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  • Church Alternatives

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    CHURCH ALTERNATIVES A Barna study finds a majority of U.S. adults believe there are biblically legitimate alternatives to participation in a conventional church. Among them are engaging in faith activities at home with one’s family (acceptable by 89% of adults); being active in a house church ...read more

  • Good ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    GOOD FIGHTS A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, according to preliminary results of a University of Michigan 17-year study. The study looked at how suppressed anger and the resulting buildup of resentment in a marriage affect overall mortality rates. Couples in which both ...read more

  • Children Not Happier After Divorce  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2008
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    CHILDREN NOT HAPPIER AFTER DIVORCE "One of the many myths of our culture is that divorce automatically rescues children from an unhappy marriage . . . However, when one looks at the thousands of children that my colleagues and I have interviewed at our center since 1980, most of whom were from ...read more

  • Sometimes It Concerns Me, The Number Of People ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 21, 2008
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    "Sometimes it concerns me, the number of people who can quote my songs… but they can't quote the scriptures ... I mean, if entertainment is what you want, I suggest Christian entertainment … because I think it is good. But if what you want is spiritual nourishment, I suggest you go to church or ...read more

  • 6. Similarities Between The Death Of Stephen ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2008
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    6. Similarities between the death of Stephen and the death of Jesus (note: I have altered): 1. Both were tried before the high priest 2. Both were accused by false witnesses 3. Both were accused of threatening to destroy the temple 4. Both mention "the Son of Man" 5. Both charged with blasphemy 6. ...read more

  • The Best Food For You Is The Word Of God Itself. ...

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Nov 20, 2008
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    "The best food for you is the Word of God itself. Sermons and books are well enough, but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow, and they lose the cool freshness with which they started from the spring head. ...read more

  • Someone Wrote: What Is Your God? "Whatever You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Someone wrote: WHAT IS YOUR GOD? "Whatever you love most, serve most, seek out most, give to the most, worship the most, and care about the most is your god. Your “god” can be your career, your bank account, the way you look, a particular position or degree, influence, power, or physical ...read more

  • Dogs  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
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    Dogs An old dog was watching a young dog chase his tail. The young dog stopped to rest, and told the older dog, “I believe happiness is in my tail, and if I catch it, then I will have happiness” The older, wiser dog said, “I caught mine once. . . and I found out that happiness is not in the ...read more

  • Unmarked Police Car

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2009
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    UNMARKED POLICE CAR As my husband, the county highway commissioner, was driving to the hospital for treatment of his painful leg, he decided to use the valet parking service so he wouldn’t have to walk far. Staring at his official-looking vehicle, one of the valets asked my husband if he was ...read more

  • Revivals Are Born After ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    REVIVALS ARE BORN AFTER MIDNIGHT A. W. Tozer: "There is considerable truth in the idea that revivals are born after midnight, for revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as ...read more

  • Jim Lopardo Tells This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    Jim Lopardo tells this story: I was a percussion major when I was in college, and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra, my section kept making mistakes. "When you’re too dumb to play anything," the professor conducting us sneered, "they give you a couple of sticks, put you in the back and ...read more

  • A Royal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    A ROYAL FAMILY President William Howard Taft’s great granddaughter was asked to write her autobiography when she was in the third grade. And this is what she wrote: "My great-grandfather was President of the United Sates. My grandfather was a United States Senator. My father is an ambassador. ...read more

  • True Biblical Worship So Satisfies Our Total ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2009
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    True biblical worship so satisfies our total personality that we don’t have to shop around for man-made substitutes. William Temple made this clear in his masterful definition of worship: For worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; ...read more

  • Jewish People Stats

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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     | 2,487 views

    JEWISH PEOPLE STATS Of the 6 billion inhabitants of the earth, only 13 million are Jewish. That is less than 1% of the world’s population, and yet, Jewish people have received more than 22% of the Noble prizes awarded. Roughly, 41% of the 13 million reside within the land of Israel and 40% live in ...read more

  • Renoir: Pain Passes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    RENOIR: PAIN PASSES In old age, Pierre Auguste Renoir, the great French painter, suffered from arthritis, which twisted and cramped his hand. Henri Matisse, his artist friend, watched sadly while Renoir, grasping a brush with only his fingertips, continued to paint, even though each movement ...read more

  • Food In Psalm 146:7

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2009
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    FOOD IN PS 146:7 Though the main teaching of this vision is not about food, but about people, still, it involves food Midrash Tehillim in regard to Ps. 146:7, "The Lord allows the forbidden … and will one day allow the eating of all animals now forbidden to be eaten … In the time to come he will ...read more

  • What A ...

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Dec 9, 2009
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    “What a Night” That night when in the Judean skies Thy mystic star dispensed its light, A blind man moved in his sleep And dreamed that he had sight That night when shepherds heard The song of angelic choir near, A deaf man stirred in slumber’s spell And dreamed that he could hear That night ...read more

  • When God Forgives, He Forgets

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 12, 2010
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    WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE FORGETS How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the mother of the little girl who had been good a whole week, and asked mother for a favor. "I know," was the answer, "that you have been good all this week, but you know you were bad last week." ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2010
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    Corrie Ten Boom on Prayer It was Corrie Ten Boom who asked, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?” I am afraid for too many of us it is the spare tyre, the source we look to only when our journey has ground to a halt, but really, it ought to be our steering wheel, and Jesus teaches us ...read more

  • The Hero And The Saint

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
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    THE HERO AND THE SAINT The late great German-born American Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer and writer, religious leader, and social reformer, Felix Adler (1851 - 1933), starts things off well when he said, "The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up ...read more

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