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  • Response To An Insurance Company) I Am Writing ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    (Response to an insurance company) I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block #3 of the accident form, I put "trying to do the job alone" as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully, and I trust that the following details ...read more

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  • Is This The Life I Want?  PRO

    Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Sep 1, 2002
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    IS THIS THE LIFE I WANT? "I look in on my children as they sleep at night, [and] I think of the kind of father I want to be. I want to create moments of magic, I want them to remember laughing until the tears flow ... I want to have slow, sweet talks with them as they’re getting ready to close ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Researchers Discover The Benefits Of Music And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
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    Researchers Discover The Benefits of Music and Singing But there’s another reason why we should sing. Music changes us. It transforms us. Singing isn’t just a declaration of our joy… it has the power to MAKE us joyful. ILLUS: Back in 1998, researchers found that music stimulates the auditory ...read more

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  • I'm Going To Give You A Quick Quiz. Don't Worry, ...

    Contributed by Brian Stevenson on Nov 24, 2006
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    I’m going to give you a quick quiz. Don’t worry, it’s easy! I’ll give you a word and you give me the opposite. READY? The opposite of Fast is… Slow. The opposite of Long is… Short. The opposite of Cold is… Hot. The opposite of Young is… Old. The opposite of Soft is… Hard. The opposite of Sour ...read more

    Denomination: Vineyard

  • Wine Consumption Increased 4% In '07, While ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Wine Consumption increased 4% in '07, while distilled spirits were up 3.2% and beer 1.2%. Distilled spirits sales reached more than 182 million nine-liter cases (their 10th straight year of growth) and wine sales reached 294.4 million cases, the 14th consecutive growth year. After declining sales ...read more

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  • Lay Down The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    LAY DOWN THE LOAD The army of Alexander the Great was advancing on Persia. At one critical point, it appeared that his troops might be defeated. The soldiers had taken so much plunder from their previous campaigns that they had become weighted down and were losing their effectiveness in ...read more

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  • Beware Of Attachments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
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    BEWARE OF ATTACHMENTS Felipe Massa of Brazil should have won the Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore in September 2008. But as he drove off from a refueling stop while in the lead, the fuel hose was still attached. By the time his team removed the hose, he had lost so much time that he finished ...read more

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  • Perseverance  PRO

    Contributed by Dru Ashwell on Dec 19, 2001
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    Perseverance When all the world is looming dark And things seem not so clear, When shadows seem to hover ’round Lord, may I persevere. When it seems everything’s been tried And there’s no way to go, Just let me keep remembering Sometimes the journey’s slow. I may just need to stop and rest ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Alcohol Consumption Increasing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION INCREASING Wine consumption increased 4% in 2007, while distilled spirits were up 3.2% and beer 1.2%. Distilled spirits sales reached more than 182 million nine-liter cases (their 10th straight year of growth) and wine sales reached 294.4 million cases, the 14th consecutive ...read more

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  • At The Seattle Special Olympics, Nine ...

    Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
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    At the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash. At the gun, they all started out, not exactly in a dash, but with a relish to run the race to the finish and win. All, that is, except one little boy who ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Japan Has Fewer Children

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    JAPAN HAS FEWER CHILDREN Japan has fewer children age 14 or younger now than at any time since 1908. 70% of its workforce will be lost by 2050. The Washington Post called the situation "a slow-motion demo-graphic catastrophe without precedent." Population Research Institute cites two reasons for ...read more

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  • Stethoscope Theology

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Aug 12, 2021
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    I recently attended a “White Coat Ceremony” for first year medical students. During the ceremony the incoming first year students receive a white coat symbolic of the beginning of their journey into the medical profession. Before the white coats were distributed the Dean of the college introduced ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • In A Hurry  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A news story out of St. Louis last year began… "He was a loving father and loved his grandkids," Linda Heath never imagined Wednesday would mark the first time she referred to her husband of 31 years in the past tense.” On April 26, 2006 Henry Heath was killed while directing traffic in a ...read more

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  • C.s. Lewis Makes Reference To John Donne's Poem, ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 6, 2004
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    C.S. Lewis makes reference to John Donne’s poem, “What if this Present Were the World’s Last Night?” And he makes this point: “A moralist will tell you that the personal triumph of an athlete or of a girl at a ball is transitory; the point is to remember that an empire or a civilization is also ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Jeff Bezos, 36-Year-Old Founder Of Amazon.com, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Jeff Bezos, 36-year-old founder of Amazon.com, shared the following 5 time management tips in the Wall Street Journal. Set aside Tuesdays and Thursdays as your own, without any regularly scheduled meetings. Break your routines. Visit Stores. Scrutinize your own Web site. Learn from unexpected ...read more

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  • Online Donations To The Biggest U.s. Charities ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Online Donations to the biggest U.S. charities surged 63% last year from ‘03, finds a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study. The 164 groups surveyed raised a combined $166.2 million online. That is less than 1% of the total raised by most of the charities, but the growth will spur more online ...read more

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  • Americans Are More Worried About Their Job ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Americans are more worried about their job prospects than at any time since ‘93, raising the risk that consumer spending may slow. In February, 11% of people said jobs were plentiful, while 59% said they were not plentiful and 30% said they were hard to get, the group announced this week, the ...read more

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  • What Will You Give Up To Win?

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    What Will You Give Up To Win? Two paddleboats were leaving Memphis at about the same time. They were traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one boat made a comment about the slow pace of the other boat. Words were exchanged, challenges ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Shannon Of Cincinnati Bible College In Ohio. ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 6, 2010
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    Shannon of Cincinnati Bible College in Ohio. “In Stockholm, Sweden, a lady was pinned beneath a streetcar. She was seriously injured and bleeding badly. A crowd collected. They tried to move the streetcar, but it was too heavy. There was nothing to do but wait for the heavy equipment to come. She ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • Seven Stanzas At Easter

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 19, 2023
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    John Updike put it in his wonderful poem : Make no mistake: if he rose at all it was as his body; If the cells dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the church will fall. Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping transcendence; Making ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed