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  • Norman Wright Describes Four Changes That Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 9, 2002
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     | 2,452 views

    Norman Wright describes four changes that have taken place in family life in recent years. One is the move toward a nuclear family. This is the mother, father and children. In the past, it was common for families to involve the extended members as well. The second change is the selection of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • George Barna Did A Survey And Wrote A Book About ...

    Contributed by Bradford Robinson on Sep 18, 2002
     | 2,051 views

    George Barna did a survey and wrote a book about the status of today’s church, and it was shocking. He found that the divorce rate for non-Christians was 23%, and the divorce rate for Born Again Christians was 27%. That’s right, the Christians had a higher divorce rate than the non-Christian. ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • The Name Of The Month That Starts The Year? ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 10, 2002
     | 2,277 views

    The name of the month that starts the year? January. Do you know how it got its name? It comes from the Roman god, Janus. Look at his picture. Isn’t it strange - he’s got two faces! He’s looking both forward and backwards - at the past and into the future. He was known as the god of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Of The Seven Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 4, 2003
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     | 1,702 views

    “Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • It Seems That Many Times We Judge People By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,526 views

    It seems that many times we judge people by their looks. But, I challenge you this evening not to do that. God sees past what you and I can see. He sees the person’s heart. You might see a beautiful girl but God might see that she’s into smoking and drinking and she’s not for you. Don’t be ...read more

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  • When My Eldest Brother Peter Was Caught In A ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 25, 2007
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    When my eldest brother Peter was caught in a riot at the university, he realized that at his age, he couldn’t confront the riot police as they engaged the students in the melee. He therefore thought very fast in order to save his skin. He took an African basket and bought some groceries - cabbages, ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Margaret Mead, The Noted Anthropologist, Has Said ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, has said a lot of controversial things, but you will find no authorities debating her statement in her article Grandparents and Educators. In it she said, "Somehow we have to get the older people, grandparents, widows and widowers, spinsters and bachelors, ...read more

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  • The Skeleton At The End Of The Feast

    Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Nov 19, 2008
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    To lick our wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways, it is a feast for a king. The chief ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • High Cost Is Expected

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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    HIGH COST IS EXPECTED In the past missionaries boarded ship not expecting to ever see their homeland again. Some even sold themselves into slavery because that was the only way other slaves could have a chance to hear the gospel. High cost and sacrifice was something expected of the body of ...read more

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  • Allan Bloom On Relativism

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 21, 2011
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    Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind: "Openness and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings is the great insight of our times. The true believer is the real danger. The study of ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Let There Be Light

    Contributed by Herbert Armstrong Bosantog on Nov 5, 2012
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    LET THERE BE LIGHT When God said, "Let there be LIGHT". There was LIGHT! And that LIGHT is still EXPANDING. Kolb and Turner wrote, "Since the UNIVERSE has a finite age, and LIGHT travels at a finite speed, there may be events in the past whose LIGHT has not had time to reach us." There were ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Half Of Americans Reading: About 1 In Every 2 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Half Of Americans Reading: About 1 in every 2 Americans is currently engrossed in some type of book, according to Gallup’s latest measure of the public’s reading habits. About half also say they have read more than 5 books in the past year, about the same as 15 years ago. There is no widespread ...read more

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  • Prayer In School: Large Majorities Favor Allowing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Prayer In School: Large majorities favor allowing voluntary prayer in public schools, and believe that religion has too little presence there. A Gallup poll finds 76% of Americans favor “a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer in public schools,” while just 23% oppose it. This is not ...read more

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  • Postmodernism Is, Almost By Definition, A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006
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    Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism’s high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of ...read more

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  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
     | 1,986 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,033 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

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  • Of The 7 Deadly Sins, Anger Is Possibly The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,846 views

    Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving ...read more

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  • You May Have Heard Of The Man Who Complained To ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Henderson on Jan 3, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,101 views

    You may have heard of the man who complained to his friend...he said I just can’t take it anymore.. His friend says, well what’s wrong? He said it’s my wife. Every time we have an argument, she gets historical! He says, you mean HYSTERICAL don’t you? ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Evangelical Christianity Is Flourishing In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,903 views

    Evangelical Christianity Is Flourishing In Europe. France has witnessed an 8-fold increase in Evangelical Christians during the past 50 years, from roughly 50,000 to 400,000. Evangelicals represent less than 2% of the European population. Growth is particularly strong among immigrants from Africa, ...read more

  • Lewis B. Smedes Writes In His Book: Forgive & ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeeva Sam on Mar 20, 2001
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    Lewis B. Smedes writes in his book: Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve: "If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist