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The Impact of the sexual sins on this society: Noel Hornor states: Sex is everywhere. It permeates the movies and the television programs we watch, the music we hear, the magazines and books we read, the talk shows we listen to. Society, it seems, is obsessed with sex. Perhaps never has society had
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 23, 2006
Swim Club
There once was a swim club in a certain town. It was very popular because everyone in town wanted to be a good swimmer. The founders of the club had worked very hard to raise the money and do the work of building a beautiful swimming pool inside a very stylish building. They
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Contributed by Rob Culler on Mar 21, 2001
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One of golf’s immortal moments came when a Scotsman demonstrated the new game to President Ulysses Grant. Carefully placing the ball on the tee, he took a mighty swing. The club hit the turf and scattered dirt all over the President’s beard and surrounding vicinity, while the ball placidly waited
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Mar 27, 2001
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He made free use of Christian vocabulary. He talked about the blessing of the Almighty and the Christian confessions which would become the pillars of the new government. He assumed the earnestness of a man weighed down by historic responsibility. He handed out pious stories to the press,
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
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Back in June of 1999, Eddie Stankey died at the age of 83. Time Magazine carried his obituary. It seems that in his day, Stankey (nicknamed “the brat”) had been a “pugnacious pennant-winning 2nd basemen for such championship teams as the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Boston Braves and the New York Giants.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2001
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In an April Associated Press story from 1996, Levent Yueksel’s and wife Sherri Kane’s 32-seat Dardanelles restaurant in Philadelphia was profiled, not for its food but for its attitude: According to a sign in the window, the restaurant refuses to serve "negative people" (who are also referred to in
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Sep 22, 2001
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30 years ago two shoe salesmen were sent to Nigeria to survey the country for the possibility of building a shoe factory. The first man came back and said, "Few people here wear shoes so there is little need to build a new shoe factory in Nigeria. The second came back to London and said, "This is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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John Wycliffe had a vision of a Bible in the common English tongue. But dogmatists anchored to the past killed him for it. John Huss dreamed a dream of a responsible Christian life guided by the scriptures. Traditionalists burned him at the stake. Martin Luther was awakened to a new reality of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
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Because self-importance is the natural human inclination, a same attitude for you, if you are a leader, will be to remind yourself constantly that the position of leader is not, in the deepest sense, any more important than that of the humblest follower. Both are simply contributing whatever
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
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PROUD HUMILITY
Humility is a sign of strength, not of weakness. Humility is above all, and quite simply, truthfulness--self-honesty. It is not the false modesty of one retreating shyly into the limelight.
It isn’t, in other words, the sort of "humility" that was expressed in the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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The application of misplaced desires eventually becomes a cycle of addiction where stimulating encounters, relief, and the mad search for new experiences become ingrained in the recesses of the mind. The insatiable appetite to acquire, to own, to indulge, to take pleasure, to consume, is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2002
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WE HEARD YOU ON THE RADIO
In San Antonio, Texas, an alleged fraudster is awaiting trial because
he was too pleased with himself. The suspect apparently couldn’t resist
calling a local talk show, "What Is Your Biggest Lie?," under an
assumed name and describing how he bilked his insurance
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