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  • Mom's Ten Commandments  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,125 views

    MOM’S TEN COMMANDMENTS Sick people belong in bed. Thank-you notes, thank-you notes, thank-you notes. Everyone needs a nap everyday. Get your hair off your face. Stand up staight. Look people in the eye when you meet them. Good table manners are important in case you get invited to a rich ...read more

  • Back In 1994 The Featured Speaker At The National ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 1,246 views

    Back in 1994 the featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., was a small, fragile woman with no political credentials. Yet she spoke confidently at the podium, surrounded by President Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton and various other government officials. With a steady ...read more

  • Abortion, Child Sacrifice, And Other Forms Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,138 views

    Abortion, child sacrifice, and other forms of infanticide were both legal and acceptable in pagan societies from the earliest times. One of the major signs of depravity in ancient Rome was that its unwanted babies were abandoned outside the city walls to die from exposure to the elements of from ...read more

  • My Name Is Gossip. I Have No Respect For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 24 ratings
     | 5,854 views

    My name is Gossip. I have no respect for justice. I maim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives. I am cunning and malicious and gather strength with age. The more I am quoted, the more I am believed. I flourish at every level of society. My victims are helpless. ...read more

  • Love My Enemies  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 5,448 views

    LOVE MY ENEMIES Richard Wurmbrand, who spent fourteen years suffering in a Communist prison, reminds all believers with less than ideal circumstances that “if the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart love Him, you can resist all tortures.” He says, “God will not judge ...read more

  • Why Are Children Aborted? The Alan Guttmacher ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,179 views

    Why are children aborted? The Alan Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood) states: • 1% are victims of incest or rape • 1% had fetal abnormalities • 4% had a doctor who said their health would worsen if they continued the pregnancy • 50% said they didn’t want to be a single ...read more

  • The Golden Rule Of Family  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 6,208 views

    THE GOLDEN RULE OF FAMILY One of Grimm’s fairy tales tells of an old man who lived with his son, the son’s wife, and the young couple’s four-year-old boy. The old man’s eyes blinked, and his hands shook. When he ate, the silverware rattled against the plate, and he often missed his mouth. Then ...read more

  • Calling Robert's Bluff  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 1,778 views

    CALLING ROBERT'S BLUFF James Dobson tells a story about a ten-year-old boy named Robert who was a patient of a California pediatrician. When Robert was scheduled for a visit to the doctor’s office, the news would spread like wildfire. Nurses would whisper to themselves, “Batten down the ...read more

  • One Step Closer To...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 24 ratings
     | 4,077 views

    ONE STEP CLOSER TO... I once read about a rabbi sitting next to an atheist on an airplane. Every few minutes, one of the rabbi’s children or grandchildren would inquire about his needs for food, drink, or comfort. The atheist commented, “The respect your children and grandchildren show you is ...read more

  • The Ultimate Violation Of The Fifth Commandment ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
     | 1,499 views

    The ultimate violation of the Fifth Commandment is soberly brought to light by nationally known cases of children murdering their parents. One example is the much publicized Eric and Lyle Menendez trials of 1993. The brothers admitted to killing with premeditation both their parents with a ...read more

  • Spending Time With The Kids?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,845 views

    SPENDING TIME WITH THE KIDS? The April 6, 1990, issue of the Wall Street Journal reported that, on the average, American parents spend less than fifteen minutes a week in serious discussion with their children. For fathers the amount of intimate contact with their children is an average of ...read more

  • Parenting Social Degeneration  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,201 views

    PARENTING SOCIAL DEGENERATION Sheila Weller, in her book "Saint of Circumstances", reveals the untold story of Alex Kelley, who was convicted of rape in 1996. When Kelley was initially indicted he fled to Europe, spending more than eight years on the run, leading a comfortable lifestyle. ...read more

  • According To Psychologist William Damon, Respect ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 39 ratings
     | 4,846 views

    According to psychologist William Damon, respect for the parent who exercises proper authority leads to respect for legitimate social institutions and to respect for law. In his book The Moral Child, Damon writes, “The child’s respect for parental authority sets the direction for civilized ...read more

  • They Need A Father  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,777 views

    THEY NEED A FATHER ... “almost 75 percent of American children living in fatherless households will experience poverty before the age of eleven, compared to only 20 percent of those raised by two parents. Children living in homes where fathers are absent are far more likely to be expelled from or ...read more

  • Puritans Viewed The Family As A Little Church And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 1,271 views

    Puritans viewed the family as a little church and a little commonwealth. The home was to be a place where spiritual and moral development was nurtured – a smaller culture that impacted the larger culture. Michael G. Moriarty, The Perfect ...read more

  • A Father's Role  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,169 views

    A FATHER'S ROLE James Dobson and Gary Bauer in their book Children at Risk articulate the importance of the father’s leadership and his role in the children’s emotional development and moral education: “Fathers must be there to tame adolescent boys, to give a young son a sense of what I means to ...read more

  • The Fifth Commandment Extends To Other Areas Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
     | 1,220 views

    The Fifth Commandment extends to other areas of authority in society. Zacharius Ursinus, the principle author of the Heidelburg Catechism wrote in his seventeenth-century commentary, “The design or end of this commandment is the preservation o civil order, which God has appointed in the mutual ...read more

  • What My Parents Taught Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,239 views

    WHAT MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME Parents are teachers of faith and morality. What God is to the world, parents are to their children. Unfortunately, some parents become so focused on the element of friendship or their own convenience, comfort, self-fulfillment, happiness, or love life that they forget ...read more

  • Dogs And Kids  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,977 views

    DOGS AND KIDS We train our dogs and don’t train our kids. Then we tie up the dogs at night and let the kids run wild. SOURCE: Adrian ...read more

  • Showing Respect For Mom  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,586 views

    SHOWING RESPECT FOR MOM Adrian Rogers, Pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, TN, tells a story about a man, his boys, and respect for their mother: "It seems that one of the boys lipped off to his mother one day. Now I don’t know about your home, but in the Rogers home showing ...read more

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