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  • There Was A Lady That Broke Down In The Middle ...

    Contributed by Shane Rodriguez on Nov 8, 2004
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     | 7,652 views

    There was a lady that broke down in the middle of the desert. As she walked the heat beat down on her and her tongue swelled and her lips cracked from no water. She finally sat down and gave up from walking any further. Later she was found dead from lack of water. The sad thing is a mile north from ...read more

  • Tithing Down: The Proportion Of Households That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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     | 3,428 views

    Tithing Down: The proportion of households that tithe their income to their church has dropped by 62% in the past year, from 8% in ‘01 to just 3% of adults during ‘02. In ‘00, 12% of all born again adults tithed. The percentage rose to 14% in ‘01, but dropped to 6% in ‘02. Groups most likely to ...read more

  • The Reason People Are Down On The Bible Is That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
     | 1,391 views

    The reason people are down on the Bible is that they are ...read more

  • The Impact Of Put-Downs On A Marriage

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
     | 2,785 views

    THE IMPACT OF PUT-DOWNS ON A MARRIAGE In order to uncover the processes that destroy unions, marital researchers study couples over the course of years, and even decades, and retrace the star-crossed steps of those who have split up back to their wedding day. What they are discovering is ...read more

  • Watered-Down Social Gospel

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
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    WATERED-DOWN SOCIAL GOSPEL Richard Niebuhr rightly challenged the liberal social gospel movement of watering down the offense of the cross with the scathing words, "A God without wrath brought me without sin into a ...read more

  • We Need To Slow Down  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 9, 2012
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     | 3,922 views

    WE NEED TO SLOW DOWN A study by the US National Commission on Sleep Disorders blamed half of all traffic accidents on tiredness. Put that together with our penchant for speeding, and the result is carnage on the roads. Annual traffic fatalities now stand at 1.3 million worldwide, more than double ...read more

  • One Of Denmark's Leading Sculptors Had A Burning ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 17 ratings
     | 6,758 views

    One of Denmark’s leading sculptors had a burning ambition to create the greatest statue of Jesus ever made. He began by shaping a clay model of a triumphant, regal figure. The head was thrown back and the arms were upraised in a gesture of great majesty. It was his conception of Christ the King: ...read more

  • Sanctity Of Life Sunday. Life, Every Life, Is A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 30, 2009
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    Sanctity of life Sunday. Life, every life, is a miracle. No matter what you’ve been through. No matter what your parents have said about you or failed to say, you are God’s miracle. I showed you one baby picture… here is one where you are at three days old. At this point you have 16 cells. You ...read more

  • How To Get A Sheep To Lie Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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    HOW TO GET A SHEEP TO LIE DOWN Philip Keller says that in order for sheep to lie down, four things are required: 1. Sheep must be free from all fear. Sheep are very easily frightened. A stray jackrabbit jumping out from behind a bush can stampede a whole flock. When one startled sheep runs in ...read more

  • Life ...

    Contributed by Samuel Fulkerson on Aug 23, 2012
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    Life Choices: AT&T FIRED President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. *He received a $26 million dollar severance package. Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten ...read more

  • Jesus, As An Example

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 11, 2007
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    Illustration: Jesus, as an example D. M. Stearns was preaching in Philadelphia. At the close of the service a stranger came up to him and said, “I don’t like the way you spoke about the cross. I think that instead of emphasizing the death of Christ, it would be far better to preach Jesus, the ...read more

  • Jesus To Them

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
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    JESUS TO THEM A missionary, lost at sea, washed up on edge of a remote native village. Half-dead from exposure, starvation, and sea water, the natives nursed him back to health. He lived with them 20 years; never made a confession of faith, no songs, no sermons, no Scripture; but attended the sick ...read more

  • Jesus And Unity

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 24, 2009
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    JESUS AND UNITY Jesus knew that people contribute their uniqueness to churches and therefore they make it stronger. Each person in the body (on the team) contains a host of knowledge, insight and experiences to a scenario, or a situation. Mike Murdoch makes this observation, "Look at those who ...read more

  • The Greatness Of Jesus

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Nov 17, 2009
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    THE GREATNESS OF JESUS "When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone upon the stage. All the great figures of history – Pharaoh, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Churchill, Stalin, Johnson, Mao Tse-tung – will realise ...read more

  • Only Jesus

    Contributed by Raymond Lu on Aug 8, 2010
     | 3,792 views

    Charles Colson said, and I quote, “Psychiatry, properly administered, can turn a schizophrenic bank robber into a mentally healthy bank robber. A good teacher can turn illiterate criminal into an educated criminal. But they are still bank robbers and criminals.” D.L. Moody said, “If you educate a ...read more

  • The Jesus Embassy

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 1, 2011
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    THE JESUS EMBASSY Almost every nation in the world has an embassy that is owned by the United States of America. No matter what nation that embassy is in, the ground on which it rests is U.S. soil. That land does not belong to that foreign country. Now, if you - as a U.S. citizen - are in Europe ...read more

  • Jesus' Birth

    Contributed by Kevin Barron on Dec 29, 2012
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    Steve McGuire, our retired county judge, mentioned to me the other day that when someone wishes him “Merry Christmas,” he will sometimes tell them, “I wish you a happy birthday for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!” He has seen, like all of us need to see, that Christmas was not just the lights ...read more

  • Jesus Cared

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Jan 2, 2013
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    JESUS CARED Henri Nouwen once said, "What we see, and like to see, is cure and change. But what we do not see and do not want to see is care: the participation in the pain, the solidarity in the suffering, the sharing in the experience of brokenness. And still, cure without care is as ...read more

  • Fans Of Jesus

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 5, 2013
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    FANS OF JESUS Fans of Jesus sooner or later find themselves exhausted. Fans grow tired or trying to maintain an outer appearance that doesn’t match an inner passion. They find themselves weary of trying to keep all the ...read more

  • Jesus Rules

    Contributed by John Crowe on Sep 2, 2016
     | 5,284 views

    Jesus did not go to heaven to get away form earth, he ...read more