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  • Air Conditioner

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
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    Air Conditioner. First house we owned was quite old and a lot of things didn’t work quite right. Our air conditioner broke every year. It would cool down the house then, become a heater heat it up, then cool it down. Not how an air conditioner should work. First year called the company who had ...read more

  • Time Equals Money?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,546 views

    TIME EQUALS MONEY? In his 1970 book "The Harried Leisure Class," Staffan Linder challenged the notion that time equals money. More money, he said, means more shopping and therefore less time. More recently, Juliet Schor argued in "The Overworked American" that the American workweek has been ...read more

  • Mastering Fatherhood

    Contributed by Eduardo Quintana on Jun 12, 2017
     | 3,912 views

    In 2001, I was serving as the youth pastor of Destiny Church and sitting at my office desk when I received a phone call from my mother. She called with sad news! My grandmother’s health had declined significantly and she was near death. She’d been suffering with Alzheimer’s for over seven years up ...read more

  • The Henry Ford Museum In Dearborn, Michigan, Is A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
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    The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, is a monument to the Industrial Revolution in America. Created by Henry Ford himself, it chronicles Ford’s innovations that changed forever the nature of work in America. Ironically, next door to the Ford Museum is a different kind of monument – also ...read more

  • Could You Imagine? Tuna And Crackers Every Day?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Aug 31, 2007
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    COULD YOU IMAGINE? TUNA AND CRACKERS EVERY DAY? A. There was a hard working young man. He was very poor. He worked long and hard and saved his money. He met a beautiful young woman and fell in love. He later asked for her hand in marriage, and a few years later after saving and working all the ...read more

  • Great Pr: Companies Are Becoming More Creative In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
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    Great PR: Companies are becoming more creative in how they support philanthropy. More are offering employees paid time off for volunteer work. Such policies make for excellent public relations. In today’s still-tight labor market, companies are also betting that work-life benefits such as volunteer ...read more

  • A Mother's Place Is At Home: 66% Of American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    A Mother’s Place Is At Home: 66% of American women with preschool children—and 56% of those with infants less than a year old—are in the labor force, but attitudes toward working mothers have changed little. Various research reports from the Lucile Packard foundation find that 75%-80% of Americans ...read more

  • A Matter Of Building  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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    A MATTER OF BUILDING Life is a matter of building. Each of us has the opportunity to build something -- a secure family, a good reputation, a career, a relationship to God. But some of those things can disappear almost overnight due to financial losses, natural disasters and other unforeseen ...read more

  • George Moore Tells The True Story Of Irish ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
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    George Moore tells the true story of Irish peasants in the depression era that were hired by a wealthy benefactor to build some roads. When they started the job the men worked well, they sang their Irish songs and put their total energies into the job. They were so glad to be back to work again. ...read more

  • Life Is A Matter Of Building. Each Of Us Has The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,902 views

    Life is a matter of building. Each of us has the opportunity to build something -- a secure family, a good reputation, a career, a relationship to God. But some of those things can disappear almost overnight due to financial losses, natural disasters and other unforeseen difficulties. What are we ...read more

  • Poem: Love For Others By Anonymous

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Poem: Love For Others by Anonymous Lord, let me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way, That, even when I kneel to pray, My prayer shall be for others. Help me, in all the work I do, Ever to be sincere and true, And know that all I’d do for Thee, Must needs be done for Others. Let “self” ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard The Phrase "Like A Dog ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Have you ever heard the phrase “Like a dog worrying a bone.” Its an old English phrase that contains the picture behind the word worry. A dog will shake, chew, gnaw and lick and bite on a bone for hours, trying to wear it down. It’s a compulsion. The dog will work and work on that bone unless ...read more

  • Women Sleep Deprived A National Sleep Foundation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Women Sleep Deprived A National Sleep Foundation study finds the majority of American women are continually sleep deprived, either because of young children, biological changes (pregnancy and menopause), stress or pets. The impact on families, personal and professional lives, and society is ...read more

  • In 1856, Auguste Bartholdi Was Inspired To Begin ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
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    In 1856, Auguste Bartholdi was inspired to begin working on what would become his most noted work of art. He was approached by the French government to design a lighthouse to put at the entrance of the Suez Canal (Red Sea to the Mediterranean sea). He spent ten years working on the design ...read more

  • God Started It; You Finish It

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 1, 2010
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    GOD STARTED IT; YOU FINISH IT Leonardo da Vinci had started work on a large canvas in his studio. For a while he worked at it, choosing the subject, planning the perspective, sketching the outline, applying his own natural genius. Then suddenly he ceased, the painting still unfinished, and ...read more

  • Paul Billheimer: The Agent Of Destruction

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2011
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    PAUL BILLHEIMER: THE AGENT OF DESTRUCTION In his book, Don't Waste Your Sorrows, Paul Billheimer wrote: "Satan is the agent of destruction, not God. Who was it that destroyed Job's fortune, family, and health when God permitted it done? Satan. Satan brings about accidents, sickness, disease, and ...read more

  • Guidance Behind Enemy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2012
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    GUIDANCE BEHIND ENEMY LINES Every Monday night, when I was not sacking groceries at the Piggly Wiggly, we would go to the library in Dothan. One Monday evening, I “accidentally” found a paperback copy of William C. Anderson’s book, BAT-21. It was a story about Iceal "Gene" Hambleton, a U.S. Air ...read more

  • Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family Recently ...  PRO

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jun 3, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,647 views

    Dr. James Dobson’s Focus On The Family recently aired this true story from Dr. Bob Reccord, president of the International Missions Board: A pastor friend in Texas was in a hurry after work. He had to get to the mall for some items, go to his daughter’s school to pick her up, take her home, get ...read more

  • Taking A Grenade

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 21, 2011
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    TAKING A GRENADE A week ago last Tuesday (04/08/08) the Medal of Honor was posthumously awarded to Navy Seal Michael Monsoor. Here is part of what President Bush said to Michael’s family and those gathered at the White House: "In September 2006, Michael laid down his life for his brothers in ...read more

  • Ravi Zacharias: Changed Lives Show The Truth Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 9, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
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    RAVI ZACHARIAS: CHANGED LIVES SHOW THE TRUTH OF CHRIST In his book Has Christianity Failed You? Ravi Zacharias points to one of the greatest proofs for the truth of Christ and the reality of his resurrection: the changed lives of Christians. He writes: "During the course of nearly 40 years, I ...read more