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  • Working During Pregnancy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    WORKING DURING PREGNANCY Women are more likely to work during pregnancy than they were 30 to 40 years ago. They also are returning to work more rapidly after having their first child; 64% are back at work within a year vs. 17% in the 60s. 66% of women who had their first child between 2001 and ...read more

  • Christian Book Publisher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    CHRISTIAN BOOK PUBLISHER STATS Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The ...read more

  • Sprouting To New Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
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    SPROUTING TO NEW LIFE A few years ago, when archaeologists began excavating in the courtyard of a medieval monastery, they found seeds that had been dormant for more than 400 years that had begun to grow. King Henry VIII had closed the monastery in 1539, and herbs tended by the monks died. But ...read more

  • The Paint Covered Its Beauty

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jan 24, 2012
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    THE PAINT COVERED ITS BEAUTY A few years ago when I lived in Poland we were at a local museum which had a beautiful sculpture of Mary holding Jesus. For years it stood on a street corner before the city decided to clean it up and restore it. Up to that point no one thought it was anything special ...read more

  • This Week I Was Reading The Story Of An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Oct 26, 2002
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    This week I was reading the story of an Australian couple who went to Bangladesh as missionaries. When Stuart and Margaret arrived in the country they were informed, by the Baptist missionaries already there that the Muslim people were impossible to reach with the Gospel message. For the six years ...read more

  • Back In The 17th Century, The Dutch Artist ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Feb 25, 2005
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    Back in the 17th century, the Dutch artist Rembrandt painted two portraits of a famous Roman heroine named Lucretia. One portrait was painted the 1664. Two years later, he painted a second portrait of Lucretia in a different pose. For over 300 years, the two paintings were never seen together. ...read more

  • Strong Emotions

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 16, 2005
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    There is nothing wrong with strong emotions; even those that center squarely upon ourselves. Witness the story of missionary Adoniram Judson. He sweated out Burma’s heat for 18 years without a furlough, six years without a convert. Enduring torture and imprisonment, he admitted that he never saw a ...read more

  • Inasmuch As The Great Father Has Given Us This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared ...read more

  • The Power Of Multiplication

    Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
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    The Power of Multiplication On a wall in the Museum of Natural Science in Chicago there is a checkerboard with 64 squares. In the lower lefthand corner is a grain of wheat. The display includes this question: "If you doubled the amount of wheat as you move from square to square, how much would you ...read more

  • Concrete Love  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Hickey on Jun 10, 2003
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    CONCRETE LOVE Pastor Joel Gregory tells the story of a seminary professor who taught the Christian graces of love and forbearance for forty years until he retired. Occupying himself in his retirement years, he poured a new concrete driveway to his house. Finished, he went in to rest and get a ...read more

  • Enriching Every Sphere" By Henry G. Bosch From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ron Newton on Aug 6, 2003
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    "Enriching Every Sphere" by Henry G. Bosch from Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations Signs of The Times, Assurance Publishers Illus... #2679 “Enriching Every Sphere” "Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ’s 3-year ministry ...read more

  • The Importance Of Preaching

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several years ago “The British Weekly” published this provocative letter: Dear Sir: It seems ministers feel their sermons are very important and spend a great deal of time preparing them. I have been attending church quite regularly for thirty years, and I have probably heard 3,000 of them. To my ...read more

  • Some Of Mankind's Greatest Contributions Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Some of mankind’s greatest contributions have come from people who decided that no sacrifice was too large and no effort too great to accomplish what they set out to do. Edward Gibbon spent twenty-six years writing his great work on history. Noah Webster worked diligently for thirty-six years to ...read more

  • Some Critics Have Scorned The Concept Of A ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 20, 2008
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    "Some critics have scorned the concept of a Jubilee year as being impossible to implement, however archaeologists have found records of deeds from the late biblical period containing references to it being in operation. The first Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Kook, taught that the basis for the ...read more

  • Governor William Bradford, Plymouth Colony - "To ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jul 8, 2008
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    Governor William Bradford, Plymouth Colony - "To all ye pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He ...read more

  • Mind-Barriers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    MIND-BARRIERS Roger Bannister was an Olympian. Every four years we have the games. Four minutes was the fastest record to ever run the mile. Ever since statisticians kept records, they knew that no one would could ever beat that record. But Roger Bannister didn't listen to them--he went out and ...read more

  • Alabama Judge: Church Or Jail

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 26, 2011
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    ALABAMA JUDGE: CHURCH OR JAIL Is going to church a privilege or a sentence? It depends upon you and the particular church. For some in Alabama, it is a sentence: BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say non-violent offenders in southern Alabama will have a new choice: Go to jail, or go to church ...read more

  • Good Friday In The Philippines

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 8, 2012
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    GOOD FRIDAY IN THE PHILIPPINES Ever since the 1950s, the men of the Philippines have had unusual tradition around Easter. It has grown to the point where from 50,000 to 75,000 people attend every year. The ritual that has drawn all these tourists to the Philippines is an odd and gruesome Good ...read more

  • Where Was God On 9/11?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2012
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    WHERE WAS GOD ON 9/11? In his article, "Ten Years Later", R.C. Sproul said: "A full decade has passed since America suffered the tragedy of 9/11. Ten years ago, I repeatedly heard the question raised: 'Where was God in all of this? Where was God on 9/11 when the planes crashed into the twin towers ...read more

  • About Orion

    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
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    ABOUT ORION It doesn't take much for me to believe in our great God. Just this past Friday morning...about 5:30am....I went outside to walk our dog and couldn't help but notice the stars in the sky. They were brilliant. I looked up at the constellation Orion and saw what is actually the 6th ...read more