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  • Sometimes I Find Myself Like The Little Boy ...

    Contributed by Charles Newman on Aug 4, 2007
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     | 1,974 views

    Sometimes I find myself like the little boy reasoned in his prayer to God. He told God that "Lord, if you can’t make me a better boy, don’t worry about it. I’m having a real good time like I am." We get so caught up in ...read more

  • A Skit – 3 People Up Front, Each With A Plate ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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    A Skit – 3 people up front, each with a plate and snack in front of him/her. All 3 are very hungry. Person #1 thinks really hard about the food. Person #2 touches the food – maybe smells or licks it. Person #3 devours it, then asks the ...read more

  • God's Attention Is Focused On You And He Will ...

    Contributed by Charles Whitmire on Jan 6, 2008
     | 1,626 views

    God’s attention is focused on you and he will give you peace When my wife and I are talking I am often guilty of doing something else... Every now and again, I have to hit the pause on the TV, or turn off the radio and ask her to repeat ...read more

  • His Is The Season Of The Song. What Holiday, ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    his is the season of the song. What holiday, other than perhaps Easter, do we celebrate and remember with so much singing? Christmas carols and songs are a part of this holiday season. What would Christmas be like without the classic carols, “Silent Night” or” Away In A Manger?” Or the traditional ...read more

  • Arthur Rubinstein, The World-Famous Pianist, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Arthur Rubinstein, the world-famous pianist, wrote years ago about the importance of practicing every day. He said: "If I don’t practice one day, nobody knows. If I don’t practice two days, then I know. But if I don’t practice three ...read more

  • According To A Recent Deloitte Consumer Product ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,594 views

    According to a recent Deloitte Consumer Product group, 62% of consumers read consumer-written product reviews on the Internet, and of these, more than 80% say their purchase decisions have been directly influenced by the reviews, either influencing them to buy a different product than the one they ...read more

  • Quote: "God Chasers Are After The Fresh ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on May 18, 2008
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    QUOTE: “God chasers are after the fresh presence of the Almighty. Sometimes their pursuit raises the eyebrows of the existing church, but usually they lead the church from a place of dryness back into the place of His presence. It’s simply not enough to know about God. We have churches filled ...read more

  • One Old Minister Heard Some Ask In A Service ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 7, 2008
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    One old minister heard some ask in a service "Pastor did not Peter say the devil walk about as a roaring lion?" The pastor answered saying "The reason the devil is roaring is that Jesus pulled all his teeth and all the devil can do is make noise because he is ...read more

  • Purity Is Laughed At These Days. I Recently Read ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008
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    Purity is laughed at these days. I recently read an article on the internet about the recent reports and views expressed before a key Congressional Committee on abstinence only programs and their perceived failures. Some who testified thought they should be done away with while others thought that ...read more

  • One Very Important Ingredient Of Success Is A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. An enemy to an ambitious man is like the rhinoceros bird to the rhinoceros. When the enemy comes the rhinoceros bird tells about it. When a successful man is making mistakes the enemy immediately calls ...read more

  • Cohabiting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    COHABITING COUPLES The National Marriage Project study of a sampling of Western European and Scandinavian nations, Australia, Canada and New Zealand found 15% to 30% of couples live together, compared with about 10% in the U.S. Since 1970, cohabitation has risen from 500,000 to 5 ...read more

  • A Mother Knows She's Been Home Too Long For The ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
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    A mother knows she’s been home too long for the following reasons: 1. She begins to talk to Barney as a real person. 2. She forgets which one is real – Mister Rogers or King Friday. 3. She cries for a wedding on Sesame Street. 4. She is one of the congregation ...read more

  • According To Wikipedia,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
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    According to Wikipedia, "The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million ...read more

  • As You All Know By Now, My Favorite Football ...

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Nov 12, 2009
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    As you all know by now, my favorite football team is the Cleveland Browns, and may God have mercy upon me! Our current coach, although hopefully not for long, has a favorite saying when ask about why his team is performing so badly. When asked he simply says, ...read more

  • When We Lived In The Ukraine For A Month, We ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 20, 2009
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    When we lived in the Ukraine for a month, we witnessed incredible poverty. The beautifully ornate Churches over there have domes which are actually covered in gold leaf, but under them are the beggars. Such a contrast. I noticed at one point some priests driving around in BMW’s, while beggars eked ...read more

  • Never On Guard

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    NEVER ON GUARD When Fred Mitchell, chairman of the China Inland Mission, died, one of the speakers at his funeral said this about him: "You never caught Fred Mitchell off his guard because he never needed to be on it." (George Duncan, Living the Christian ...read more

  • The Authority Of The Body

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Apr 2, 2011
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    THE AUTHORITY OF THE BODY When Preacher John Wesley was a student at Oxford Unversity, he was shocked by the amount of drinking done by the students. (Wonder what he would think about college students today?) After writing to his mother, Susanna Wesley, for her counsel, he received the following ...read more

  • In The Gospel In Hymns, Published In 1950, Is A ...

    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 14, 2011
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    In The Gospel in Hymns, published in 1950, is a story about Philip Brooks, author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”: One April fools day, Brooks saw a boy on Boylston Street in Boston trying to reach a doorbell. Brooks walked up the steps and said, "Let me help you, my little ...read more

  • How Little Of Scripture There Is In Modern ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Nov 19, 2011
     | 1,790 views

    "How little of Scripture there is in modern sermons compared with the sermons of those masters of theology, the Puritan divines! Almost every sentence of theirs seems to cast side lights upon a text of Scripture; not only the one they are preaching about, but many others as well are set in a new ...read more

  • John Quincy Adams: The Decayed Tenement

    Contributed by Jon Lipka on Mar 4, 2012
     | 2,661 views

    JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: THE DECAYED TENEMENT In 1846, former president John Quincy Adams had a stroke. Upon his return to Congress the following year, it was apparent that his health was failing. When asked about his health Adams replied, "I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds ...read more