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  • Bernard Goldstein Tells This ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 6, 2008
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    Bernard Goldstein tells this story: One of my pet peeves as a musician in a symphony orchestra is trying to follow the unpredictable beat of famous guest conductors. I didn’t realize how strongly the rest of the musicians felt until we were talking to someone from a university physics department at ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll In His Book, "Hope Again," Tel...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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    Chuck Swindoll in his book, "Hope Again," tells the answer Dr. Bruce Waltke, his Hebrew professor, gave Chuck Swindoll when he asked his professor about some “whys” in his life. His professor answered: “Chuck, I’ve come to the place where I believe only on very rare occasions does God tell ...read more

  • Condoleeza Rice, Sec. Of State Recently Said ...

    Contributed by John Herrmann on Nov 7, 2008
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    Condoleeza Rice, Sec. of State recently said after another failure of Peace talks in Israel and Palestine that Peace will not come in a sudden and dramatic event, but rather gradually.” Not so this second coming of Christ. It is an act of God confronting us as something from the other side, ...read more

  • Verload Comes When We Have Hearts Crammed Full ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 3, 2008
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    verload comes when we have hearts crammed full with so many things and the important things, such as faith and health and sanity, are squeezed to the margins or even left out. What is in our hearts, is expressed in our schedules, our buying choices, and our time commitments. How well do we honor ...read more

  • As We Read This Text, According To Dr. Schmit, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    As we read this text, according to Dr. Schmit, and I quote, "We know that we too are individual members of a large flock of faithful disciples who seek to live as citizens of the kingdom of heaven. In other words, the work we do is never ours alone to accomplish. We do our part and trust that God ...read more

  • The Law Of Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    Lewis ended the essay I quoted saying this: "These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside—unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been ...read more

  • The Law Of Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    C. S. Lewis ended an essay saying this: "These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They ...read more

  • There Is A Story About A Little Girl Who Proudly ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    There is a story about a little girl who proudly wore a shiny cross on a chain around her neck. One day she was approached by a man who said to her, "Little girl, don't you know that the cross Jesus died on wasn't beautiful like the one you're wearing? It was an ugly, wooden thing." To which the ...read more

  • When David Hume, The Infidel, Was Criticized For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    When David Hume, the infidel, was criticized for going to listen to John Brown, the godly Scotch minister, he replied: “I don’t believe all that he says, but he does, and once a week I like to hear a man who believes what he says. That man preaches as though he thought the Lord Jesus Christ was ...read more

  • When I First Came To Geneva, I Was Struck By How ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 15, 2009
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    When I first came to Geneva, I was struck by how many attractive older women there are here. I thought they must have been strikingly beautiful as young women. When we had our 40th anniversary, I got to see pictures of our lovely women. They were all attractive, still I realized that they had grown ...read more

  • Writing In His Book, A Work Of Heart, Dr. Reggie ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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    Writing in his book, A Work of Heart, Dr. Reggie McNeal, director of the leadership development for the Southern Baptist Convention says, "Common wisdom maintains that children are given to parents so parents can instruct them. The truth is, God gives children to parents to teach parents things ...read more

  • The Late Great American Jurist, Judge, Author, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    The late great American jurist, judge, author, and Christian apologist, Simon Greenleaf (1783 - 1853), once said: "There should be a readiness on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of ...read more

  • Job Sat On His Dunghill And Reflected That He ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 7, 2009
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    Job sat on his dunghill and reflected that he was not alone in his pain. Everyone awakes to the same reality–hard work or hard study and every day’s the same thing, and nothing you do ever seems to make a difference. The line is Bill Murray’s from Groundhog Day, but, especially in a tough ...read more

  • Deny Yourself

    Contributed by John Tung on Feb 12, 2009
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    DENY YOURSELF But for the players on the Super Bowl, they had to sacrifice much last week. The players had to give up being with their family for that week as they prepared for the big game. Some teams actually put all the players in a hotel separate from their families, so there are no ...read more

  • Latinos Boosting Catholic Attendance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    LATINOS BOOSTING CATHOLIC ATTENDANCE The U.S. Catholic Church would be in decline without Latin American immigrants. Traditional congregations of the American Catholic church have been dwindling in recent years, to where 1 in every 10 Americans is a former Catholic. Immigration from Latin-American ...read more

  • Pint-Size Digital Projectors Are In The Works. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    Pint-Size Digital Projectors are in the works. These devices, when plugged into cell phones and portable media players, will let consumers beam video content from their hand-held devices to the closest smooth surface. The micro-projectors, still in prototype, use light-emitting diodes and lasers to ...read more

  • Helping The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    HELPING THE POOR 67% of Americans (over half of whom attend church at least once a month) agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "My church already does enough to help the poor in my community." Yet 42% said their church spends more money on itself than on the community, finds a World ...read more

  • The World Needs People: Who Do Not Have A Price ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    The world needs people: who do not have a price at which they can be bought; who do not borrow from integrity to pay for expediency; whose handshake is an ironclad contract; who are not afraid of risk; who have opinions instead of prejudices; who are as honest in large matters as in small ones; ...read more

  • I've Never Met A Man, I Don't Care What His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "I've never met a man, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the ...read more