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  • Abilene Christian University Researchers, Dr. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,942 views

    Abilene Christian University researchers, Dr. David Lewis and Dr. Carley Dodd have recently concluded a cross-generational study (six different tests) to measure fathers’ positive and negative influences upon teens’ spirituality. The found that "every time" dad’s role "as teacher came out be the ...read more

  • Card Quandary: The Stationery Goods Market ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,445 views

    Card Quandary: The stationery goods market reached $36 billion in ‘04, up 6.3% over ‘02. While greeting cards account for $10.3 billion in ‘04, sales of cards declined 3.9% from ‘02. The market is mature, with 78% of adult Americans having bought a greeting card in the past year. A typical consumer ...read more

  • Many Wives Think It's Really Just Sex. Marriage ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,858 views

    Many wives think it’s really just sex. Marriage and family therapist, Dr. Klayne Rasmussen, says men really want 3 basic things. (1) To know he is still attractive to his wife, even well past his Adonis prime. To most men, being sexually attractive is more than just being sexual. In essence it ...read more

  • Showing Up For Motherhood

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 16, 2006
     | 1,701 views

    Erma Bombeck: Sometimes we forget how important stability is to a child. I’ve always told mine, "The easiest part of being a mother is giving birth.... the hardest part is showing up for it each day..." Mother’s day is traditionally the day when children give something back to their mothers for all ...read more

  • I Drive A Lot On Interstate 5 And Can Relate To ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,387 views

    I drive a lot on Interstate 5 and can relate to the story of a highway patrol officer who was on I-5 late one night, when the road was almost clear, except for one car in the fast lane, barely moving, an accident waiting to happen. The car was crawling along when the trooper pulled it over, and he ...read more

  • The Rev. Frank Bartleman Was A Leader In The 1907 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,082 views

    The Rev. Frank Bartleman was a leader in the 1907 visitation of the Holy Spirit on Azusa Street in L.A. He said, "Men love the spectacular. What we do not understand is ’wonderful.’ God’s fire falls on sacrifice, as in Elijah’s case. The greater the sacrifice, consecration, the more fire. ...read more

  • The Noted Historian And Oxford Professor Thomas ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 13, 2009
     | 1,726 views

    The noted historian and Oxford professor Thomas Arnold wrote: "The evidence for our Lord’s life and death and resurrection may be, and often has been, shown to be satisfactory; it is good according to the common rules for distinguishing good evidence from bad. Thousands and tens of thousands of ...read more

  • Picked From The Fire

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Feb 25, 2010
     | 2,884 views

    PICKED FROM THE FIRE John Wesley never forgot a terrible night of his childhood. He was only six years old at the time, and he had awakened in the family's old rectory to find it ablaze from top to bottom. Everyone else had been dragged from the building, but by some extraordinary oversight he ...read more

  • I Was Reading A Blog About "Who Should Get ...

    Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Jul 30, 2010
     | 1,656 views

    I was reading a blog about “who should get the credit” and I wonder if any of you have some of these same ideas. One person wrote; “you know this phony god of yours has it good, it gets all the credit for everything good, and man gets all the credit for everything bad ... the best of both worlds”. ...read more

  • Pieces To The Puzzle

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 11, 2010
     | 1,979 views

    Why is it that we have more faith that the pieces of a puzzle made by a company in Taiwan will all fit together than we have that the pieces of our life that are presented to us by God will fit together? One person chooses to put like pieces together first, while another chooses to put the edges of ...read more

  • Baskin' Through Life

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 13, 2010
     | 2,005 views

    BASKIN' THROUGH LIFE Two robins were sitting in a tree. One of the robins turned to his buddy and announced that he was hungry. The other robin said that he was hungry too, so they flew down to find some lunch. As they came down, they saw an entire field full of worms. They ate and ate until ...read more

  • Make Sure The Captain Is On Board

    Contributed by John Perry on Jan 1, 2011
     | 4,167 views

    MAKE SURE THE CAPTAIN IS ON BOARD A young naval officer was undergoing his first sea training on board a naval ship. His responsibility was to safely steer the ship away from the wharf and set it on course for a voyage out to sea. He carefully went through all the procedures of disembarking the ...read more

  • Maybe If You Listened...  PRO

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 4, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,892 views

    "MAYBE IF YOU LISTENED..." In the middle of an argument, my Mum would say something like this - "Maybe if you LISTENED for a change, you would understand what I am trying to tell you!" So often I am not so much listening but simply waiting for the other person to finish so that I can get across my ...read more

  • Only Copy The Original

    Contributed by Allan Kircher on Feb 11, 2011
     | 2,196 views

    ONLY COPY THE ORIGINAL By studying the book of Acts we'll give ourselves a biblical STANDARD to follow. This is important because the sad truth is many churches don't pattern themselves after God's original design. Instead they organize themselves and operate according to the latest trend. They ...read more

  • The World Is Without Hope

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
     | 3,732 views

    THE WORLD IS WITHOUT HOPE In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Cat’s Cradle, an important book comes to light. It is titled, "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" The chief character is anxious to read it. But when he does, he finds that it ...read more

  • Which Do You Think He Believed?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,646 views

    WHICH DO YOU THINK HE BELIEVED? A man sat down to supper with his family and said grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of all life. But during the meal he complained about the freshness of the bread, the bitterness of the coffee, and the sharpness ...read more

  • The Style Of Indiana Jones In Discovering ...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 20, 2011
     | 2,274 views

    The style of Indiana Jones in discovering "Biblical treasures"!!! Yes, Indiana Jones stories are juicy and spicy, for they stoke the fires of inherent sense of discovery in all of us. Add to that breathtaking stunts and adventure, you have a heady mix guaranteed to give one some goose bumps. ...read more

  • The Accident Already Occurred

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2012
     | 3,868 views

    THE ACCIDENT ALREADY OCCURRED There’s a phrase in military aviation which goes like this: "The accident already occurred, we're just waiting for the plane to arrive at the crash site." What does that mean? It means the accident occurred miles before the actual accident occurred, when the pilot or ...read more

  • Last Words

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Feb 6, 2013
    based on 1 rating
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    LAST WORDS My father worked for the railroad when I was younger. One night a train was backing up to hook up to some other cars and one man was not watching. He was in the way and the train made the connection right through his body. He did not die immediately, but he knew he had only a short ...read more

  • Humble Confidence

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Aug 11, 2014
     | 4,818 views

    At the outset, I desire to bring to the fore, a ‘juicy’ tale adorning Science history. When, the invention-coal miner’s lamp- of Sir Humphrey Davy began to pale relatively before the astounding discoveries of his far more illustrious pupil Michael Faraday (in the field of electro-magnetism and ...read more