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  • Francois Fenelon Was The Court Preacher For King ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002
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    Francois Fenelon was the court preacher for King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century. One Sunday when the king and his attendants arrived at the chapel for the regular service, no one else was there but the preacher. King Louis demanded, "What does this mean?" Fenelon replied, "I had published ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

  • Motherhood In Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn Notes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Motherhood In Newsweek’s Jane Bryant Quinn notes “a rising proportion of young women appear to be choosing motherhood over career.” Her theory on why,” It’s one of prosperity’s side effects.” A booming economy has driven up young men’s wages, making a second income a ...read more

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  • You Must Tell Them A Recent Study Finds When ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
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    You Must Tell Them A recent study finds when donors were asked why they did not give online, the single most common reason donors gave (after not having a computer) was that they were unaware the option existed. The finding mirrors similar studies of other forms of giving, where when ...read more

  • Opposite ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    OPPOSITE PREFERENCES Canadian sociologists have found most men prefer pale, "innocent-looking" women, while women prefer dark, brooding types of men. Lighter-skinned women in all races are seen as the ideal because of a sub-conscious association with innocence, purity, modesty, virginity, ...read more

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  • Doormat For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    DOORMAT FOR GOD Oswald Chambers confessed, "If I work for God because I know it brings me the good opinion of those whose good opinion I wish to have, I am a Pharisee. If I love Jesus Christ, I will serve humanity, though men and women treat me like a ...read more

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  • Success Is To Be Measured Not So Much By The ...

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Educator, as quoted in Bits & Pieces, Vol. T/No. 17, p. 5 "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Michael Brown, "Go And Sin No More" 20 Reasons ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Feb 6, 2007
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    Michael Brown, “Go and sin no more” 20 reasons not to sin 1) Sin does not satisfy a. Proverbs 27:20 Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied. b. Hebrews 11:25 talks about, “the passing pleasures of sin,” 2) Sin leads to More sin 3) Sin Leads to Worse Sin 4) Sin ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Twenty Questions: How Do I Know If I'm A ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 13, 2007
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    Twenty Questions: How Do I Know If I’m A Workaholic? ________________________________________ 1. Do you get more excited about your work than about family or anything else? 2. Are there times when you can charge through your work and other times when you can’t? 3. Do you take work with you to ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Mendelssohn And Rembrandt: Artists In Christ

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    MENDELSSOHN AND REMBRANDT: ARTISTS IN CHRIST This past Tuesday we noted the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born into a family with deep spiritual roots. His grandfather Moses Mendelssohn was a rabbi and a philosopher. But Felix’s parents, ...read more

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  • I Prayed Her Home  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Dec 10, 2011
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    I PRAYED HER HOME Praying in Tongues From August 2002 to December 2010 my family suffered the affliction of brain cancer which was placed by Satan (2 Corinthians 12:7; Luke 13:10-17) upon my “helpmate,” (Genesis 2:18-25) Bonnie K. Laughlin. Just like many conservative preachers of the Word of ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Video Illustration From "Men In Black" Start ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 15, 2004
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    Video Illustration from “Men In Black” Start time 1:11:48 Scene is an old man and a dog at a booth. Jay and Kay are in a desperate race to track down the stolen galaxy. Searching for information, the Men in Black interrogate an alien (disguised as a dog), who is quick to point out just how limited ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • No Answer: Barna Research Phoned 3400 Randomly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    No Answer: Barna Research phoned 3400 randomly selected Protestant churches from across the U.S. during December and 55% offered no human answer. Overall: 19% had neither a person nor an answering machine responding to calls; 16% had an answering machine responding; 20% had either an answering ...read more

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  • Teen Faith: A New Study By Scholars At The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Teen Faith: A new study by scholars at the university of North Carolina at chapel Hill, finds that teens are really quite traditional faith. Only 3% say they don’t believe in God vs. 80% that say faith is important in their lives. Overall, kids prefer their parents religious groups. More than half ...read more

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  • The Encyclopaedia Britannica Has 20,000 Words ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 24, 2006
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    The Encyclopaedia Britannica has 20,000 words more than anyone else about the life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not forgetting his return! It quotes ’Concerning the testimony of the many independent secular accounts of Jesus of Nazareth, it records; These independent accounts prove ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Blog Boom The Pew Internet & American Life ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Blog Boom The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds the blog population has grown to about 12 million American adults or 8% of adult internet users. The number of blog readers has jumped to 57 million, or 39% of the online population. 64% of bloggers blog to share practical knowledge or skills ...read more

  • Stds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    STDs RAMPANT More than three million girls aged 14 to 19 have an STD. A new Center for Disease Control and Prevention study finds at least one in four U.S. teen girls has a sexually transmitted disease. Pro-family groups say sex-ed programs and the morning after pill ...read more

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  • One Can See The Great Methodist Revivals, ...

    Contributed by Craig Sully on Apr 7, 2010
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    One can see the great Methodist revivals, “The First, Second and Third Great Awakening”, of the 18th & 19th centuries. The Wesleys, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, and others stirred thousands. In Cane Ridge, Kentucky, (late 1700‘s, early 1800‘s) the revival caused the construction of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • A Man On Staff With Chuck Swindoll Got Sexually ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2001
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    A man on staff with Chuck Swindoll got sexually involved with his secretary. The church chose not to handle it in public, but rather deal with this privately. The next year, 17 marriages of senior leadership people in the church broke up! Paul is clear that when a leader sins, he/she needs to be ...read more

  • For Several Years, Controversy Had Centered On A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joey Nelson on Aug 6, 2001
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    For several years, controversy had centered on a strange monk from Wittenberg. Political and religious leaders felt that his teachings, which included salvation by grace through faith alone in Christ alone, might spark a rebellion. Accused of heresy, he stood trial on April 17, 1521. He never ...read more

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  • It Was F.b. Meyer, I Believe, Who Once Said That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2001
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    It was F.B. Meyer, I believe, who once said that when we see a brother or sister in sin, there are two things we do not know: First, we do not know how hard they tried not to sin. And second, we do not know the power of the forces that assailed them. We also do not know what we ...read more