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  • Bob Harris, Weatherman For Ny Tv Station Wpix-Tv ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,783 views

    Bob Harris, weatherman for NY TV station WPIX-TV and the nationally syndicated independent Network news, had to weather a public storm of his own making in 1979. Though he had studied math, physics and geology at three colleges, he left school without a degree but with a strong desire to be a media ...read more

  • Teens Read: According To A Poll Conducted By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,650 views

    Teens Read: According to a poll conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the National Education Association, teens rate reading higher in importance in terms of its impact on their future success than they do math, writing, science, and even computers. The survey asked 12-18-year-olds ...read more

  • The Wall Separating Church And Economics Is Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,849 views

    The Wall Separating Church And Economics is being breached. “More and more scholars have been using conventional economic methods to understand the way in which religion relates to the rest of society, and to the economy in particular,” says George Mason University professor Laurence R. Iannaccone. ...read more

  • Preparing Kids For Life: A New Barna Study Finds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Preparing Kids For Life: A new Barna study finds 50% or more of all adults contend that children are “not being prepared well enough” or are “poorly prepared” for the emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral dimensions of life. Intellectual preparation ranked highest with a mere 18% of ...read more

  • By The Age Of 5, Beethoven Was Playing The Violin ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
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    By the age of 5, Beethoven was playing the violin under the tutelage of his father--also an accomplished musician. By the time he was 13, Beethoven was a concert organist. In his 20s he was already studying under the very watchful eyes of Haydn and Mozart. In fact, Mozart spoke prophetic words when ...read more

  • This Reminds Me Of Two Elderly Sisters Who Lived ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 12, 2006
    based on 13 ratings
     | 4,423 views

    This reminds me of two elderly sisters who lived in Arcadia during my youth ministry days. One named Alpha, was always sick with some sort of ailment or another, the other, named Virginia, still worked in a county office even though she was in her late 70’s and never seemed to suffer from any kind ...read more

  • Dallas Willard Writes: "As A Child I Lived In An ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Ward on Aug 26, 2006
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,092 views

    Dallas Willard writes: “As a child I lived in an area of southern Missouri where electricity was available only in the form of lightning. But in my senior year of high school the REA (Rural Electrification Administration) extended its lines into the area where we lived, and electrical power became ...read more

  • Ewen Huffman Tells Of A Story In Reference To ...

    Contributed by James Kirkland on Aug 29, 2006
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    Ewen Huffman tells of a story in reference to Malachi 3:2-3a; There was group of women in a Bible study group studying the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three, which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." This verse puzzled the ...read more

  • I Realize There Are Many Pastors Here This ...

    Contributed by Douglas Duvall on Nov 13, 2006
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    I realize there are many pastors here this afternoon that are frustrated. How do I know? I hear your sermons. Let me share something with you that not even my wife knows about. Sometimes in the ministry I’m sure that as a pastor you feel that things come at you from all sides. ...read more

  • My Hometown Is Dadeville, Alabama The County Seat ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 29, 2006
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    My hometown is Dadeville, Alabama the county seat of Tallapoosa County, and I presently live in Wetumpka, the county seat of Elmore County. However, I was born in San Diego, California when my dad was in the United States Navy for 4 years. He met my mom there who was from Fort Meade, Florida - ...read more

  • The Impact Of Jesus On History Is Eloquently ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 10, 2007
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    The impact of Jesus on history is eloquently captured in a short literary piece entitled One Solitary Life. Perhaps you’ve heard it before. It reads this way: “Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and ...read more

  • Fellowship Of The Unashamed

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 10, 2007
     | 3,546 views

    Pastor Paul Ciniraj of India wrote these words: “I’m a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the power of the Holy Spirit. The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of Jesus. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be ...read more

  • Dorothy Sayers, In A Book Of Her Essays Entitled ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 25, 2007
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    Dorothy Sayers, in a book of her essays entitled The Whimsical Christian, has one essay called “The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,” where she writes, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It ...read more

  • The Novelist, A. J. Cronin, Tells A Story From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 7 ratings
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    The novelist, A. J. Cronin, tells a story from his own experience as a doctor that catches the wonder of the gift of grace. The Adams family at the close of the Second World War decided to open their home to a little refugee boy with the outlandish name of Paul Piotrostanalzi. The Adams had two ...read more

  • Bob Harris, Weatherman For Ny Tv Station Wpix-Tv ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 19, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,819 views

    Bob Harris, weatherman for NY TV station WPIX-TV and the nationally syndicated independent Network news, had to weather a public storm of his own making in 1979. Though he had studied math, physics and geology at three colleges, he left school without a degree but with a strong desire to be a media ...read more

  • What Is A Mother?  PRO

    Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
    based on 71 ratings
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    WHAT IS A MOTHER? Somewhere between the youthful energy of a teenager and the golden years of a woman’s life, there lives a marvelous and loving person known as "Mother." A mother is a curious mixture of patience, kindness, understanding, discipline, industriousness, purity and love. A mother ...read more

  • Missing The Point  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Mar 30, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
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    Missing The Point Isn’t it amazing how sometimes we get all tangled up with the words we speak and end up not being clear about what we’re trying to say? Back when I was in high school I had a poster that read, "I know you think you understand what I said, but what you don’t understand is that ...read more

  • Pragmatic Religion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 32 ratings
     | 3,531 views

    PRAGMATIC RELIGION Years ago in Germany, there was a young Jewish boy who had a profound sense of admiration for his father. His family’s life centered on the acts of piety and devotion prescribed by their religion. The father was zealous in attending worship and religious instruction, and ...read more

  • What's The Use  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 20, 2002
    based on 146 ratings
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    WHAT'S THE USE There was an old man that lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. The old man had a big family. One day one of the old man’s grandsons approached him with a problem. The Grandson said, "Pap, I read the Bible and I don’t understand it, and what I understand I forget as soon as I ...read more

  • The Gettysburg Address  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,523 views

    THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived ...read more