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  • Among Americans 45 Or Older Who Describe ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Among Americans 45 or older who describe themselves as somewhat religious, 20% say prayer is the best way to find spiritual or religious satisfaction, according to USA Today. Other pleasing spiritual experiences include living a moral life and helping others, both at 19%. And 13% view being with ...read more

  • The Neglected Heart Will Soon Be A Heart Overrun ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for ...read more

  • The Dead Sea Is So Salty That It Contains No Fish ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 5, 2006
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    The Dead Sea is so salty that it contains no fish or plant life. What accounts for this unusual condition? The are absolutely no outlets! Great volumes of water pours into this area, but nothing flows out. Many inlets plus no outlets equal a Dead Sea. This law of nature may also be applied ...read more

  • I Read A Story In A Paper This Week Of Mark ...

    Contributed by David Butcher on Dec 8, 2006
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    I read a story in a paper this week of Mark Baylis who through quite amazing circumstances was reunited with his birth mother. Adopted at birth and brought up by wonderful parents, yet there was still the longing to know what had happened, was he really loved. The came the moment of reunion, ...read more

  • Game Boys In The Usa, Over 70% Of Males In The 18 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Game Boys In the USA, over 70% of males in the 18 to 34 demographic play video games, according to NPD Group. Young men play 12.5 hours of video games a week, while they watch television 9.8 hours, and 75% of households with a male member age 8 ...read more

  • Silas Weir Mitchell Is Quoted In Harvey Cushing's ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    Silas Weir Mitchell is quoted in Harvey Cushing’s Life of Sir William Osler as having remarked that, “The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.” By this standard, as by many another, the character of David, son of ...read more

  • There Was A Professor Who Told His Class That ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 2, 2007
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    There was a professor who told his class that man is only a meaningless piece of protoplasm. He dismissed class early because of grief over his young daughter, whose life would be scarred because she had run off with an older man. A Christian student asked, “How can ...read more

  • One Of My Favorite Teachers Is Charles Simpson. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One of my favorite teachers is Charles Simpson. One of the profound things he said was this: OH - God will not allow you to profess a doctrine in the abstract. If you confess to a truth, you will be put to the test to incorporate that into your life. Pick one: faith, integrity, truthfulness, ...read more

  • Vince Lombardi Said, "The Quality Of A Man's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Vince Lombardi said, "The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour--his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is that moment when he has ...read more

  • As You Know, This Wednesday Is The 4th Of July. ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jul 5, 2007
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    As you know, this Wednesday is the 4th of July. The 231st Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence that was signed on July 4th, 1776. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence contains some of the most moving words ever written. It says…“We hold these truths to ...read more

  • Reginald Bibby, The Canadian Guru Of Statistical ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 29, 2007
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    Reginald Bibby, the Canadian guru of statistical study, tells us in his book, “Restless Gods” that “People from British Columbia to Newfoundland are providing some interesting evidence of the existence of God, on something of an unconscious level. These kinds of findings point to a great ...read more

  • Within Months Fred Whiteman Went Through More ...

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008
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    Within months Fred Whiteman went through more pain than most of us do in a life time. Cancer claimed his best friend. Then his mum died and his wife was killed. Next, he underwent a heart transplant. And while he was still recovering he had to ...read more

  • A Young Rotc Cadet Was On A Training Exercise To ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Oct 21, 2008
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    A young ROTC Cadet was on a training exercise to look for the enemy along a road. The road had a bend in it so you could not see far without exposing himself to the enemy. The cadet climbed a tree to get a better view and was able to complete his mission successfully. Just like ...read more

  • Let's Say That I Give You A 25-Pound Sack Of ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Nov 17, 2008
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    Let’s say that I give you a 25-pound sack of corn, and that is all you will ever have. You love corn and want to enjoy it for the rest of your life. The only way that will be possible is for you to invest, or sow a portion of the seed for the future. For the corn to grow, or reproduce, it must be ...read more

  • John Stott Said: "No Man Has Ever Appreciated ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 2, 2008
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    John Stott said: “No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth” ...read more

  • I Shall Tell You A Great Secret, My Friend. Do ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on May 25, 2009
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    1. I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus 2. To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. John W. Gardner 3. When we come to the end of life, the question ...read more

  • Here Are Some Funny Philosophies I Found While ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 10, 2009
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    Here are some funny philosophies I found while working on this message: “To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.” “It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.” ...read more

  • All That Work For What?

    Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
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    ALL THAT WORK FOR WHAT? In November 1975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them ...read more

  • Leonard Ravenhill ‘the Church Has Many ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
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    Leonard Ravenhill ‘The church has many organisers, but few agonizers; many who pay, but few who pray; many resters, but few wrestlers; many who are enterprising, but few who are interceding… Tithes build a church, but tears will give it life. That is the difference between the modern church ...read more

  • Heroic Virtue

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 10, 2009
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    HEROIC VIRTUE St. Maximilian Kolbe, languishing in a Nazi prison camp, offered his life for a man who was condemned to death. Even the religious world would counsel against this act as rash. After all, a priest is more valuable to the kingdom of God than any layperson, right? But God’s ...read more