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  • A Chance To Warm Up?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 2,633 views

    Dr. Ted Engstrom said, “A man tends to overestimate what he can do in a year, and underestimate what he can do in five.” In a Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown says to Linus, "Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we’re ...read more

  • Princeton.edu Also States, "The Great Awakening, ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 5, 2007
     | 1,168 views

    Princeton.edu also states, “The Great Awakening, the series of religious revivals that swept the English colonies in America in the eighteenth century. The Great Awakening had other important social and political consequences, too. It brought an upsurge in missionary activities among the Indians ...read more

  • The Talmud From Babylonian Talmud, Tractate ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 4, 2007
     | 1,263 views

    "The Talmud from Babylonian Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin page 96b which is the beginning of the major section in the Talmud that deals with the teachings of the Rabbis about the Messiah. The first section deals with Bar Nafle, the Son of the Clouds, which is a name that is given to the Messiah. This ...read more

  • Rabbi David A. Nelson Likes To Tell The Story Of ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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    Rabbi David A. Nelson likes to tell the story of two brothers who went to their rabbi to settle a longstanding feud. The rabbi got the two to reconcile their differences and shake hands. As they were about to leave, he asked each one to make a wish for the other in honor of the Jewish New Year. The ...read more

  • Simple As That God Loves All, Loves You, Me And ...

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Dec 2, 2007
     | 1,810 views

    Simple as that God loves all, loves you, me and everyone we have ever met and seen, has no favourites hates none, excludes none all are precious and all have been given his greatest of gifts life and Jesus, all receive the former and have to chose to unpack the later to really receive the first ...read more

  • Walt Disney's Vision

    Contributed by George Mansfield on Jan 1, 2008
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    WALT DISNEY’S VISION When Walt Disney World in Orlando ,FL. opened in 1974, Mrs. Disney was sitting beside Walter Cronkite. Walt Disney has passed away a few years earlier. Walter Cronkite wanted to say just the right thing to Mrs. Disney, so he leaned over to her and said, “Wouldn’t it be great if ...read more

  • From Time To Time We Hear Statistics About How ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
     | 845 views

    From time to time we hear statistics about how people first came into church membership. These figures trace back to the Institute of American Church Growth, which asked 10,000 people about their pilgrimage. What led them in? The answers were: special need, 2%; walk-in, 3%; Pastor, 6%; ...read more

  • The Law Of Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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    Lewis ended the essay I quoted saying this: “These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. ...read more

  • Valued

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    VALUED David Neeleman, JetBlue Airways CEO, meets 95% of new employees on their first work day. From day one he demonstrates he values them. He also sets aside one day each week to travel on JetBlue flights, where he serves beverages and cleans planes. In '02, JetBlue wanted to hire 2,000 team ...read more

  • Real U.s. Median Household Income Climbed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    Real U.S. Median Household Income climbed between ’05 and ’06, reaching $48,200, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is the second consecutive year that income has risen. Meanwhile, the nation’s official poverty rate declined for the first time this decade, from 12.6% in ’05 to 12.3% in ’06. ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of A Teacher Who Gave Her Class ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on May 12, 2008
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    The story is told of a teacher who gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: "My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher ...read more

  • Circumcise Your Sin

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Jul 22, 2008
     | 3,103 views

    CIRCUMCISE YOUR SIN Thousands of years ago, before Christ was even born, devout Jewish parents would practice rituals or customs when having a child. The first of the customs was that the child be circumcised; the cutting of the skin. This symbolized that you were a part of the family of ...read more

  • Winners Or Losers?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 7, 2008
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    Winners or Losers? Let's go just a few years forward from Calvary. Another man in the prime of his youth, arrested for heresy by the Jews, a witness to Jesus, Stephen, the first deacon, was dragged out of the gates of Jerusalem and stoned, even as he forgave his murderers. The persecution that ...read more

  • Ray Pritchard Says, €œwe Don't Have A ...

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Sep 22, 2008
     | 1,891 views

    Ray Pritchard says, “We don’t have a leadership crisis. What we have is a servanthood crisis. We have too many people who want to be first, who want to lead the parade, who want to be on top of the heap, who want the big office, the title, the power, the perks and the prestige. We don’t have ...read more

  • Ray Pritchard: He Says, "We Don't Have A ...

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Sep 22, 2008
     | 2,221 views

    Ray Pritchard: He says, "We don’t have a leadership crisis. What we have is a servanthood crisis. We have too many people who want to be first, who want to lead the parade, who want to be on top of the heap, who want the big office, the title, the power, the perks and the prestige. We don’t have ...read more

  • The Law Of Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
     | 2,304 views

    Lewis ended the essay I quoted saying this: "These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. ...read more

  • The Law Of Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
     | 2,546 views

    C. S. Lewis ended an essay saying this: "These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They ...read more

  • Christian Book Publisher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 1,102 views

    CHRISTIAN BOOK PUBLISHER STATS Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The ...read more

  • Girls Who Become Sexually Active Before 17 Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    Girls who become sexually active before 17 are 70% more likely to experience a crisis pregnancy in later life and 300% more likely to procure an abortion in their lifetime than those who wait until they are older, finds an Irish Crisis Pregnancy Agency study. The survey found 14.9% of Irish men and ...read more

  • They Came To Pentecost From All Over The World!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 19, 2022
     | 1,328 views

    Luke’s list of fifteen geographical locations was a group of nations or areas in which known Jewish populations existed and would likely have sent representative groups to the Feast of Pentecost. Everyone there who spoke a language other than Greek or Aramaic heard the message of the Christians ...read more