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  • You See We Have The Spiritual Side Of Worship, ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Thompson on Jul 30, 2005
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     | 3,258 views

    You see we have the spiritual side of worship, the music we make with our hearts, the bread that represents the body of Christ, the covenant that the cup represents and, the blood of Christ. And over here we have the physical side of worship. Actually eating the bread, and drinking the fruit ...read more

  • Ever Watch Your Kids – Maybe They Don't See You ...

    Contributed by Glenn Teal on Dec 10, 2005
     | 2,446 views

    Ever watch your kids – maybe they don’t see you and they do something wrong like on America’s Funniest Home Videos. There was this sweet little girl maybe 4 or 5 who is video taped stealing from the cookie jar and is interupted cookie in hand. At the moment of her getting caught she screams at ...read more

  • Martin Luther Understood This When He Wrote, "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 13, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,554 views

    Martin Luther understood this when he wrote, "The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays -- not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. “The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty --- not by ...read more

  • Surely What A Man Does When He Is Taken Off His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
     | 1,556 views

    Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the ...read more

  • Raise Sales By 20% Without Attracting Any New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    Raise Sales by 20% without attracting any new customers? Leo J. Shapiro & Assoc., a Chicago market research firm, says supermarkets can do just that by, among other things, making sure they don’t run out of stock and providing better help to customers looking for goods. If ...read more

  • Men

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
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    Men Of the estimated 94 million American males 18 or older, only 26 million currently attend church. An average man has 1 chance in 11 of going to prison. He has $3,100 in the bank and makes $27,418 a year. 1 in 4 will cheat on their wives versus 1 in 8 for wives. 1.9 million ...read more

  • Marriage Durability: Born Again Adults Who Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,229 views

    Marriage Durability: Born again adults who have been married are just as likely as non-born-again adults who have been married to eventually become divorced. Because the vast majority of born again marriages occurred after the partners had accepted Christ, it appears that their connection to Christ ...read more

  • Most American Catholics Believe That History Will ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,612 views

    Most American Catholics believe that history will judge Pope John Paul II favorably -- either as a great pope, or even one of the greatest ever. Seven in 10 predict the Catholic Church will make him a saint. Most American Catholics also say the choice of the next pope will matter to them ...read more

  • Teen Gambling: A Recent Annenberg Public Policy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Teen Gambling: A recent Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found 11% (almost double from last year) of high-school boys play cards for money weekly; 26% report gambling in the last month. Researcher Rachel Volberg notes one of the biggest problems with teen gambling is that hitting the jackpot ...read more

  • Household Restructure: For The First Time In U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Household Restructure: For the first time in U.S. history, the traditional family―a married couple with kids at home―comprises less than 25% of U.S. households. Non-family households are nearly 1/3 of the total, a 50% increase since ’70. Multigenerational homes, with 3 or more ...read more

  • Surely What A Man Does When He Is Taken Off His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,273 views

    Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the ...read more

  • But The Most Important Question We Can Ask About ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 27, 2006
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    But the most important question we can ask about the Bible is what does all that matter? Even if the Bible is God’s love letter what difference does that make to me? {Video Clip: Walk The Line - Start: Chp. 2:2:36 - Chp. 2:4:43 - 2:07} Johnny Cash’s brother is right. If we are going ...read more

  • Eugene Peterson, Earth And Altar - If I Am An ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 16, 2006
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    Eugene Peterson, Earth and Altar - If I am an atheist in my heart, making myself sovereign in place of God, and therefore arranging things in accordance with my appetites and needs and fantasies, I become a pirate in society. I relentlessly look for ways in which I can get what is there for my own ...read more

  • Henri Nouwen Said In An Article In The New ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,606 views

    Henri Nouwen said in an article in the New Oxford Review: “I realized that songs, good feelings, beautiful liturgies, nice presents, big dinners, and many sweet words do not make Christmas. Christmas is saying ‘yes’ to something beyond all emotions and feelings. Christmas is saying ‘yes’ to a ...read more

  • The Message Of Jubilee Was That When You Live ...

    Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 19, 2006
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    The message of Jubilee was that when you live with God your failures couldn’t ruin you for good. A fresh start was always coming. God is a god who flips things around to remake them. Isaiah even points at it with a word play. Verse 3: a crown (phe-er) instead of ashes (epher, ). Ashes were the ...read more

  • Billy Graham Stated, "One Of The Greatest Sins ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2007
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    Billy Graham stated, “One of the greatest sins in America today is the fact that we are robbing God of that which rightfully belongs to Him. When we don’t tithe, we shirk a just debt. Actually we are not giving when we give God one-tenth, for it belongs to Him already (Lev. 27:30). This is a debt ...read more

  • I Believe All Of Us Subconsciously Want To Be ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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     | 1,060 views

    I believe all of us subconsciously want to be creative. This is a very human trait and probably what makes the difference between us and the animals. The trouble is that for most of us imagination has been suppressed to the point where we have stopped using it. We need to stop and daydream once in ...read more

  • God Sends Children For Another Purpose Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race--to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion; and to bring round our firesides ...read more

  • Then We Can Have A Revival

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 22, 2007
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    If all the sleeping folk will wake up, If all the lukewarm folk will get fired up, If all the dishonest folk will confess up, If all the disgruntled folk will cheer up, If all the depressed folk will cheer up, If all the estranged folk will make up, If all the gossipers will shut up, If all true ...read more

  • The Preacher's Son Was 5 Years Old And Always ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,300 views

    The preacher’s son was 5 years old and always quick to give an answer. He was in Sunday school one time and the teacher asked: is there anything God can’t do – the rest of the class agreed that God could do anything. The young boy raises his hand and the teacher reluctantly calls on him. Ok, she ...read more