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  • A Number Of Years Ago I Read A Newspaper Article ...

    Contributed by Richard Harsell on Jun 2, 2005
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    A number of years ago I read a newspaper article about a man who was a member of a religious cult that believed that the utilization of modern medical science was unneccessary and any needed healing which a person needed could be accomplished through fervent prayer. His wife, who was 8 months into ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom Was A Courageous Dutch Woman Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Burkey on Jun 23, 2005
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    Corrie ten Boom was a courageous Dutch woman who was interned in a Nazi prison camp during World War II because her family helped to hide Jewish people from the Gestapo. During her imprisonment, Corrie endured some of the worst degradation a person can experience. Her sister, Betsy, died in the ...read more

  • Quotes On The Importance And The Power Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 6, 2005
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    Quotes on the importance and the power of humility: a. St. Augustine – “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men angels.” (12,000 Religious Quotes, page 237). b. St. Augustine – “Should you ask me: What is the first thing in religion? I should reply: The first, ...read more

  • Mark Twain Married A Christian Lady. She At First ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    Mark Twain married a Christian lady. She at first didn’t want to marry, but later did. He at first went through the motions of religion with her, but later said he couldn’t keep up the hypocrisy. In time, she came to the place where she no longer believed in a personal God. During a time of deep ...read more

  • While 88% In A Recent Barna Poll Believe Jesus ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    While 88% in a recent Barna poll believe Jesus Christ was a real person, what they believe about him differs sharply from scriptural teaching. 42% (even 1/4th of the “born again” Christians) believe that while on earth Jesus sinned just like other people. 61% believe the devil is just a symbol of ...read more

  • Real Picture  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Wheeler Jones on Dec 24, 2005
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    Real Picture During the long war years a boy looked frequently at a picture of his daddy on the table. He had left when the boy was a young infant. After several years the boy had forgotten him as a person but he would often look at the picture and say, "If only my father could step out of that ...read more

  • Faith Without Church: Barna Research Reports That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Faith Without Church: Barna Research reports that in the U.S. about 10 million self-proclaimed, born-again Christians have not been to church in the last 6 months, apart from Christmas or Easter. Yet, nearly all born-agains say their spiritual life is very important. About a third of Americans are ...read more

  • So Many People In Relationships Try To Change ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Mar 4, 2006
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    So many people in relationships try to change the other person. Reminds me of the young fiancé who, after learning that her husband to be didn’t believe like she did, cried to her mother saying, “Mom, what should I do? How can I change his thinking? He says he doesn’t believe in hell?” The ...read more

  • The Presidency To This Day Rests More On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    The Presidency to this day rests more on the character of the person who inhabits the office than on anything else. The Founding Fathers designed it that way. It was their idea to find a man in America with a great character and let him invest a tradition and shape a national character. They found ...read more

  • G. H. Morling In The Quest For Serenity- "A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 25, 2006
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    G. H. Morling in The Quest for Serenity- "A valuable study of the Gospels could be made, noticing how many times Jesus gave some of His greatest teachings in circumstances where he had simply been interrupted. How different this is from us; we hate to be interrupted. To Jesus, the importance ...read more

  • Lionel Luckhoo Is In The Guinness Book Of Records ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 24, 2006
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    Lionel luckhoo is in the Guinness book of records the most successful trial lawyer 245 successful murder defenses in a row! At 63 he decided to put his analytical skills to the claim that Jesus rose from the dead! He found the resurrection answered his personal needs and his intellectual ...read more

  • When I Was Growing Up I Had Many Role Models. ...

    Contributed by Robert Coats on Nov 23, 2006
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    When I was growing up I had many role models. There was my dad, grandparents, television personalities, and when I started playing football there was different football players I looked up to as role models. I remember watching O. J. Simpson when he played for the Buffalo Bills…He was known as “The ...read more

  • Financially Illiterate 17% Of The 5,775 High ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Financially Illiterate 17% of the 5,775 high school seniors that took a 30-question financial test had taken a money management or personal finance class, yet they fared worse than their peers who had not taken such a class. Students only correctly answered 52.4% of the questions. Financially ...read more

  • Switch To Vibrate Companies Are Limiting On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Switch to Vibrate Companies are limiting on the job cellphone use in reaction to the noisy jangle of beeps and tunes emanating from incoming personal calls. 30% of employees say cellphones ringing at work is their #1 pet peeve, according to a Randstad USA study. A Sprint survey finds 53% of workers ...read more

  • Financially Illiterate 17% Of The 5,775 High ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Financially Illiterate 17% of the 5,775 high school seniors that took a 30-question financial test had taken a money management or personal finance class, yet they fared worse than their peers who had not taken such a class. Students only correctly answered 52.4% of the questions. Financially ...read more

  • After A Very Long And Boring Sermon The Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    After a very long and boring sermon the church members filed out of the church saying nothing to the preacher. Towards the end of the line was a thoughtful person who always commented on the sermons. “Preacher, today your sermon reminded me of the peace and love of God" The pastor was thrilled. ...read more

  • How Many Of You Know That Life Brings Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    How many of you know that life brings many challenges? One person said, “Life is hard, and then you die.” In daily life we need a constant source of supply. Otherwise, we live in a fearful state with anxiety. Are you familiar with “Frank and Ernest”? One cartoon strip shows Frank sound asleep. ...read more

  • Nuclear Energy Can Be A Great Asset To Man, But ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Nuclear energy can be a great asset to man, but it has already proven to be a destructive weapon and could be devastating to all of humankind. We need to channel this energy in the right direction. The same goes for our talents. There are persons who can use their speaking or writing abilities to ...read more

  • The Church Household

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2007
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    (1 Timothy 3:1-13) Chrytsostom writes, "The church leader must be ’one that governs well his own house.’... For the church is, as it were, a small household. In a house there are children and wife and domestic duties, and some person has to provide order for them all. So in the church there are ...read more

  • Liberty To Worship

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 30, 2008
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    A. We must make Jesus Lord of our lives. B. Since we fight for the liberty to worship, should we not make more use of that liberty? C. When we recognize Jesus’ kingship, we’ll give him our worship. D. A person may be worthy of admiration, but Christ alone is worthy of adoration. E. When we submit ...read more