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  • The Graduate School Of Ministry Management (Gsmm) ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Graduate School of Ministry Management (GSMM) has launched a graduate program designed to support top level Christian ministry and marketplace executives. Modeled after Executive MBA programs established by major universities, GSMM’s mandate is to empower and equip Christian leaders with ...read more

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  • Global Religion: According To Idea News Service, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Global Religion: According to Idea News service, the fastest growing religion in the world is Islam, followed by Hinduism. Christianity is the 3rd fastest growing religion, with a 1.3% annual growth rate. The report also found that over 26% of the world’s population has not heard the Christian ...read more

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  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • It Is Said That If You Want To Know What Is ...

    Contributed by Christopher Lanham on Nov 14, 2006
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    It is said that if you want to know what is important to a person, take a look at his or her checkbook (or spending habits, if you don’t have a check book). Money marks the importance of a particular thing to us. The New Testament reflects this, particularly in the teaching of Paul. He intimates ...read more

    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Thomas Watson -- Sin Is Such A Trade That ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Dec 28, 2006
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    Thomas Watson -- Sin is such a trade that whoever follows is sure to break. What did Achan get by his wedge of gold? It was a wedge to cleave asunder his soul from God. What did Judas get by his treason? He purchased a halter. What did King Ahaz get by worshiping the gods of Damascus? ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • Donors Economics Professor Tyler Cowen Reports ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Donors Economics professor Tyler Cowen reports donors often tolerate high administrative costs, fail to monitor charities, and do not insist on measurable results—the opposite of how they treat financial investments. He also confirmed that while 1-for-1 matching funds increase donations, ...read more

  • Sinner's Prayer Recent News Surrounding The Sago ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Sinner’s Prayer Recent news surrounding the Sago mine disaster reported the miners prayed the “Sinner’s Prayer” before dying. AllAboutGod.com saw visits to its sinner’s prayer web page spike from an average of 67 visits per day ...read more

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  • Some Christians Don't Believe In Hell Or The ...

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Feb 23, 2007
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    Some Christians don’t believe in Hell or The Devil. We should have 3 problems with that. 1 Calling God a liar-It is written in his Word, therefore it is true. 2 Calling Jesus a liar-He talked about it so it’s true. 3 Setting themselves up for a big shock ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Trick-Or-Treaters Rake In A Lot Of Candy Every ...

    Contributed by Cris Willis on Dec 27, 2007
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    Trick-or-treaters rake in a lot of candy every October 31. In fact, according to the National Confectioners Association, Halloween is the number-one holiday for candy sales, beating out Christmas, Easter and Valentine’s Day. The NCA predicts Halloween candy sales to reach $2 billion in 2003 in the ...read more

    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Wrong Way

    Contributed by Ronald Thorington on Jan 1, 2008
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    Illustration: On New Years Day, 1929, Georgia Tech was playing California. Late in the second quarter, Roy Regals recovered a fumble for California, and in his excitement became confused and began running in the wrong direction. After racing 65 yards he was finally tackled by his own player at ...read more

    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Aging Americans The Percentage Of The U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    AGING AMERICANS The percentage of the U.S. population aged 65 or over continues to increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The figure has steadily climbed over the years: 7% (1940), 8% (1950), 9% (1960), 10% (1970), 11% (1980), 12% (1990) and again 12% (2000). For 2010 the ...read more

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  • Girls Today Are Fixating On Their Flaws, Causing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    Girls Today are fixating on their flaws, causing them to belittle themselves and even take destructive action. The onslaught of messages and images they constantly receive sets an unrealistic standard of beauty. More than 4 in 10 girls and young women only see their flaws when they look in the ...read more

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  • Spurgeon Said It Like This, "With Out The ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
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    Spurgeon said it like this, “With out the shedding of blood there is no remission. Every drop of blood which flowed out of Jesus’ body is still in existence, and it is just as it was over 2,000 years ago wiping away the sins of mankind. The blood has been shed – the incorruptible, eternal, divine, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Children Born Out Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK 40% of all babies born in the U.S. in 2006 (most recent data) were born out of wedlock, double the rate of 1980. More than 80% of babies born to teen moms in the U.S. in ’06 were born outside of marriage. 60% of babies born to ...read more

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  • God Reigns Over All. He Does As He Pleases. ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 2, 2009
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    God reigns over all. He does as He pleases. Wayne Grudem writes, "God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them; (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • 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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  • Family—the Bottom Line Of Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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    Family--The Bottom Line of Life Chuck Swindoll said of the family, "Whatever else may be said about the home, it is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out. It is the place where life’s bills come due, the single most influential force in our ...read more

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  • The Third Look

    Contributed by Joel Sumagaysay on Sep 17, 2012
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    ILL.- Porte Vencer justified the 1st and the 2nd look at a woman. It has been said you can not avoid the first look but you can avoid the second look. But Porte said, " there is nothing wrong with the first look you can not avoid it. And he justified second look by saying, " maybe I know ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Pizza Party?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 21, 2022
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    I READ A LESSON ABOUT RUNNING OUT, NOT ENOUGH… THERE WAS A PIZZA PARTY THAT DEMONSTRATED TWO ATTITUDES… 1. GROUP ONE SAW THAT IT WAS OBVIOUS THEY WOULD RUN OUT OF PIZZA, SO THEY GRABBED 4 OR 5 PIECES OF THE PIZZA TO MAKE SURE THEY WOULD HAVE ENOUGH. 2. THE SECOND GROUP SAW THERE WAS NOT ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God