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  • Have You Ever Been Around Someone Who Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2003
     | 814 views

    "Have you ever been around someone who was unbelievably good looking, extremely attractive, and a lot smarter than you are? When you’re in a social situation people want to listen to him, not you. Suppose you don’t care for that person, but you’re kept in a room with him twenty-four hours a day ...read more

  • Ah, What An Easy Job Is His  PRO

    Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Feb 18, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,203 views

    Ah, what an easy job is his, The man who’s in the preaching biz! He has but little work to do, For all he does the whole week through Is just to call upon the flock As regularly as the clock; To cheer the sick who groan in bed, To preach a sermon for the dead; To teach the sinner righteousness, ...read more

  • A Family Counselor Named Jill Manning Says, "I ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 5, 2007
     | 1,344 views

    A family counselor named 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. It has lasting affect on social and sexual attitude and ...read more

  • The Pew Internet & American Life Project Finds ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
     | 2,343 views

    The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds 93% of teens use the Internet, and more of them than ever are treating it as a place where they can share creations, tell stories, and interact with others. 64% of online teens 12-17 have participated in 1 or more internet content-creating activities, ...read more

  • Americans In Pain

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 3,168 views

    AMERICANS IN PAIN Americans in households making less than $30,000 a year spend nearly 20% of their lives in moderate to severe pain vs. less than 8% of those in households earning above $100,000, finds a study by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and Stony Brook Univ. professor Arthur Stone. The ...read more

  • The Church Must Serve The Truth

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 8, 2009
     | 1,649 views

    THE CHURCH MUST SERVE THE TRUTH The Church does not have technical solutions to offer [10] and does not claim 'to interfere in any way in the politics of States.' [11] She does, however, have a mission of truth to accomplish, in every time and circumstance, for a society that is attuned to man, to ...read more

  • Losing The Art Of Conversation  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,876 views

    LOSING THE ART OF CONVERSATION We live in a world of overwhelming access via phone, e-mail, instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, and the like. More than once I have heard someone say, "I got x number of e-mails at once with the expectation I would send an instant response to each one!" I ...read more

  • The Case For Marriage

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 4, 2011
     | 3,240 views

    THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE Not only do most first marriages survive, the majority are also happy: "Among the nearly twenty thousand married men and women questioned over the last several decades as part of the General Social Survey, 66 percent of the husbands and 62 percent of the wives give their ...read more

  • Promiscuity Statistics

    Contributed by Douglas Stull on Aug 31, 2011
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     | 2,232 views

    PROMISCUITY STATISTICS Statistics show astronomical growth in sexual permissiveness and its attendant social problems in America since the sexual revolution of the 1960’s. Couples Living Together: YEAR TOTAL 2000 5,500,000 1997 4,000,000 1995 3,700,000 1990 ...read more

  • Timothy's Story

    Contributed by Timothy Enns on Oct 5, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,630 views

    TIMOTHY'S STORY I want to tell you a story today about a little fellow named Jason. The circumstances that Jason was born into not entirely clear. What we do know is that his birth parents, for what ever reason, decided not to care for him or could not care for him. Instead they decided to place ...read more

  • The Asterisk

    Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 12, 2013
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    THE ASTERISK When we read the word anyone in the invitation of Jesus we can’t help but think there must be an asterisk next to it. Even if there wasn’t one when Jesus spoke these words, it seems that over the years the church has put an asterisk next to his invitation. The sign out front of the ...read more

  • Richard Eye On Divorce

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 16, 2013
     | 2,058 views

    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

  • Sully And Second Nature

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
     | 4,486 views

    "SULLY" AND SECOND NATURE Thursday, January 15, 2009, was another ordinary day in New York City. Or so it seemed. But by that evening people were talking of a miracle. They may have been right. But the full explanation is, if anything, even more interesting and exciting. And it strikes just the ...read more

  • Teach Your Kids!

    Contributed by Eduardo Quintana on Oct 4, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,399 views

    God’s word instructs us to be teachers to our children. For the past 5000 plus years, children would help with the family business. If they were carpenters, the children would help doing work that was appropriate for them. As they helped, they would become masters at the skill that they were being ...read more

  • Sowing Seeds Of Peace  PRO

    Contributed by David Yarbrough on Feb 11, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,341 views

    SOWING SEEDS OF PEACE In Europe, 1934, Hitler’s plague of anti-Semitism was infecting a continent. Some would escape it. Some would die from it. But eleven-year-old Heinz would learn from it. He would learn the power of sowing seeds of peace. Heinz was a Jew. The Bavarian village of Fourth, ...read more

  • Bonnie Laughlin's Answered Prayer

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Nov 16, 2010
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    BONNIE LAUGHLIN'S ANSWERED PRAYER Psalms 27:13 says, “I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.” One sacrifice made by Bonnie K. Laughlin was the Christian homeschooling of her son, Caleb Laughlin. Bonnie saw that Caleb needed to develop his ...read more

  • John Eldredge Tells The Story Of A Scottish ...

    Contributed by Kelly Randolph on Feb 17, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,173 views

    John Eldredge tells the story of a Scottish discus thrower from the 19th century. He lived days before professional trainers and developed his skills alone in the highlands. He made his own discus from the description he read in a book. What he didn’t know was that the competition discus was made ...read more

  • I Recently Heard A Radio Report About A Group Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 29, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,524 views

    I recently heard a radio report about a group of young men in Holland who were trying to break the world’s record for domino toppling. For many weeks they plied their skills, setting up one domino after another until there were ten’s of thousands in place. Knowing that all it would take is one ...read more

  • For 51 Years Bob Edens Was Blind. He Couldn't See ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,583 views

    For 51 years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn’t see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A skilled surgeon performed a complicated operation and, for the first time, Bob Edens had sight. He found it ...read more

  • Life-Stages Drive Consumer Patterns: Life-Stages; ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,522 views

    Life-stages Drive Consumer Patterns: Life-stages; turning points in life, a period of sudden, perhaps dramatic, change that requires new skills and a new frame of mind¾influence buying and giving patterns particular-ly among boomers. Key life-stages are fairly predictable; birth, childhood, ...read more