggest Prison

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2009
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    RESCUE FROM THE BIGGEST PRISON An Australian mining town will always remember the year of the dramatic rescue. An earthquake killed one miner and trapped two others 3,000 feet under the ground. Days turned into weeks as miners bore through tons of rock; rescuers could only work one at a time on ...read more

  • God Continues To Show Up In Our Day, Though ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 23, 2006
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    God continues to show up in our day, though largely unnoticed by an unbelieving world. When he comes again it will be impossible to ignore him, for “every eye will see him” (Revelation 1:7). But until then, we need to have eyes that see and ears that hear. There are many examples that I could ...read more

  • I Came Across An Article That Was Entitled, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on May 15, 2001
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    I came across an article that was entitled, “Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?” The article was about Michael Jordan, & it was written last year before he retired from professional basketball, playing for the Chicago Bulls. It pointed out that Michael Jordan received about $300,000 for every ...read more

  • Billy Finds A Home  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 9, 2001
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    Illus.: “Billy Finds a Home” It happened many years ago, in a small town in one of our southern states. One evening, during an electrical storm, a bolt of lightning struck a house, setting it on fire. The fire spread quickly and burned the house to the ground. A man and his wife perished but ...read more

  • How To Make Someone A Soul-Winner  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2009
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    HOW TO MAKE SOMEONE A SOUL-WINNER General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, once told his students, "If I had my choice, I wouldn’t send you to school, I’d send you to Hell for five minutes, and you’d come back real soul ...read more

  • College Students, Including Young Women, Are Far ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
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    College Students, including young women, are far more accepting of pornography than their parents, a shift related to easy access to Internet porn. Most young women in the study said they personally did not use it, but nearly half said viewing X-rated material was an acceptable way to express ...read more

  • You See, I Understand What It's Like To Be Hooked ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robbie Bankens on Aug 9, 2005
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    You see, I understand what it’s like to be hooked on prescription pain killers and muscle relaxers. I know what it’s like to wake up drunk in a ditch, laying in your own vomit and not remember how you got there. I know what it’s like to pass out in the middle of the night in a graveyard, because ...read more

  • 1956 National Championship In Melbourne…in The ...

    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 10, 2007
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    1956 National Championship in Melbourne…in the third lap, Ron Clarke (Australian and World Junior Mile record holder) and John Landy moved forward at a strong pace. They were shooting for a new world record! Then Alec Henderson tried to squeeze between the two runners and the inside edge of the ...read more

  • The Good Outcast: Longhaired Biker

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Dec 16, 2009
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    THE GOOD OUTCAST-LONGHAIR-BIKER Now it came to pass that a certain man was traveling Lonesome Street, a lonely and dark road from Tom's Tavern to Bill's Bar. After many visits to this bar, the consumption of liquor got a hold of him, stripped him of all his goods and left him destitute and dying ...read more

  • Dealing With Stress

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Oct 19, 2020
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    When I was a kid, we raised chicken for our food. At first, we only had a few in a large pen. It was a fairly natural environment for them with lots of grass to scratch around in for insects and seeds. Those chickens were very healthy in that environment. Then we dramatically increased their ...read more