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  • Persistent Kids The Center For A New American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Persistent Kids The Center for a New American Dream reports 55% of young people say they are usually successful on getting their parents to give in. 40% have asked their parents for an advertised product they thought their parents would not approve of, and of those 59% say they don’t give up—they ...read more

  • More Born Again New Barna Research Finds 45% Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    More Born Again New Barna research finds 45% of all U.S. adults meet the Barna Group “born again” criteria. That’s up from 31% in ‘83. It hovered in the 36% to 43% range from ‘92 through ‘05. The current figure represents the largest single-year increase since ‘91. A 16-point rise among Baby ...read more

  • Divorce Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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     | 3,329 views

    DIVORCE ACCEPTED A record 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable (up 59% from ’00), finds Gallup’s ’08 Values and Beliefs Survey. Marriage Savers’ Mike McManus says, “Since 1970, that’s 42 million divorces, shattering the lives of 40 million children. We have the highest divorce ...read more

  • Good God Almighty

    Contributed by Louis Pantelis on May 21, 2009
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    GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY I am reminded of the story of the fellow that always fell asleep during the pastor’s sermon. The wife had decided to keep him awake - so she took a large hair pin with the intention of sticking him with it when he nodded off. Sure enough, right in the middle of the pastor’s ...read more

  • Pick Out Three Hymns

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    PICK OUT THREE HYMNS I heard about this pastor. He was raising money for a new sanctuary. He told his congregation one Sunday morning "If anybody will give $1000, you can pick out three hymns." A little old lady in the back raised up her hand and said "Pastor, I’ll do it." He was so excited. He ...read more

  • How Far Do We Take This? Jesus Doesn't Say. I ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 13, 2009
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    How far do we take this? Jesus doesn’t say. I can’t tell you but I can make suggestions that push you to a greater dependence on God and a greater obedience. Albert Schweitzer left his status as a professor, gave up his organ playing and went to Africa as a missionary doctor. He believed this ...read more

  • Write It Down

    Contributed by Ted Harvey on Jul 31, 2009
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    WRITE IT DOWN Ma and Pa were sitting on the porch swing. Ma asked Pa to go down to the drug store and buy her an ice cream sundae with chocolate syrup. And she told him to write it down because he wouldn’t remember it. He told her he would not write it down; he didn’t need to write it down; he ...read more

  • Who Is The Worst Sinner You Know?

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
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    WHO IS THE WORST SINNER YOU KNOW? "Who is the worse sinner you know? Are you more aware of your own sin or those sins of others? Because of God’s amazingly gracious heart toward those who thoroughly deserve only His wrath, He both planned for and provided this mediator to resolve the divine ...read more

  • St. Peter's Basilica In Rome Has A Holy Door ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Sep 2, 2009
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    St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome has a holy door called the “Porta Sancta” which is only opened during a Holy Year of Jubilee which occurs every 25 years. The last one was in 2000. On Christmas Eve of 2000, Pope John Paul II struck a brick wall with a silver hammer, opening up the passage. (The ...read more

  • "On The Top Of A Hill In A Midwestern State S...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    "On the top of a hill in a Midwestern state stands a courthouse so situated that raindrops falling on one side of the roof travel by way of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic, while drops landing on the opposite side find their way through the Ohio and Mississippi to the Gulf. Just a breath of wind ...read more

  • When Julie Gave Birth To Our Son Ben, And Then To ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
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    When Julie gave birth to our son Ben, and then to Rachel two years later, I was overjoyed. I held them up to God soon after birth and praised God for the privilege of raising them. I realized even then that they belonged to Him, and I needed His help to be a parent. I drove home in the car honking ...read more

  • How Spiritual Are You

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
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    HOW SPIRITUAL ARE YOU Tell me how much time you spend alone with God...I will tell you how spiritual you are..and I mean really alone. Not how many meetings you go to...not how many gifts or talents you have...not how many sermons you preach...not how many records you’ve recorded or produced...not ...read more

  • She Believed In Me

    Contributed by Jorge Acevedo on Feb 23, 2010
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    "SHE BELIEVED IN ME" Several weeks ago, an American Idol contestant said something like this before facing the judges, "I'm doing this for my best friend who died 4 years ago." They showed pictures of her and her friend laughing and doing things together. Then, crying she said, 'She was the only ...read more

  • Baseball Season Is Fast Approaching. I Like The ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Apr 9, 2010
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    Baseball season is fast approaching. I like the Mets. When the Mets won the World Series in 1969 they were dubbed, ‘the Amazing Mets’. Up until that year, the Mets didn’t have one winning season to their credit. The team they were facing in the series, the Baltimore Orioles, who had won 109 games ...read more

  • When God Forgives, He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2010
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    “When God Forgives, He Forgets” How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. “I know” was the answer, “that you have been good all this week, but you know your were bad last week.” In ...read more

  • The Eagle And The Vulture  PRO

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
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    THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE A story is told of two birds that soared far above a beautiful national park. They flew the same path, at the same altitude, at the same speed. The eagle returned to tell all about the beautiful waterfalls and streams full of trout, breath-taking landscapes of colorful ...read more

  • Too Close To Where We Got In

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Sep 21, 2010
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    TOO CLOSE TO WHERE WE GOT IN A little boy fell out of the bed in his sleep. His father picked him up and put him back in bed. He asked him, "Son, what happened?" The little boy responded, "I fell asleep too close to where I got in." I believe that describes too many Christians today. They have ...read more

  • Is There Grass On Your Path?  PRO

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    IS THERE GRASS ON YOUR PATH? In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these "prayer rooms" by using their own ...read more

  • The Four Sham Pillars

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    THE FOUR SHAM PILLARS In 1689 the architect Sir Christopher Wren designed the interior of Windsor Town Hall near London. He built a ceiling supported by pillars. After city fathers had inspected the finished building, they decided the ceiling would not stay up, and so they ordered Wren to put in ...read more

  • The Man Who Came For The Blind

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    THE MAN WHO CAME FOR THE BLIND A fellow in our office told us recently of a household incident of which he had been an innocent but perplexed spectator. Our friend had called a Venetian-blind repairman to come pick up a faulty blind, and the next morning, while the family was seated at the ...read more