Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
No To Same Sex Marriage: Support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage as “being between a man and a woman, thus barring marriages between gay or lesbian couples,” has risen to 57% in a recent Gallup Poll. This is the highest measured across seven times the question
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Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 8, 2008
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L.R. Agnew, a professor at UCLA Medical School, gave his students this scenario:
"Consider this family history:
• The father has a venereal disease
• The mother has tuberculosis
• They have had 4 children: The first of whom was blind
The second died as an infant
The third is deaf
The fourth has
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 30, 2008
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Billy Graham has said he would be happy if 5% of those that have made a profession of faith at his crusades were truly saved
According to U.S. News and World Report 78% of people believe in heaven and that they are going there
Only 60% believed in Hell, and only 4% believed they were going there
If
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Baptist
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THE KING
What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase, “The king is dead - long live the king!”? It is an historical phrase coined in France and said after the death of a monarch through the streets and the countryside of their realm.
Phil Morgan recalls:
"Not too long ago I watched part of
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tom Feola on Feb 4, 2012
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MICKEY MANTLE'S SALVATION STORY
The #7 is for the Mick, or Mickey Mantle, who played for the New York Yankees.
Why do I bring this out about Mickey Mantle. Well 1st of all without a team playing with Him Mick would have won zero World Series. But because of a team effort Mickey played in 12
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Joel Pankow on May 3, 2001
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When Lewis and Clark traveled across America, it took two years, four months, and nine days. They had traveled about 6,000 miles. They brought back much new material for map makers and specimens of previously unknown wildlife. American settlers and traders soon began to travel over the route they
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ian Biss on Oct 16, 2001
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Maxcy Filer of Compton, California began taking the California Bar Exam in the mid 1960s. He didn’t pass it the first time or the second time. In fact, he didn’t pass the exam until his forty-eighth try. Before earning a passing grade, he failed forty-seven times over a span of twenty-five years.
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Grace Brethren
Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jul 9, 2002
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There was once a little boy who excitedly told his mom that he had just measured himself and he was six feet tall.
Mom was a little skeptical, so she asked him to measure himself again while she watched.
She discovered the problem when the boy took out not a 12-inch, but a 6-inch ruler.
He had
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Baptist
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FOR SAFETY’S SAKE . . . ( source unknown)
Do NOT ride in automobiles:
they cause 20% of all fatal accidents.
Do NOT stay home:
17% of all accidents do occur in home.
Do NOT walk on the streets or sidewalks:
14% of all accidents happen to pedestrians.
Do NOT travel by air, rail, or water:
6%
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Religious Beliefs: In ’03 A new Harris Poll reveals that, while the majority of Americans say they believe the basic concepts of the Bible, there’s also a growing acceptance of other religious beliefs—even among those who call themselves "Christian."
· 89% believe in miracles.
· 68% believe in the
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Contributed by Tim Stutler on Mar 27, 2006
"When researchers examined data from the late 1980s on 5,232 married adults, they found that 645 subjects reported marital dissatisfaction. When the unhappy spouses were surveyed five years later, those who had remained married were more likely than divorced subjects to state that they were happy.
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 2, 2006
Close with story of old man in poor house years ago with Baptist young preacher fresh out of Bible College. It was his first encounter with an old dying person. The man was lost, he confessed he was a great sinner and what could he do? The young preacher said his mind when blank, then the Lord
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 24, 2007
Taking care of the body has always been a common obsession. Even when we are not starving or thirsty or naked, we still give an inordinate amount of attention to our bodies. We pamper the body, decorate it, exercise it, protect it from disease and pain, build it up, slender it down, drape it with
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