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  • In The Early 1700's A Congregation Of Some 300 ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Mar 29, 2008
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    In the early 1700’s a congregation of some 300 Hussites, Anabaptists, Calvinists and various disciples of non-conforming Christian doctrines came together seeking refuge on the estate of Count Zinzindorf in Saxony, East Germany also called Moravia. Like the Count who was 27 years old at the time ...read more

    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Ivan The Great Was The Tsar Of Russia During The ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 14, 2008
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    Ivan the Great was the tsar of Russia during the Fifteenth Century. He brought together the warring tribes into one vast empire. As a fighting man he was courageous. As a general he was brilliant. He drove out the enemies and established peace across the nation. Ivan was so busy waging his ...read more

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  • You Must Have The Spirit Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    You Must Have the Spirit of Christ Jesus said; "If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him. But you know Him for He lives with you and will be in you. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Cheap Grace

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
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    CHEAP GRACE (defined and adapted from Dietrich Bonhoeffer) a). Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. b). Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • The Miraculous Human Body, Citation: Jeff ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 7, 2001
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    [The Miraculous Human Body, Citation: Jeff Arthurs; references Dr. John Medina, genetic engineer, University of Washington, in 1995 lecture at Multnomah Bible College, Portland, Oregon] The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Sometimes A Costume Is Just A Costume  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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    SOMETIMES A COSTUME IS JUST A COSTUME Who am I this time? That’s the question millions of kids and adults ask themselves in anticipation of Halloween each year. Their answer can say a lot about what’s going on within them, many experts say. In other words, think of Halloween as the ultimate ...read more

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  • Where You Have A Choice About Divorce – God Says, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Jan 26, 2004
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    Where you have a choice about divorce – God says, “Don’t!”. God says so and so does a recent study by the University of Chicago. It showed couples that who stay in an unhappy marriage and endure it are more likely to be happy 5 years later than those who decide to divorce. The study noted that ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • The Miraculous Human Body  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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    THE MIRACULOUS HUMAN BODY The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, beating 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. The lungs contain 1,000 miles of capillaries. The process of exchanging ...read more

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  • Black Bart Was A Professional Thief Whose Very ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Hill on Jul 8, 2004
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    Black Bart was a professional thief whose very name struck fear as he terrorized the Wells Fargo stage line. From San Francisco to new York, his name became synonymous with the danger of the frontier. Between 1875 and 1883 he robbed 29 different stagecoach. Amazingly, Bart did it all without ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mature Audiences: One Person Will Turn 50 In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    Mature Audiences: One person will turn 50 in the United States every 7.5 seconds for the next 18 years! The U.S. Census Bureau projects there are 25.3 million Americans between ages of 50-59, and expect that figure will jump to 37.7 million by 2006. "This aging population is growing and it is one ...read more

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  • What's Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, A New Book ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    What’s Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, a new book from Crossway by D James Kennedy & Jerry Newcombe, is packed with revealing and insightful data that can help jolt many believers out of their complacency on this core cultural threat. Netherlands researchers (where homosexual marriage has been legal ...read more

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  • What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group research has identified several significant changes affecting children’s programs: (1) A declining percentage of pastors viewing Sunday School as their top priority. (2) Fewer churches offering Sunday School for children under age 6 or for junior high ...read more

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  • One Of The Great Things About Kids Is That Their ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
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    One of the great things about kids is that their perspective can often give us adults a new perspective on things that we take fore granted or they can give us an entirely new view of something unique and different. I am reminded of this in a heart-touching story about four year old Shane and the ...read more

    Denomination: Church Of God

  • How An Animal Migrates Is Significant In ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2006
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    How an animal migrates is significant in determining how much energy is needed as well as how much must be stored in the body. Flying, for example, is more physically intensive than walking or swimming, so migratory birds must build up large energy stores before they set off. Just before spring and ...read more

    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • The Root Of Bitterness  PRO

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 16, 2007
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    Illustration ------------ Years ago there was a terrible outbreak of disease in a tiny village in a remote part of Africa. Both children and adults were, getting sick and overcome with nausea. Several,weeks passed, and the sickness became widespread, and people started dying. Word of the disease ...read more

    Denomination: Charismatic

  • The Great Classical Cellist Pablo Casals, In His ...

    Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
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    The great classical cellist Pablo Casals, in his life story entitled Joys and Sorrows, tells readers his first memory of attending worship on Christmas Eve when he was five-years-old. He walked to the church in a small village in Spain, hand-in-hand with his father, who was the church’s ...read more

    Denomination: Methodist

  • The Estimated Total Number Of People Living In ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Oct 17, 2007
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    The estimated total number of people living in the US with a viral Sexually Transmitted Disease/Sexually Transmitted Infection (STD/STI) is over 65 million. Every year, there are at least 19 million new cases of STDs/STIs, some of which are curable. More than $8 billion is spent each year to ...read more

  • I Know A Fair Amount About President George W. ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 25, 2008
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    I know a fair amount about President George W. Bush. He is the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and is now married to Laura, and they have young adult twin daughters. I also know that in his youth, George W. Bush was a little wild and crazy, and that a conversation with evangelist ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    LYING Penn State researcher Dr. Nancy Darling reports 98% of teens reported lying to their parents in a recent study. They lied about what they spent their allowances on, whether they’d started dating, what clothes they put on away from the house, what movie they went to, and whom they went with. ...read more

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  • Truth Stats In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    TRUTH STATS IN BELIEVERS A 2002 survey by the Barna Group found that adults, by a 3-to-1 margin believe that truth is relative to each individual person and his or her circumstances as opposed to the concept of absolute truth. And frankly, that isn’t all that surprising. But what is really ...read more

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