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  • Tending Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2010
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    Tending Your Garden Suppose 2 women were planting a vegetable garden. On the same day, they prepared the earth and planted their seeds. One then neglected her garden and waited for her vegetables to grow. The other woman worked in her garden regularly. She put cages around the young tomato plants, ...read more

  • More Government Procreation Policies: In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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    More Government Procreation Policies: In September, a pro-population town council member in Inari, Lapland (Finland), vowed to give up his political career if only the town’s women produced at least 80 babies next year and 85 the year after. At the other end of the spectrum, India’s Health Minister ...read more

  • The Bigger The Better  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 27, 2002
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    The Bigger the Better It was absolutely amazing. I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the nationals ...read more

  • My Resolve For This Vision Is Reflected In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 23, 2003
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    My resolve for this vision is reflected in the prayer below: More than anything else in heaven or on earth, I pray for the power to love my fellow person, to break through the condemning bigotry, the crippling prejudice, the stifling self-centeredness that smothers God’s Spirit within me, and to ...read more

  • A Study Released By Rutgers University's National ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    A study released by Rutgers University’s National Marriage Project found that the national marriage rate has fallen 43%, down 4% from 40 years ago. Only 30% of girls and 40% of boys responded that married people are happier than those who remain single or live with a mate out of wedlock. With so ...read more

  • High Opinion, Our Daily Bread, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 16, 2004
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    ILLUSTRATION... High Opinion, Our Daily Bread, July 3, 1989 A man who had a high opinion of himself stepped on a coin-operated scale that dispensed a card, giving his weight and comments about his personality. After reading the card, he handed it to his wife and said, “Here, look at this!” She ...read more

  • In – The Introduction To His Book, ‘what The ...

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 15, 2004
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    IN – the introduction to his book, ‘What The Bible says About Money,’ Alger Fitch writes; We need to be aware that we are but a small percent of the world’s population (less than 5%)… yet it is estimated that we own 50% of the earth’s wealth. We are an island of plenty in the sea of poverty. We ...read more

  • Charles Malik, Former Lebanese Ambassador To The ...

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Nov 23, 2009
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    Charles Malik, former Lebanese ambassador to the United Nations, asked in a speech: “What has been the greatest American contribution to the rest of the world? Has it been money? Has it been food? Has it been medical skill? Has it been military might? Has it been industrial know-how?” Then he ...read more

  • Don't Just Hang On...hang In

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    DON'T JUST HANG ON...HANG IN Decades ago, Oswald Chambers wrote about spiritual perseverance, defining it as... not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated. The Bible is full of examples of men and women who didn't "just-hang-on" ...read more

  • Jesus Had A Rose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    JESUS HAD A ROSE Judy Packard of Lake Leelanau, Michigan, talks about the time her neighbor, visiting the Holy Land, sent a letter describing the beautiful gardens. Her 6-year-old mused, "I wonder if he saw the rose." "What rose?" Judy asked. "You know," said her child, "like the Bible women ...read more

  • Did You Know That Every Year You Will See 14,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Did you know that every year you will see 14,000 sexual references on TV? (Josh McDowell) By their 15th birthday, 10 percent of girls and 27 percent of boys have had sexual intercourse … and the numbers rise to 56% for females and 73% for males by their 18th birthday. (Alan Guttmacher Institute, ...read more

  • The Bigger, The Better

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 25, 2007
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    The Bigger the Better Joseph Stowell recounted a story: I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the ...read more

  • Justice Scalia, In A Supreme Court Decision ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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    Justice Scalia, in a Supreme Court decision involving the so-called “separation of church and state” wrote: “Church and state would not be such a difficult subject if religion were, as the Court apparently thinks it to be, some purely personal avocation that can be indulged entirely in secret, like ...read more

  • Active Father Figures

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    ACTIVE FATHER FIGURES Active fathers and father figures play a key role in reducing behavior problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to the peer-reviewed journal Acta Paediatrica. Swedish researchers found regular positive contact reduces criminal behavior among ...read more

  • Thoughts On The Submission Of The Christian Wife

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Aug 21, 2023
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    Means to follow your husband as he follows Christ. Intended to bless and protect the wife, not to enslave her. Does not mean that she is without voice in decision – making (Gethsemane). Never to be used by the man by force. Never to be used as an excuse for evil. Should always reflect the way ...read more

  • Today We Seek To Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
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    Today we seek to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we will start with a portion of Dr. King’s "I have a dream speech". …And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this ...read more

  • The Value Of A Pearl  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 4, 2004
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    THE VALUE OF A PEARL Pearls were perceived in the first century in much the same way we view diamonds today. They were the most valuable gem in the world at that time. If you owned a pearl, you owned a fortune. And there was a good reason for it. Pearl hunting involved immense danger. The fine ...read more

  • Worship At A Garbage Dump

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2012
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    WORSHIP AT A GARBAGE DUMP Imagine a town built atop an active landfill. That is "Garbage City" in Cairo, Egypt, longtime home to an impoverished, marginalized community of Coptic Christians for whom life is only going to get harder. The so-called Zabbaleen have been the trash collectors of Cairo ...read more

  • 3 Men Were Walking On A Beach One Afternoon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    : 3 men were walking on a beach one afternoon when they came across an old lamp. The first man picked it up and began to rub it and out popped a genie. The genie said I am here to give each of you one wish each. The first man did not hesitate he said I want a million dollars – POOF, instantly a ...read more

  • Revival Came To North China In 1932 In Answer To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Revival came to north China in 1932 in answer to several years of prayer. At one point, Norwegian missionary Maria Monsen wondered what good her praying could do. She longed to see God’s river of life flood spiritually dry China. Then she realized that the mighty Yangtze River began when the tiny ...read more