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  • One Day As I Was Picking The Toys Up Off The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    One day as I was picking the toys up off the floor, I noticed a small hand print on the wall beside the door. I knew that it was something that I’d seen most every day, but this time when I saw it there, I wanted it to stay. Then tears welled up inside my eyes, I knew it wouldn’t last, for every ...read more

  • Women Avoid Negotiating: These Figures Are Taken ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Women Avoid Negotiating: These figures are taken from Women Don’t Ask, Negotiation and Gender Divide. 2.5 times more women than men feel “a great deal of apprehension” about negotiation. Men initiate negotiations about 4 times as much as women. When asked to pick metaphors for negotiations, men ...read more

  • In 1665 The Residents Of London Were Dying By ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 27, 2006
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    In 1665 the residents of London were dying by the thousands each day. The bubonic plague was spreading from house to house because of the unsanitary conditions. Rats and fleas spread the germs throughout the city. Almost 30,000 people died, almost a third of London’s population at the time. This ...read more

  • Serious Video Games Are Gaining Momentum Against ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Serious Video Games are gaining momentum against the shoot-em up variety. Eventually, “serious games will take over the world” of gaming, predicts Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Assn. People will use video games for learning so easily and so often that ...read more

  • An American Scientist Once Visited The Offices Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel-prize-winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that over Bohr’s desk was a horseshoe, securely mailed to the wall, with the open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not let it ...read more

  • George Muller, Who Was Known For His Strong ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    George Muller, who was known for his strong faith, confided. "The first 3 years after conversion, I neglected the Word of God. Since I began to search it diligently, the blessing has been wonderful. I have read the Bible through one hundred times and always with increasing delight!" John Bunyan, ...read more

  • George Muller, Who Was Known For His Strong ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 5, 2006
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    George Muller, who was known for his strong faith, confided. "The first 3 years after conversion, I neglected the Word of God. Since I began to search it diligently, the blessing has been wonderful. I have read the Bible through one hundred times and always with increasing delight!" John Bunyan, ...read more

  • Markus Barth Elaborates On The Special, But Still ...

    Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Nov 14, 2006
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    Markus Barth elaborates on the special, but still humble task of pastors (and other named leaders of Eph 4:11): "The task of the special ministers mentioned in Eph 4:11 is to be servants in that ministry which is entrusted to the whole church. Their place is not above, but below the great number ...read more

  • There Is A Story Of A Young Man Who Came To D.l. ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Nov 19, 2006
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    There is a story of a young man who came to D.L. Moody’s church and for six weeks preached revival from the single text of John 3:16. After seeing the great number of people saved and being himself moved, Moody said, “Heretofore I had been preaching on the [judgment, the wrath, the perdition and ...read more

  • Let Down The Nets? Give Me A Break!

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 2, 2007
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    Let down the nets? Give me a break! But then...Luke says, “When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.” Not the kind of break Peter had in mind. Not the kind of outcome he had in mind either. Have you ever reached to lift something -- a milk jug, ...read more

  • I Can Remember My First Fight. It Was In The 5th ...

    Contributed by James Chandler on Feb 20, 2007
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    I can remember my first fight. It was in the 5th grade against Wesley. We agreed to meet in the cemetery that was between our houses and the school. It was to be just me and him. But when I showed up there was a circle of kids who had come to watch the big fight. Fear overtook me and I ran all ...read more

  • In Ancient Rome, Military Commanders Who Had Been ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Feb 25, 2007
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    In ancient Rome, military commanders who had been victorious in battle, killing at least 5,000 enemy troops, were honored publicly in a huge civil and religious ceremony called a Roman Triumph. The “triumphator,” as he was called, was paraded through the city ahead of his troops. In front of him ...read more

  • Indifference By G. A. Stoddard-Kennedy

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Feb 26, 2007
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    Indifference by G. A. Stoddard-Kennedy When Jesus came to Golgotha, they hanged Him on a tree. They drove great nails through hands and feet and made a Calvary. Red were His wounds and deep, for these were crude and cruel days and human flesh was cheap. When Jesus came to Birmingham, they ...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

  • Two Men Were Hunting In The Jungles Of Africa. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Two men were hunting in the jungles of Africa. Fear and trembling overtook both of them as they saw their first set of lion tracks. One said to the other, “Let’s split up. You find out where he went; and I’ll find our where he came from” Not aware he had been conned, the dummer of the hunters ...read more

  • It Was Said That Socrates Taught For 40 Years, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    It was said that Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ’s 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity. ...read more

  • What Is Man…?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable inscription for the stone lintel over the doors of the new home of the philosophy department. After some reflection, James sent Eliot a line ...read more

  • Children Have A Way Of Controlling Our Life Do ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Children have a way of controlling our life do they not – I heard about a young boy who received a harmonica for Christmas from his uncle. After the first of the year he saw his uncle for the first time since receiving the harmonica. With a large smile he said, “Thanks for the harmonica you gave me ...read more

  • In His Book Mere Christianity, C.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration:In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, "Do not waste your time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Observed, "If You Read History, You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English ...read more