Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 4, 2023
Great multitudes will follow as long as there is no price to be paid, no contract to sign, no commands to obey, no orders to follow, no sacrifices to surrender, no gifts to offer, no commitments to keep, no burdens to bear, no suffering to share, no hardship to handle, no effort to exert, no pills
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 17, 2004
ILLUSTRATION... US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/cesan.txt
What do we spend our money on?
1. Housing
2. Transportation
3. Food
4.
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A grandmother was telling her granddaughter goodnight when the little girl said, "Mommy and Daddy are entertaining some very important people downstairs."
"You’re right," Grandma agreed, "But how did you know?"
"Just
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2004
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I do not trust people who never admit faults or sins. It tells me that they are either living under a delusion or they have filled their lives with so much busyness that they make no space for introspection. This week I was reading a book titled Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Game Boys In the USA, over 70% of males in the 18 to 34 demographic play video games, according to NPD Group. Young men play 12.5 hours of video games a week, while they watch television 9.8 hours, and 75% of households with a male member age 8
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It is said that Mahatma Gandhi was at a time contemplating becoming a Christian. He was so inspired after reading the Bible, especially the sermon on the mount. So he went to attend a church on a Sunday. And at the usherer standing at the entrance of the church told him that the church was
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Mixed Messages: A recent Harvard School of Public Health study confirmed what entertainment consumers already suspected: “ratings creep” in the last decade has allowed more profanity, violence and sexual content in the same movie ratings categories. At the same time the FTC imposed
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 19, 2011
SILVER LINING
We have in the English language a proverb, "Every cloud has a silver lining," It comes from John Milton's masque (dramatic entertainment) 'Comus' (1634). 'Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth her silver lining on the night?'
The proverb means that out of a negative
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Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Consumers Spent more on online content in ’05 than ever before. The average annual spending per customer topped $100 for the first time, according to an Online Publishers Assoc. study. Categories with revenue growth: business/ investment, credit help, entertainment/lifestyle, greeting cards,
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
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Many don’t want to serve except to serve themselves. But we all serve something. Some serve the idols of money and materialism. Some serve the idols of addictions. Some serve the idols of entertainment. Some serve gods made in their own image. We are called to remind people that God has created
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 9, 2012
WHAT DOES "SET APART" MEAN?
Jim Book: "My fear today is that many churches are dying because the average person in their pews have no idea what it means to be 'set apart' from the defilements of this world. The church is many areas is so worldly minded, it is difficult to see any real separation
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Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Apr 27, 2008
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS
Have you ever been given instructions on how to do something, but you were pretty sure that you could figure it out, so you threw out the instructions? I did that one time with a brand new entertainment center. I had put all kinds of furniture together before and I just
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