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  • Marijuana: The Average Age Of First-Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Marijuana: The average age of first-time marijuana users in the U.S has dropped from 19 to 13. A recent Gallup poll indicates 34% of Americans favor legalization, the greatest support since ‘69. In ‘01, 50,000 people were sentenced to prison for marijuana violations. In some states with ...read more

  • Generation C (C Is For Creative): A New ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Generation C (C is for Creative): A new generation of parents is abandoning its obsession with children becoming doctors, lawyers or business executives; they are realizing that creative careers are not necessarily doomed to poverty. Fuelling the trend: (1) The creative urges each consumer ...read more

  • Our Personal Rainbow

    Contributed by Susan Blader on Nov 27, 2006
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    Our Personal Rainbow And did you know that God gives each of us our own personal rainbow? No two people will see the same rainbow. A rainbow is formed by a raindrop that acts like a prism, separating sunlight into its individual color components. If you stand looking at a rainbow, and someone ...read more

  • C. Franklin Graham, Son Of Billy Graham, Spoke ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
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    C. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, spoke at a memorial service for the slain youth of Columbine High School and prayed at the first inauguration services for George W. Bush. Each time he was criticized for talking about and using the name of Jesus Christ. He wrote a book about this called, ...read more

  • Rick Warren ("Purpose Driven") Accurately ...  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 4, 2008
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    Rick Warren (“Purpose Driven”) accurately observes: “We can measure our servant’s heart by how we respond when others treat us like servants. How do you react when you’re taken for granted, bossed around, treated as an inferior…? Unfortunately, a lot of our service is often self-serving. We serve ...read more

  • On The Coast Of Scotland, At The Top Of A Steep ...

    Contributed by Betty Johnson on Aug 18, 2008
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    On the coast of Scotland, at the top of a steep and dangerous cliff there stood a little company of rescuers planning how they might let someone down over the edge in order to search for the one who was lost and to take a rope to him. They wanted to use a small shepherd boy who was used to the ...read more

  • As D. L. Moody Said, "Trust In Yourself, And You ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As D. L. Moody said, "Trust in yourself, and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in your friends, and they will die and leave you; trust in reputation, and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity." Luther gave a similar ...read more

  • A Tiny Girl Was Taking A Long Journey And In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A tiny girl was taking a long journey and in the course of the day her train was obliged to cross a number of rivers. The water seen in advance always awakened doubts and fears in the child. She did not understand how it could safely be crossed. As they drew near the river, however, a bridge ...read more

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Left His Pastorate In London ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer left his pastorate in London in 1935 to return to Germany as the head of the Confessing Church Seminary. When the Nazis rose to power, he returned to the United States in 1939, but the move was short-lived. He called it a "mis¬take." Bonhoeffer returned to Germany once again and ...read more

  • Back In College, My Agriculture Extension ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 22, 2007
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    Back in college, my agriculture extension lecturer used to warn us about our field work activities that we ought to be careful when visiting some homesteads. He emphasized on the significance of learning the peoples culture and traditions. This was due to the fact that in some families, several ...read more

  • We Can't Imagine What Our Redeemer Has In Store ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Dec 4, 2007
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    We can’t imagine what our Redeemer has in store for us. The Holy Spirit gives us a few clues, but it is like a person blind from birth trying to comprehend color. Imagine if you lived in a world of darkness – then could suddenly see. Imagine if you lived in a world without taste – and suddenly ...read more

  • Women ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    WOMEN CEOs Nearly 10.4 million U.S. firms are owned (50% or more) by women, employing more than 12.8 million people, and generating $1.9 trillion in sales. Their firms have continued to grow at nearly double the rate of all firms (42% vs. 24%). Women-owned firms, account for 41% of all privately ...read more

  • The Harry Wilson Story

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jun 3, 2009
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    THE HARRY WILSON STORY When I came to faith in Jesus in 1985 the vicar at the church was another Wilson, Harry Wilson, not Harold Wilson! He told us his story of believing in Jesus, being selected for ordination training and heading off to college. Whilst at Bible College he realised that he was ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2010
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    Corrie Ten Boom on Prayer It was Corrie Ten Boom who asked, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?” I am afraid for too many of us it is the spare tyre, the source we look to only when our journey has ground to a halt, but really, it ought to be our steering wheel, and Jesus teaches us ...read more

  • Invitation Needed

    Contributed by William L. Vincent on Aug 6, 2011
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    INVITATION NEEDED I have recently been contacted by a Pastor in Nigeria who is wanting us to come and preach a crusade there. But you cannot just fly into Nigeria; you have to be invited. The local Pastor has to send an official letter of invitation, that letter must state what I would be visiting ...read more

  • In God We Trust...?

    Contributed by Christopher Glenn on Aug 22, 2011
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    IN GOD WE TRUST...? On the face of our money are the words: "In God We Trust." A few years ago, the use of those words on our currency was challenged in court. The case reached the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia where the court ruled that the words could remain on the façade ...read more

  • Don't Play It Safe!

    Contributed by Trae Durden on Nov 11, 2014
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    “Life was no cakewalk for Jesus, and he didn’t promise it would be any easier for his followers. We shouldn’t be surprised by resistance and persecution. Yet most of us play it safe. We pursue comfort. We spend ourselves to get more stuff. And we prefer to be entertained. We are all tempted by the ...read more

  • We Can Witness, But We Cannot Convert

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 18, 2019
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    We may use all means, by but we cannot command success. We may teach, but we cannot convert. We may show those around us the bread and water of life, but we cannot make them eat and drink it. We may point out the way to eternal life, but we cannot make others walk in it. ‘It is the Spirit that ...read more

  • Misapplied Scriptures: Ezekiel 16:6

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Sep 26, 2023
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    Introduction: Some folks, perhaps well-meaning, will take a verse completely out of its context in order to use the words for something much different than what was intended. This verse is one that to my knowledge has never been used as the person (L, to protect the identity) said to me many years ...read more

  • Whoever Gets The Son Gets It All  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    WHOEVER GETS THE SON GETS IT ALL The story is told about a wealthy man and his only son - both of whom loved to collect rare works of art! They had everything - from the late great Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) to the late great Italian painter ...read more