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  • Neo-Paganism Today (Over A Million In Us/Canada). ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 2, 2007
     | 1,157 views

    Neo-Paganism today (over a million in US/Canada). One example, Hellenic Neo-Paganism. This is from a UK Neo-pagan website: What Gods Do You Worship? Most of us worship at least the Twelve Olympians, in either Their Greek or Roman forms, as well as other divinities (e.g. Gaia, Persephone, Pan, ...read more

  • C. T. Schwarze Has Written A Thesis Called "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 5, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 2,578 views

    C. T. Schwarze has written a thesis called “The Bible and Science on the Everlasting Fire,” in which he seeks to prove the validity of the Lake of Fire. As an example, he uses the existence of midget or white dwarf stars. He points out the fact that there is general agreement among scientist ...read more

  • Language Is A Great Gift From God That Sets Us ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,484 views

    Language is a great gift from God that sets us apart from every other creature. But sometimes our words are misunderstood or mistranslated; for example, I found some commercial slogans that had been translation into other languages of course they didn’t translate the same: Kentucky Fried Chicken, ...read more

  • That Should Be Impressive Enough. But Then ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,656 views

    That should be impressive enough. But then Stoner analyzed the probability of 48 prophecies being manifested in one person. He concluded that the probability is one chance in 10 to the 157th power. That’s a 1 with 157 zeroes behind it. Again, Lee Strobel came to my rescue with a more concrete ...read more

  • Duct Tape Is One Of Those Invaluable Items That ...

    Contributed by Danny Pinksen on Jun 28, 2007
     | 1,372 views

    Duct Tape is one of those invaluable items that is able to solve many of life’s little problems. We have seen some examples in the video we just watched. In recent years, Red Green has certainly increased the sales of duct tape. He used duct tape for many of the contraptions that he developed. Red ...read more

  • Pastor Avoid The Appearance Of Evil

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 9, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,689 views

    PASTOR AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF EVIL Personally and professionally, my wife Kendra knows that there are some things that I need to be very careful of violating as her husband and as a pastor. For example, being alone with member of the opposite sex is something I am very careful about not doing. ...read more

  • We Need To Begin By Defining The Word "Righte...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 3,113 views

    We need to begin by defining the word “righteousness”. Righteousness defined: Root word = “straightness” “conforming to a standard or a norm” In Washington D.C. there is a building called the "National Institute of Standards and Technology." This facility is responsible for storing perfect ...read more

  • Be More Active In Knowing What You Are Buying And ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 23, 2008
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    Be more active in knowing what you are buying and who you are buying it from. For example, fair trade is a designation used for coffee and tea to not only make sure that justice is done by paying farmers fair wages but they also make sure that these farmers farm responsibly: they take care of the ...read more

  • The Word "Baptize" Comes From The Greek Word ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
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    The word “baptize” comes from the Greek word baptizo. It is just a common, ordinary, household word in the Greek language, which has been in use through the centuries. In Greek literature there are some typical examples of the use of the ordinary Greek word baptizo. Aristotle, who lived 384-322 ...read more

  • Trivial Pursuit Board ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
     | 3,393 views

    Trivial Pursuit Board Game - Created 1979 is a game in which progress is determined by a player’s ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions - The object of the game was to answer a correct question in each of 6 categories such as Geography, Sports and Leisure, History, and ...read more

  • Potato Provision

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Apr 20, 2011
     | 4,181 views

    POTATO PROVISION I remember just a few years ago when we lived in Poland as missionaries. We were struggling so much financially. The dollar had plunged in value and we lost about 1/3 of the value of our money and were wondering if we would have to return back to the States. So we were praying for ...read more

  • Harry Potter: Temptation

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jul 30, 2011
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    HARRY POTTER: TEMPTATION Every great story has great characters. And in truly great stories, the characters go through significant change. This change is called a character arc. For example, if you’re familiar with the Harry Potter series, you know that Harry starts off in the story as an ...read more

  • God Has A Rhythm

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Feb 25, 2012
     | 3,132 views

    GOD HAS A RHYTHM God has a rhythm. Everything has a rhythm. The universe has a rhythm. The planets in our solar system have a rhythm. The earth has a rhythm. The seas have a rhythm. The four seasons have a rhythm. Our bodies have a rhythm. Our heart has a rhythm. Our lungs have a ...read more

  • The Significance Of Spit

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 13, 2012
     | 4,074 views

    THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPIT Now why did Jesus spit in the blind man’s eyes? This is similar to another time when he spit in some dust and made clay, with which he anointed blind eyes (Mark 7:33). If a modern evangelist or missionary followed Jesus’ example in this, how well received would it ...read more

  • Little Things Can Change The Direction Of Big Things

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2014
     | 5,903 views

    Tim George gave the example of two warships that had the largest full-load displacement in the world: U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. The USS Nimitz and Dwight D. Eisenhower each weigh about 91,000 tons. They are over 1,000 feet long and can travel over 30 knots per hour, powered by engines that can ...read more

  • Edgar A. Guest Was Born In Birmingham, England, ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 26, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 882 views

    Edgar A. Guest was born in Birmingham, England, became a United States citizen in 1902, and eventually received the title “Poet Laureate of Michigan.” His poem “Sermons We See,” drives home the urgency of being a good, Christlike role model for others to follow: I’d rather see a sermon than hear ...read more

  • A Little Boy, Not More Than Eleven Or Twelve ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,325 views

    A little boy, not more than eleven or twelve years of age, somewhat delicate in health, and rather backward, once went to a large boarding school. The first night that he slept there, when they came to go to bed, he glanced timidly round the room to see what other boys were doing, and then he saw ...read more

  • We Live In An Incredible World That Has Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,730 views

    We live in an incredible world that has been wonderfully designed and marvelously created by God. When the last tubes of the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River for the Pennsylvania Railroad were about to be joined in 1927, a young civil engineer named Richardson was chosen for the task because ...read more

  • How To Miss The Treasure Of Pilgrim's Progress ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,748 views

    How to Miss the Treasure of Pilgrim’s Progress Through Ignorance Ravi Zacharias tells this story: Some years ago, I was visiting the town of Bedford in England. The reason most tourists go to Bedford is because it was the home of the famed 17th Century writer John Bunyan who penned his immortal ...read more

  • We Need Models

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 15, 2011
     | 3,084 views

    WE NEED MODELS Peter tells us not only that Jesus Christ is the model but what are the tools and pieces to put together so that this model is complete and working for God's glory and our security in our lives. I remember getting a model car for a birthday present when I was about 12. It was a ...read more

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