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  • A Local Sportscaster, Doing Radio Coverage Of An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    A local sportscaster, doing radio coverage of an Indiana high-school football game from the stands, used a chart listing the names, numbers, and positions of the players to help him describe the action. Then it began to rain; the ink on the chart ran, and the numbers on the backs of the players ...read more

  • More Than 2 Million Grandparents Are Rearing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    · More than 2 million grandparents are rearing their grand children. · In ’00, 82% of people 25 and older had graduated from high school and 25% had at least a bachelor’s degree. In ’90, the figures were 75% and 20%. · More than 90% of households owned a car, van or truck in ’00, the highest share ...read more

  • What American Christians Want: Christen ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    What American Christians Want: Christen researchers, the Barna Group, recently polled American attitudes on God and country. Some of their findings are: Removing the Ten Commandments—18% of adults support “removing signs that list the Ten Commandments from government buildings.” 79% rejected this ...read more

  • Religious Practice Varies By Race: A New Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Religious Practice Varies By Race: A new Barna survey examined 8 elements of religious behavior (reading the Bible, praying to God, giving money to churches and watching Christian television) and discovered that blacks are the most religiously active racial group. Blacks were also notably less ...read more

  • Tryvertising Is A New Breed Of Product Placement ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Tryvertising is a new breed of product placement in the real world, integrating goods and services into daily life in a relevant way, so that consumers can make up their minds based on their experience, not your message. It includes everything from traditional supermarket product sampling and free ...read more

  • Writer Charles Swindoll Once Found Himself With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Writer Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. "I was snapping at my wife and our children, choking down my food at mealtimes, and feeling irritated at those unexpected interruptions through the day," he recalled in his book ...read more

  • When John Wesley Was Six Years Old, His Father's ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 25, 2006
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    When John Wesley was six years old, his father’s house was burned with all its contents. All the children were taken to safety except John, and he was forgotten until the roof was almost ready to cave in, then he was heard crying. His father ran to the stairs, but they were so nearly consumed ...read more

  • My Family And I Were Watching America's Funniest ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
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    My family and I were watching America’s Funniest Videos Friday night. There’s clip of a bike race. A guy is approaching the finish line, way out in front. He pauses to raise his hands in victory, and as he does, he wipes out. As he gets back up, some 20 other bikes pass him and he creeps across ...read more

  • Posted: September 21, 2006 © 2006 ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
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    Posted: September 21, 2006 © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com: Noviana Malewa and three of her friends were walking on their way to a private Christian high school in Posa Kota subdistrict of Indonesia on Oct 29, 2005, when they were assaulted by six masked Islamic terrorists - jihadists wielding machetes. ...read more

  • Some Unknown Writer Penned These Words: I Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 18, 2007
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    Some unknown writer penned these words: I have played enough sports, been in touch with enough coaches, watched enough games, and read closely enough to know that there’s one strategy that’s deadly. And it’s so subtle. You think you can win by doing it, but you lose. It’s called sitting on the ...read more

  • I'm Re-Reading A Great Book Entitle, A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I’m re-reading a great book entitle, A Man Called Peter, about Peter Marshall, who served as the Chaplain of the US Senate in the 1940’s. He was a Scottish immigrant who came to America convinced that he was to train for the ministry here. He came without much money, and for the next few years ...read more

  • The One Word That Epitomizes Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The one word that epitomizes Christian motherhood is “love.” Her every action is prompted by love for her children. Someone once wrote: “Mothers write on the hearts of their children what the cruel hand of the world cannot erase.” It has been estimated that by the time a child reaches age eighteen, ...read more

  • In A Seminary Missions Class, Herbert Jackson ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had them push his car ...read more

  • Holiness

    Contributed by Steven Wunderink on Jul 16, 2007
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    Holiness My brothers and I collected Baseball cards as kids and we would play with them. How do you "play" with baseball cards? We would sort through them, divide them into teams, build our own allstar team, and sort out the duplicates for trading in school the next day. My brother was a BIG ...read more

  • In The 1840's Two Young Men Came To This Country ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 31, 2007
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    In the 1840’s two young men came to this country from Germany. The older of the two was skilled in making Sauerkraut. He immediately headed for the west coast. He bought land ... cultivated it ... and raised cabbage for sauerkraut. The younger brother had no skill .. no profession. He decided to ...read more

  • No Farewell To Love  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 2, 2007
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    “No Farewell to Love” As an aged Christian lay dying, a friend called to say farewell. “I have just had three other visitors,” said the dying man, “and with two of them I parted; but the third I shall keep with me forever.” “Who are they?” “the first was Faith, and I said, ‘Goodbye, Faith! I ...read more

  • Content Creation By Teens Continues To Grow, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
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    Content Creation by teens continues to grow, with 64% of online teens 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation vs. 57% in ’04. 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online while 33% create or work on web pages or blogs for others or school. 28% have created their ...read more

  • If There Is One Emotion That I Have Been Familiar ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 3, 2008
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    If there is one emotion that I have been familiar with, it is anger. I lived with anger for most of my childhood and teenage years. It became quite comfortable and familiar so much as that most other responses such as disappointment and fear became masked by my anger. Now what I am telling you ...read more

  • Playing Church

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Aug 10, 2008
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    PLAYING CHURCH Some years ago I met Johnny Moore. Johnny is the lead singer for "His Glory". He tells his story of how he was on his way home one night before he got serious with the Lord. He’d been kinda "playing church." He was on his way home from a Wednesday night prayer meeting, and he ...read more

  • He Went To Hell For Me

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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    HE WENT TO HELL FOR ME Kay Arthur, well-known Christian author and speaker, has influenced tens of thousands. As a young girl, she went to church. She wrote, "I would listen to the messages, and go to Sunday School, but I never really committed my life to Jesus." She grew up and got married, ...read more