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  • I Heard About An Old Farmer That Had A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 5, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 3,979 views

    I heard about an old farmer that had a grandfather clock that went haywire and chimed fourteen times one midnight. He jumped up and said, “Wake up, Nellie, it’s later than it’s ever been before.” I want to tell you folks, it’s later than it’s ...read more

  • In The Effects Of Divorce On America By Patrick ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
     | 1,467 views

    In The Effects of Divorce on America by Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector, we are told that American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose ...read more

  • When People Go Public With Any Belief Or ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2001
    based on 77 ratings
     | 840 views

    ". . . when people go public with any belief or plan: they will then channel an enormous energy into living up to those commitments. Now it becomes apparent why successful religious groups urge their converts to make some public testimony to their faith, and why effective motivators do ...read more

  • A Disease Struck A Certain Section Of Africa. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Dec 10, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,852 views

    A disease struck a certain section of Africa. This sickness is caused by the bits of the tsetse fly, which lives in the dense forest. Many natives succumbed to it and some died. The Belgian government sent in a remedy for the sickness. Missionary doctors were sent to the villages to give this ...read more

  • So, Whose Job Is It? According To A Kaiser ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,498 views

    So, Whose Job Is It? According to a Kaiser Foundation study, “94% of parents want teachers to be the ones to discuss the pressures and consequences of having sex.” Another ‘99 study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation reports that 50% of all teens say “they still trust their parents for the most ...read more

  • According To A Recent Survey, 70% Of Adult ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Sep 16, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,422 views

    According to a recent survey, 70% of adult American Christians believe there are no moral or ethical absolutes that apply to everyone. In other words most Christian adults have been poisoned by the drug of moral relativism. Most Christians have joined the non-Christian culture and believe we set ...read more

  • In The Movie Pearl Harbor There Is A Scene That ...

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 12, 2006
     | 1,692 views

    In the movie Pearl Harbor there is a scene that demonstrates this Two friends Rafe and Danny are airforce pilots. Rafe’s plane crashes and then he is shot at by some Japanese soldiers. In order to save Rafe’s life….Danny crashes his plane into the Japanese soldiers. Which results in Danny ...read more

  • There Is No Substitute Or Shortcut To Gain The ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Dec 15, 2006
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     | 2,751 views

    There is no substitute or shortcut to gain the measure of God you desire in your life. Time before God in His presence releases the store house of heaven that is full of blessings and opens the flood gate of revelation you desire! Intimacy with the living God is the hall mark of every great man or ...read more

  • You May Give Them Your Love But Not Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,653 views

    "You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, ...read more

  • I Would Rather Be Ashes Than Dust I Would ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,737 views

    "I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to ...read more

  • Seeing But Not Eating

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 8, 2009
     | 1,863 views

    SEEING BUT NOT EATING The Jewish Rabbi known as Rav held a similar viewpoint. Brad Young summarizes his view, "One will be judged not only for sins committed against Torah but also for pleasures in life that were neglected because of a false religious abstinence. The sense of joy in living comes ...read more

  • 7-Eleven Time  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 10, 2009
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     | 1,300 views

    7-ELEVEN TIME Essayist Noelle Oxenhandler writes, "But increasingly we live in the twenty-four-hour time of commerce, of convenience. It is 7-Eleven time, the fluorescent time of unmodulated, shadowless light, where coffee and doughnuts are available at all hours, where the rhythm of breakfast, ...read more

  • Under The Old Order It Was Simply Impossible To ...

    Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Mar 5, 2010
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     | 2,384 views

    "Under the Old order it was simply impossible to do the will of God, and if that old order still dominates men’s lives, to do his will remains an impossibility. But those whose life is controlled by the Spirit, those who follow His promptings, do the will of God from the heart. Their own spirit, ...read more

  • Success Is To Be Measured Not So Much By The ...

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Educator, as quoted in Bits & Pieces, Vol. T/No. 17, p. 5 "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to ...read more

  • Listening And Obedience

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 8, 2011
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    LISTENING AND OBEDIENCE I heard Henri Nouwen at Austin College several years ago. I remember what he said about listening and obedience. The word 'obedience,' he said, comes from the Latin obaudire, which means 'to hear.' By contrast the Latin word for 'deaf' is absurdus, from which we get our ...read more

  • No Entrance And No Exit  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,365 views

    NO ENTRANCE AND NO EXIT Peter Larson: "Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin's womb and an empty tomb. Jesus entered our world through a door marked 'No Entrance' and left through a door marked 'No Exit.'" ...read more

  • What Can Be Proved Requires No Faith To Accept. ...

    Contributed by David Tack on Nov 24, 2011
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    "What can be proved requires no faith to accept. Faith rests upon the character of God, not upon the demonstrations of laboratory or logic...To try to find a common ground between the message of the cross and man's fallen reason is to try the impossible, and if persisted in must result in an ...read more

  • It Is Very Beautiful To See How The Entire Old ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 26, 2011
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    "It is very beautiful to see how the entire Old Testament already appears to us as a history in which God communicates his word: indeed, 'by his covenant with Abraham (cf. Gen 15:18) and, through Moses, with the race of Israel (cf. Ex 24:8),' he gained a people for himself, and to them ...read more

  • One Professor Of Church History Gave This ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 3, 2007
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    One Professor of Church History gave this analysis. I think a reason some men "hate going to church" is, ironically enough, that many churches have failed to preach the Gospel. I don’t mean the Gospel of "Jesus dying for my sins." I mean the Gospel of God’s invasion into the ...read more

  • A Friend Of Chewing Gum Magnate, Wrigley, Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,255 views

    A friend of chewing gum magnate, Wrigley, was sitting by him on a plane. He asked Wrigley why he continued to advertise so extensively when his business was already so successful. The astute businessman responded, “For the same reason the pilot of this airplane keeps the engines running when we are ...read more