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  • Phishing Has Grown From Being A Humble Nuisance ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Phishing has grown from being a humble nuisance to become the international electronic crime of choice for amateurs and professionals. Frequently operated by organized criminals in Russia, Brazil and other nations, they tend to concentrate on credit card and bank account theft schemes. In its ...read more

  • Profits Up—wages Down: Even Though The Economy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Profits Up—Wages Down: Even though the economy added 2.2 million jobs in ‘04 and produced strong growth in corporate profits, wages for the average worker fell for the year, after adjusting for inflation—the first such drop in nearly a decade. The problem is not with the jobs themselves, but that ...read more

  • Pastors Families: According To Recent Ellison ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Pastors Families: According to recent Ellison Research for Facts & Trends, 93% of pastors have children, including 43% with adolescents, and 50% whose children are 18 or older. 14% are the child of a pastor. 93% believe there is extra pressure being married to a pastor and 91% feel there is extra ...read more

  • Red States And Blue States Really Differ When It ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Red States And Blue States really differ when it comes to marriage reports the Census Bureau. Generally, men and women in the Northeast marry later than those in Midwest, West or South. In the Northeast the median age of first marriage is 29 for men and 27 for women, about 4 years later than other ...read more

  • Author Leo Buscaglia Tells This Story About His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had absconded with their firm’s funds. His mother went out and sold some jewelry to buy food ...read more

  • Again Dr. Marc T. Newman Writes, "There Would ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Jul 11, 2006
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    Again Dr. Marc T. Newman writes, "There would not be much drama, however, if no one were in peril in a pirate film. There is plenty of swordplay, and a ship-crunching Kraken lurks in the deep, but such threats can only harm one’s body. The real danger lies in risking one’s soul. Dead Man’s Chest ...read more

  • Again Dr. Marc T. Newman Writes, "There Would ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Jones on Jul 14, 2006
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    Again Dr. Marc T. Newman writes, "There would not be much drama, however, if no one were in peril in a pirate film. There is plenty of swordplay, and a ship-crunching Kraken lurks in the deep, but such threats can only harm one’s body. The real danger lies in risking one’s soul. Dead Man’s Chest ...read more

  • Trekkie Fans – Familiar With Tuvok And His Vulcan ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 9, 2006
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    Trekkie fans – familiar with Tuvok and his Vulcan mind meld. By placing his fingers strategically on another’s face their thoughts become his thoughts and the Vulcan would say, “Our minds are one.” This is the picture language of Fellowship in this text. They were a living, breathing organism that ...read more

  • I Enjoy Watching Antiques Roadshow On Pbs. One ...

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Sep 13, 2006
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    I enjoy watching Antiques Roadshow on PBS. One of the show’s most famous discoveries was a Seymour mahogany card table from Boston, bought at a garage sale by a New Jersey retiree for $25. She later sold the table at Sotheby’s for over half a million dollars. Sometimes the appraisers tell people ...read more

  • We Live In A ‘church World' Of Extremes. Only ...

    Contributed by David Butcher on Oct 21, 2006
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    We live in a ‘church world’ of extremes. Only this week in the paper, Terry Waite, who was the Archbishop’s envoy to Lebanon. He shot to fame by being held captive for five years. He spoke out about the modern trends in the Church of England. He was disgusted that a vicar did not wear his robes and ...read more

  • Silver Shoe Kid

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
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    Story – Silver shoe kid. I worked for years in a department store. There was this kid that worked in the China Department. A place of high value products. This kid was offered a much better position – turned it down! Why? Because he walk out each day with a set of silverware I each shoe. Big ...read more

  • The Process Of Refining Silver Is A Long Process ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chad Garrison on Dec 23, 2006
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    The process of refining silver is a long process of heating the metal until all the imperfections have boiled out. Once the silver is cooled, it is then re-heated again to remove any other imperfections. This process is repeated until there are no signs of anything that isn’t the precious ...read more

  • It Is Not The Preacher That Should Get Glory. It ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Feb 1, 2007
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    It is not the preacher that should get glory. It is the God of the message. A basketball costs anywhere from $5 - $50. But what is the worth of a basketball signed by Michael Jordan? A sleeve of golf balls cost around $10. But what is the worth of a golf ball hit by Tiger Woods? A football can ...read more

  • S.d. Gordon Tells Of A Spring Storm That Broke A ...

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Feb 26, 2007
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    S.D. Gordon tells of a spring storm that broke a large limb on his cherry tree. Although it hung by a very small strand, to his surprise the blossoms came anyway. Later some fruit began to grow as it did on the other branches. He noticed, however, that only those in full contact with the tree ...read more

  • D) Charles Spurgeon, A Baptist Minister, In His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 5, 2007
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    d) Charles Spurgeon, a Baptist minister, in his commentary on the Psalms from the 1800’s says, “How good men can endure to be called ‘reverend’ we know not. Being unable to discover any reason why our fellow men should reverence us, we half suspect that in other men there is not very much which ...read more

  • Death Was Walking Toward A City, And A Man ...

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Mar 31, 2007
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    ILLUS-Death was walking toward a city, and a man stopped Death and asked “what are yo going to do?” “I’m going to kill 10,000 people today” Death said. The man ran ahead to the the city. He warned everybody he passed that Death was coming and what he was going to do. At then end of the day, he ...read more

  • Rice Christians

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
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    "Rice Christians" In India, I discovered the Christians have a name for people who make a profession of faith just because they want to receive something from the Western Missionaries. They call them “Rice Christians.” The same kind of problem happens here in our country, too. Some people turn ...read more

  • A Little Girl Asked Her Father Why Firemen ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A little girl asked her father why firemen stayed in the firehouse all day and polished their engines and other equipment. He explained that they did this to pass the time while waiting for fire calls. Many Christians likewise stay close to the familiar surroundings of the church community, ...read more

  • Death Was Walking Toward A City, And A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 867 views

    Death was walking toward a city, and a man stopped Death and asked “what are yo going to do?” “I’m going to kill 10,000 people today” Death said. The man ran ahead to the the city. He warned everybody he passed that Death was coming and what he was going to do. At then end of the day, he again met ...read more

  • There Are Two (2) African Tribes Who Have An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There are two (2) African tribes who have an unusual way of expressing thanks One of them, the Masai tribe, a pastoral and hunting people of Kenya and Tanzania, West Africa, bow and put their foreheads on the ground, and say, "My head is in the dirt." The other tribe, whose name I do not know, sit ...read more