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  • Most Of Our Adult Lives Are Spent Working. If A ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 30, 2007
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    Most of our adult lives are spent working. If a person works outside the home for eight hours a day and five days a week, then you work 2,080 hours a year. There are only 8,760 hours in a year, and if you spend the same amount of time sleeping as you do working, you only have 4,600 hours remaining. ...read more

  • A Flippant Youth Asked A Preacher, "You Say That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a 400-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would ...read more

  • A Number Of Years Ago, Gladys And I Were At A ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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    A number of years ago, Gladys and I were at a church where we worked, usually without help, trying to bring in the children and youth of the community. We would pick up and teach children on Tuesday afternoons. We picked up and taught youth on Wednesday afternoons, and then had prayer meeting on ...read more

  • As We Look Today At The Eighth Commandment, "You ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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    As we look today at the eighth commandment, “You shall not steal,” here are a couple of stories to remind us that crime does not pay. A London taxi driver found an ingenious way to keep his cab clean. He would wrap up the leftovers from his lunch together with any other garbage he found in the cab ...read more

  • Stalled Engine  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 12, 2007
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    Stalled Engine There is no situation I can get into that God cannot get me out of. Some years ago a man was learning to fly. The flight instructor told him to put the plane into a steep and extended dive. The student was totally unprepared for what was about to happen. After a brief time the engine ...read more

  • A Few Weeks Ago, I Shared Some Questions That ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    A few weeks ago, I shared some questions that Gordon MacDonald believes are being asked by people at different stages of life. Now not only did those questions really interest me and cause me to think about the questions that I am asking at this point in my life, the story that MacDonald opened the ...read more

  • Watch Out For Wise Guys

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    WATCH OUT FOR WISE GUYS Col. 2:8-10 A college student was in a philosophy class which had a discussion about God’s existence. The professor presented the following logic: "Has anyone in this class heard God?" Nobody spoke. "Has anyone in this class touched God?" Again, nobody spoke. "Has anyone in ...read more

  • Story: The Other Day I Had Someone Complaining ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Story: The other day I had someone complaining about the church of today. She said the church should be the one taking care of the widows and the people in need!” She went on to say that the church does not give enough to help people out who are financially hurting or in crisis. She went on to say ...read more

  • Crowded Loneliness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    CROWDED LONELINESS At a recent small groups conference at Saddleback Church Randy Frazee spoke on the "call to community." He reported the average American family manages 35 separate relationships on a day-to-day basis--children, extended family, neighbors, government, school, friends, work, ...read more

  • John Suk Writes, "Soldiers Of The Symbionese ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 26, 2008
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    John Suk writes, “Soldiers of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst from her Berkeley, California, apartment on February 4, 1974. In return for her release, Patty’s kidnappers demanded that her father, Randolph Hearst, give millions of dollars to the poor. “On ...read more

  • Everybody Smells Us  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Nov 12, 2008
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    EVERYBODY SMELLS US You ever met someone that had no sense of smell? I have, and actually, an estimated 2.7 million people in the United States have an impaired or absent sense of smell. It's known as chronic olfactory dysfunction. Most people I know can smell when there is a certain powerful ...read more

  • The Visit

    Contributed by Todd Leupold on Dec 9, 2008
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    THE VISIT As Dr. Charles B. Hardwick points out (in his sermon “The Promise”, 2nd Presbyterian Church, 12/24/07): "On that Silent Night, God kept His promise: the God of the universe became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood – moved into a stable, moved into a feeding trough.. . God ...read more

  • Watch Out For The Wise Guys Col. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    Watch out for the wise guys Col. 2:8-10 A college student was in a philosophy class which had a discussion about God’s existence. The professor presented the following logic: "Has anyone in this class heard God?" Nobody spoke. "Has anyone in this class touched God?" Again, nobody spoke. "Has anyone ...read more

  • Watch Out For The Wise Guys Col. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
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    Watch out for the wise guys Col. 2:8-10 A college student was in a philosophy class which had a discussion about God’s existence. The professor presented the following logic: "Has anyone in this class heard God?" Nobody spoke. "Has anyone in this class touched God?" Again, nobody spoke. "Has ...read more

  • Augustine And The Bible  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
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    AUGUSTINE AND THE BIBLE For 2,000 years the Bible, often unaided by any human intervention, has transformed the lives of those who read it, many times dramatically so. St. Augustine is a good example. For most of his life he was a famed academic in the Roman Empire. He was very successful in ...read more

  • several Workplace-Related Studies In 2008 Su...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 4, 2009
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    Several workplace-related studies in 2008 suggest that the majority of working Americans aren’t all that fond of whom they work with. • When asked if a colleague has ever tried to make them look bad, 50 percent of respondents said yes; 48 percent said no; 2 percent said they didn’t know. • When ...read more

  • Two Stories Of Injustice

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
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    TWO STORIES OF INJUSTICE In 1984, James Ealy was convicted in the 1982 brutal murders of 33-year-old Christine Parker, her two children and one grandchild. Two years later, the Illinois Appellate Court overturned the conviction - even as justices acknowledged Ealy almost certainly was guilty. They ...read more

  • A Wise Bible Teacher Once Said, "Sooner Or Later ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 12, 2009
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    A wise Bible teacher once said, “Sooner or later God will bring self-sufficient people to the place where they have no resource but Him – no strength, no answers, nothing but Him. Without God’s help, they are sunk.” He then told of a despairing man who confessed to his pastor, “My life is really ...read more

  • On Excellent ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    ON EXCELLENT WORK A year or so ago, on the cover of the New York "Herald Tribune" Sunday magazine, I saw a picture of the Statue of Liberty taken from a helicopter. It showed the top of the statue’s head. I was amazed to see the detail there. The sculptor had done a painstaking job with the ...read more

  • Staring At The Gates Of Hell

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    STARING AT THE GATES OF HELL Auguste Rodin was a French impressionist sculptor. He created The Thinker. The Thinker was originally meant to sit on top of Rodin’s greatest masterpiece, the Gates of Hell. The Thinker is contemplating an eternity of judgment separated from God. Author Neil Cole ...read more