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  • V ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 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 2002, JetBlue wanted to hire 2,000 team ...read more

  • How America Does Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,408 views

    HOW AMERICA DOES CHURCH "Unattached"--people who had attended neither a conventional church nor a faith community during the past year represents 25% of adult Americans. A third of these have never attended a church. "Intermittents"--participated in a conventional church or a faith community ...read more

  • Cult Growth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 2,277 views

    CULT GROWTH Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) reported the largest membership increases in a year, according to the National Council of Churches’ 2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches. Although Jehovah’s Witnesses currently rank 25th in size ...read more

  • Finishing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    FINISHING WELL In his book, "The Mantle of a Mentor", Dr. Robert Clinton tells us that the Bible mentions over 1,000 leaders. In a 13 year study, he developed case studies on over 900 of these. Later, he reduced that number to 100 and called these "prominent leaders." Digging further, he realized ...read more

  • What Keeps You From Church?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    WHAT KEEPS YOU FROM CHURCH? A young woman in China had been invited to a church and had gone just to please her friend. While she was there, she received Jesus Christ and began attending regularly. She did that because she found pure joy in her soul while she was at church. That was the one place ...read more

  • A Certain Oklahoma Farmer Had Been Taken So Many ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 1, 2008
     | 1,435 views

    A certain Oklahoma farmer had been taken so many times by the new car dealer that when the dealer wanted to buy a cow, the farmer priced it to him like this Basic cow $200 2-tone exterior $45 Extra stomach $75 Product storage compartment $60 Dispensing unit with 4 spigots $50 Genuine cow hide ...read more

  • One Evening Six-Year-Old Bobby Asked His Father ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 1, 2008
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    One evening six-year-old Bobby asked his father for a puppy. "Sorry, Bobby," his father said, "not now. But if you will pray real hard for two months, perhaps God will send you a baby brother." Little Bobby prayed real hard for a month, but nothing happened so he quit praying. But he was very ...read more

  • Be Like The Spider  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 2, 2008
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    BE LIKE THE SPIDER There was a man who was cleaning up his desk one Friday afternoon when he noticed an envelope that had been opened. Someone must have placed it there while he was on the phone. He opened it and read it, and to his shock and dismay it was a notice of being terminated, being ...read more

  • Pastor Dave Kinney, "Most Churches Today Are ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Aug 3, 2008
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    Pastor Dave Kinney, "Most churches today are more a museum of tradition than a mosaic of transformation! A museum is a portrait of yesterdays buried on display, while a ...read more

  • Interestingly Enough, I Read Of A Business That ...

    Contributed by Larry Vinson on Aug 4, 2008
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    Interestingly enough, I read of a business that exists in Albuquerque, New Mexico designed specifically for those couples in America who have gone through or going through a divorce. The company is called Freedom Rings: Jewelry for the Divorced. Founded by jeweler and divorcee Lynn Peters, the ...read more

  • There Was A Mother That Was Trying To Calm Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Aug 9, 2008
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    There was a mother that was trying to calm her daughter down and she said, "Now, Sarah, your brother said he was sorry he broke your doll so I hope that you'll forgive him." "All right, " Sarah said ...read more

  • The Olympic Scandal Of '67

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Aug 10, 2008
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    The Olympic Scandal of '67 In the year AD 67 the Olympics were held and six events were won by a quite prestigious competitor. The events were: Heralds (a trumpet blowing competition - the winners were then enlisted to announce the athletes) Tethripon (four horse chariot) Foals Tethripon (four ...read more

  • Note, Praying Friends Are Valuable Friends; It ...

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Aug 9, 2008
     | 2,149 views

    "Note, Praying friends are valuable friends; it is good to have an intimacy with and an interest in those that have fellowship with God and an interest at the throne of grace; and it well becomes the greatest and best of men to desire the assistance of the prayers of others for them. St. Paul often ...read more

  • Listen For What God May Be Saying To You About ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 11, 2008
     | 1,006 views

    Listen for what God may be saying to you about this. Matthew 4:23 “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.” To help you pray and listen. I have a prayer station set up. Take a ...read more

  • Got An Attitude??  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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     | 3,760 views

    Got an Attitude?? Scripture says this about your attitude: "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human ...read more

  • Too Many Hypocrites

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,930 views

    TOO MANY HYPOCRITES One of the most common excuses given for someone not surrendering to the Gospel of Christ is found in this statement, "There are too many hypocrites in the church." Many persons who are seen by outsiders to be "hypocrites" may be true, yet immature, Christians. Christians ...read more

  • Heart Of ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,478 views

    Heart of Temptation “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me.’ For God… does [not] tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives ...read more

  • Little 4 Year Old Johnny Was Caught By His Mother ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Aug 13, 2008
     | 1,735 views

    Little 4 year old Johnny was caught by his mother with his hand in the cookie jar when she asked him, “Johnny, why can’t you just be good?” He replied, “Oh, Mom, it makes me tired to be good.” If there is one area where all people struggle it is in ...read more

  • When The Man Is Out Of Place He Is Displaced ...

    Contributed by Charles Jones on Aug 24, 2008
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     | 1,287 views

    when the Man is out of place he is displaced because of not being in postion which causes the woman to be displaced or out of position because she notices that the Man is not in his position so she tries to take control because there aint no man in the ...read more

  • God Can Change Your Attitude

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 27, 2008
     | 2,196 views

    God Can Change Your Attitude We live in an angry world, surrounded by angry people. We can give all kinds of excuses for being an angry person, but none of them really make an angry attitude the only option. I went out to visit our friend Bruce Thursday. If you remember he had surgery for a ...read more

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