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  • This Week In Preparation For This Sermon I Came ...

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 2, 2004
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    This week in preparation for this sermon I came across statistics for how much Proctor and Gamble spends on TV advertising each year. Guess how many of their dollars go to television? You couldn’t guess if you tried. They spend $3 Billion each year. To put that figure in perspective, it’s 50% more ...read more

  • One Of The Most Popular Aquarium Fish Is The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,801 views

    One of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium. Sharks can be six inches long yet fully matured. But if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal length of eight feet. That can also ...read more

  • Marriage Is Not A Contract; It Is A Covenant. In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on May 3, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 7,667 views

    Marriage is not a contract; it is a covenant. In a contact, the two parties remain separate (Party of the first part and party of the second part). Like salad dressing, oil and water, shaken up and mixed together, put never really one. Left alone and still, salad dressing will eventually ...read more

  • Forest Gump's Momma Said, "Life Is Like A Box Of ...

    Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 19, 2005
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    Forest Gump’s momma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.” Anybody know the secret code for a box of See’s candy? I can figure out the ones with the nuts and the nougat, but crème fillings are always a mystery to me. Now if I made the chocolates and placed ...read more

  • Sam Goldwyn, The Movie Producer, Used To Mangle ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
     | 1,930 views

    Sam Goldwyn, the movie producer, used to mangle the English language so badly that his malaprops and mixed metaphors came to be known as Goldwynisms. Some that have become classics are... A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named William. Now, ...read more

  • Generation C (C Is For Creative): A New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Generation C (C is for Creative): A new generation of parents is abandoning its obsession with children becoming doctors, lawyers or business executives; they are realizing that creative careers are not necessarily doomed to poverty. Fuelling the trend: (1) The creative urges each consumer ...read more

  • Moms Staying Home Of The 41.8 Million Kids Under ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,157 views

    Moms Staying Home Of the 41.8 million kids under 15 who lived with two parents last year, more than 25% had stay-at-home moms according to a recent Census Bureau report. This is up from 23%, or 9.4 million kids in ’94. Full-time stay-at-home dads took care of 189,000 kids in ’02, up 18%. Experts ...read more

  • Conflict Resolution

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 2, 2006
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    Psychologist Lynne Namka writes: Recent research shows that couples break up because they do not know how to resolve their differences through communication. Hostility only breeds more hostility. Venting the negative emotions may clear the air temporarily, but it does not solve the underlying ...read more

  • In Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli Writes, "I ...

    Contributed by Paul Newell on Dec 4, 2006
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    In Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli writes, “I made hundreds of decisions to become a Christian...[or] to rededicate my rededication, to go into full-time Christian service, to treat my parents better, to give God my hormones. I meant every one of those decisions, yet I successfully acted on most ...read more

  • Imagine A Town Which Has Everything To Offer: ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 11, 2007
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    Imagine a town which has everything to offer: State-of-the-art hospitals, prestigious schools, award winning entertainment, and many other things. There is nothing a person could need which couldn’t be found in this town except one thing: the water makes people sick; any time someone dares drink ...read more

  • Strength Renewed

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Mar 3, 2007
     | 9,285 views

    Billy Graham says: "As an evangelist, I have often felt too far spent to minister from the pulpit to men and women who have filled stadiums to hear a message from the Lord. Yet again and again my weakness has vanished, and my strength has been renewed. I have been filled with God’s power not only ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer, In His Book, The Pursuit Of God, ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 7, 2009
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    A.W. Tozer, in his book, The Pursuit of God, tells us how to gain greater unity. "Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each ...read more

  • Direction Signs

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 15, 2009
     | 4,839 views

    DIRECTION SIGNS In my time with the children a few weeks ago I spoke with them about road signs. As I prepared this message, I thought about how we have become a nation of signs: Some of them are helpful and some are not. Some signs cause us to pause and ask, “What were they thinking?” Some ...read more

  • Process-Oriented God

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
     | 2,261 views

    The following thoughts are from Sy Rogers: God is event and process oriented – Most Christians are only event orientated. But the development of a baby is a process caused by one passionate event in the bedroom. Birth is an event but there is a process of growth and maturity. God will not zap a ...read more

  • Flood Stories

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Jul 17, 2011
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     | 2,342 views

    FLOOD STORIES One evidence that the Genesis flood was a real event is the prevalence of flood stories in other ancient cultures, remnants of the story passed on by Noah’s descendants, stories corrupted as his descendants forgot the one true God. The Mesopotamian flood story describes their gods ...read more

  • A Bankrupt Nation  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,436 views

    A BANKRUPT NATION John MacArthur in his book “Can God Bless America” states that "America wants God's blessing but not God. Our nation has systematically pushed Him out of the national consciousness--rejecting biblical morality, ignoring His Word, and relying on the political and entertainment ...read more

  • Accused

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 29, 2012
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    ACCUSED A Louisiana man has been released from death row, becoming the 300th prisoner nationwide to be freed after DNA evidence showed he was innocent. Of those 300 prisoners, 18 had been on death row, according to lawyers from the New York-based Innocence Project. [source: Good News Network]. It ...read more

  • Relationships Inside And Out

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 5, 2013
     | 3,226 views

    RELATIONSHIPS INSIDE AND OUT If I saw our relationship (with his wife) as a bunch of rules I had to keep, I would quickly become bitter and miserable. I would likely rebel and break the rules when she wasn’t paying attention. But I am passionately in love with my wife and that translates into a ...read more

  • Quotations On Truth  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 6, 2013
    based on 28 ratings
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    QUOTATIONS ON TRUTH Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself (Augustine). Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. When a truth is unfolded by God it most ...read more

  • The New Baby...?

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 13, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,339 views

    THE NEW BABY...? For weeks a six-year-old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six-year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. ...read more