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  • Families Rate: A Recent Gallup Poll Reveals That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Families Rate: A recent Gallup Poll reveals that Americans rank their family and health as the two most important aspects of life. Family was seen as extremely important or very important by 96% and health was rated high by 90%. Work, friends, money and religion were viewed as roughly equal in ...read more

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
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    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

  • A Short While Before Dr. J. B. Chapman Passed ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Apr 2, 2006
     | 1,445 views

    “A SHORT WHILE BEFORE Dr. J. B. Chapman passed away, he was addressing a gathering of preachers, when he said, “We have reached the place where one plays a handsaw and another gives a “Life’s Story,” gathering a big crowd and we call that revival. No! that is not a revival; that is a farce. ...read more

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,133 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,935 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

  • John N. Oswalt, Professor Of Old Testament And ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 24, 2006
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    John N. Oswalt, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Kentucky): “Isaiah calls to mind historic events which would give credence to the eschatological [last times, end times, judgement] hope. Gideon and his people, faced by an oppressive horde, ...read more

  • I Did Some Checking This Past Week On The ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
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    I did some checking this past week on the history and origins of Christmas and from the on-line encyclopedia, Encarta, I read, “… most scholars believe that Christmas originated in the 4th century as a Christian substitute for pagan celebrations of the winter solstice… Although the Gospels describe ...read more

  • Love For God And Ones Neighbour Constitutes The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    ‘Love for God and ones neighbour constitutes the sum of Gods requirements for the Christian. The man who loves needs no counselling. Love cements relationships between God and man and man and man. While love attracts, fear repels. When love gives, lust grabs. What love builds, hatred destroys. With ...read more

  • Dr. Henry Cloud And John Townsend Teach That, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on May 22, 2001
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    Dr. Henry Cloud and John Townsend teach that, ?as a rule, children don?t know what they are doing. They have little idea how to handle life so that it works right. That?s why God gave them parents ? to love them, give them structure and guide them into maturity. [From Focus on the Family website: ...read more

  • We Are Like The Man Who Approached God & ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 13, 2001
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    ILL. We are like the man who approached God & asked Him, "Lord, up in heaven how much time is a million years?" "Well," God said, "a million years is but a second in heaven." "Oh!" said the man, "and up in heaven how much money is a million dollars?" "Well," said God, "a million dollars is ...read more

  • The Christian Sees Through Kinder Eyes-Like ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Christian sees through kinder eyes-like Jesus. He gives from a bigger heart-like God. He speaks with a purer tongue-like Christ. He serves with more willing hands-like Jesus. He walks with a greater faith-like his Lord. He thinks with a spiritual mind-like Christ. He sees the needs of ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom Was Once Asked If It Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Corrie ten Boom was once asked if it were difficult for her to remain humble. Her reply was simple. “When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the back of a donkey, and everyone was waving palm branches and throwing garments onto the road, and singing praises, do you think that for one ...read more

  • Many Of You Remember The Struggles Of The Viet ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
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    Many of you remember the struggles of the Viet Nam War. During that war, our troops would often set up “fire bases”. These were bases where troops & artillery would be placed. They were arranged in such a way that if one fire base was attacked, usually one or two other bases could provide ...read more

  • The Church Household

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2007
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    (1 Timothy 3:1-13) Chrytsostom writes, "The church leader must be ’one that governs well his own house.’... For the church is, as it were, a small household. In a house there are children and wife and domestic duties, and some person has to provide order for them all. So in the church there are ...read more

  • During World War Two The P-38 Lightening Fighter ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
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    During World War Two the P-38 Lightening fighter airplane was one of the most effective planes for the United States. The United States gave some to our allies the British but their pilots were not as effective as the American pilots. The reason is that the Americans did not give the British the ...read more

  • I'll Never Forget The Episode Of "Home ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 26, 2007
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    I’ll never forget the episode of “Home Improvement” in which one the Taylor children had a part with three others in the Christmas pageant at church holding up cardboard letters that were supposed to spell “NOEL.” They got backwards and spelled “LEON.” Al Borlan, Tim’s sidekick, leaned over to ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago I Heard About A Woman Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Feb 4, 2008
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    : A few years ago I heard about a woman who called the Butterball turkey hotline. She had a turkey that had been in the freezer for a couple of years and wanted to know if it would still be okay to prepare it for their Thanksgiving Day meal. The operator told her that even though the meat ...read more

  • A Mobile Phone Is Just What It Called A ...

    Contributed by Segun Omole on Feb 28, 2008
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    A mobile phone is just what it called a telephone u can move around with. I could (and I actually do) use it as music player or even download games on it so I can play with it when I’m bored. This is not the primary use of the mobile phone and after a while the keypads will start getting faulty if ...read more

  • Some Of You Maybe You've Never Had A Good Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Some of you maybe you’ve never had a good church experience. My wife Liza makes this great dessert – called the blueberry. Once you’ve tasted it, you’ll keep coming back for more. Don’t just be content to go to church to sing the songs and hear the stories about what God did in the past, but rather ...read more

  • There Are A Large Number Of Men And Women In The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 16, 2008
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    "There are a large number of men and women in the church whose businesses are very successful; however, many give to the kingdom a fraction of what they've earned. Even though they are hugely successful in society's eyes, what will be the Master's view of what they've held on to? Even in they made ...read more