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  • A Federal Reserve Survey Released On 1/15/00 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,834 views

    A Federal Reserve survey released on 1/15/00 reports that U.S. families median net worth jumped from $60,900 in ’95 to $71,600 in ’98, the survey’s latest year. A rise of nearly 18%! 48.8% of families owned stock in ’98, up from 40.4% in ’95. The median net worth of households with incomes of ...read more

  • Redefining God Across The Country, Many Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,999 views

    Redefining God Across the country, many are redefining God. “Dissatisfaction with conventional images of an authoritarian or paternalistic deity, people are embracing quirky, individualistic conceptions of God to suit their own spiritual needs,” notes Lisa Miller in a 4/21/00 Wall Street Journal ...read more

  • Mobilization Is Not Filling Slots," Claims Carol ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,800 views

    “Mobilization is not filling slots,” claims Carol Davis, veteran church leadership trainer, “Mobilization is activating the incredible capacity of Christ’s church to serve the purposes of God in our own generation. Mobilization happens when I’m being used as an activator. I listen to and watch for ...read more

  • Boomer Facts: A Recent Aarp Survey Found That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,738 views

    Boomer Facts: A recent AARP survey found that most boomers (Americans between ages 38 and 56) believe the solution to life’s problems are within their own grasp and 65% believe that if they put their minds to getting something done, they’ll eventually succeed. 63% feel good about relationships with ...read more

  • Who Can Estimate The Value Of God's Gift, When He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,853 views

    Who can estimate the value of God’s gift, when He gave to the world His only begotten Son! It is something unspeakable and incomprehensible. It passes man’s understanding. Two things there are which man has no arithmetic to reckon, and no line to measure. One of these things is the extent of that ...read more

  • Our Personal Rainbow

    Contributed by Susan Blader on Nov 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,020 views

    Our Personal Rainbow And did you know that God gives each of us our own personal rainbow? No two people will see the same rainbow. A rainbow is formed by a raindrop that acts like a prism, separating sunlight into its individual color components. If you stand looking at a rainbow, and someone ...read more

  • It Is Like You Have An Uncle You Hated, ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 22, 2007
     | 1,186 views

    It is like you have an uncle you hated, mistreated, made fun of, never did a kind thing to, because someone told you lies about him, you never visited, you hung out with his mortal enemy. In your total poverty, as you lost your job, house, car and family. Your uncle makes you the ...read more

  • The Richest Place In The World

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 23, 2010
     | 3,300 views

    The Richest Place in the World "The richest spot on the face of the earth cannot be found in the diamond mines of South Africa...It is not in the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. No, the richest plot of land on this planet is in your very own neighbourhood...It’s the cemetery...The graveyard is the ...read more

  • Jesus Makes The Statement

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 10, 2010
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     | 3,623 views

    Jesus makes the statement “I am the bread of life.” Disbelief sets in on the participants. Even though Jewish tradition and the Talmud had many teachings in Jewish schools on the phrases “eating and drinking” in a metaphorical sense.They criticize His choice of words, they get mad and angry and ...read more

  • Be Worry-Free  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 7,140 views

    BE WORRY-FREE In an issue of the AARP Bulletin, readers were asked to respond to the question: What’s your strategy for coping with stress? The answers ranged from "Eat a chocolate chip cookie" to "Have a stiff drink." But Don Betz of Oakdale, Minnesota, offered his own unique solution. Every ...read more

  • The End Of The Beginning

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    THE END OF THE BEGINNING During the second world war November 1942, as Hitler's Luftwaffe had invaded English skies, Britain was feeling the dread of his enlarging shadow. The country was asking the question "How long can they endure the unrelenting darkness of their situation?" Prime Minister ...read more

  • Sin Mars Us

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 19, 2010
     | 2,310 views

    SIN MARS US During an all-night festival in Paris, five young people, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum and left a 4-inch gash in a priceless painting by Claude Monet. Culture Minister Christine Albanel said the painting could be restored, but she was deeply disturbed at the damage ...read more

  • Good Timing

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
     | 2,208 views

    GOOD TIMING Actress Shirley McLaine a new ager, was conducting one of her seminars at the Long Beach Arena teaching people about their own divinity. During the seminar, she had everyone light a candle. They turned off the lights so those candles could be seen shining in the dark. She said, "Just ...read more

  • Focus On Christ

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 25, 2011
     | 4,887 views

    FOCUS ON CHRIST The healthiest people do not think about their health; the weak induce disease by morbid introspection. If you begin to count your heartbeats, you will disturb the rhythmic action of the heart. If you continually imagine a pain anywhere, you will produce it. And there are some ...read more

  • So Hungry

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,834 views

    SO HUNGRY The silence of the congregation partaking of the Lord’s Supper was suddenly broken by a loud exclamation. A 5-year-old girl was watching that passing out of the bread and juice and asked her mother is she could take some. Her mother said that she was not old enough to take some. With ...read more

  • Veto Power

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Feb 28, 2012
     | 2,144 views

    VETO POWER Before democracy arrived in Poland, the country was run by Lords and rich landowners – the nobility from all over the country. The senate filled with these noblemen would make decisions for the country but they always had a hard time getting much done – why? Because every member of the ...read more

  • The $100,000 Car, The Thief, & The Tree Of Knowledge

    Contributed by Jason Evans on Oct 4, 2016
     | 3,535 views

    Let’s say there is a man who owns a brand new $100,000 car. He decides he wants to take it out one day to go to the store and parks in a lot around a lot of other cars. When he comes out it has been stolen. When they find the thief and arrest him the thief says "Well you should have known better ...read more

  • Resurrection Reveille

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Apr 6, 2018
     | 5,891 views

    Before his death Winston Churchill became a follower of Jesus Christ. He made his own funeral arrangements. When they said the benediction, he had arranged for a bugler high in the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral to play “Taps,” the universal signal of the day is over. After he finished there was a ...read more

  • Jesus Took Our Place

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
     | 4,369 views

    Main Idea: Jesus died a horrible death so we could live for eternity. Verse: Jesus “Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness…” (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). Illustration: A man was sentenced to a horrible death. He was to be buried up ...read more

  • Giving

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Oct 2, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,758 views

    “I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving ...read more