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  • Christian Values ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    CHRISTIAN VALUES STATISTICS 93% of U.S. Christians think tax-funded schools should not promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle. 92% of U.S. Christians think it is "very important" to prevent homosexual "marriage" from becoming legal. 89% of U.S. Christians ...read more

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  • Mary, Joseph, And Kiddushin

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 19, 2010
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    MARY, JOSEPH, AND KIDDUSHIN David Stern comments, "The Hebrew/Aramaic word for betrothal is "kiddushin," which signifies "sanctification, separation," i.e., the setting aside and separating of a particular woman for a particular man. According to the Mishna, adultery during the betrothal period ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • The True Christmas Longing  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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    THE TRUE CHRISTMAS LONGING C.S. Lewis writes in “Mere Christianity”: “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give ...read more

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    Denomination: Mennonite

  • Wives Want Soul Mates, Romantic Partners Who Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Wives Want Soul Mates, romantic partners who are compatible together and bring out the best in each other. The relationship has satisfying intimacy and includes friendship, companionship, and often a spiritual component as well as love. This means they want a husband who will talk about his ...read more

  • The Beautiful Country: Predestination

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jun 6, 2011
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    THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY: PREDESTINATION A few years ago, a movie came out about a boy in Vietnam who’s father had been an American GI (The Beautiful Country). His life was miserable because no one in Vietnam accepted him. He was a half-breed. His mother wanted him to try to escape to America to ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Not Long Ago, I Was Visiting With A Young Woman ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rita Sims on May 2, 2001
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    Not long ago, I was visiting with a young woman who had served in the military. She was stationed in Cuba. She didn’t like it there at all. She had recently gone through a traumatic divorce. Now, she was separated from her country and from her family in Cuba, of all places. She hated it and ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • What To Do With Loneliness  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
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    WHAT TO DO WITH LONELINESS Lee Strobel writes: People today will admit any problem - drugs, divorce, alcoholism - "but there’s one admission that people are loath to make, whether they’re a star on television or someone who fixes televisions in a repair shop. It’s just too embarrassing. It ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Ultimately Let Me Share What I Believe Is At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 23, 2004
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    Ultimately let me share what I believe is at stake. In 1947, sociologist and historian Dr. Carle Zimmerman studied the deterioration and ultimate disintegration of various cultures. He found that in each society the disintegration of the culture was preceded by the disintegration of the family. He ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Black Adults Are The U.s. Population Segment To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Black Adults are the U.S. population segment to most likely to parallel Christian or biblical teachings. They are the likely to contend the Bible is accurate in its teachings, that religious faith is very important in their life, that they have a personal responsibility to evangelize, that Jesus ...read more

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  • No One Missed Him

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 7, 2012
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    NO ONE MISSED HIM There was a story in the papers years ago that occurred in Hamburg, Germany. The skeletal remains of a man were found in his apartment, sitting in front of a TV set, with Christmas lights twinkling nearby. But the lights were from a long past year. In fact, the man had been ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • June 25, 1963 The Supreme Court Struck Down ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Dec 10, 2008
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    June 25, 1963 the Supreme Court struck down legislation that would allow school prayer. The case was Engel V. Vitale. It was a 22 word prayer that went like this: "Almighty God we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country". ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • A Wired Generation: Those Between Ages 10 And 17 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,180 views

    A Wired Generation: Those between ages 10 and 17 will center much of their life around the Internet. They will spend over 23 years of their lives online. They will send an average of 304,000 e-mails and just 265 hand-written love notes. 66% of all marriages will ...read more

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  • In Operation Desert Storm, Our Military Had One ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Dec 5, 2006
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    In Operation Desert Storm, our military had one objective on the first night of operations: attack all communications installations and destroy them! Here’s why – if you can dismantle and disable someone’s communication network, you can defeat them. The same is true in our relationships, ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • Devil Says "I'll Make Your Music Career Take Off ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 21, 2008
     | 1,402 views

    Devil says “I’ll make your music career take off if you quit singing gospel” “I’ll make you popular if you Party and have sex” “I’ll make your self esteem higher if you sleep with a lot of people” “I’ll give ...read more

    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Ron R. Was Discussing The Fragility Of Many ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 28, 2008
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    Ron R. was discussing the fragility of many marriages with his girlfriend and posed the following question, “What if you wake up one morning and don’t love me anymore?” She immediately responded, “There’s always obedience.” Not obedience to her husband, but obedience to God’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Successful Parenting - Two Hands

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 13, 2023
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    The secret of all successful marriages ......... of all successful parenting...... always rests ... in two sets of hands. First and foremost, ... in the hand of God ...... and secondly ... in our hands. If we allow those hands ... (Clasp them) to be linked together ...... the results are ... ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • What Do Mothers Want?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2004
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    WHAT DO MOTHERS WANT? Maggie Gallagher is President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a co-author of The Case for Marriage. As an early-forties mom, she is beginning to regret the children that she never had. She always wanted four, but career and life left her with two. ...read more

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  • The Key To The Spiritual Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
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    THE KEY TO THE SPIRITUAL LIFE At age 16, Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) was forced into an arranged marriage with an invalid 22 years older. She found her marriage to be one of utter humiliation. Her husband was often angry and melancholy. Her mother-in-law was a merciless critic. Even the maid ...read more

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  • Among Christian Adults 64% Believe Male/Female ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2008
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    Among Christian adults 64% believe male/female cohabitation outside of marriage is acceptable. 55% of Christian adults believe a good person can earn his or her salvation. 44% believe Jesus Christ committed sins while on earth. 91% of students from evangelical churches do not believe in absolute ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Commitment

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
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    COMMITMENT When the explorer, Cortez, landed in Mexico with his 500 men, he did a wise thing; he burned the ships. His men realized that they must be committed to staying and to succeeding here because there was no turning back. Families have to have that type of commitment… no holding back, no ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist