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  • Religious Practice Varies By Race: A New Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Religious Practice Varies By Race: A new Barna survey examined 8 elements of religious behavior (reading the Bible, praying to God, giving money to churches and watching Christian television) and discovered that blacks are the most religiously active racial group. Blacks were also notably less ...read more

  • Jean Nidetch, A 214 Pound Homemaker Desperate To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 23, 2006
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    Jean Nidetch, a 214 pound homemaker desperate to lose weight, went to the New York City Department of Health, where she was given a diet devised by Dr. Norman Jolliffe. Two months later, discouraged about the 50 plus pounds still to go, she invited six overweight friends home to share the diet and ...read more

  • Friendship Factor" A New Gallup Study ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
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    Friendship Factor" A new Gallup study commissioned by Group Publishing shows that people with close friendships in their church are very satisfied with their congregation, less likely to leave their place of worship, and have a strong friendship with God. Church members who have a best friend at ...read more

  • Why Christian Lifestyles Aren't Different: George ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Why Christian Lifestyles Aren’t Different: George Barna, researcher and author of the book, Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions, says, “For years we have reported research findings showing that born again adults think and behave very much like everyone else. It often seems that their ...read more

  • In The Movie, A Knight's Tale, The Main Character ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Feb 11, 2006
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    In the movie, A Knight’s Tale, the main character William Thatcher and his friends are starving. William is a gifted jouster, and has potential to make enough money jousting to feed everyone, but he is not of noble blood. Only nobility is allowed to joust competitively. The team of friends ...read more

  • We Have Been Freed From Our Sinful Past  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 28, 2006
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    WE HAVE BEEN FREED FROM OUR SINFUL PAST Two brothers were convicted of stealing sheep. For their crime they were each branded on the forehead with the letters "ST," for "sheep thief." One brother immediately ran away from the area and attempted to build a new life in another country. Even ...read more

  • Many Of Us Would Agree With Peter When He Says ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Many of us would agree with Peter when he says that parts of Paul’s letters are hard to understand! And there are difficulties and apparent discrepancies in other parts of the Bible too. On this matter of discrepancies, I remember reading something written by an old seventeenth-century Puritan ...read more

  • Crossing The River  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Apr 15, 2006
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    CROSSING THE RIVER Max Lucado, in his book, “Six Hours One Friday,” tells the story of a missionary in Brazil who discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote part of the jungle. They lived near a large river. The tribe was in need of medical attention. A contagious disease was spreading across the ...read more

  • It's Amazing That Sometimes In Our Twisted World ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Apr 15, 2006
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    It’s amazing that sometimes in our twisted world that what’s right can be unjust - that some things that are legal don’t give justice to others. Perennially perky lawyer, Elle Woods understands that. She had just discovered that the mother of her Chihuahua, Bruiser, is being used in animal testing. ...read more

  • Novelist And Essayist George A. Birmingham Was In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Novelist and essayist George A. Birmingham was in his nonliterary life a clergyman in Ireland where he was pestered by bishops and other authorities to fill in recurring questionnaires. He took particular umbrage against the annual demand from the education office to report the dimensions of his ...read more

  • O Brother Where Art Thou?  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 11, 2006
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    INTRODUCTION... O Brother Where Art Thou? I was flipping through the TV the other night and one of the stations had on a movie that I have enjoyed watching before that stars George Clooney and was released in 2000. "O Brother Where Art Thou?" is a story about three prisoners (George Clooney, John ...read more

  • In The Autobiography Of George Carey, The Former ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
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    In the autobiography of George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon after he became a Christian he was called up to do his National Service in the Royal Air Force. He writes that the first test of his Christian discipleship was to follow the advice of his vicar which he found quite ...read more

  • Story By Ray Trygstad  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 24, 2006
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    Story by Ray Trygstad There’s a story about three people attending a church service one Sunday morning seeking help through the preaching of the Word. One was a businessman who had failed and was contemplating suicide. The other was a young man whose wages were not sufficient to support his ...read more

  • James Dobson Relates This Essay Written By A 9 ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 25, 2006
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    James Dobson relates this essay written by a 9 year old girl about Grandparents, listen to what she says: "A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own. She likes other people’s little girls and boys. A grandfather is a man grandmother. He goes for walks with the boys and they talk about ...read more

  • A Story Is Told About The Old-Time Evangelist ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 29, 2006
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    A story is told about the old-time evangelist Dwight L. Moody, the untrained, unschooled, powerful evangelist who simply committed himself to serving Jesus Christ with his whole heart and his whole life. When Mr. Moody was in London during one of his famous evangelistic tours, several British ...read more

  • My Family And I Were Watching America's Funniest ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
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    My family and I were watching America’s Funniest Videos Friday night. There’s clip of a bike race. A guy is approaching the finish line, way out in front. He pauses to raise his hands in victory, and as he does, he wipes out. As he gets back up, some 20 other bikes pass him and he creeps across ...read more

  • God Is Also Like An Obsessed Lover. Let Me Tell ...

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jan 25, 2007
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    God is also like an obsessed lover. Let me tell you what I mean by that. I have known people so captivated by romance that they have had the name of their beloved tattooed on their body. I knew one man who did that, and the woman he loved eventually broke it off with him. Her name was Marie, and -- ...read more

  • The Bridal Cup  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 16, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
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    Listen to this insight from Dr. Ray Vander Laan: In the first century, when a young Jewish man reached marrying age and his family selected an appropriate wife for him, the young man and his father would meet the young woman and her father to negotiate the “bride price,” the figurative cost of ...read more

  • Wives Want Soul Mates, Romantic Partners Who Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Wives Want Soul Mates, romantic partners who are compatible together and bring out the best in each other. The relationship has satisfying intimacy and includes friendship, companionship, and often a spiritual component as well as love. This means they want a husband who will talk about his ...read more

  • George Sweeting, In His Book The No-Guilt Guide ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    George Sweeting, in his book The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee. In 1968, Currier’s sentence was ...read more