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  • Keeping Jesus In A Cradle

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 25, 2011
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    KEEPING JESUS IN A CRADLE The World prefers to keep Jesus in a cradle where He is innocent and powerless. the dare not allow Him to be Lord and God much less our suffering servant. When the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci went to China in the 16th century, he brought samples of religious art to ...read more

  • William Manchester Won The Pulitzer Prize For His ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on May 22, 2007
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    William Manchester won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of JFK. He was a sergeant in the Marine Corps in World War II. He suffered a light wound on Okinawa and was evacuated to a field hospital. He learned that his unit was scheduled to make an amphibious assault behind Japanese lines. He ...read more

  • An English Doctor Conducted An Experiment To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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     | 3,219 views

    An English doctor conducted an experiment to study the effects of isolation on people. He built a soundproof room 9’ x 9’ - in size and suspended it by nylon rope. Each participant wore padded fur gloves and heavy woolen socks to eliminate the sensations of touch. Special translucent goggles ...read more

  • A Cartoon Has Been Found On A Wall In The Ruins ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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    A cartoon has been found on a wall in the ruins of ancient Rome showing how crazy the Christian message seemed to the people of that time. It’s a caricature of Jesus’ crucifixion, showing a man’s body hanging on a cross - but the body has the head of a donkey. There’s also a figure of a young man ...read more

  • For Instance, If Someone Confronts Us About ...  PRO

    Contributed by Juan Lane on Dec 27, 2002
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    For instance, if someone confronts us about something we have said and we did not have a reason to say what we said neither did we know what we were talking about, we tell “little white lies” as if it is acceptable. Lying is not acceptable by man or God because a lie is a lie no matter whom tells ...read more

  • One's As Good As Another  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2004
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     | 5,500 views

    ONE’S AS GOOD AS ANOTHER Did you hear about the farmer who asked his neighbor if he could borrow a rope? The neighbor said, “Sorry, I’m using the rope to tie up my milk.” “Milk?” said the farmer. “You can’t tie up milk with a rope.” The neighbor replied, “I know, but when a man doesn’t want to ...read more

  • Ortberg States It This Way, "God Doesn't Just ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 18, 2000
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    Ortberg states it this way, “God doesn’t just love you because he has to, he loves you because he wants to. God delights in you. Of course, that doesn’t mean God delights in everything you do. Your own mother doesn’t do that, if she’s at all healthy. But the fact that you ...read more

  • Where Are The Young Clergy? The Numbers Of Young ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Where Are The Young Clergy? The numbers of young pastors have been steadily declining in recent years. In ’75, about 24% of Presbyterian ministers were under 35—today its just 7%. Episcopal priests under 35 have dropped from 19% to 4% over the same period. For Roman Catholic priests the rate has ...read more

  • Pray For Health 35% Of U.s. Adults Use Prayer For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Pray For Health 35% of U.S. adults use prayer for health reasons, according to the Archives of Internal Medicine. Of these, 75% prayed for “wellness” (staying healthy and warding off illness) and 22% used prayer to help cure specific conditions. 69 % of those thought prayer had been very helpful. ...read more

  • Restless Workers: 47% Of Workers Are Looking For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Restless Workers: 47% of workers are looking for another job or plan to look within the next 12 months according to a new Yahoo.com poll. 34% either weren’t sure or definitely would not recommend their employer to others. 45% cite lack of career growth potential as a reason for leaving. 51% of ...read more

  • Dramatic Drop: Government Figures Show The Rate ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Dramatic Drop: Government figures show the rate of sexual assaults against adolescents ages 12-17 plunged 79% between ‘93 and ‘03, and the number of substantiated sex-abuse cases involving kids of all ages fell 39%. Crimes Against Children Research Center credits multiple reasons for the decline: ...read more

  • All Blame Is A Waste Of Time. No Matter How Much ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    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. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may ...read more

  • The Problem For Isaiah, However, Is That The ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 31, 2009
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    The problem for Isaiah, however, is that the filth and corruption was not outside Jerusalem, it was in it, in the hearts and on the lips of his people. That was the reason for all the invasions of Assyria and Babylonia. The kings of the north would be a purifying fire that would purge the sin ...read more

  • They Said It Couldn't Be Done

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE They experts said it was physically impossible for a human being to run a mile in four minutes. Our bone structure was all wrong, the wind resistance was too great, our lung power was inadequate. There appeared to be a 101 reasons why it could not be done! Then one ...read more

  • Man Has Yet To Conquer Himself  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
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    MAN HAS YET TO CONQUER HIMSELF Ravi Zacharias put it well when he said, "In an attempt to be reasonable, man has become irrational. In an attempt to deify himself, he has defaced himself. In an attempt to be free, he has made himself a slave. And like Alexander the Great, he has conquered the ...read more

  • Weak Prayer, Weak Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 7, 2013
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     | 4,543 views

    WEAK PRAYER, WEAK FAITH Bill Hybels, "I used to make excuses for my faint-hearted prayer life. I don’t have any good models of persevering prayer, I told myself. I have too many responsibilities to fulfill, so I don’t have the time to pray properly. But God convinced me that I was not being honest ...read more

  • During World War Two The P-38 Lightening Fighter ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
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    During World War Two the P-38 Lightening fighter airplane was one of the most effective planes for the United States. The United States gave some to our allies the British but their pilots were not as effective as the American pilots. The reason is that the Americans did not give the British the ...read more

  • I'll Never Forget The Episode Of "Home ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 26, 2007
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    I’ll never forget the episode of “Home Improvement” in which one the Taylor children had a part with three others in the Christmas pageant at church holding up cardboard letters that were supposed to spell “NOEL.” They got backwards and spelled “LEON.” Al Borlan, Tim’s sidekick, leaned over to ...read more

  • S ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    SECURITY? What’s good about America? How about peace and security? A lady said: Security and peace of mind were part of the reason we moved to a gated community. But both flew out the window the night I called a local pizza shop for a delivery. "I’d like to order a large pepperoni, please," I ...read more

  • Coming Quietly

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jan 1, 2023
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    The Lord of all comes as a slave amidst poverty. Choosing for his birthplace an unknown village in a remote province, he is born of a poor maiden and accepts all that poverty implies. He chose surroundings that were poor and simple, so ordinary as to be almost unnoticed, so that people would know ...read more