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  • Girls Growing Up Too Fast

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    GIRLS GROWING UP TOO FAST A study by Girlguiding reveals 3 leading potential "triggers" for serious mental health problems in girls: premature sexualization, commercialization and alcohol misuse. The report reveals a loss of childhood innocence and says girls today experience high levels of ...read more

  • Child With Leukemia Grateful For Doctor's Help In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2009
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    Child With Leukemia Grateful for Doctor’s Help In Spite of Pain David, a 2-year old with leukemia, was taken by his mother, Deborah, to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, to see Dr. John Truman who specializes in treating children with cancer and various blood diseases. Dr. Truman’s ...read more

  • Your Mess Becomes Your Message

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 21, 2011
     | 3,041 views

    YOUR MESS BECOMES YOUR MESSAGE Joe Almanza grew up in a family of organized crime called the Mexican Mafia: "We were supplying most of the heroin for the Southern and Midwestern US. I became addicted to heroin. I went to many drug addiction agencies. I sold some heroin to an undercover agent ...read more

  • Never, Never Be Late  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
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     | 5,105 views

    NEVER, NEVER BE LATE A local priest was being honored at his retirement dinner after 25 years in the parish. A leading local politician and member of the congregation was chosen to make the presentation and to give a little speech at the dinner. However, he was delayed so the priest decided to say ...read more

  • Machine Gun Preacher

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 27, 2011
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    MACHINE GUN PREACHER Video Clip Illustration: From wingclips.com (From Machine Gun Preacher clip) SYNOPSIS: Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the ...read more

  • Telegraph Reports: April 08 ...

    Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
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    Telegraph reports: April 08 UK § Murders of children by other children have tripled in three years, as more of the nation’s youth get drawn into a deadly world of guns and knives. § The number of killings in which both victim and assailant were under 18 has jumped from 12 in 2005 to 37 last year, ...read more

  • Rescue The Perishing

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 23, 2016
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    RESCUE THE PERISHING Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer, wrote so many hymns we love to sing. When she was up in years, she visited the Macaulay Rescue Mission in NYC. She stood before a crowd of homeless, drug-addicted, alcoholic men. She said, “is there a young man here who doesn’t have a ...read more

  • In 1994, Two Christian Missionaries Answered An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rob Short on Apr 7, 2001
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    In 1994, two Christian missionaries answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics in a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage. It was nearing ...read more

  • Cry Of The Streets  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Mar 19, 2005
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    CRY OF THE STREETS by Joel Vicente Inspired by the countless faces of people we minister to. These are the unheard voices of the streets. The Cry of the Streets If the streets could speak What would they cry I don’t have clothes without a tear Do not pass me by The other kids laugh at what I ...read more

  • David C. Pack Gives Us The Following Thoughts To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 22, 2007
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    DAVID C. PACK gives us the following thoughts to ponder about Predestination. 1. “Is this true? Is this what the Bible actually teaches when it makes reference to predestination? Did God actually pre-plan every sin, every act of immorality and every crime that has ever been committed? Is God the ...read more

  • Peter Hopkirk Tells A Great Story About The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Peter Hopkirk tells a great story about the folly of a faulty proclamation. It was 1919, and Russia was in the midst of its own Civil War to establish Communism as its official ideology. While Moscow had been “liberated” two years earlier, farther flung parts of its empire, such as what is now in ...read more

  • The Church: We Need One Another

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 6, 2009
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    THE CHURCH: WE NEED ONE ANOTHER A pastor received a call from a chronic alcoholic. He just couldn't seem to stay sober. He had tried several other churches, but they didn't seem to have anything to help him. Finally he called this pastor whose church had a reputation for not giving up on people. ...read more

  • Maggie's Poem

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 24, 2009
     | 5,831 views

    Dads: I want you to listen to a poem from a teenager in Chicago who expresses how important you are as fathers and fatherly figures: Maggie’s Poem Do you know, do you understand, that you represent Jesus to me? Do you know, do you understand, that when you treat me with gentleness It raises the ...read more

  • Just A Scrap Can Change A Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2009
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    JUST A SCRAP CAN CHANGE A LIFE Back in the 1500s, people didn't have a Bible they could read. The Catholic Church controlled the translating of Scripture and only offered it in Latin. But when Martin Luther rebelled against the abuses of the Church of his day he worked hard to make a translation ...read more

  • Walk With You  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2011
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    WALK WITH YOU During WW2, two young Jews lived as close friends, (BFFs, we can call them), more than real brothers in a dingy Nazi concentration camp jammed with helpless-hopeless-exhausted-abused Jews. They shared everything, literally everything. One day, one of them felt weak and started to ...read more

  • At War With Our Vices

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 4, 2011
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    AT WAR WITH OUR VICES On July 4, 1776 fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Citing numerous abuses of the law and the oppressive and unjust rule of the king of England, these men pledged their honor, their lives and their livelihood to the cause of justice and freedom. We have ...read more

  • Who Will Speak Out?

    Contributed by David Parks on Feb 21, 2012
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    WHO WILL SPEAK OUT? Martin Niemoller was a decorated U-boat captain in the First World War but subsequently became a minister of religion and a relatively high profile opponent of the Nazis as they increasingly gained firm hold of the reins to power in Germany. Niemoeller was active as a leader ...read more

  • Ownership Of The Gift  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 27, 2012
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,029 views

    OWNERSHIP OF THE GIFT A humanitarian group in Africa, noticing the filthy water, sewage, and disease, built clean water and sewage system for a village. Months later, they visited the village, but it was back to square one with filthy water, sewage and disease. [from Pickthebrain.com] The chief ...read more

  • The Importance Of Family Meals

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 2, 2012
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY MEALS "Kids who dine with the folks are healthier, happier, and better students, which is why a dying tradition is coming back." That's what an in-depth study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded after nearly a decade of ...read more

  • Marriage

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
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    A story from Warsaw, Ohio, is catching some attention today (August 13, 2014). It seems the dancers at Foxhole nightclub decided to picket a church that had been hassling them for years. Apparently the members and pastor of New Beginnings Ministries felt called by God to try to rid their community ...read more