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  • Wealth Vs. Happiness: The Number Of Households ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Wealth Vs. Happiness: The number of households with more than $1 million in net worth (excluding primary residence) has risen to a record high and at a record rate according to recent research by TNS Financial Services. The number of wealthy U.S. households has shot to 8.2 million as of mid-‘04, a ...read more

  • Sugging And Frugging

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Sugging & Frugging: Have you been receiving phone calls asking you to participate in a survey? It’s quite likely you were the victim of Sugging (Selling under the guise of research) or Frugging (Fundraising under the guise of research), where telemarketers ask a few obligatory questions prior to ...read more

  • How Mosaics Evangelize: Researcher George Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    How Mosaics Evangelize: Researcher George Barna says recent Barna Group research finds that Mosaics (adolescents through 20’s) are much more likely to share their faith through ongoing discussions with friends and through e-mail and instant message conversations than older adults. He advises ...read more

  • Charles Hard Townes, 89, And Columbia University ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Charles Hard Townes, 89, and Columbia University physicist, has been awarded this year’s Templeton Prize for progress or discoveries about spiritual reality. He notes, “I don’t think that science is complete at all. We don’t understand everything and one can see, within science itself, there are ...read more

  • Teens Want Modest Clothes: Students At Mountain ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Teens Want Modest Clothes: Students at Mountain View High School in Mesa, AZ, have presented a petition to Dillard’s Phoenix division. They are asking the department store chain to offer modest alternatives to teen clothing that resembles the attire of pop music stars like Britney Spears and ...read more

  • Different Giving Responses: Recent Campbell ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Different Giving Responses: Recent Campbell Research studies of donors who give to Protestant and Catholic ministries indicate marked differences. Direct mail letters were fairly comparable, with 30% of Protestants and 27% of Catholics having responded to a mail appeal in the last 12 months. ...read more

  • How Many Children Are Aborted? Worldwide, 55 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    How many children are aborted? Worldwide, 55 million unborn children are killed every year. Around the world, every day 150,685 children are killed by abortion; every hour, 6278; and every minute, 105. Those are the reported cases. If you are an American citizen, no doubt your greatest interest is ...read more

  • Film Maker Walt Disney Was Ruthless In Cutting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Film maker Walt Disney was ruthless in cutting anything that got in the way of a story’s pacing. Ward Kimball, one of the animators for Snow White, recalls working 240 days on a 4 1/2 minute sequence in which the dwarfs made soup for Snow White and almost destroyed the kitchen in the process. ...read more

  • What Can Little Things Do?  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 11, 2002
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    What can little things do? In 1871 in Chicago a big city, there developed a big tragedy. But it all happened from a bunch of little things. One little lady was out milking one little cow early in the morning. There was one little lamp of oil burning. One little flickering flame in the little ...read more

  • Thomas Norris, A Native Of Jacksonville, Florida ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 6, 2002
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    Thomas Norris, a native of Jacksonville, Florida was a Navy SEAL officer attached to the US Military Assistance Command Headquarters in Vietnam. In April 1972 Lt Norris lead a 5 man patrol deep into enemy controlled territory in Quang Tri Province to rescue two downed pilots. He was able to locate ...read more

  • James The Less

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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    James the Less Is supposed by some to have been the brother of our Lord, by a former wife of Joseph. This is very doubtful, and accords too much with the Catholic superstition, that Mary never had any other children except our Savior. He was elected to the oversight of the churches of Jerusalem; ...read more

  • John  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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    John The "beloved disciple," was brother to James the Great. The churches of Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, and Thyatira, were founded by him. From Ephesus he was ordered to be sent to Rome, where it is affirmed he was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. He escaped by miracle, ...read more

  • Somewhere Among Us  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
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    SOMEWHERE AMONG US The anti-Christ is probably alive today, Jerry Falwell said. The nationally known Baptist minister told 1,500 people at a Kingsport, Tenn., conference that he believes Jesus will return within 10 years. That means the anti-Christ must be on the earth. "Is he alive and here ...read more

  • A Counselor Was Trying To Help A Man Who Had Come ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Parnell on Sep 18, 2002
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    A counselor was trying to help a man who had come forward during an evangelistic meeting. "I’m a Christian," the man said, "but there’s sin in my life, and I need help." The counselor showed him I Jn. 1:9 and suggested that the man confess his sins to God. "Oh Father," the man began, "if we have ...read more

  • Symptoms Of Stress Overload  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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    Symptoms of stress overload: 1. Decision-making becomes difficult (both major and minor kinds). 2. Excessive daydreaming or fantasizing about "getting away from it all." 3. Increased use of cigarettes and/or alcohol. 4. Increased use of tranquilizers and "uppers." 5. Thoughts trail off while ...read more

  • Art Thou Sunk In Depths Of Sorrow Where No Arm ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 7, 2003
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    Art thou sunk in depths of sorrow where no arm can reach so low? There is One whose arms almighty reach beyond thy deepest woe. God th’Eternal is thy refuge, let it still thy wild alarms; Underneath thy deepest sorrow are the everlasting arms. Underneath us—Oh, how easy! We have not to mount on ...read more

  • Marriage Jokes  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Davis on Jun 11, 2003
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    MARRIAGE JOKES 1. Marriage made in Heaven — So is thunder in lightening!! 2. Love is a dream — Marriage is an alarm clock 3. A honeymoon is a Short Pause - between - I Do and You Better 4. Lady went to get a divorce— Lawyer: “Do you have ground?” Lady: “About 2 acres” Lawyer: “Do ...read more

  • The January 3rd Edition Of The Daily E-Mail ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 2, 2005
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    The January 3rd edition of the daily e-mail column, Mikey’s Funnies, listed Fifteen Exercises We’d Be Better Off Without in 2005. Here they are! (Overheads 1 and 2) ~ Jumping on the bandwagon ~ Wading through paperwork ~ Running around in circles ~ Pushing your luck ~ Spinning your wheels ~ ...read more

  • An English Doctor Conducted An Experiment To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    An English doctor conducted an experiment to study the effects of isolation on people. He built a soundproof room 9’ x 9’ - in size and suspended it by nylon rope. Each participant wore padded fur gloves and heavy woolen socks to eliminate the sensations of touch. Special translucent goggles ...read more

  • Forbes Magazine (Feb. 12, 1996, P. 28) Once ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Forbes Magazine (Feb. 12, 1996, p. 28) once reported these names that showed up on police blotters: Sentenced for assault in St. Joseph, MO - Jesse James; cited for speeding in Parma, Ohio - Maelia A. Earhart; and jailed in Des Moines, Iowa, was Shannon Cooper, who police said went out bar-hopping, ...read more