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  • American Donors Give About The Same Over The Long ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    American Donors give about the same over the long term. The IRS reports that those who itemize deductions on their tax returns have claimed since 1975 that between 1.6% and 2.16% of their income went to charitable concerns. Gallup polls finds that charitable donations run between 1.5% and 2% and ...read more

  • Private Help: A Yearlong Study Finds That More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Private Help: A yearlong study finds that more Americans now depend on private food kitchens and pantries than use the federal food stamp program. The survey, paid for by America’s Second Harvest, a network of food banks, shows food pantries, kitchens and emergency shelters provided for more than ...read more

  • A Popular Play And Movie This Time Of Year, One I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    A popular play and movie this time of year, one I always enjoy watching is A Christmas Carol. There is one scene that has always fascinated me. The Ghost of Christmas Past has just paid a very discomforting visit to Ebenezer Scrooge. Clearly the old miser is shaken by the entire ordeal. But when he ...read more

  • It Is Dangerous To Base Our Salvation Experience ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Jun 26, 2006
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    It is dangerous to base our salvation experience entirely upon feeling. Knowing that, and acting upon it, are still sometimes strangers. Like the psychiatrist who took on a very disturbed man as a patient. The man thought he was dead. No matter what techniques the doctor tried, the man still ...read more

  • Judge Not, Even In Worship - This Piece Came ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    JUDGE NOT, EVEN IN WORSHIP - This piece came from Dr. Paul Brand, veteran missionary surgeon: During my life as a missionary surgeon in India and now as a member of the tiny chapel on the grounds of the Carville leprosy hospital, I have seen my share of unlikely seekers after God. And I must ...read more

  • Our American Culture, As Well As Many Other ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Our American culture, as well as many other parts of the world, is becoming increasingly more friendless. A recent study by American Sociological Review indicates that the average American has just two close friends, compared with three in 1985. In the last 20 years our circle of close friends is ...read more

  • Graham Green's Novel, The Heart Of The Matter, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 31, 2007
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    Graham Green’s novel, The Heart of the Matter, is about a police officer in a British colony in Africa who becomes involved in a web of intrigue, a sordid affair with a woman, and finally the murder of a trusted assistant. Henry Scobie, the police official, reaches the point that he cannot live ...read more

  • Albums Dying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    ALBUMS DYING Last year, digital singles outsold plastic CDs for the first time. So far in '07, sales of digital songs have risen 54%, to roughly 189 million units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music are purchasing ...read more

  • The Church Is The Rope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    THE CHURCH IS THE ROPE Years ago at Niagara Falls two men were in a boat and found themselves caught in the current. The men jumped from their boat and swam for the shore. At last minute ropes from the shore were thrown out to them. The one man grabbed the rope and was pulled to shore. The other ...read more

  • Indonesia

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 19, 2009
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    Indonesia Indonesia is a country that is almost 90% Muslim. When I was up in SUNDERLAND in February 1998, when I heard Suzette Hattingh speak. She told us how she held a crusade in Yapura on the island of Irian Jaya and the miracles that she saw. The Indonesian army offered the use of 110 trucks ...read more

  • It's Only A Game...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
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    IT'S ONLY A GAME... Unhappy with a series of calls throughout the game, parents and fans in attendance at a Concord, N.H., little league baseball game last Wednesday expressed their displeasure with the umpires by showering them with vulgarities, threatening them and confronting them face-to-face ...read more

  • Senator Mark Hatfield, Former Governor Of Oregon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Senator Mark Hatfield, former Governor of Oregon and U.S. Senator for 30 years visited India and toured Calcutta with Mother Teresa. They visited the so-called "House of Dying," where sick children are cared for in their last days, and the dispensary, where the poor line up by the hundreds to ...read more

  • Feb 20, 2007. Chicago. For Oscar Nominee ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Feb 20, 2007. CHICAGO. For Oscar nominee Jennifer Hudson, there was no question where she’d celebrate her success in the week leading up to the Academy Awards - at her family’s church. "I don’t do clubs. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke," Hudson told a boisterous crowd at Progressive Baptist Church ...read more

  • Be Warm And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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    BE WARM AND FILLED! What does it mean that God has placed Christ’s church in our hands? One of the most stirring indictments on the church ever penned was made by Charles Schultz many years ago. Snoopy is shivering out in a snowstorm beside an empty food dish. He was looking longingly, ...read more

  • Stones: Throw, Stumble Or Climb ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    STONES: THROW, STUMBLE OR CLIMB OVER This week, I read a common-sense statement by William Andrew Ward about the way we live together in our world: "We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them." The first three choices (throwing, stumbling and ...read more

  • Thomas Edison

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
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    Thomas Edison “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become ...read more

  • George Whitfield's Sense Of Urgency In Preaching ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    George Whitfield’s Sense of Urgency in Preaching the Gospel "It should bless our hearts to see people turn to Christ, but it should also break our hearts when they turn away. George Whitfield often had to stop preaching because he broke into tears. When someone suggested that he should control ...read more

  • Achieving Goals: The Phillies

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 21, 2010
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    ACHIEVING GOALS: THE PHILLIES The team with the most errors in a single season was the 1883 Philadelphia (Quakers) Phillies who played 99 games and ended the season in last place with 17 wins, 81 loses, and one tie. They averaged 6.3 errors per game with 639 errors. They played for 67 years before ...read more

  • Remember Pagers?? They Were Cool While They ...

    Contributed by Chris Kelly on Sep 29, 2010
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    Remember pagers?? They were cool while they lasted. I remember being amazed at how someone could call me from anywhere in the U.S, and (through the miracle of tech.), a few min. later I feel this buzzing on my hip. Every time it happens, it’s unexpected and I kind of go… “OHHH!” But the message ...read more

  • Shout Of Triumph

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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    SHOUT OF TRIUMPH "'It is finished.' This shout of triumph rings with all the freshness and force of when He spoke it. The satisfaction He rendered to the justice of God was finished. But next, the Savior meant that the satisfaction which He rendered to the justice of God was finished. The debt was ...read more