Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
Protect Marriage: A recent New York Times/CBS News poll finds 59% of Americans now support a marriage protection amendment while 35% oppose it.
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Contributed by Judith Hand on Oct 15, 2009
Recently I received an email with the subject line:”Photo of a perfect man.” When I opened it, it said “Image not available.” Well, now that is funny at least to the females in the congregation,
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2008
School Boy Willie
Now Willy was a very bright lad,
But uneducated which was sad.
All 12 years of school he made,
But kept failing the fifth grade,
Not wanting
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Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Nov 14, 2008
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My grandma used to say, "MONEY MONEY MONEY, ain't worth nothing if you ain't got your health". Oh how right she was--now that I am
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Baptist
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jan 10, 2009
Professor Bernard Lewis at Princeton University, the leading authority on Islam in America, warned, "Ahmadinejad and his group clearly believe and I don’t doubt the sincere belief, that we are now entering an
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 19, 2008
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I Surrender All – Judson W. Van DeVenter, 1896
Van DeVenter beautifully describes the process of absolute surrender in his timeless hymn I Surrender All. If I may impose my perception of this hymn, I would suggest that He reveals the struggle involved in surrendering all that he is to the Lord.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 4, 2002
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THE SMILING SOLDIERS
"Weika Coenraad, of Dahlonega, Georgia, was a little girl in Holland during the War, and has vivid memories of the American soldiers who liberated her town in 1945. She’s now an American citizen. [She writes:]
’I was just a little girl during the Second World War, born in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE?
Behavioral scientists have discovered that we usually see things that we are prepared to see. This is all centered in a network of nerve cells called the "Reticular Activating System." Everybody has this system.
The "Reticular Activating System." works like this: Once
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Contributed by Wayne Major on Aug 9, 2003
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A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her father and asked, "Dad, what is the difference between anger and exasperation?" The father replied, "It is mostly a matter of degree. Let me show you what I mean."
With that the father went to the telephone and dialed a number at random.
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Methodist
Contributed by Rick Stacy on Dec 8, 2003
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A small defiant boy
When I was a youth minister 30+ years ago I told a young 5 year old boy to stop running in church. He stopped and then turned to me and said I couldn’t make him. Well... I couldn’t let a challenge like that go by so I got down on his level and firmly took him by the arms. I
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 21, 2006
The year 1636 was unbelievable for German pastor, Martin Rinkart. Amid the darkness of the Thirty Year War, Pastor Rinkart is said to have buried 5000 of his parishioners, including his wife, in the year 1636, an average of 15 per day. In the heart of that kind of grief and pain, his parish
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Church Of God
Contributed by John Harvey on Jul 30, 2007
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Alice Cooper
“Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s rebellion.” That’s an especially interesting perspective coming from a man who works with a guillotine every night.
At the height of his worldwide fame, Cooper drank a bottle
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Baptist