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  • What's A Church Worth? Ram A. Cnaan, Author Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    What’s A Church Worth? Ram A. Cnaan, author of The Invisible Caring Han: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare, found through research that the net value of local congregational, social, and community services averages $15,307 per month, or approximately $184,000 per congregation per ...read more

  • Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), Former ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as "the dark hour of his soul." Eliot’s mother gave him this ...read more

  • Michael Nelken], A Connecticut Psychiatrist And ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 23, 2006
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    [Michael Nelken], a Connecticut psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has written a book about Adolf Hitler contends that people are more in danger of doing evil than they realize…[He writes,] “temptations to do wanton things don’t just come now and then, but are ever present. Impulses to do evil fly ...read more

  • There's An Incredible Market Today In Counseling. ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Dec 18, 2006
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    There’s an incredible market today in counseling. Many people even seek out astrologers and psychics for counsel and advice. Listen to this counsel: Jesus Christ is the wisest man alive. He is the Perfect Counselor Who has all the right answers all the time. What’s more, He gives free advice. ...read more

  • Risky Behavior- Since 1991 The Percentage Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Risky Behavior- Since 1991 the percentage of students who rarely or never wear seatbelts has dropped from 26% to 10%, and the percentage with 4 or more sex partners during their lives has dropped from nearly 20% to less than 15%. Still, parents find it alarming that 18.5% of high school students ...read more

  • There Are Twelve Million Cases Of Sexually ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
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    There are twelve million cases of sexually transmitted diseases every year. The AIDS epidemic is reaching monstrous proportions, and efforts at making sure we all wear condoms aren’t going to safeguard anybody. The failure rate of condoms when it comes to preventing pregnancy is somewhere between ...read more

  • Name Of God...?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2002
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    NAME OF GOD...? If you’re in Lake City, Fla., one of these days and happen to run into a 50-something fellow with a sandy moustache, a receeding hairline, and aviator glasses, you may be in the presence of I Am Who I Am. Really. But that’s because Columbia County Court turned down his first ...read more

  • In The 1968 Olympics In Mexico City, Tanzanian ...

    Contributed by Daniel Austin on Nov 12, 2007
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    In the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Tanzanian runner John Stephen Ahkwari was the last runner in the marathon. He came in about an hour and a half after the winner, practically carrying his leg, as it was so bloodied and bandaged. When asked, “Why did you keep going?” He said, “You don’t ...read more

  • 1 Way Of Improving Your Chances Of Making Friends ...

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008
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    1 WAY OF IMPROVING YOUR CHANCES OF MAKING FRIENDS – SMILE!!! It takes less muscles to smile than to frown & it also will help to keep you young! "A happy heart makes the face cheerful!" Prov. 15:13 (NIV), 2 Cor. 3:18 (our faces should reflect God’s glory!) A loving heart and a friendly smile ...read more

  • Let It Out

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    LET IT OUT Only 15% of Americans say they let their feelings out often, although 80% believe it is healthy to do so. A national study reveals 63% of Americans think people are too bottled-up when it comes to their emotions. 40% let it out in the average week and 11% can’t even remember the last ...read more

  • The Breaking Of The Bread

    Contributed by Daniel Haas on Aug 22, 2008
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    Matthew 14:13-21 Mark 6:30-44 Luke 9:10-17 John 6:1-15 "By the breaking of the bread, he makes it into a seedbed of food--for if the bread had been left intact and not pulled apart and broken into pieces, they would have been unable to feed the great crowds of men, women, and children...Mysteries ...read more

  • Is Your Church A Church Of Bones?

    Contributed by Jay Mccluskey on Jan 29, 2009
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    IS YOUR CHURCH A CHURCH OF BONES? In the town of Sedlec in the Czech Republic, there is a famous cemetery that dates back to the 13th century. Some 40,000 people who died from the Black Plague in the 14th century and in the Hussite wars in the beginning of the 15th century were buried there. ...read more

  • Longer Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    LONGER LIFE Average U.S. life expectancy has risen to an all-time record of 78.1 years for babies born in 2006, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What’s more, the death rate for 11 of the top 15 causes of death (including heart disease, cancer and stroke) slowed in 2006. White ...read more

  • Mother Switches Daughter's Musical Instrument To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
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    Mother Switches Daughter’s Musical Instrument to Keep Her from Singing I read the true story about a woman who bought her daughter a really nice Baby Grand Piano for her birthday. A few weeks later, one of her friends asked her how her daughter was doing. “Oh,” she said, “I persuaded her to switch ...read more

  • Aristotle On Self-Discipline

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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    ARISTOTLE ON SELF-DISCIPLINE We are the sum of our actions, Aristotle tells us, and therefore our habits make all the difference. And what is the best way to practice? Aristotle's answer lies in his explanation of "the mean." In his view, correct moral behavior in any given situation lies at the ...read more

  • Sharing The Cup With All

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
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    SHARING THE CUP WITH ALL One Sunday morning in 1865, a black man entered a fashionable church in Richmond, Virginia. When Communion was served, he walked down the aisle and knelt at the altar. A rustle of resentment swept the congregation. How dare he! After all, believers in that church used the ...read more

  • During World War I A Protestant Chaplain With The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    During World War I a Protestant chaplain with the American troops in Italy became a friend of a local Roman Catholic priest. In time, the chaplain who moved on with his unit was killed. The priest heard of his death and asked military authorities if the chaplain could be buried in the cemetery ...read more

  • Picture A Coin Falling Toward The Ground Under ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Aug 19, 2006
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    “Picture a coin falling toward the ground under the influence of gravity. In itself, that coin is powerless to overcome the downward pull of this earth. It is in its very nature to fall. But before it has gone far, someone reaches out an arm, holds the coin firmly in his hand, and then lifts it ...read more

  • The Tale Of The Star  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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    THE TALE OF THE STAR Eusebius, a scholarly church historian of the early fourth century, evidently made a considerable study of the literature available to him, and came to this conclusion about the star: "The star was new and a stranger among the usual lights of heaven, a strange star, not one ...read more

  • Let Me Tell You, Please: I Don't Understand God's ...

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Jun 11, 2007
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    Let me tell you, please: I don’t understand God’s procedure. I mean, God called a nation, Israel. AND GOD GAVE TO THEM LAWS AND RESTRICTIONS… A very restraining life-style, requirements and commandments, tens and hundreds… Take a look in Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy… But after that, the same ...read more