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  • Contrast The Poor Example Of King Jehoiachin ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 24, 2007
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    Contrast the poor example of King Jehoiachin with that of the British Royal Family during World War II. King George Vi and his wife Queen Elizabeth remained in Buckingham Palace throughout the War rather than fleeing to the countryside for safety. During the German Blitzkrieg of London from ...read more

  • A Family Counselor Named Jill Manning Says, "I ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 5, 2007
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    A family counselor named Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. It has lasting affect on social and sexual attitude and ...read more

  • Norman Rockwell Painted Another Famous Picture ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 26, 2007
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    Norman Rockwell painted another famous picture which revealed the value of being able to go and worship God freely in America. The two Big Wars during Norman’s lifetime helped him to be reminded of how blessed we were to worship God freely. i. He painted this picture along with three others after ...read more

  • C. Illustration: When I Think Of This, I Think ...

    Contributed by Philip Cunningham Iii on Dec 29, 2007
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    c. ILLUSTRATION: When I think of this, I think about our desires to do great things. 1) We could go to a concert where a world-renowned musician plays a tune on a piano for 30 minutes straight. 2) It’s beautiful. It’s heavenly. It’s euphoric. 3) And what do we all say after an experience like ...read more

  • The Average Cost Of Rehabilitating A Seal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 29, 2008
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    1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer ...read more

  • There Is Only One Left In The United States Of ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 24, 2008
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    There is only one left in the United States of America. Since Harry Richard Landis died 2 weeks ago, there is only 1 left. Landis was the oldest U.S. veteran of World War I. He died on February 11 at the age of 108. More than 4 ½ million Americans joined the military in 1917 and 1918 to serve ...read more

  • I Want You To Know That God Is Alive And Well In ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
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    I want you to know that God is alive and well in the world today. Let me say that again. God is alive and well in the world today. Every day, “Over 30,000 Chinese accept Christ.” More people accept Christ in China every 3 days, than the entire population of Deltona. “In spite of the brutal ...read more

  • We Often Lose Our Joy  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 5, 2008
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    We often lose our joy Well I brought some joy with me this morning Joy detergent, Almond Joy, Joystick What happens when you run out of Joy? You have an empty bottle, all you have left is Almond, and you video game doesn’t work. Life just isn’t as good when you run out of joy Maybe you are here ...read more

  • William Barclay, "Here Is A Great Eternal Truth. ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 5, 2008
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    William Barclay, “Here is a great eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some of which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved; there cannot be one kind of language in the Church and another kind of language in the shipyard or the factory or the office; there ...read more

  • How To Grow Little Companies And Ministries Into ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    How To Grow little companies and ministries into big ones. 1. Focus What are we trying to make happen? How will we measure success? See it clearly. Say it plainly. 2. Evaluate What is the competitive environment? Do we understand the felt needs of our prospective customer? What is holding us back? ...read more

  • We Need Light

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
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    WE NEED LIGHT Do you realize there is a physical disorder caused by lack of light? It is called Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) and it effects 1 in 5 of us. It is caused by lack of exposure to sunlight, which in turn alters a person’s brain chemistry. During the fall and winter months when ...read more

  • Someone Once Said: "Here's The Beautiful Thing: ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 22, 2008
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    Someone once said: “Here’s the beautiful thing: you don’t need to fully understand the Trinity to worship the Trinity, pray to the Trinity, and enter into the life of the Trinity. They tell me that deep within the core of the sun, the temperature is 27 million degrees. The pressure is 340 billion ...read more

  • Big Church And Famous Preacher - Texas, Looking ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jul 29, 2008
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    Big church and famous preacher - Texas, looking good on TV... Sermon title: “Why We Don’t Have to Be Afraid of Death”… And for about 20 minutes he was repeating this… we don’t have to be afraid, we don’t have… bla-bla… At the very end, as usual for those tele-preachers, he was keeping his best shot ...read more

  • My Daughter Elia Has Given Me Permission To Tell ...

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Jan 11, 2009
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    My daughter Elia has given me permission to tell this story. Elia faced a huge dilemma in high school when her best friends from junior high days started hanging out with a rough crowd, starting smoking and crossing all sorts of boundaries. In order to keep the friendships she would have to start ...read more

  • What Would You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "Here’s the scenario," the instructor announced to his class of novice truck drivers. "You’re in an 18-wheeler with a heavy load, barreling down a mountainous two-lane highway. Ed, your co-driver, is asleep. There are six trucks behind you, and as you come over the top of a ...read more

  • Cohabitation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    COHABITATION STUDIES The Australian Institute of Family Studies had a Family Formation Project cited in this government report. The study found that after five years of marriage, 13 percent of those who had cohabited were divorced, compared to 6 percent of those who had not cohabited - that ...read more

  • Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    LITTLE THINGS This leads us to a simple but important principle: Our faithfulness in the little things will determine how faithful we will be with bigger things. There is a story about a huge bank where one of the employees was up for a significant promotion. He lost that promotion one day in ...read more

  • Men As Role-Models For Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    MEN AS ROLE-MODELS FOR CHILDREN I am still struck by a report I heard months ago by an educator studying the needs of the District’s school system. He had found, in studying the children, that up to about the third grade they were bright, ambitious, eager to learn; but that somewhere after that, ...read more

  • Stepping Out-Of-Bounds

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2009
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    STEPPING OUT-OF-BOUNDS I had missed a game winning free-throw. I swore that would never happen again. So I practiced until I became excellent at free-throws. In the next big tournament, I swished two free-throws. On the last one, I heard an ear-splitting whistle in my ear. I had stepped over the ...read more

  • Evangelism: Aquariums And Fires

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    EVANGELISM: AQUARIUMS AND FIRES The late Sam Shoemaker, an Episcopalian bishop, summed up the situation this way: "In the Great Commission, the Lord has called us to be--like Peter--fishers of men. We’ve turned the commission around so that we have become merely keepers of the aquarium. ...read more