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  • Instead Of Trying To Sell Something, Fundraisers ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    "Instead of trying to sell something, fundraisers should ask people what matters to them and what they’ve done in terms of giving that made them feel good." Sound advice from Joe Breiteneicher, VP at Philanthropic Initiative, Boston. He also says, engage donors /prospects and create relationships ...read more

  • Mom Managers: The First-Ever State Of The Home ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Mom Managers: The first-ever State of the Home survey from Whirlpool Home Appliances finds 40% say they run their home like a business, with 58% keeping to-do lists at home for themselves. The tasks most often delegated to other family members include cleaning bathrooms (65%), doing dishes (62%), ...read more

  • Hollywood Isn't Listening: There Wasn't A Single ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Hollywood Isn’t Listening: There wasn’t a single R-rated movie in the top 20 grossing movies last year. The 20 top grossing movies of last year all have one thing in common — not one carried an R rating. Experts say there’s a struggle between what families ...read more

  • You Never Know How Much You Really Believe ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. ...read more

  • Man Alive

    Contributed by Tom Blasco on Apr 18, 2006
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    Michael Green, in his book "Man Alive" says, “Jesus made the most shattering claims in the course of His teaching. There is no parallel to them in any of the world’s religions. And it simply will not do to neglect them, as is commonly done by agnostic writers. Yet, if you account them as part of ...read more

  • Marketing Myth: There Is The Long-Held Belief ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Marketing Myth: There is the long-held belief that older TV viewers (ages 40 to 50) rarely change brand loyalty. Age Wave research company says boomers are, in fact, more open to new things such as new cell phone technology, Internet shopping, and other products. Marketers shouldn’t fall into ...read more

  • Finding One Of Her Students Making Faces At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Shane Hart on Aug 10, 2006
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    Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Mrs. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling sweetly, the Sunday School teacher said, "Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if that I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay ...read more

  • Qoute: "The Truth, Paradoxical Yet Inescapable, ...

    Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Oct 29, 2006
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    QOUTE: "The truth, paradoxical yet inescapable, is this: there is no freedom apart from external authority. To say, ’I am my own authority, a law to myself’ is to enslave myself to myself, which as Seneca the Roman moralist said, is the worst bondage of all. Only as I bow to an ...read more

  • Marketing Myth There Is The Long-Held Belief ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
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    Marketing Myth There is the long-held belief that older TV viewers (ages 40 to 50) rarely change brand loyalty. Age Wave research company says boomers are, in fact, more open to new things such as new cell phone technology, Internet shopping, and other products. Marketers shouldn’t fall into the ...read more

  • There Are Five Billion People On Earth, And I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "There are five billion people on Earth, and I should guess that at any given moment one or two billion of us are speaking. And I should further guess that virtually nothing anyone says is memorable....There are times, however, when someone turns a phrase that seems so clever or so apt or so ...read more

  • Dennis The Menace Was Caught Causing Trouble ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 29, 2009
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    Dennis the Menace was caught causing trouble around the house and his mother had all she could take from him and said to him, "Dennis the way you’re behaving, how do you expect to get into heaven?" To that Dennis said, "Well, I’ll just keep slamming the door ...read more

  • Attitude Pattern: Jonah

    Contributed by Timothy Gardner on Nov 7, 2009
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    ATTITUDE PATTERN: JONAH The pattern of attitude toward God: We bailed when God says go. A storm brews. Our shipmates are scared. We admit it’s our fault. We are thrown from the boat. We sink. Something big swallows us. We repent. We pray ...read more

  • As Christian We Might Have Dropped Some Of Those ...

    Contributed by Ladonna Omobude on Nov 24, 2009
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    As Christian we might have dropped some of those four lettered curse words; however we still curse others by speaking evil and wishing evil upon them. The Bible says in James 3:10"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so ...read more

  • Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed: "You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang ...read more

  • Our Words

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    OUR WORDS Did you know that the average person spends one-fifth of his or her life talking? That’s what the statistics say. If all of our words were put into print, the result would be this: A single day’s words would fill a 50-page book, while ...read more

  • You Be Jesus!

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Apr 5, 2011
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    YOU BE JESUS! A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • Prayer Of The Persecuted

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
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    PRAYER OF THE PERSECUTED Author Eugene Peterson says in Reversed Thunder, "While conflicts raged between good and evil, prayers went up from devout bands of 1st c. Christians all over the Roman empire. Massive engines of persecution and scorn were ranged against them. They had neither weapons ...read more

  • Gift Giving Should Be Personal And Relational

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 11, 2011
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    GIFT GIVING SHOULD BE PERSONAL AND RELATIONAL Have you ever seen the episode of "Friends" where Joey and Chandler wait too long to buy Christmas gifts? They end up having to buy gifts from a gas station. They give Rachael wiper blades and an air freshener. When Rachel ...read more

  • Salt In The Shaker

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2012
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    SALT IN THE SHAKER A strange sign greets visitors to Vienna, Austria. Translated from the German, it says, "Welcome to Vienna, where the salt is in the saltshaker." What they mean is that they "don't put salt on the streets in the winter"! The church is the salt of the earth, but we do no good ...read more

  • Baptism: The Great Equalizer

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 13, 2012
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    BAPTISM: THE GREAT EQUALIZER Bob Russell once noted: "Baptism is the great equalizer. No matter who you are, how successful you are, or who you know... all have to go under the waters alike. There are those who come forward in expensive suits, dangling gold jewelry, and $100 hairdos. But the ...read more