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  • Home-Grown Churches Researcher George Barna Says ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Home-Grown Churches Researcher George Barna says millions of Americans are breaking from traditional church and choosing a home church. They want to “be” the church, not just attend church. He estimates more than 20 million Americans have begun exploring alternative forms of worship since ’00. ...read more

  • Life Examples: Ezekiel: Watching Dead Bones Come ...  PRO

    Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
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    Life Examples: Ezekiel: Watching Dead Bones Come Alive (Ezek. 37:14) In his day, hope had become a rare commodity. Ezekiel must have felt as desolate and useless as the piles of bones that he had seen in a startling vision. As the prophet sat in the middle of a valley, he knew that only a miracle ...read more

  • Mountain Climbers Help Each Other

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2009
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    Mountain Climbers Help Each Other In May 1953, two men became the first in history to climb to the top of Mt. Everest; Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper and explorer, and his Sherpa guide from Nepal, Tenzing Norgay. They reached the summit together and attained instant international ...read more

  • Money Money Money  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
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    MONEY MONEY MONEY Money magazine declared money was the number one obsession of Americans. Newsweek reports there is a new plane of consciousness called "transcendental acquisition." Its cover story of 8/27/01 tells of a woman saddled with debt who charged a diving trip to French East Indies. ...read more

  • The Game ‘dungeons And Dragons' First Came To ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Apr 23, 2009
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    The game ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ first came to light in 1974. Players of D&D create characters which they live out in an alternative reality. And so D&D is a fantasy role playing game where players embark upon imaginary adventures in a created world. Although there’s a few variations of the game, a ...read more

  • In Her Book, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom ...

    Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Aug 4, 2009
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    In her book, THE HIDING PLACE, Corrie Ten Boom relates an incident that taught her to be thankful for things we normally would not be thankful for. She and her sister, Betsy, prisoners of the Nazis, had just been transferred to the worst prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck. Upon entering ...read more

  • Ted Williams, Who Died In 2002 Was Arguably The ...

    Contributed by Kevin Short on Oct 13, 2009
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    Ted Williams, who died in 2002 was arguably the best hitter baseball has ever known. He was the last baseball player to hit better than .400 in a season. Upon his death George Will said in his column "There is no joy in Red Sox nation, a.k.a. New England, or in any heart where baseball matters." ...read more

  • Giving Up Is Better Than Ecstasy

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
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    GIVING UP IS BETTER THAN ECSTASY Scott Peck writes in his book "The Road Less Traveled: "I spent much of my ninth summer on a bicycle. About a mile from our house the road went down a steep hill and turned sharply at the bottom. Coasting down the hill one morning, I felt my gathering speed to be ...read more

  • Jewish Scribes, Who Kept Up The Old Testament ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
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    Jewish scribes, who kept up the Old Testament scrolls for centuries, had a nearly foolproof system for making perfect copies. First, a scribe would count the number of letters on the page to be copied. When he had finished his copy, he would count the number of letters on the new page and make sure ...read more

  • A Holy Minister In The Hands Of God

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    A HOLY MINISTER IN THE HANDS OF GOD We must heed the memorable words written by Robert Murray McCheyne to the Rev. Dan Edwards on 2 October 1840 after his ordination as a missionary to the Jews: "I trust you will have a pleasant and profitable time in Germany. I know you will apply hard to German; ...read more

  • I Was The Lamb

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Apr 1, 2011
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    I WAS THE LAMB Every summer when I was a child, my family would make the trip from Texas to New Jersey to see my dad’s parents. They lived in a fascinating two-story house in which all the bedrooms were upstairs. The room I slept in had a single bed, and above the bed was a picture of Jesus. You ...read more

  • Raffling A Dead Donkey

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 13, 2011
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    RAFFLING A DEAD DONKEY Jean Paul, a Cajun, moved to Texas and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, but I got some bad news. The donkey died." "Well then, just give me my money ...read more

  • Loneliness And Belonging

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 16, 2011
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    LONELINESS AND BELONGING Chip Ingram notes: "In his landmark book Bowling Alone, Robert Putman makes the case that loneliness is America’s new epidemic. People are searching for a place to belong. In the 1970s, it wasn’t uncommon for someone to leave a job that paid well and go off into the woods ...read more

  • Standing In Worship

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 9, 2011
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    STANDING IN WORSHIP Jesus stands in God’s presence--he stands, because he has trodden death and the power of the Evil One underfoot. At the end of this struggle, he is the one who stands upright, the one who remains standing. This standing is also an expression of readiness: Christ is standing ...read more

  • Dead To Garlic

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 20, 2011
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    DEAD TO GARLIC The problem is we are so accustomed to sin we do not recognize it's gravity. I once read the news account of the two Lake Worth, Florida, high school boys. They were suspended from school because they ate so much garlic that no one could stand to have them around. They had read ...read more

  • Keeping Up With Next Door  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
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    KEEPING UP WITH NEXT DOOR I heard about a chicken yard with a big hen house, where a rooster had all of his hens laying eggs. One day, two little boys were next door playing football, with a brand new white football. One of them accidentally kicked the football over the fence, and it rolled into ...read more

  • Who Created The Universe?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
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    WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? In 2005, Newsweek and Beliefnet asked Americans this question: "Do you believe that God created the universe?" Eighty percent of those responding said the universe was created by God. That's good news! And it's pretty amazing that after all of the money and effort spent ...read more

  • War Horse: Perseverence

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Apr 8, 2012
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    WAR HORSE: PERSEVERENCE Last week, I watched "War Horse." It's a Steven Spielberg film about a young English boy and his horse. The family is about to lose their farm because dad bought a horse for his son. The father bears a war injury and cannot tend the farm. He spends his last money ...read more

  • Dream Big: Google's Founders

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2012
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    DREAM BIG: GOOGLE'S FOUNDERS In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin picked the number one followed by 100 zeroes while they were still graduate students at Stanford University. That number in mathematical terms is called a googol, and that became the name of their new enterprise. Today, Google ...read more

  • Fear Of Flying?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2012
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    FEAR OF FLYING? A man is sitting in the coach section of a flight from New York to Chicago, biting his fingernails and sweating profusely. Noticing his disturbed expression, a flight attendant walks over and says, "Sir, can I get you something from the bar to calm you down?" The man gives a nod ...read more