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  • Wireless Music According To An Idc Study, U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 963 views

    Wireless Music According to an IDC study, U.S. wireless music services will have over 50 million users and generate more than a billion dollars in ’10. By the end of ‘06, the number of U.S. OTA customers, those with the ability to download and install content over a wireless network, will be ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Observed, "If You Read History, You ...

    Contributed by Ted Mulder on Mar 24, 2007
     | 3,016 views

    C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English ...read more

  • There Was A Boy Who Was Very Popular Among ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,461 views

    There was a boy who was very popular among others his age. He was an excellent leader in his school groups. One of his friends visited him and saw a homemade plaque in his room with the words "I Am Third" on it. His friend asked him what it meant and he replied, "It is the motto I try to use in my ...read more

  • The Percentage Of Women Choosing To Work Outside ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,557 views

    The percentage of women choosing to work outside the home has been flat to down for several years running. Not coincidentally, the number of meals purchased at restaurants per person has stopped growing too, for the longest sustained stretch in the 23 years NPD Group has tracked the number. The ...read more

  • A Homeless Drug Addict In June 1984, John Corapi ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 30, 2008
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    A homeless drug addict in June 1984, John Corapi stumbled back into his mother’s house, with what he called all the forces of hell riding on his shoulder. He prayed for the first time in years and experienced the mercy of God, a sense of peace that replaced the wrath he had felt until then. He ...read more

  • Wineskins

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 7, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,659 views

    Snyder notes: "What did Jesus mean? Certainly he did not mean everything that Christians through the ages have taken from these words. Jesus distinguishes here between something essential and primary (the wine) and something secondary but also necessary and useful (the wineskins). Wineskins would ...read more

  • Oldest Living Vine  PRO

    Contributed by Alistair Wearring on Feb 27, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
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    OLDEST LIVING VINE In Hampton Court, there is a grapevine that is reported to be the oldest living vine. It is over 230 years old. This grapevine has one root which is 3.6 metres (12 foot) round, and some of the branches are over 36.5 metres (120 foot) long. Despite its age the vine still produces ...read more

  • River Of Laughter

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 20, 2010
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    RIVER OF LAUGHTER As he was born my heart was bursting with JOY. I held my son Ben up to the Lord and dedicated him then and there. I was so grateful for the gift of a child. I remember driving home at the beginning of that day laughing and honking the horn so everyone could SHARE THE JOY I had, ...read more

  • Joseph Parker, A Pastor From 1874 Until His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joseph Parker, a Pastor from 1874 until his death in 1902, wrote the following in his autobiography…Up until the age of 68 I never had a religious doubt. Then my beloved wife died. My faith collapsed. “In that dark hour, I almost became an atheist. For God had set his foot upon my prayers and ...read more

  • Statistics On Alcohol Use

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 24, 2012
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    STATISTICS ON ALCOHOL USE The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that per capita consumption of alcohol by Americans age 14 and older has dropped from 2.75 gallons in 1980 to 2.31 in 2007. Good news but consider the number who are addicted to drugs. Drug abuse continues ...read more

  • Blind Man

    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 21, 2019
     | 4,452 views

    BLIND MAN As I sit beside the road my nostrils are filled with the dust of countless ages past. I sit in the solitude of self-pity as I contemplate this prison.My prison is not one that locks me in but it’s one that locks me out; I don’t have bars that contain me but my dungeon is a world of ...read more

  • Jimmy Stewart In The Movie Shanendoah Plays A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Snyder on Oct 22, 2001
    based on 81 ratings
     | 2,446 views

    Jimmy Stewart in the movie Shanendoah plays a farmer who has a bunch of sons. The Boys are of fighting age and the father will not let them go off to fight. The family gets the reputation of sitting out the war. There is a scene where they are all around the dinner table and they bow their heads ...read more

  • Your Son, Your Apprentice  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,543 views

    YOUR SON, YOUR APPRENTICE "Consider your son to be your apprentice in life. That’s the way it used to be. The son was always with the father, either in the shop or in the field. So he learned from a very early age what being a man and a father was all about. Now we place more emphasis on our ...read more

  • Hungry For Peace  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 5,172 views

    HUNGRY FOR PEACE Much, if not most, of the social turmoil of our culture is due to a hunger for peace, which is sought for in all the wrong places. According to Ronald Hutchcraft, the Director of Youth for Christ in New York and New Jersey, in the next thirty minutes- 57 kids will run away from ...read more

  • Stay In There!!  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Caley on Apr 20, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
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    STAY IN THERE!! I don’t usually begin a sermon on a sad note like this, but sometimes we need to pause and remember what life is all about. There was a great loss recently in the entertainment world. Larry LaPrise, the Detroit native who wrote the song "The Hokey Pokey", died at age 83. I’m ...read more

  • Hammers And Anvils

    Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
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     | 3,651 views

    Hammers and Anvils I paused last eve beside the blacksmith’s door. And heard the anvil ring, the vesper’s chime. And looking in I saw upon the floor Old hammers, worn with beating years of time. “How many anvils have you had?” said I. To wear and batter all these hammers so?” “Just one,” he ...read more

  • Dennis Jernigan Said His Struggle With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004
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     | 2,028 views

    Dennis Jernigan said his struggle with homosexuality began with sexual experimentation with other small boys at six years of age. He never told anyone about his struggle, because he saw hatred in the response of the church to homosexuals. As a senior in college he went to a 2nd chapter of Acts ...read more

  • You Likely Have Never Heard Of Jeff Foran, Who ...

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 27, 2005
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    You likely have never heard of Jeff Foran, who lives in Foreman, Arkansas. Apparently Mr. Foran, aged 38, was drunk – very drunk, it looks like – one night in May and went out for a drive. Well, as he was driving, his cigarette fell out of his fingers and out the window. Not to waste a good ...read more

  • Marriage Is Making A Comeback: According To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,674 views

    Marriage is Making a Comeback: According to the National Review, the health U.S. marriages is improving. Data from the National Center for health Statistics and the Census Bureau gives some hopeful signs: while the marriage rate is declining, so is the divorce rate, from 22.6 divorces per 1,000 ...read more

  • Divorce Cycle Is Being Broken Adult Children Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,811 views

    Divorce Cycle Is Being Broken Adult children of divorced parents have a much lower likelihood of experiencing divorce themselves today than 20 years ago. Compared with those who didn’t divorce, they have a: 49% higher split-up rate. In ’73 it was 172% higher. 34% higher rate of teen-age marriage. ...read more