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  • Gift Buyers: An Estimated 10% Of Today's $2.6 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Gift Buyers: An estimated 10% of today’s $2.6 trillion retail market is spent to buy gifts for one person to give to another. For retailers that means 1 out of every 10 customers in their store has a gift shopping need. This offers marketers, the potential to expand their business by ...read more

  • Why Pastors Leave: Researchers With Catholic ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,607 views

    Why Pastors Leave: Researchers with Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., “found that tensions with church staff and laity and opportunities for better jobs were factors.” However, more than 1 out of every 4 of those who left a church reported that they were motivated by conflict with ...read more

  • In The Dark Of Night, A Bedouin In The Sands Of ...

    Contributed by Bruce Mccoy on Feb 8, 2006
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    In the dark of night, a Bedouin in the sands of Arabia was eating dates as he lay in his tent. As he took a date & bit into it – he found a worm inside. He bit into another & discovered a worm in it, too. He tried another…& saw a worm in the next one as well. There was a worm in ...read more

  • We Cannot But Admit That Not Even The Least ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other ...read more

  • A Family Of Five Was Rushed To The Hospital To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    A family of five was rushed to the hospital to have their stomachs washed out after the cat with whom they had shared a meal of mushrooms suddenly began to have stomach contractions. While members of the family showed no signs of illness, the doctor still had them rushed to the hospital. When they ...read more

  • I Was There In The Delivery Room When My ...

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 28, 2006
     | 2,079 views

    I was there in the delivery room when my children were born. I remember the doctor delivering them, the nurse cleaning them up, and checking them out. They were helpless, weak, utterly dependant on the good graces of the people in charge of their care. They remained helpless for years, though ...read more

  • Sharing The Good News At Any Cost....

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Jan 2, 2007
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    Sharing the Good News at any cost.... According to the book Background inside the Beaconsfield Mine rescue (p.252) once editors and news directors from the many media organisations across Australia learnt the good news that Brant Webb and Todd Russell were alive they tore up their budget ...read more

  • The Female Brain, By Louann Brizendine, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine, University of California-San Francisco Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic, sets out to show the ways in which the female brain is different from the male brain. Though certainly not politically correct, she admits the female brain is a machine ...read more

  • Whatever You Do, You Need Courage. Whatever ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same ...read more

  • Those Who See Their Lives As Spoiled And Wasted ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a ...read more

  • Christaholics

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Author Calvin Miller writes: “Many Christians are only “Christaholics” and not disciples at all. Disciples are cross-bearers; they seek Christ. Christaholics seek happiness. Disciples dare to discipline themselves, and the demands they place on themselves leave them enjoying the happiness of their ...read more

  • I Pledged Phi Beta Sigma In College. Everyone ...

    Contributed by Rev. Saeed Richardson on Sep 9, 2007
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    I pledged Phi Beta Sigma in college. Everyone has stories to tell of when they were pledging. But the one thing we could be sure of whenever we had a set was that we would be locked up - arm in arm - unified, joined, refusing to let anybody else separate us. Why ...read more

  • I Visited A Couple One Time In Their Home Who ...

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 15, 2007
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    I visited a couple one time in their home who complained about a niece who got married. All the invitations were sent out and everything was in order but they never received a thank you card for the gift they sent. They were very upset. I asked them if it was a gift they sent. They said yes. ...read more

  • Jonah Lost God's Voice. The Word Of The Lord Had ...

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 24, 2007
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    Jonah lost God’s voice. The word of the Lord had come to Jonah, but now God was speaking to Jonah through the sea, the storm, & even the great fish instead of visions & His Word. Samson lost the voice of God. When Samson’s hair was cut, we are told that he got up, ...read more

  • The Coworker Replied, 'it Is Like Being A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 8, 2007
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    The coworker replied, ’It is like being a pumpkin.’ God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed. Then He carves you ...read more

  • A Youth Pastor Is Trying To Get His Regular ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 15, 2008
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    A youth pastor is trying to get his regular students to reach out to those who are new or do not have friends in the group. After asking some of the teens why they don’t make more of an effort, one regular teen said, "I didn’t even see them." ...read more

  • Robert Murray Mccheyne, A Preacher Of Years Past ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Robert Murray McCheyne, a preacher of years past once said, “My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness.” My friends, what the world needs today is to see Christians living out what they claim to believe. Don’t wound or disable yourself ...read more

  • Our Society Has Adopted The Use Of An Ancient ...

    Contributed by David Dewitt on May 12, 2008
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    Our society has adopted the use of an ancient Greek word as a type of prefix. The Greek word is mega which means great. Think about it. We use mega a great deal. • Mega-mall • Megabytes • Mega-size drinks • Megachurches I argue that we need to be people ...read more

  • We Praise What We ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
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    We Praise What We Enjoy C.S. Lewis said: “I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till ...read more

  • It Was A Dark And Stormy Night When A Lady Was On ...

    Contributed by Amy Bickel on Aug 6, 2008
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    It was a dark and stormy night when a lady was on a boat crossing Lake Michigan. The lightning, thunder, and rain made her very nervous. She saw jagged rocks jutting above the surface of the lake. In fear, she asked the captain, “Do you know where all the rocks are ...read more