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  • Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 Million Families Had At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 million families had at least one child over 18 living at home in ‘03, up 7% since ‘95 and 14% since ‘85, according to the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey. They leave and come back, sometimes more than once, often after college, between jobs, before marriage, after ...read more

  • Revolution, George Barna's Newest Book, Describes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Revolution, George Barna’s newest book, describes what he believes will be the most massive reshaping of the nation’s faith community in more than a century. “These are people who are less interested in attending church than in being the church,” he explains. He found that while some people leave ...read more

  • On The Fourth Of July In 1951, Florence Chadwick, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 30, 2006
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    On the Fourth of July in 1951, Florence Chadwick, the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, attempted to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. The challenge was not so much the distance, but the bone-chilling waters of the Pacific. To complicate matters, a dense ...read more

  • Decorate To Celebrate: Consumer Purchases Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Decorate To Celebrate: Consumer purchases of Christmas and seasonal decorations have risen sharply since ‘00, according to a new research report from Unity Marketing, Gifts & Decorative Accents Report, 2003:The Market, The Competitors, The Future Trends. Over 60% percent of consumers bought ...read more

  • You Wonder Why People Choose Fields Away From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "You wonder why people choose fields away from the States when young people at home are drifting because no one wants to take time to listen to their problems. Ill tell you why I left. Because those Stateside young people have every opportunity to study, hear, and understand the Word of God in ...read more

  • A Member Of Alcoholics Anonymous Once Sent ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    A member of Alcoholics Anonymous once sent columnist Ann Landers the following: We drank for happiness and became unhappy. We drank for joy and became miserable. We drank for sociability and became argumentative. We drank for sophistication and became obnoxious. We drank for friendship and ...read more

  • When I Was Very Young My Family Took Long Trips, ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 5, 2006
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    When I was very young my family took long trips, and on those trips my mom often sang. This week as I prepared my message I remembered one of her favorite songs: Listen, children, to a story That was written long ago, ’Bout a kingdom on a mountain And the valley-folk below. On the mountain was a ...read more

  • Many Species Of Salmon Are Anadromous—they ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2006
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    Many species of salmon are anadromous—they spawn, or lay their eggs, in fresh water; the young migrate to salt water and grow up there; and the fish return to fresh water to breed after they reach maturity. Other populations or species of salmon are landlocked, spending their entire life cycle in ...read more

  • My Very First Dream

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 8, 2006
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    INTRODUCTION… My very first dream (p) I would like to begin this morning by telling you about the very first dream I can remember. It is not a long dream. I honestly do not know how old I was when I had this dream, I think I was in first or second grade. The setting of the dream is my back ...read more

  • My Family Has Always Had Interesting Holidays, ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Dec 19, 2006
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    My family has always had interesting Holidays, especially when my sister was alive. She was a little weird and so was her husband. I am being rather kind using the word weird but we loved her dearly. For example, when I was around 12 my sister came to visit from back east. My mom was fixing ...read more

  • Warren Wiersbe Tells A Story About The Days Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Warren Wiersbe tells a story about the days of the Old West. There was a horse bolting down the road with a wagon hitched to it and little boy trapped on the wagon. A young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop the wagon, saving that little boy. Well, that little boy grew up to be a ...read more

  • I Read A Story About A Man Watching Birds Flying ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    I read a story about a man watching birds flying around Niagara Falls. He stood and watched these birds over a period of time as they swooped down through the mist and near the falls themselves. Gradually, little bits of ice began to build up on the wings of the birds and eventually the weight of ...read more

  • Bevere's Story, "Now Here Is Where Many In ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2007
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    1. Bevere’s story, “Now here is where many in the church falter. They see the love of God in the light of the temporal, not the eternal. There is love and goodness, which are admired by society and many in the church but determined by human measures, and are contrary to the love of God. Let me ...read more

  • The Largest Church In The World Is Central ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 4, 2007
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    The largest church in the world is Central Gospel Church, in Seoul, Korea. It has an estimated membership of 500,000 people, and is growing at a rate of 10,000 members a month. The pastor, Paul Y. Cho, has his city divided into 12 districts with numerous small cell groups that meet together once ...read more

  • Facing The Truth: Beverly Sills

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
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    fACING THE TRUTH: BEVERLY SILLS Confession is admission of something; it is an act of disclosure. Here's a story in the Ladies’ Home Journal as once quoted in The Reader’s Digest: Being general director of the New York opera took a toll on Beverly Sills; she ballooned into obesity. "It made me ...read more

  • Nfl Players Are Some Of The Strongest Most ...

    Contributed by Roger Miller on Apr 27, 2010
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    NFL Players are Some of the strongest most disciplined athletes in the world-and exactly who you would want to walk with you down a dark alley! But look at Michael Vick and Big Ben and you know for a fact they are weaklings against sin! They are a worthless savior! It is a reminder that all ...read more

  • Workplace ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
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    Workplace Satisfaction Many of us here are employed in some form or another. Employment means that you have committed yourself to an occupation from which you derive your livelihood. You are selling your time to another person. The average person will spend almost 100,000 hours at work during the ...read more

  • Leaving Home Without Your Kids

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 27, 2010
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    LEAVING HOME WITHOUT YOUR KIDS When we left to Pastor a Church in the Whitsundays we left our children, Ben and Rachel, behind in Sydney. Rachel was still in her late teens, but both of them were already involved in Hillsong Church and did not want to leave. We remember the pain of driving off ...read more

  • Training In Godliness

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Sep 10, 2010
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    TRAINING IN GODLINESS Our daughter-in-law has participated at times in triathlon competitions. The triathlon is an endurance event in which you swim a certain distance, ride your bike a certain distance, and finally, and without resting, run a certain distance. It is a very demanding test of your ...read more

  • Middle C

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    MIDDLE C When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, was a university student, he lived in a boarding house. Downstairs on the first floor was an elderly, retired music teacher who was infirm and unable to leave the apartment. Douglas said that every morning they had a ritual they ...read more