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  • Divorced Adults Are More Susceptible To Severe ...

    Contributed by Tim Stutler on Mar 27, 2006
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    - "Divorced adults are more susceptible to severe emotional and psychological problems, plus early death from an assortment of causes, than for married individuals. The suicide rate for divorced white men, for example, is four times higher than for their married counterparts. The situation for ...read more

  • Rowland V. Bingham, Founder Of The Sudan Interior ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Rowland V. Bingham, founder of the Sudan Interior Mission, was once seriously injured in an automobile accident. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. The following day, when he regained consciousness, he asked the nurse what he was doing there. "Don’t try to talk now, just rest," she ...read more

  • British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith Once Spent ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    British prime minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the 19th-century Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: "Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?" "Tea, please," ...read more

  • An Outstanding Concert Violinist Found Her ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    : An outstanding concert violinist found her energies consumed by peripheral matters. The violin received the tail end of her day, or was neglected altogether. Success came when she made the decision to concentrate. “I deliberately planned to neglect everything else,” she said, “until my practice ...read more

  • Once, When Pepper Rodgers Was Coaching Ucla, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Once, when Pepper Rodgers was coaching UCLA, they were having a dismal season. He was being savaged by the news papers. The boosters were trying to run him off. Moving signs were posted in his front yard. He went home one night and told his wife, "When life gets tough, it’s good to know you’ve ...read more

  • Right After The 9/11 Attacks, The President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Right after the 9/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, “A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of America” In other words, “even though we just ...read more

  • Shhhhh

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Shhhhh There was a patient in the mental hospital, holding his ear close to the wall, listening intently. The nurse finally approaches him and says “What are you doing.” “Shhh" he says. And he keeps listening. And finally the patient beckons the nurse over and says, “Listen.” The nurse presses ...read more

  • All Your Strength

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: One day a small boy was trying to lift a heavy stone, but he couldn’t budge it. His father, passing by, stopped to watch his efforts. Finally he said to his son: “Are you using all your strength?’ “Yes, I am,” the boy cried, exasperated. “No,” the father said calmly, “You’re not. ...read more

  • What Does It Mean To Be A Christian? A Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    What does it mean to be a Christian? A little boy asked his father that question one day. The Father who had made a profession of faith as a child but had not been active in church since becoming an adult did his best to explain what it mean to be a Christian. After the father finished his ...read more

  • A Woman Drove Her Pickup Truck To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A woman drove her pickup truck to the fairgrounds pulling a horse trailer. She was trying to back into a space. On one side was a ditch and it was a very narrow space she was trying to back into. She would pull up and then back up. Soon people began to stand around watching her. She was getting ...read more

  • Claria Knall, A Young Mother From Oklahoma ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Claria Knall, a young mother from Oklahoma writes, “It was one of the worst days of my life. The washing machine broke down, the telephone wouldn’t stop ringing, my head ached, and the mailman brought the bill that I had no money to pay. Almost at the breaking point I lifted my one-year-old into ...read more

  • Max Lucado Writes In God Came Near "One New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Max Lucado writes in God Came Near “One New Year’s Day, in the Tournament of Roses parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With ...read more

  • I Was Watching A Biography Recently About Andre ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 1, 2007
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    I was watching a biography recently about Andre the Giant, a professional wrestler whose glory days were lived out in the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). The biographer spoke of significant challenges that Andre faced in life, being rejected because of his enormous size. He was well over 7 feet ...read more

  • The Wyoming Government Had A Problem With Timber ...

    Contributed by Darren Rogers on Sep 6, 2007
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    The Wyoming government had a problem with timber wolves. They offered $5,000 bounty on each wolf captured alive. That turned two men, Sam and Jed, into bounty hunters! Day and night they scoured the mountains looking for wolves. Exhausted one night they fell asleep dreaming about the fortune they ...read more

  • British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith Once Spent ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
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    British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the 19th-century Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: “Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?” “Tea, please,” answered ...read more

  • Influence

    Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Oct 5, 2007
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    Illustration: Influence One of the strange sights on the Dutch Windward Islands in the Caribbean is the Divi-Divi tree. Because the winds blow almost constantly from the east, all of the branches grow on one side of the tree. You can look at a Divi-Divi tree and always know which is east and ...read more

  • Dietrich Bonheoffer Who Wrote , "It Is Infinitely ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 23, 2007
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    Dietrich Bonheoffer who wrote , “It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men. It is infinitely easier to suffer with others than to suffer alone. It is infinitely easier to suffer as public heroes than to suffer apart and in ...read more

  • Little Babies, Whose Concepts Of Reality Are ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 10, 2006
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    Little babies, whose concepts of reality are still being formed, lack the ability to realize that when their father is out of their sight that they still exist. A father can spend hours with her infant, put it down in the crib, walk away – and it is as if the father didn’t even exist anymore to ...read more

  • A Chicken And A Pig Were Walking Past A Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wincci Yin Chee on Jun 19, 2006
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    A chicken and a pig were walking past a church building one day when they noticed the Sunday morning sermon posted on the outside bulletin board, "Helping the Poor." They walked away when the chicken suddenly came across with a suggestion. "Brother pig, why don’t we give all the poor people a nice ...read more

  • St. Pixels, The World's First Online 3d Church, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    St. Pixels, the world’s first online 3D church, was created by UK Christian webzine shipoffools.com and is sponsored by the Methodist Church of Great Britain. During it‘s pilot run it had as many as 41,000 attempts to log in to the church and averaged over 7,300 visits per day. More than half the ...read more