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  • Right Or Wrong?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 3, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,624 views

    RIGHT OR WRONG? Because of the Qur’an’s attitude toward sin, many orthodox Muslim theologians have traditionally adapted a nominalistic view of ethics. An act is not intrinsically right or wrong. It is only right when God specifically declares it to be such according to his ...read more

  • Conflict In Community  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 21, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 5,061 views

    CONFLICT IN COMMUNITY “The difference between spiritual and unspiritual community is not whether conflict exists, but is rather in our attitude toward it and our approach to handling it. When conflict is seen as an opportunity to draw more fully on spiritual resources, we have ...read more

  • Magnified Grace  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,126 views

    MAGNIFIED GRACE “God’s grace is magnified my man’s ruin. The more keenly the ruin is felt, the more highly the grace is valued.” The most joyful converts to Christ you will ever see, are the ones who have come to realize how ...read more

  • The Air War  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,105 views

    THE AIR WAR It was said of Desert Storm, “the air war won the ground war.” The fervent, faithful praying of a few in a well-developed prayer center can win the ground war for the troops of Christians going out into their places of work and ...read more

  • From My Mother  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 1,965 views

    FROM MY MOTHER From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true. Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States. SOURCE: Celebrating Mothers, A book of ...read more

  • A Waste Of Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,337 views

    A WASTE OF LIFE You can’t waste a life hating people, because all they do is live their life, laughing, doing more evil." ALPHA ROBERTSON,whose daughter was one of four girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church in ...read more

  • Seeing The End  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,553 views

    SEEING THE END "Everything in this world has two aspects - how it looks at the moment, and how it will look in the time to come. The easy way may look inviting at the moment, and the hard way daunting. The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the ...read more

  • A Father's Role  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Fenter on May 23, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 6,282 views

    A FATHER'S ROLE “The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.” “A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives ...read more

  • The Smartest Dad  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Odle on May 30, 2002
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,077 views

    THE SMARTEST DAD When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven ...read more

  • A Question During Crisis  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
     | 3,591 views

    A QUESTION DURING CRISIS I just saw an interesting cartoon. A man was phoning his pastor during a crisis. With a fraught look, the man asks the minister: "My wife has left me, my kids are on drugs, and my life is falling apart. Can you explain to me the difference between ...read more

  • Trememdous Loss

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,962 views

    TREMEMDOUS LOSS Of the 16.5 million soldiers who served in WWII there are only 5 million left & their number is decreasing at the rate of 1,100 a day. This is a tremendous loss because others will never know what WWII was about from a ...read more

  • Darwin's Start

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
     | 2,394 views

    DARWIN'S START It was because of the death of his daughter that Charles Darwin couldn't make sense of a loving God. This seemed to put him on his path to finding a way to take God out of the creation story. (Source: ...read more

  • Peace In A Paid For ...

    Contributed by Aaron Mishoe on Apr 2, 2009
     | 3,348 views

    Peace in a Paid for Home One lady wrote: “When we paid off the last mortgage payment, I was surprised to feel a wonderful sense of freedom and relief. I realized that if Howard would die before my children went out on their own, I would ...read more

  • Where Is The Ark

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 27, 2009
     | 1,704 views

    WHERE IS THE ARK The Ethiopian legend described in the "Book of the Glory of Kings," relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba...The legend relates that Menelik, as an adult, ...read more

  • John Gill Wrote,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 30, 2009
     | 1,252 views

    John Gill wrote, "Jeremiah, whom some of the Jews have thought to be the prophet Moses spoke of, in (Deuteronomy 18:15) and expected that he would appear about the times of the Messiah" [his source: Baal Hatturim in Deut. ...read more

  • Commitment, Relationships And Family

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jun 20, 2010
     | 3,250 views

    COMMITMENT, RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILY "The logical beginning point of any family relationship is a covenant commitment, which has unconditional love at its core. Out of the security provided by this covenant, love develops grace. In this atmosphere of grace, family members have the freedom to ...read more

  • Propitiation In Ancient Judaism

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 30, 2019
     | 1,490 views

    David Flusser writes, “ Since the age of the Hasmoneans, Jews had believed that the saints who died to sanctify the name of God atoned for the sins of Israel… Even Jews who did not accept Christianity evidently believed that Jesus, like the other martyrs of the Roman ...read more

  • There Is A Big Difference Between Batting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 2,749 views

    There is a big difference between batting practice and playing ball. It is common for pro-ball players to describe the overwhelming power of the of the sound of thousands cheering them on. In a sense our life is the game and the cloud of witnesses, heroes, our audience cheering ...read more

  • 31% Of Hotel Guests Often Have A Problem With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,710 views

    31% of hotel guests often have a problem with noise during a stay, second only to dirty rooms as the biggest hotel annoyance. Disturbance by other guests or their TVs is the #1 source of noise irritation: 59.3% of guests rated it more annoying ...read more

  • One Startling Bit Of Research Conducted By The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 28, 2008
     | 747 views

    One startling bit of research conducted by the Christian Business Men’s Committee found the following: When the father is an active believer, there is about a seventy-five percent likelihood that the children will also become active believers. But if only the mother is a believer, this likelihood ...read more

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