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  • One Can Change The Time On A Clock Either By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 29, 2001
    based on 47 ratings
     | 1,040 views

    One can change the time on a clock either by moving the hands or by moving the main wheel. And just as it is better to change the time by moving the inner mechanism, so it is better to move a man - whether oneself or another person--by influencing his consciousness. - ...read more

  • 11 Internet Direct Mail Tips: Robert Bly, Writing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,466 views

    11 Internet Direct Mail Tips: Robert Bly, writing it the 6/12 issue of DM News notes the following techniques that seem to be successful in e-marketing. · Use short statements that tease the reader. · Use incentives, discount, gift, free shipping, etc. · Free money is a powerful offer. · With a ...read more

  • Diverse Methods Of Worship Are Also On The Rise. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,752 views

    Diverse Methods Of Worship are also on the rise. New Ellison Research data reports U.S. Protestant churches worship in a more contemporary manner than 5 years ago. Over the past 5 years 44% report no significant change, 15% have moved in much more contemporary direction, while another 36% have ...read more

  • What American Christians Want: Christen ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,540 views

    What American Christians Want: Christen researchers, the Barna Group, recently polled American attitudes on God and country. Some of their findings are: Removing the Ten Commandments—18% of adults support “removing signs that list the Ten Commandments from government buildings.” 79% rejected this ...read more

  • Friendship Factor" A New Gallup Study ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,711 views

    Friendship Factor" A new Gallup study commissioned by Group Publishing shows that people with close friendships in their church are very satisfied with their congregation, less likely to leave their place of worship, and have a strong friendship with God. Church members who have a best friend at ...read more

  • Content Creation By Teens Continues To Grow, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
     | 1,614 views

    Content Creation by teens continues to grow, with 64% of online teens 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation vs. 57% in ’04. 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online while 33% create or work on web pages or blogs for others or school. 28% have created their ...read more

  • More Than Half Of U.s. Couples Who Married In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 1,877 views

    More than half of U.S. couples who married in the late '70s never saw their 25th anniversary, say the Census Bureau. It's the first time since World War II that married people had a less than even chance of still being married 25 years later, claims The New York Times. 70% of men who married ...read more

  • There's Always Mountains

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 23, 2009
     | 3,715 views

    THERE'S ALWAYS MOUNTAINS In the Broadway musical, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the 18th century (fictional) hero encourages his followers by reminding them of David vs. Goliath. The song goes: "David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must ...read more

  • The Amazing Heart

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2011
     | 2,624 views

    THE AMAZING HEART "The human heart: The human heart is a hard-working marvel. It can keep on beating automatically even if all other nerves were severed. In a 70-year lifetime, it will beat an average of 75 times a minute, forty million times a year-or two and a half billion times. At each beat ...read more

  • A Jewish Man, In Tears, Walks Up To Another ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,518 views

    A Jewish man, in tears, walks up to another Jewish man. "What’s the matter?" "I sent my son to Jerusalem to become a better Jew, and he comes back a Christian. What am I to do?" The other man responds "You know, it’s funny that you say that, because I sent my son to Jerusalem to become a better ...read more

  • An Old Theologian Once Said, "Who Chides A ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 19, 2007
     | 821 views

    An old theologian once said, "Who chides a servant for taking away the first course of a feast when the second consists of far greater delicacies?" Who then can feel regret that this present world passes away when he sees that an eternal world of joy is coming? The first course is grace, but the ...read more

  • World Peace

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on May 30, 2023
     | 744 views

    Isaiah makes a prophecy in chapter two of better days that will come. He proclaimed (NKJV): 2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to ...read more

  • Call Home Often  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 4,222 views

    CALL HOME OFTEN Max Lucado in his book "In the Eye of a Storm" talks about traveling from one speaking engagement to another. He had traveled from San Antonio to Boston and had spoken at a gathering in Boston. Then he was flying on to Edmonton, Canada to fulfill a speaking engagement there. When ...read more

  • A Scientist, Unjustly Accused And Convicted Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jul 17, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,603 views

    A scientist, unjustly accused and convicted of a major crime, found himself sentenced to hard time in a prison out in the Arizona desert. His cellmate turned out to be another scientist. Determined to escape, the first man tried to convince his colleague to make the attempt with him. He refused. ...read more

  • Leaving A Legacy  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jul 18, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 6,016 views

    LEAVING A LEGACY Paul J. Meyer in his book "Unlocking Your Legacy" tells about the time his mother was found after having fallen in her home. She died a few days later in the hospital. The year was 1969. Mr. Meyer writes, "In the apron she was wearing the day she fell, I found a note that read: ...read more

  • Louis Evans Tells A Story That I'm Sure Many Can ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 3, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,243 views

    Louis Evans tells a story that I’m sure many can relate to. At one of the homes in which he lived, he had a problem with a persistent weed that “grew rapidly and pushed it ugly stalk and leaves right in front of [his] bedroom window.” He tried chopping it down several times hoping to discourage ...read more

  • Muynak Was Once A Thriving Port On The Aral Sea, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Dillinger on Jun 5, 2003
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,647 views

    Muynak was once a thriving port on the Aral Sea, but today it sits on the edge of a bitter, salty desert. Sand dunes are strewn with the rusted, hollow hulls of a fishing fleet that once sailed high above on the surface of Central Asia’s fountain of life. Things began changing 30 years ago when ...read more

  • In C. S. Lewis' Book Till We Have Faces One Of ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 19, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,710 views

    In C. S. Lewis’ book Till We Have Faces one of the characters is struggling with the ugliness she sees within her and says, “I would set out boldly each morning to be just and calm and wise in all my thoughts and acts; but before they had finished dressing me I would find that I was back in some ...read more

  • What's Your Reaction When You Go To The Home Of A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 2, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,099 views

    What’s your reaction when you go to the home of a peer and it’s nicer than yours? Are you devastated? Bitter? Do you drive home and say to your wife, "Did you see that house? It’s so elaborate! They’re the same age that we are and yet they have twice the house we do. They must of inherited their ...read more

  • A Man In Spokane (Mr. Russell) Had Arranged For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,604 views

    A man in Spokane (Mr. Russell) had arranged for the minister from Fourth Memorial church to have his wedding. The day came and the minister didn’t. The minister sent a replacement. The man was upset, and never forgot the incident. 30 years later Carolyn had a garage sale. My mother was there ...read more

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