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  • The Element H2o (Water) Has Three Unique ...

    Contributed by Neil Partington on May 24, 2005
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    The element H2O (water) has three unique forms. Water can be in the form of a liquid, the form we see coming out of the kitchen faucet. It can be in the form of a solid, like ice. And it can be in the form of a gas, when water boils. Whether it’s a gas, a solid, or a liquid- it’s ...read more

  • A Surgeon At The Baptist Hospital In Bangkok, ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
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    A surgeon at the Baptist Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, talked realistically about economizing. The minimum daily wage there is less than the hourly wage here in our country. He said: “We discovered a long time ago that you could sew up people with nylon fishing line. I found that ...read more

  • By The Death Of Jesus Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
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    Oswald Chambers once said, “We trample the blood of the Son of God if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation for the forgiveness of God... is the death of Jesus Christ... There is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no ...read more

  • One Sunday In A Midwest City, A Young Child Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up "during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before ...read more

  • Two Women Who Were Having Lunch In An Elegant ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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     | 1,689 views

    Two women who were having lunch in an elegant hotel were approached by a mutual friend who asked the occasion for the meal. One lady replied, “We are celebrating the birth of my baby boy.” “But where is he?” inquired the friend. “Oh,” said the mother, “you didn’t think I’d ...read more

  • Divorce Used To Be Taboo In Asia, But No Longer. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Divorce used to be taboo in Asia, but no longer. In the last 20 years in China divorce rates have doubled. Divorce rates in South Korea rival those in Britain and Denmark. India’s divorce rate has increased in the last 10 years to 11 per 1,000 marriages. In Japan, there is a divorce ...read more

  • Pastor Training: The Most Common Types Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Pastor Training: The most common types of training pastors seek are: · Leadership/management skills – 54% · Church growth – 52% · Prayer/spiritual growth/renewal – 49% · Evangelism/outreach training – 45% · Personal skills training – 28% · Discipleship/small group development – 26% · Worship ...read more

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • I. Tadlock States, ‘the Loss Of Perspective Is ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 27, 2007
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    i. Tadlock states, ‘The loss of perspective is another cost of hurry sickness. Perspective means a balanced way of seeing things-the capacity to see people or things in their relationship to each other. You see things as they are rather than in some distorted manner. It’s hard to ...read more

  • In Every Business, No Matter How Small Or How ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a ...read more

  • Resolved, To Live With All My Might While I Do ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Resolved, to live with all my might while I do live. Resolved, never to lose one moment of time, to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can. Resolved, never to do anything which I should despite or think meanly of in another. Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge. ...read more

  • Habitual Offenders

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 23, 2009
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    HABITUAL OFFENDERS In the world of criminal prosecution, sometimes an individual has a track record of crime; if so, they may try to prosecute him/her as a "habitual offender." As a result, the individual will spend more time in jail because the courts have decided that crime is a way of life for ...read more

  • Dennis The Menace Was Caught Causing Trouble ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 29, 2009
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    Dennis the Menace was caught causing trouble around the house and his mother had all she could take from him and said to him, "Dennis the way you’re behaving, how do you expect to get into heaven?" To that Dennis said, "Well, I’ll just keep slamming the door ...read more

  • In The Face Of Disappointed World Betrayal, A ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 1, 2009
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    ‘In the face of disappointed world betrayal, a world in which all fixed points have proven illusory, a world in which we are anchorless and adrift. Christ is the foundation, the origin, the way, the truth, the life. In the face of a culture of death, a world of killing fields, a world of the ...read more

  • Turning – Story Of ...

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
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    Turning – Story of Wabush Wabush, a town in a remote portion of Labrador, Canada, was completely isolated for some time. But recently a road was cut through the wilderness to reach it. Wabush now has one road leading into it, and thus, only on one road leading out. If someone would travel the ...read more

  • Know Him Through Our Witness

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 12, 2011
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    KNOW HIM THROUGH OUR WITNESS Perhaps one of the greatest challenges for Christianity in our day is for churches to so walk with God that the world comes to know Him through their witness. When a church allows God's presence and activity to be expressed, a watching world will be drawn to ...read more

  • Three Bones In Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2011
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    THREE BONES IN CHURCH Church members may be divided into three classes in a mere skeleton outline: wishbones, jawbones, and backbones. The wishbones are always languidly hoping that their church will somehow grow without their effort. The jawbones talk their way out of doing things, and the ...read more

  • Listening And Obedience

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 8, 2011
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    LISTENING AND OBEDIENCE I heard Henri Nouwen at Austin College several years ago. I remember what he said about listening and obedience. The word 'obedience,' he said, comes from the Latin obaudire, which means 'to hear.' By contrast the Latin word for 'deaf' is absurdus, from which we get our ...read more

  • I Got A Picture In My Mind From The Lord On The ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 4, 2007
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    I got a picture in my mind from the Lord on the way back from preaching this at McLuney. As believers we have in our hands either healing salve or a bottle of rubbing alcohol. And as we interact with hurting people we either comfort them with salve, or we throw alcohol on their wounds. One makes ...read more