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  • High School Workers: When Surveyed In ‘00 And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,756 views

    High School Workers: When surveyed in ‘00 and ’02, a University of Washington study finds 56% of high school seniors had jobs in the last few months of their senior year. 4 of every 10 seniors didn’t work, two worked 15 hours a week or less, and 4 worked more than 15 hours a week. Most worked at ...read more

  • Confusing Beliefs: Although A Statement Passed By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Confusing Beliefs: Although a statement passed by the Presbyterian Church (USA) 2001 General Assembly affirmed salvation through Jesus, recent survey results from the denomination reveal some puzzling beliefs among its clergy and laity. The survey found that at least 70% of members, elders and ...read more

  • Years Ago New Engineers In The Lamp Division Of ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 6, 2006
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    Years ago new engineers in the Lamp Division of General Electric were assigned, as a joke, the impossible task of frosting light bulbs on the inside. None of the engineers took the assignment seriously since frosting a bulb on the inside was not a possibility by engineering standards. Eventually, ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, Diana And I Took Her Parents ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 8, 2006
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    Several years ago, Diana and I took her parents down around Tombstone, Arizona on a sight-seeing trip. We found a cave that supposedly hid outlaws in the old days, so we decided to go on a tour. The guides took one group of people after another down into that deep cave. I remember standing ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard Of The 2nd Law Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Feb 23, 2006
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    Have you ever heard of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? It’s a basic Scientific Law – right up there with the Law of Gravity. One definition of it says: The entropy (disorder) of a closed system will not decrease for any sustained period of time. (That was the shortest one I found.) To put it ...read more

  • Armand M. Nicholi, M.d., Professor Of Psychiatry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, had little compassion for the common person. Freud ...read more

  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the ...read more

  • Yet, So Much Communication Is Happening Over ...

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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    YET, so MUCH Communication is happening over INTERNET - people DON’T SEE Each Other SO - IS OUR COMMUNICATION CLEAR? Personally, I’ve found Email & IM – WORST way to communicate because it doesn’t convey my heart or emotions! New study - University of Chicago confirms / When reading e-mails ...read more

  • Kagawa Is A Famous Japanese Christian. He Said ...

    Contributed by W F on Apr 6, 2007
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    Kagawa is a famous Japanese Christian. He said that in the cross he found Christianity’s greatest uniqueness. He said, “I am grateful for Shinto, for Confucianism and for Buddhism. I owe much to these faiths. Yet these three faiths utterly failed to minister to my heart’s deepest needs. I was a ...read more

  • In Aesop's Fables There Is A Tale Of The Crow ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Mar 20, 2009
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    In Aesop’s Fables there is a tale of The Crow And The Pitcher A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far ...read more

  • Old Testament Scholar Christopher Wright States ...

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 26, 2009
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    Old Testament scholar Christopher Wright states in his book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, "I find myself aware that in reading the Hebrew Scriptures, I am handling something that gives me a closer link with Jesus than any archaeological artifact could do...Above all, this is where he ...read more

  • Somebody Once Said That Life Was Like An Onion: ...

    Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Apr 10, 2009
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    Somebody once said that life was like an onion: you can peel off one layer at a time but as you do so, its juice gets into your eyes and causes your eyes to be filled with tears. There is something that is known as the trouble of life. I read a comment by one man of God called Matthew Henry. ...read more

  • On Helping Your Brother

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 20, 2009
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    ON HELPING YOUR BROTHER Every poor and distressed man had a claim on me for pity, and, if I can afford it, for active exertion and (financial) relief. But a poor Christian has a far stronger claim on my feelings, my labors, and my property. He is my brother, equally interested as myself in the ...read more

  • All Hail The Power

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 7, 2009
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    ALL HAIL THE POWER E. P Scott was a pioneer missionary to India who One day found himself surrounded by a murderous band of tribesmen. On impulse, he took out his violin and began to play and sing, "All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name." When he reached the stanza "let every kindred and every tribe" ...read more

  • This Is Not Going To Be A Debate About Creation ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 24, 2009
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    This is not going to be a debate about creation or evolution, but I do want to share a quote from a well known pastor named Randy Croft: Astrophysicists have found that there are over 60 criteria that are necessary for life on earth. For you and me to live. Life could not exist or form if any one ...read more

  • William Tyndale On Romans

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2009
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    William Tyndale on Romans William Tyndale, the pioneer English Bible translator, wrote these famous words in his prologue to Romans (in the 1534 edition of the English New Testament): "Forasmuch as this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament, and most pure [gospel]. ...read more

  • Protective Equipment

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 26, 2009
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    PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT From John Gillmartin--Somehow, the young man found himself standing directly in the path of an oncoming car. The driver hit her brakes. Before either of them could do anything it seemed the 10 year old was shoulder deep in the windshield of the automobile. "Are you ...read more

  • A Medical Missionary Learns How One Group Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    A Medical Missionary Learns How One Group of People in India say, "Thank You" A medical missionary in India had found a way to heal people who were going blind. He said that once he’d done this operation on the local people they never said, "Thank you," because that phrase was not in their dialect. ...read more

  • The Power Of Hope

    Contributed by Gary Birch on Dec 6, 2009
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    THE POWER OF HOPE I read that a few years ago some researchers performed an experiment to see the affect hope has on those undergoing hardship. Two sets of laboratory rats were placed in separate tubs of water. The researchers left one set in the water, and found that within an hour they had all ...read more

  • We Learn An Impt Lesson About Change In General ...

    Contributed by John Perry on May 11, 2010
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    We learn an impt lesson about change in General Stonewall Jackson's famous valley campaign. Jackson's army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side. After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross, he called his wagon master in to ...read more