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  • Bible Readership Plummeted To A 20-Year Low Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,099 views

    Bible Readership plummeted to a 20-year low of just 31% in ‘95, and began to slowly climb back to levels, finally returning to the 40% mark in ‘00. Increases began again in ‘04, continuing through ’06 with 47% of adults reading the Bible during a typical week, ...read more

  • Bible Readership Plummeted To A 20-Year Low Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2007
     | 1,091 views

    Bible Readership plummeted to a 20-year low of just 31% in ‘95, and began to slowly climb back to levels, finally returning to the 40% mark in ‘00. Increases began again in ‘04, continuing through ’06 and now 47% of adults read the Bible during a typical week, ...read more

  • Bible Readership Plummeted To A 20-Year Low Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,490 views

    Bible Readership plummeted to a 20-year low of just 31% in ‘95, and began to slowly climb back to levels, finally returning to the 40% mark in ‘00. Increases began again in ‘04, continuing through ’06 with 47% of adults reading the Bible during a typical week, ...read more

  • Saving Someone's Life

    Contributed by Curtis Donald, Sr. on May 21, 2009
     | 2,837 views

    SAVING SOMEONE'S LIFE I read an article on yesterday that was entitled 7 signs of a stroke. The writer suggested that knowing the signs of a stroke may save someone’s life. I want to tell us tonight that understanding both the symptoms of and the solution to living with low ...read more

  • A Former Archbishop Of Canterbury Arrived In New ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jul 13, 2009
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    A former archbishop of Canterbury arrived in New York. A journalist asked him, “Will you be visiting any of our nightclubs whilst you are here?” The archbishop mischievously replied, “Are there any night clubs here?” Next day a newspaper headline read: “Archbishop’s first question on arriving in ...read more

  • There's A Cartoon With The Picture Of A Woman ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2010
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    There’s a cartoon with the picture of a woman bringing flowers to the cemetery, and she comes to her husband’s tombstone which reads like this: R.J. Harwell, born 1935. Gave up smoking, 1964. Gave up alcohol, 1975. Gave up red meat, 1983. ...read more

  • A Man Opened A New Business And His Best Friend ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
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    A man opened a new business and his best friend sent him a floral arrangement. When the friend popped in to see him a few days later, he was shocked to see that the shop had sent a card saying; "Rest in peace." When he called the florist to complain, the florist said; “It could be worse. ...read more

  • Living By Faith

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    LIVING BY FAITH Faith is part of everyday living. e.g. When you are ill, you go to a doctor whose name you can’t pronounce. He gives you a prescription you cannot read. You take it to a pharmacist you have never seen. He gives you ...read more

  • Vote To Get Well

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Mar 6, 2011
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    VOTE TO GET WELL Mrs Fisher, the primary school teacher, was at home recovering from surgery. She heard the letter box bang on the door, then her husband entered the room bringing in the post. One of the letters was a get well card from her 2nd year class ...read more

  • A Pastor Named David Asch Often Went To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A pastor named David Asch often went to the library to study. On a recent trip he saw a car with a bumper sticker was parked in the first space, so it was unmistakable – you saw it the moment you pulled into the parking lot. It confronted you as you walked to the parking lot from the library. The ...read more

  • Love Was The Highest Motivation, Even Among The ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2008
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    Love was the highest motivation, even among the Jews. We read in the Talmud: "What difference is there between one who acts from love and one who acts from fear? — The difference is that indicated in this teaching: R. Simeon b. Eleazar says: Greater is he who ...read more

  • Abortion And Global Warming?

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 4, 2009
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    ABORTION AND GLOBAL WARMING? The most widely read scientific journals Science and Nature have an article on the effects and dangers of man-made global warming almost weekly. Outlandish statements are rampant, such as: "A well-known environmental spokesperson warns that future sea-level rise will ...read more

  • The Seed Growing Secretly Can Be Best ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gerald Cornelius on Mar 27, 2001
    based on 59 ratings
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    The seed growing secretly can be best communicated by the following true story. A little girl loved the Lord and longed to share the message of Christ to those on the mission field. She contributed a penny to a missionary to help in the work of evangelizing the people of Burma. The missionary was ...read more

  • It Was June 18, 1815, The Battle Of Waterloo. The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2001
    based on 73 ratings
     | 3,341 views

    It was June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo. The French under the command of Napoleon were fighting the Allies (British, Dutch, and Germans) under the command of Wellington. The people of England depended on a system of semaphore signals to find out how the battle was going. One of these signal ...read more

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, Was A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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    Ill: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, was a physian. As such he was very interested in the use of ether. (Ether was used to put people to sleep in the 19th century.) In order to know how his patients felt under its influence, he once had a dose administered to himself. -As he was going under, in a ...read more

  • Columnist L. M. Boyd Recently Described The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jess Bousa on Jan 2, 2005
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    Columnist L. M. Boyd recently described the amazing good fortune of a man named Jack Wurm. In 1949, Mr. Wurm was broke and out of a job. No job and no money, just like some of us here. One day he was walking along a San Francisco beach when he came across a bottle with a piece of paper in it. As ...read more

  • We Speak And We View Only In Part Because The ...

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jun 13, 2005
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    We speak and we view only in part because the afterlife is a place we have never been. Talking about heaven and hell is sort of like a person taking a vacation to a place he/she has never been before. Take Hawaii, for instance. I’ve never been there. I would love to go, and perhaps one day will ...read more

  • While Waiting In A Cemetery To Conduct A Funeral ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
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    While waiting in a cemetery to conduct a funeral service, Charles Simeon walked among the graves, looking at the epitaphs. He found one that arrested him. When from the dust of death I rise, To claim my mansion in the skies, E’en then shall this be all my plea-- “Jesus hath lived and died for ...read more

  • Once Upon A Time, A Young Minister Tried To Quit ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
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    Once upon a time, a young minister tried to quit the ministry in absolute disgust. He was tired of the immaturity of the people and disillusioned by the politics and lack of spirituality of the leadership. He “reasoned” if the church, God’s ambassadors, was that badly corrupted then Christianity ...read more

  • Drunk Asks Priest About The Cause Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2009
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    Drunk Asks Priest About the Cause of Arthritis Sometimes our words can get us into trouble. A man who smelled like a brewery flopped on a seat at a bus stop next to a priest. The man’s shirt was stained, clothes messy, and a half empty bottle of wine was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He ...read more