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  • Church Planting In Nyc: While New York's 5 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Church Planting In NYC: While New York’s 5 boroughs claim 8.1 million residents, an estimated 22 million people live within 50 miles of Times Square. The city is home to millions of immigrants representing hundreds of languages and countries. A 16 denomination alliance has committed to planting 700 ...read more

  • Greeting Card Market Data • 86% Of The U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Greeting Card Market Data • 86% of the U.S. population buys greeting cards. 80% of shoppers will need a card in the next two weeks. • 91 million U.S. households buy greeting cards. • The average Christian consumer has purchased more than 4 cards in the last 3 months. • Every card ...read more

  • Want Better Kids? Buy A House! A New Ohio State ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Want Better Kids? Buy a house! A new Ohio State University study finds that compared to kids living in rented premises; those in owner-occupied houses have 9% higher math scores, 7% higher reading scores, and 1% to 3% fewer behavioral problems. The difference is credited to an improved ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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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

  • According To A New Study By Sociologists At Duke ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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    According to a new study by sociologists at Duke University and the University of Arizona. Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, “This change ...read more

  • The First Christmas Is A Miraculous Story Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "The first Christmas is a miraculous story of the eternal God becoming of no reputation and then humbling Himself to accept a cruel death on a cross. Sure there were angel choirs. Kings came from far away to worship Him. But the true Christmas story is about smallness, humility and servanthoodLet ...read more

  • When I Got Engaged, We Went To A Local Gemologist ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
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    When I got engaged, we went to a local gemologist at his home. He took us to his living room, pulled his hand out of his pocket and held it out with several stones and said, "Pick one." Gemologists/geologists are able to analyze and discern which gems/metals are ...read more

  • Death Or Disability? Americans Choose Death  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    DEATH OR DISABILITY? AMERICANS CHOOSE DEATH 52% of people in the U.S. would rather be dead than disabled says a Disaboom study, a website for disabled people. 63 % of younger Americans chose death over disability. 56% of Americans 65 and older would rather die than live with a disability. Those ...read more

  • Gratitude And Sacrifice

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
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    GRATITUDE AND SACRIFICE Since the Son of God has died for me, then the least I can do is live for Him. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me," said the great British athlete C. T. Studd, "then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him." (Source: Norman Grubb, C. T. ...read more

  • Richard Foster: To Pray Is To Change

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 19, 2011
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    RICHARD FOSTER: TO PRAY IS TO CHANGE Richard Foster, in his book Celebration of Discipline, says, "To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The closer we come to ...read more

  • Success In Difficulty

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    SUCCESS IN DIFFICULTY "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Educator, as quoted in Bits & Pieces, Vol. T/No. 17, p. 5 - "Many men owe the grandeur ...read more

  • Liberal, Missouri: A Town Of Atheists

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 18, 2011
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    LIBERAL, MISSOURI: A TOWN OF ATHEISTS There was an experiment in atheism here in the United States. Back in the 1800s, Liberal, Missouri decided to become completely atheistic. Religion was not allowed inside the city limits. No church could exist within the city and religious people were ...read more

  • Risk Your Life To Save It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2011
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    RISK YOUR LIFE TO SAVE IT Tyrtaeus, an old Greek poet who lived before the time of Christ, wrote, "The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance in saving it; the one who flees to save it is most likely to lose it." (Walter Bauer, A Greek-English ...read more

  • The Pond Of The Soul

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012
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    THE POND OF THE SOUL Thomas Fuller (English preacher of 1600’s) wrote: "Almost 20 years ago I heard a profane jest and still I remember it. How many pious passages of a far later date have I utterly forgotten? It seems my soul is like a filthy pond where fish die soon ...read more

  • Author Dwight Small Made An Eloquent Application ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Author Dwight Small made an eloquent application of godly love to marriage: "Godly love is not born of a lover’s need, nor does it have its source in the one loved. God’s love empties itself to give what the other needs. "Its motives rise wholly from within its own nature. Godly love lives in ...read more

  • Henry Wingblade Used To Say That Christian ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 9, 2007
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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

  • Hypocrisy Can Be Illusrated By The Way We Clean ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 25, 2007
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    Hypocrisy can be illusrated by the way we clean house when company is coming - We shove our junk in the closet, stuff it under the bed, etc. where it can’t be seen. Out of sight it doesn’t exist at least to our guests. That is not a horrible way to clean house, but it is terrible way to deal ...read more

  • All Men Commanded To Appear 3 Times A Year There, ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 3, 2008
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    All men commanded to appear 3 times a year there, but the Rabbis found a way to reinterpret this; at the time of Jesus, a man was considered especially devout if he went once a year, and some went once in a lifetime or every 4 or 5 years! (see "Pilgrimage at the Time of Jesus" by Shmuel Safrai, ...read more

  • Above Reproach

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    ABOVE REPROACH A friend told Plato of a terrible charge that had been leveled against the famous philosopher. Knowing it was not true, his friend said, "What are we going to do?" Plato replied, "We must simply live in such a way that all people will know it is false." Paul said that an elder is to ...read more

  • Bad News And Worse News!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 21, 2023
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    Doctor to patient: "I have bad news and worse news." Patient: "So let's have it." Doctor: "The bad news is that you only have 24 hours to live." Patient: "I can't imagine what could be worse than ...read more