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  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the ...read more

  • Ikuko Toguri Was Born In Los Angeles On July 4, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2006
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    Ikuko Toguri was born in Los Angeles on July 4, 1916 the daughter of Japanese immigrants. She went by the name Iva. Iva was a Girl Scout as a child, and she was raised as a Methodist. Iva graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Zoology. She then worked in her ...read more

  • Not Long Before She Died In 1988, In A Moment Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2006
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    Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candor in television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists and novelists, said, "What I envy most about you ...read more

  • Closer Than Our Problems  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2006
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    CLOSER THAN OUR PROBLEMS In reflecting on Handel’s Messiah, Joseph E. McCabe wrote: “Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try ...read more

  • In Reflecting On Handel's Messiah, Joseph E. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2006
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    In reflecting on Handel’s Messiah, Joseph E. McCabe wrote: “Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all ...read more

  • Where Did Candy Canes Come From? Tradition Holds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2006
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    Where did candy canes come from? Tradition holds that in about 1670, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral was frustrated by fidgety kids at the Living Nativity. He had some white, sugar-candy sticks made to keep the youngsters quiet. The sticks were curved like shepherds’ staffs in honor of the ...read more

  • Where Did Candy Canes Come From? Tradition Holds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2006
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    Where did candy canes come from? Tradition holds that in about 1670, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral was frustrated by fidgety kids at the living Nativity. He had some white, sugar-candy sticks made to keep the youngsters quiet. The sticks were curved like shepherds’ staffs in honor of the ...read more

  • Where Did Candy Canes Come From? Tradition Holds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2006
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    Where did candy canes come from? Tradition holds that in about 1670, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral was frustrated by fidgety kids at the living Nativity. He had some white, sugar-candy sticks made to keep the youngsters quiet. The sticks were curved like shepherds’ staffs in honor of the ...read more

  • True Happiness Is Not Attained Through ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2006
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    True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Bette Davis Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness ...read more

  • An Aunt Was Taking A Niece And Nephew On A Tour ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2007
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    An Aunt was taking a niece and nephew on a tour of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. She was explaining about in this church tradition they say a prayer and light a candle to allow the prayer to go to God while the candle burns. They all lit a candle and said a prayer. On the ...read more

  • Three Children Left Home And Worked So Hard That ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2007
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    Three children left home and worked so hard that they didn’t spend much time with their parents. The father passes a way and they all went home. They were all very prosperous and had accumulated vast amounts of money. They discussed what gifts they were going to give their elderly mother. The ...read more

  • You Never Know What Your Witness To The Gospel ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2007
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    You never know what your witness to the Gospel might be accomplishing. I shared the Gospel with a man over a 5 year period getting to the point of “popping the question” several times. Each time I offered “You can accept Christ right now!” He hesitated “No I’m just not ready.” I felt like I was ...read more

  • Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, Gold And Tellurium ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2007
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    Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap. One day a miner mistook a lump of ore for coal and tossed it into his stove. Later, while ...read more

  • The Papoose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2007
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    The Papoose I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now…John 16:12.” Those precious words of our Lord Jesus Christ in John 16:12 bring back a memory from my past. When our middle son was very young, he fell and cut a rather deep gash in the area between his lip and chin. ...read more

  • Pro-Life Americans Are Increasingly Pro-Life, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Pro-Life Americans are increasingly pro-life, according to a Zogby poll that found nearly 70% oppose tax dollars being used for abortions and favor parental-notification laws. 66% believe abortion ends a ...read more

  • 84% Of Abortion-Minded Women Who Received An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    84% of abortion-minded women who received an ultrasound at a pregnancy resource center did not ...read more

  • Abortion An Analysis Of Gallup Polls Conducted ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Abortion An analysis of Gallup Polls conducted over 2004-05 shows that 55% of Americans believe abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” while 24% think it should be legal “under any circumstances,” ...read more

  • The Porn Facts Utah Family Counselor Jill Manning ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    The Porn Facts Utah family counselor Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. Its affects on a person’s social and sexual ...read more

  • Drug Use Among Teens Nationwide Declined From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Drug Use among teens nationwide declined from 11.4% in ’02 to 10.9% in ’05. States that saw the biggest declines were IL, ...read more

  • Legalized Gambling, Available In 48 States, Cost ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Legalized Gambling, available in 48 states, cost Americans $80 billion in ’05 loses reports U.S. News & World Report. 73 million visited more than 1,200 U.S casinos, up from 53 million in ’00. 42 states now run lotteries. The 2005 National Annenberg Risk Survey of Youth claims 2.9 million young ...read more