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  • Our Incomes Should Be Like Our Shoes: If Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Our incomes should be like our shoes: if too small, they will gall and pinch, but if too ...read more

  • Beer Commercials And Community

    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 28, 2010
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    BEER COMMERCIALS AND COMMUNITY Beer commercials do not really sell beer. Have you seen how they really sell "living it up with others" or what Christians call "community"? Do they not sell good looking people partying with other good looking people? Even the losers in those commercials all of a ...read more

  • Teamwork: The Big Picture

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 17, 2008
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    Teamwork: The Big Picture We've got to get together and work together to solve the problem. In his book Wind and Fire, Bruce Larson tells of a friend of his who lives near Hoyt Park in Madison, Wisconsin and who happens to be a great bird lover. Invariably, his yard is full of all kinds of birds ...read more

  • Half Of Americans In A Recent Poll Said They Or ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,882 views

    Half of Americans in a recent poll said they or their family members have suffered from depression, 46% considered it a health problem, and 43% saw it as a "sign of personal or emotional weakness," according to the National Mental Health Association. Other topics measured included alcoholism (seen ...read more

  • Fire Your Rockets  PRO

    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Mar 25, 2001
    based on 116 ratings
     | 2,216 views

    "Fire Your Rockets" I read with interest this past week about the Astronaut who dropped a 10 pound wrench into space, and they had to fire the rockets in the space shuttle to avoid this wrench hitting their cabin and taking all the pressure out, and killing them all in space. Imagine! A 10 pound ...read more

  • A Present  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
    based on 76 ratings
     | 6,397 views

    Jeff Calendar’s three year old daugh- ter along with the rest of her family was observed opening Christmas packages. As is often the case, Jeff’s wife had recycled some bows from previous times, and their daughter grabbed one and then placed it on top of her head. The old tape left on it caused it ...read more

  • Our Code Of Jewish Law States That A Person ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 28, 2008
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    Our Code of Jewish Law states that a person should work for a living, but he should "work to live," and not "live to work." After morning Torah study, a person "should go to work, for all Torah which is not accompanied by work is destined to be nullified and in danger of causing transgression, ...read more

  • Children Who Spend Most Of Their Time In Child ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Children who spend most of their time in child care are 3 times as likely to exhibit behavioral problems in kindergarten as those who were cared for primarily by mothers. The more time spend in out-of-home settings, the greater the ...read more

  • According To A Pew Research Study, Adults Of All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    According to a Pew Research study, adults of all ages consider unwed parenting to be a problem for our society, and 71% say births to unwed mothers is a "big problem." 69% say a child needs both a mother and a father to grow up ...read more

  • The Deadly Disease Of Sin  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Feb 11, 2013
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    THE DEADLY DISEASE OF SIN The Bible is very blunt about sin – it doesn’t matter how YOU grade your sin, if you don’t accept that you’ve sinned… you can’t fix the problem. It’s like a man having a deadly disease. He experiencing distressing physical problems but doesn’t KNOW he’s going to die ... ...read more

  • In 2005 I Went On My First Missions Trip. This ...

    Contributed by Deborah Guptill on Jun 11, 2007
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    In 2005 I went on my first missions trip. This trip was to New York City. We traveled down in two fifteen passenger vans and had a small moving van with all of our luggage in it. We followed in a line for the whole trip, talking back and forth on walkie talkies while on the busy interstates to make ...read more

  • What Happens Every 15 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    What Happens Every 15 Minutes Hands on Illustration: Set the timer for 15 minutes – I am setting this timer for 15 minutes and 15 minutes from now it will ring and at that point I will tell you how valuable 15 minutes are in this world. When the Timer goes off and rings this is what would have ...read more

  • Last Year I Compiled The Index Of Leading ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Last year I compiled the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, a statistical portrait of American behavioral trends of the past three decades. Among the findings: Since 1960, while the gross domestic product has nearly tripled, violent crime has increased at least 560%. Divorces have more than ...read more

  • I Want To Begin With The Most Famous Logical ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
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    I want to begin with the most famous logical argument ever posited for the existence of God taken from St. Thomas Aquinas Suma Theologiae. So, we begin with “The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas”. First, we have the argument from motion. This argument speaks to the issue of creation. Most ...read more

  • Words Are Only Air Converted Into Sound, But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Words are only air converted into sound, but their meaning and the intent of the heart that caused them to be uttered is impossible to ...read more

  • In 2009 Picher Oklahoma Closed It’s ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Aug 19, 2010
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    In 2009 Picher Oklahoma closed it’s doors… the entire city closed, evacuated, and shut down. Once it was a town of 20,000 people… in the first quarter of 1900’s it was a boomtown and had abundant lead and zinc. The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State ...read more

  • Singing For The Girls

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jun 22, 2011
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    SINGING FOR THE GIRLS Last Sunday night I preached in a town called San Miguel. It was known for witch doctors and demonic things going on. We had a constant string of problems happening one after another. The church was crowded with every seat taken and faces looking through the back doors and ...read more

  • The Blame Game

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011
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    THE BLAME GAME Wayne Dyer writes: "All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you...You may succeed in making another feel guilty of something by blaming him; you won't succeed in changing whatever it ...read more

  • The Bible Tells Us That Where Your Treasure Is, ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 24, 2003
    based on 48 ratings
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    · The Bible tells us that where your treasure is, there your heart is also. That means we could accurately say that many folks are more committed to professional sports than they are to the church. In 1993 the total attendance at worship services in the U.S. was 5.6 billion, while the total ...read more

  • 65279;i Recall A Story About How The Wind And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joanna Loucky-Ramsey on Mar 3, 2003
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    I recall a story about how the wind and the sun were arguing about which of them was strongest. “Look,” said the Wind, “I’ll prove to you that I am more powerful. See that man down on the earth? Let’s each exercise our power, and whoever can make the man shed his coat fastest will be ...read more