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  • Kids Follow Parent Models 91% Of Kids Want To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
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    Kids Follow Parent Models 91% of kids want to help others, says a new Kid, Inc. study of 6- to 14- year olds. 58% chose volunteering over playing video games; 38% would rather see money for their gifts go to a worthy cause instead of receiving a present. More than half responded that they have the ...read more

  • God Wants You To Rejoice In Your Relationship!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    God wants you to rejoice in your relationship! *God wants our churches and our marriages to be alive and overflowing with joy. So the Old Testament tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength; the New Testament tells us to “rejoice in the Lord always.” Then in Proverbs 5 in words too vivid ...read more

  • You're Driving A Bus For Sunday School. At Your ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
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    You’re driving a bus for Sunday school. At your first stop you pick up 7 kids. At the next stop you pick up 4 kids and at the next stop 6 kids. You drop them all off and go out for more. The next three stops you get 5 kids each and the last stop 2, and actually drop off 3. How old is the ...read more

  • Leaving You In Good Hands

    Contributed by Egerton Gbonda on May 1, 2008
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    LEAVING YOU IN GOOD HANDS The story is told of a mum who would take her son to nursery school, kiss him good bye and would always say to him "Darling, I’m leaving you in good hands, OK?" She will do this every day she takes her son to school. When the son was of age and mum was quite old now and ...read more

  • Nothing Is Quite As Sweet As The Attachment Most ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 12, 2008
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    Nothing is quite as sweet as the attachment most children have to their mother. (from Reader’s Digest): One evening after dinner, my five-year-old son Brian noticed that his mother had gone out. In answer to his questions, I told him, "Mommy is at a Tupperware party." This explanation satisfied ...read more

  • A Schoolteacher Was Giving A Lesson In Fractions. ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
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    A schoolteacher was giving a lesson in fractions. "Johnny, suppose there were seven in your family -- five children and mother and father --a total of seven. And suppose there was pie for dessert. What fraction of the pie would you get?" Johnny answered, "One-sixth." "But you don’t understand," ...read more

  • Bad ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    BAD MEAT Colin Byrne Smith of Australia told of a missionary who called on a tribe of cannibals. Taking his life in his hands, he crossed the inlet in a small boat, and when confronted by the tribe, meekly endured every insult. Long afterwards, when he had succeeded in converting many and ...read more

  • G ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    GLASS There’s an old story about a miserable rich man who went to visit a rabbi. The rabbi took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. “Look out there,” he said. The rich man looked into the street. “What do you see?” asked the rabbi. “I see men, women, and children,” answered the ...read more

  • Because She Wanted ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO Some years ago a woman married an overbearing man. That man printed up a list of rules he “required” her to follow...everything from how to cook pancakes, hang his shirts, clean the house, what she could and couldn’t wear, etc. As a Christian lady, she obeyed. However, when ...read more

  • A Woman Went Into The Doctor's Office For A ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2008
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    A woman went into the doctor’s office for a condition that had been going on for 7 days. She was assigned to the new doctor in the office. At exactly 7 minutes after he went in to see her, she came running out of the room and screaming as she ran down the hall. The senior doctor in the office heard ...read more

  • The Baby And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    The Baby and the Window It was a really hot day in September in San Antonio, when a woman accidentally locked her 10-month-old baby niece inside a parked car. Frantically, the mother and aunt ran around the car in near hysteria while a neighbor attempted to unlock the car with a clothes hanger. ...read more

  • How Many Promises In The ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 23, 2008
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    How Many Promises in the Bible? Dr. Everek R. Storms of Ontario spent a vast amount of time studying the promises of Scripture. Writing in Contact Magazine, he said: “The Holy Scriptures contain a grand total of 8,810 promises. How do I know? I counted them. Dr. Storms goes on to classify the ...read more

  • I Heard About A Young Single Preacher Who Took ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Nov 24, 2008
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    I heard about a young single preacher who took his first part-time church while he was still in seminary. He preached a message one Sunday called, “10 Facts on How to Have the Perfect Marriage and raise Perfect Children.” A few years later he got married. He pulled out the old sermon to preach ...read more

  • When The Preacher's Car Broke Down On A Country ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 19, 2009
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    When the preacher's car broke down on a country road, he walked to a nearby roadhouse to use the phone. After calling for a tow truck, he spotted his old friend, Frank, drunk and shabbily dressed at the bar. "What happened to you, Frank?" asked the good reverend. "You used to be rich." Frank told ...read more

  • What Is Love, As Defined By The Online ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 17, 2009
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    “What is love, as defined by the online world? Resisting a YouTube video of the 1993 hit song, the first click plunges you into a world of pink carnation- tainted tackiness. The website’s designer no doubt spends all afternoon baking cookies, sending chain emails and sighing at the "Home Sweet ...read more

  • Another Thing That Bothers Most People Is That ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
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    Another thing that bothers most people is that when we pray, we seem to get distracted. That is especially true when we are trying to listen for God’s word. There is an old story about St. Bernard, who once had a friend who told him her never had any distractions. Bernard confessed to having ...read more

  • Alice Started Saving $1,000 A Year For Retirement ...

    Contributed by Aaron Mishoe on Apr 2, 2009
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    Alice started saving $1,000 a year for retirement when she was 21 years old. She saved this much for 8 years and then stopped at age 29 but let the amount build interest until she was 65. She paid a total of $8,000 into her retirement plan. Ben waited until age 29 to start saving $1,000 a year ...read more

  • Isolation, Loneliness More Difficult Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
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    ISOLATION, LONELINESS MORE DIFFICULT THAN PAIN William H. Willimon, in his commentary on our text, shared the following story from his childhood. "A little girl in my second grade class got the dreaded disease of polio. Our teacher described to us the possible complications of her disease. She ...read more

  • No House Without ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 31, 2009
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    No House Without Sorrow Among the parables that Chinese teachers use is the story of a woman who lost an only son. She was grief-stricken out of all reason. She made her sorrow a wailing wall. Finally she went to a wise old philosopher. He said to her, “I will give you back your son if you will ...read more

  • The Bible Found Me  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    THE BIBLE FOUND ME Campell Morgan had already enjoyed some success as a preacher by the time he was 19 years old. But then he was attacked by doubts about the Bible. The writings of various scientists disturbed him. As he read their books and listened to their debates he became more and more ...read more