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  • Several Years Ago There Was A Movie Entitled ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
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    Several years ago there was a movie entitled "Fatal Attraction" in which a man finds himself attracted to another woman. He yields to this temptation, no doubt thinking that it will be a brief encounter. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an affair that threatens to destroy his entire life. Why ...read more

  • Richard Eye On Divorce

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 16, 2013
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    RICHARD EYRE ON DIVORCE "We now have over 40 years worth of very conclusive statistics that show that children from two parent homes (a mother and a father) are at substantially less risk for drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropout, suicide, and a whole host of other problems. Statistically ...read more

  • Lamak Was Born Into A Wealthy, Powerful Muslim ...

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
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    Lamak was born into a wealthy, powerful Muslim family in South Asia. His family’s reputation put pressure on him to live like a Muslim. Everything changed when Lamak turned his life over to Jesus Christ while working in Singapore. When he returned home four years later, he accepted the risks ...read more

  • People Neglect Their Opportunities In Life. I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    People neglect their opportunities in life. I received a pastor’s letter in the mail last week. In the 1940s, IBM considered commercializing the new computer operation they had with the US Government. But after due consideration, Thomas J Watson, chairman of IBM, issued this statement, ...read more

  • When We Choose To Follow Jesus, We Are Walking In ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
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    When we choose to follow Jesus, we are walking in his steps. When I was being taught how to clear a minefield our instructor told us to step precisely in the footprint left by the person in front of us. The concept was simple: since the person in front of us stepped on a spot that didn’t set ...read more

  • Fdny Captain Jay Jonas And Five Other ...

    Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
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    FDNY Captain Jay Jonas and five other firefighters from Ladder 6 responded immediately to the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. When they entered the lobby of the north tower, the south tower was hit. Carrying 100 pounds of gear, they began to ascend the stairwell of the south tower. When ...read more

  • This Week, I Learned About A Financial Scientist ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    This week, I learned about a financial scientist named Myron Sholes. In the early 1970s, he and some colleagues figured out how to price stock options. He also figured out the implication of his own formula – that if you could just diversify into enough investments – you could in theory, eliminate ...read more

  • Memorial Day In The Military, Medal Of Honor ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010
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    Memorial Day in the Military, Medal of Honor Recipient It’s 3am on a cold winter day. Patchy snow covers the landscape as Loudspeakers overhead blare telling everyone to get to their places. Surrounded by sandbags, concrete barriers and roughly 10,000 soldier, sailors, airman and marines, Bagram ...read more

  • The Law Has A Purpose. In The Case Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eddie Snipes on Oct 26, 2000
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    The law has a purpose. In the case of Cain’s wife, there was no need for this law at the beginning. There are over 130,000 genes that we inherit from our parents (Explain genes to the ancient world). Genes are formed in pairs. At the moment of conception, we inherit one gene of each pair from each ...read more

  • Celebrities Tend To Misbehave In Tiresome And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
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    Celebrities tend to misbehave in tiresome and predictable ways--tantrums, affairs, addictions--and we tend to think they’re spoiled. But one psychiatrist, Cornell’s Robert B. Millman, says they’re not spoiled, they’re sick. The affliction is Acquired Situational Narcissism. ASN develops when ...read more

  • From The Power Of One Another By Bob Russell, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2004
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    From The Power of One Another by Bob Russell, pg. 20- Christians in Romania relate that during the government oppression they had endured for years, Bibles were very scarce. Christian would tear pages out of the Bible, pass them around, and hide them so that they could have them to read. ...read more

  • H. L. Gee Somewhere Tells Of A Tramp Who Came ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
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    H. L. Gee somewhere tells of a tramp who came begging to a good woman’s door. She went to get something to give him and found that she had no change in the house. She went to him and said, “I have not a penny of small change. I need a loaf of bread. Here is a pound note. Go and buy the loaf and ...read more

  • Let Me Tell You About Neroli Endacott. While ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 12, 2005
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    Let me tell you about Neroli Endacott. While others her age can kick back, relax, shoo the kids out the door, and consider retirement - - 59 year old Neroli (who lives on the Gold Coast in Australia), fills her days being mum to some of that states most "at risk" children. Since 1999 she has cared ...read more

  • For Decades, Iran Has Been A Hotbed For Terrorist ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
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    For decades, Iran has been a hotbed for terrorist activity. Little do most people know that Iran also houses the fastest-growing Muslim movement in the world: Muslims converting to Christianity. In IRAN: Desperate for God, seven Iranian Christian converts from Islam unveil their testimonies of ...read more

  • Warren Wiersbe Tells A Story About The Days Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Warren Wiersbe tells a story about the days of the Old West. There was a horse bolting down the road with a wagon hitched to it and little boy trapped on the wagon. A young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop the wagon, saving that little boy. Well, that little boy grew up to be a ...read more

  • The Church--A Hospital For Sinners (The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2009
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    The Church--A Hospital for Sinners (The Ragamuffin Gospel) "The Ragamuffin Gospel was written with a specific reading audience in mind. This book is not for the super-spiritual...It is not for legalists who would rather surrender control of their souls to rules rather than run the risk of living ...read more

  • Liberation Treatment

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 15, 2011
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    LIBERATION TREATMENT Liberation Treatments are becoming commonly known treatments for people suffering with Multiple Sclerosis. The condition known as Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCVI), according to Dr. Paolo Zamboni, Italian founder of the Liberation Treatment, is a condition ...read more

  • Contaminated

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 22, 2012
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    CONTAMINATED I'm all thumbs when it comes to band-aids. I know you're not supposed to touch the pad, the part that compresses the wound. If you do, then you contaminate it, and you run the risk of infection. And, of course, you don't want to do that. So, every time I use a band-aid, it's something ...read more

  • Like A Child

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2012
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    LIKE A CHILD Yo-Yo Ma, one of the most famous cellists in our day, once said, "When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them that the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner. In order to become a professional," he says, "you need to go through ...read more

  • How The Mighty Fall

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013
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    HOW THE MIGHTY FALL Jim Collins has written a book called "How the Mighty Fall" about businesses who at one time were strong and effective and yet went from hero to zero during the last decade. Motorola was number one in cell phones in the world in 2004 and today they are on the edge of ...read more