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  • In Their Book Your Work Matters To God, Doug ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 1,274 views

    In their book Your Work Matters to God, Doug Sherman and William Hendricks wrote: “God has made you with a specific design. As one of His creatures, He has given you personal resources – a personality, talent, abilities, interests and so forth – which can be used vocationally … It is clear ...read more

  • To Introduce God To Our Specific Jobs, We Need To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 1,045 views

    To introduce God to our specific jobs, we need to think deeply about questions like these: • What does it mean to both be a Christian and hold this job? • How would I do my job differently if I were not a Christian? • What biblical principles most apply to my daily responsibilities? • How should ...read more

  • Love Makes  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Sep 2, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,030 views

    Love makes obedience a thing of joy! To do the will of one we like to please Is never hardship, though it tax our strength; Each privilege of service love will seize! Love makes us loyal, glad to do or go, And eager to defend a name or cause; Love takes the drudgery from common work, And asks ...read more

  • Consider What We Know About Divorce In The ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 12, 2003
     | 907 views

    Consider what we know about divorce in the United States: > In 1998 2.2 million couples married and 1.1 million divorced. > In 2000, 58 million couples were married yet separated and another 21 million couples were divorced. > People between the ages of 25 to 39 account for 60% of all ...read more

  • Paul Duncan Was An Accountant For A Large ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nick Scarpa on May 28, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
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    Paul Duncan was an Accountant for a large manufacturing firm in Lansing Michigan. When it came to numbers he was the best! But when it came to pain he was a wimp. Paul hated pain of any type. A common cold would set him back for a week. He couldn’t work or do anything. In 1997 he was diagnosed ...read more

  • This Story Was Related By Donald Grey Barnhouse. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Mar 28, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
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    This story was related by Donald Grey Barnhouse. Several years ago, two students graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The highest ranking student in the class was a blind man named Overton and, when he received his honor, he insisted that half the credit should go to his friend, ...read more

  • What Is This Mercy And Grace Exactly…  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 5, 2005
    based on 15 ratings
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    What is this mercy and grace exactly… This past week I pulled my “Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms” (one of those books I bought in seminary but very rarely open today  ) off my library shelf. While I often quote that grace is the “unmerited favor of God,” it was interesting to ...read more

  • Motivational Speaker, Jim Mccormick, Is A Former ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 29, 2005
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    Motivational speaker, Jim McCormick, is a former corporate Chief Operating Officer, MBA, and holder of three skydiving World Records and member of a successful skydiving expedition to the North Pole. He observes: “Salespeople and managers who consistently perform at a higher level have certain ...read more

  • Lady Nancy Astor, The First Woman Ever Seated In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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    Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism – but proved herself capable of giving as well as receiving in that arena. Once, at a formal dinner, Lady Astor said to her neighbor that she considered men to be more conceited than ...read more

  • The Most Popular Methods Of Evangelizing, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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     | 3,349 views

    The Most Popular Methods Of Evangelizing, according to a new Barna study, are praying for others’ salvation (43%), living in such a way as to encourage questions about their faith (40% engaged in “lifestyle evangelism”) and interactive conversations about moral and life issues that hopefully lead ...read more

  • Armand M. Nicholi, M.d., Professor Of Psychiatry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,969 views

    Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, had little compassion for the common person. Freud ...read more

  • Lady Nancy Astor, The First Woman Ever Seated In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,748 views

    Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism -- but proved herself capable of giving as well as receiving in that arena. Once, at a formal dinner, Lady Astor said to her neighbor that she considered men to be more conceited than ...read more

  • We Need To Continually Surge Forward Spiritually, ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Mar 4, 2007
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    We need to continually surge forward spiritually, to prevent sliding backward. I discovered recently that the Australian coat of arms has a picture of an emu and a kangaroo. They chose those particular animals because they both share a common trait that appealed to the Australian forefathers. Emus ...read more

  • Jesus Reminds Me Here Of The Long Distance ...

    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Apr 2, 2007
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    Jesus reminds me here of the long distance runner. Think of the Marathon runner. There has to be a settled determination in your heart if you are going to win a Marathon. You train for the distance, for the conditions, your diet and liquid intake has to be measured and controlled; the opposition ...read more

  • The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, In ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 4, 2007
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    The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, in announcing the death of Princess Alice on 14th December 1878 to the House of Commons, told this touching story. “The little daughter of the Princess was seriously ill with diphtheria. And so the doctors told the princess not to kiss her because ...read more

  • Anatomy Of Fear

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
     | 4,863 views

    ANATOMY OF FEAR In spite of what they say, 90% of the chronic patients who see today's physicians have one common symptom. Their trouble did not start with cough or chest pain or hyperacidity. In 90% of the cases, the first symptom was fear. This is the opinion of a well-known American ...read more

  • In Ad 753, Pope Stephen Was Driven From Rome By ...

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 14, 2011
     | 1,790 views

    In AD 753, Pope Stephen was driven from Rome by Adolphus, King of the Lombards. He fled to Pipen. While he was there, he was asked by the monks of Cressy, in Brittany, if, in the case of necessity, baptism poured on the head would be lawful, in place of immersion. This was 723 years after the ...read more

  • The Occult, The Supernatural, And Teenagers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2011
     | 3,109 views

    THE OCCULT, THE SUPERNATURAL, AND TEENAGERS In 2006, researcher George Barna came out with the top 12 most significant or surprising faith findings for that year. Coming in second was this report: "Three out of every four teenagers have engaged in at least one type of psychic or witchcraft-related ...read more

  • In His Book "God In My Corner" George Foreman Has ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
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    In his book “God in my corner” George Foreman has a chapter entitled “What will people think of Me?” In the chapter his shares his struggle with this common struggle for Christians. He said he wasn’t afraid to step in the ring with toughest boxers in the world Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and Ken ...read more

  • Fasting Can Be A Form Of Body Praying… [but] ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 19, 2008
     | 1,255 views

    “Fasting can be a form of body praying… [But] fasting has nearly ceased to be practiced among us as a religious duty. It has been replaced by other forms of self-denial. One of the most common of those among us is dieting, which is largely cosmetic and therapeutic. What is there to say about it? ...read more