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  • See How Good You Can Get At Learning To Speak The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 23, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,610 views

    See how good you can get at learning to speak the language that your spouse understands. See your differences as endearing rather than annoying. Sit down with your wife after dinner, look her in the eye, and say, “Let’s talk.” Sit down with your husband after dinner, look him in the eye, and say, ...read more

  • Prayer Helps: A Recent Survey By Aarp And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,998 views

    Prayer Helps: A recent survey by AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving finds that 75% of U.S. caregivers cope with the demands of Caregiving through prayer. 61% talk with friends and relatives, 44% read books on Caregiving, 41% exercise to work off stress and 33% cope by going on line for ...read more

  • Christian Merchandise Finds Alternative Market: ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,596 views

    Christian Merchandise Finds Alternative Market: Sales of Christian-oriented card games, comic books and video games is on the rise as one market researcher says the current generation of teens appear to be more religious than Gen X. To promote their products as adventurous and exciting, some ...read more

  • Educated Believers: Born-Again Christians Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 3,101 views

    Educated Believers: Born-again Christians are highly educated and intelligent. According to Barna, 29% of evangelical Christians have a college degree vs. the national average of 26%. Naomi Schaefer Riley reports in her latest book, God on the Quad , that enrollment at the 100 schools of the ...read more

  • Wal-Mart Moulds Popular Culture: Wal-Mart And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,023 views

    Wal-Mart Moulds Popular Culture: Wal-Mart and other big discount chains—now often account for more than 50% of the sales of a best-selling album, more than 40% for a best-selling book, and more than 60% for a best-selling DVD. Critics claim this has bent American popular culture toward the tastes ...read more

  • But The Most Important Question We Can Ask About ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 27, 2006
     | 1,135 views

    But the most important question we can ask about the Bible is what does all that matter? Even if the Bible is God’s love letter what difference does that make to me? {Video Clip: Walk The Line - Start: Chp. 2:2:36 - Chp. 2:4:43 - 2:07} Johnny Cash’s brother is right. If we are going ...read more

  • Follow The Money The National Geographic Society ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 2,311 views

    Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1 ...read more

  • Quote: "When Love, Acceptance And Forgiveness ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Aug 29, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,975 views

    QUOTE: “When love, acceptance and forgiveness prevail, the church becomes what Jesus was in the world: a center of love, designed for the healing of broken people, and a force for God… One of the greatest services a church can offer a community is to provide a place for people to be brought to ...read more

  • Follow The Money The National Geographic Society ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,505 views

    Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1 ...read more

  • Quote: - Charles Spurgeon Once Said, "I Would ...

    Contributed by Tom Osterkamp on Mar 19, 2007
     | 1,408 views

    QUOTE: - Charles Spurgeon once said, "I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in ...read more

  • Why Have I Come To Australia? Well, If Dr Salk ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Jun 23, 2009
     | 1,347 views

    “Why have I come to Australia? Well, if Dr Salk had kept quiet about the vaccine he had discovered to help polio sufferers, what a tragedy that would have been! And when I have found Jesus to be the answer to the problems we have, both personal and national, I must share it with others.” Sir Lionel ...read more

  • Theodore Roosevelt's Thoughts On Family

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
     | 2,702 views

    Theodore Roosevelt’s Thoughts on Family Theodore Roosevelt said in 1917, "No other success in life--not being president, or being wealthy, or going to college, or writing a book, or anything else--comes up to the success of the man or woman who can feel that they have done their duty and that ...read more

  • Consider

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 10, 2009
     | 2,216 views

    Consider "The Christmas Pledge" in Jo Robinson and Jean Staehali’s book Unplug the Christmas Machine. They write, "Believing in the true spirit of Christmas I commit myself to: • Remember those who truly need my gifts • Express my love in more direct ways than gifts • Examine my holiday activities ...read more

  • Buechner's Unique Look At Forgiveness

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 19, 2010
     | 1,882 views

    BUECHNER'S UNIQUE LOOK AT FORGIVENESS Frederick Buechner is a Presbyterian minister and an author, and he has delightful little book called The Alphabet of Grace. It is somewhat like a dictionary of terms that people of faith commonly use, only Mr. Buechner offers some very uncommon reflections on ...read more

  • Skunks And Evangelists

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 7, 2010
     | 2,401 views

    SKUNKS AND EVANGELISTS Don Posterski is an Albertan-born Canadian, living in Ontario. He served as a pastor but is more widely known for his writings and research. One of his books is called "True to You – Living our Faith in our Multi-minded World." He speaks of "emerging cultural etiquette." ...read more

  • Nothing To Hold On To

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 6, 2010
     | 3,514 views

    NOTHING TO HOLD ON TO In his book The Fisherman and His Friends, Louis Albert Banks tells of two men who were assigned to stand watch on a ship out at sea. During the night the waves from a raging storm washed one of them overboard. The sailor who drowned had been in the most sheltered place, ...read more

  • Only A Visitor Here

    Contributed by Sajeev Painunkal, Sj on Nov 6, 2010
     | 2,372 views

    ONLY A VISITOR HERE The story is told of an American tourist who paid the 19th century Polish rabbi Hofetz Chaim a visit. Astonished to see that the rabbi's home was only a simple room with a few books, a table and a bench, the tourist asked, "Rabbi, where is your furniture?" "Where is yours?" ...read more

  • Do Things Differently

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Jun 24, 2012
     | 2,076 views

    DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY "Winners do not do different things, they do things differently"...wrote the wise management guru Shiv Khera in his book "You can win". I would like to rephrase this sentence oozing wisdom slightly and put it this way "Christians may not do not do different things but they ...read more

  • Into Jesus Hands  PRO

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,794 views

    INTO JESUS HANDS Billy Graham tells the story of the death of his grandmother in his book, Death and the Life After (pg. 169). He writes, “When my grandmother was dying she sat up in bed, smiled, and said, “I see Jesus, and he has his hand outstretched to me. And there’s Ben and he has both of his ...read more

  • Statistics On Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,286 views

    Our Daily Bread published an article on lying in the August 28, 1992 edition. In that devotional reading, it stated that lying seems to be a way of life for many people: “We lie at the drop of a hat. The book The Day American Told the Truth says that 91 percent of those surveyed lie routinely ...read more