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  • Bible Fact & Fiction: Tyndale House In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Bible Fact & Fiction: Tyndale House in cooperation with the Barna Research Group discovered the following about American adults: · 80% name the Bible as the most influential book in human history. · 58% believe the Bible to be totally accurate in all it teaches. · 91% of all households own at least ...read more

  • I Am Steadfastly For Monogamy. Adultery Is Almost ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    I am steadfastly for monogamy. Adultery is almost certainly going to make a dent in trust and intimacy, and in many cases I’ve known, it has destroyed them altogether. A woman who is conducting a secret affair has to become deliberately deceitful...like a CIA agent or spy. She can’t just come home ...read more

  • Armand M. Nicholi, M.d., Professor Of Psychiatry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, had little compassion for the common person. Freud ...read more

  • On June 4, 1783 At The Market Square Of A French ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rages. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of "a respectable assembly and a ...read more

  • There Is Also A Mimetic Aspect To The Sufferings ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 19, 2006
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    "There is also a mimetic aspect to the sufferings of Christ. Peter tells us that Christ in His passion left us an example to follow in His steps (I Pet.2:21). The Bible makes it clear, however, that pain and suffering are not to be sought after for their own sake. That would indicate a ...read more

  • The Shocking Truth

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 30, 2003
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    THE SHOCKING TRUTH "Imagine if you will that among the Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. . . Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd ...read more

  • If We Believe We Are The Product Of Atoms, Time ...

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 5, 2003
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    If we believe we are the product of atoms, time and chance, we will conclude as Bertrand Russell: "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of ...read more

  • Like Bill Hybels, I Believe That There Is Nothing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 25, 2004
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    Like Bill Hybels, I believe that there is nothing like the local church when it is working right. In addition, I agree with what he says after that sentence: “Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. It comforts the grieving and heals the broken in the ...read more

  • Service Stations Everywhere Are Installing ...

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jul 1, 2004
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    Service stations everywhere are installing do-it-yourself credit card pumps. No attendant is needed since the customer can make his gasoline purchase and never go inside. Soft drink machines are now on the market that will talk back to you when you make your purchase. Now, other businesses besides ...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

  • Freedom To Choose One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 8, 2009
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    FREEDOM TO CHOOSE ONE’S ATTITUDE There is a book called, “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl. Frankl was a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Everything was taken away from these prisoners. They were stripped of their clothing, their pictures, ...read more

  • Elf

    Contributed by James Tilley on Dec 1, 2009
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    ELF Story of a child who stows away. He is raised as an elf. They dress him like an elf and treat him like an elf. They teach him to make toys like an elf. As time passes it becomes clear that he is not an elf. One major clue is that he grows six feet tall. Anther is how slowly he makes toys. ...read more

  • A Champion Blood Donor

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 10, 2010
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    A CHAMPION BLOOD DONOR Joe Kerkofsky is America's blood-donor champion. The American Association of Blood Banks will honor the 62-year-old retired security guard at a special presentation in Chicago. Mr. Kerkofsky lost an arm in an accident when he was six. He was thence rejected for military ...read more

  • A Special Visitor

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2010
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    A SPECIAL VISITOR This past Tuesday, it was difficult to drive in and out of our church parking lot because of a barrage of traffic down Webster Street. Where did this traffic come from? Downtown was blocked off because President Obama and Vice-President Biden were speaking at a closed meeting a ...read more

  • Would You Become A Dog?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 30, 2010
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    WOULD YOU BECOME A DOG? C. S. Lewis: “Lying at your feet is your dog. Imagine, for the moment, that your dog and every dog is in deep distress. Some of us love dogs very much. If it would help all the dogs in the world to become like men, would you be willing to become a dog? Would you put down ...read more

  • The Mortal Work Of Art

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
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    THE MORTAL WORK OF ART Shelley Jackson is a writer. Yet, you cannot read anything she's written in a magazine, book or screen. Instead, you have to look at people. Her story is written on human skin. Her story is called "Skin." Jackson calls it "a mortal work of art." It is a fictional piece ...read more

  • Eastern Religious Beliefs About Hell

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
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    EASTERN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ABOUT HELL Buddhists believe in 7 "hot hells" which await the evildoers - each flanked by 4 torture chambers that include a fiery pit and a quagmire. Tibetan Buddhists also speak of eight cold hells and certain "Frontier" hells for those guilty of lesser sins. Hindus ...read more

  • New Moms: An Amazing Design Feature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2012
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    NEW MOMS: AN AMAZING DESIGN FEATURE After a woman gives birth, when she is holding her baby, her core body temperature will raise by as much as 2 degrees in order to help keep the baby warm. Research has shown that even tiny premature babies can be kept warm with skin to skin contact with their ...read more

  • Indifference By G. A. Stoddard-Kennedy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 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 simply ...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