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  • Divorce In A Long Term Study Of Couples Who Were ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Divorce In a long term study of couples who were at a point of getting a divorce, 22% of those who went ahead with the divorce reported they were happy 5 years later while 86% of those who decided to stick it out, seek help and counseling to fix their marriage reported they were happy 5 years ...read more

  • Hollywood Isn't Listening: There Wasn't A Single ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Hollywood Isn’t Listening: There wasn’t a single R-rated movie in the top 20 grossing movies last year. The 20 top grossing movies of last year all have one thing in common — not one carried an R rating. Experts say there’s a struggle between what families ...read more

  • No Peace In The World  PRO

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 25, 2006
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    No Peace in the world The Society of International law in London states this incredible statistic: since the beginning of recorded history, the entire world has been at peace less than 8% of the time. Over the last 4000 years of history, only 268 years saw peace. Moreover in excess of 8000 peace ...read more

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • Jimmy Carter Recently Spoke About Mission In His ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 28, 2006
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    Jimmy Carter recently spoke about mission in his home town over 14 years he had visited 140 homes. When he was running for political office in 1966 for governor for Georgia, he met 300,000 people to vote for him the comparison struck him 300,000 for me in 3 ...read more

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • Moving And Friendships

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
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    MOVING AND FRIENDSHIPS We live in a society where people, especially young adults, move so often they don’t have time to develop deep friendships. My mom and step father lived in the place where I grew up for about 25 years. During that 25 years, I moved ...read more

  • Our Words

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    OUR WORDS Did you know that the average person spends one-fifth of his or her life talking? That’s what the statistics say. If all of our words were put into print, the result would be this: A single day’s words would fill a 50-page book, while ...read more

  • What Is Man's Life Made Up Of?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
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    WHAT IS MAN'S LIFE MADE UP OF? One person said: Man's life is made up of 20 years of his mother asking him where he is going, 50 years of his wife asking him where he has been, and one hour at his funeral when everyone wonders where ...read more

  • Can I Hug You?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I heard a story about a father who told his son when he reached 12 years old that he would only shake hands with him from now on. Finally, some 20 or 25 years later the son, now a grown man, said, “Dad can I hug you?” And the son and ...read more

  • Two Men Once Robbed A Jewelry Store. One Was A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Two men once robbed a jewelry store. One was a lawyer and other was a high-school dropout. After being arrested, convicted and sentence, the lawyer received a ten-year imprisonment. The dropout received three years. The counselors for the lawyer protested the harsh judgment and the disparity of ...read more

  • The Prison Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Prison of Bitterness Because we live in a world full of people that don’t know grace. It’s foreign to them. They don’t know it. And if they don’t hear about it and experience it from the body of Christ, they will never know it. I first learned of this story from Max Lucado. Each week Kevin ...read more

  • H. The Day The Church Treasurer Resigned The ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
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    h. The day the church treasurer resigned the church asked the local grain elevator manager to take the position. He agreed under two conditions. That no treasurer’s report would be given for the first year. That no questions be asked about finances during that year. The people were surprised but ...read more

  • How Much Time Do We Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    How Much Time Do We Have Left? A few years ago People Magazine published an article entitled, “Dead Ahead,” telling about a new clock that keeps track of how much time you have left to live. It calculates an average life span of 75 years for men and 80 years for women. So you program your sex and ...read more

  • G. Campbell Morgan Personalizes Jesus' Word To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    G. Campbell Morgan Personalizes Jesus’ Word to Jairus Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, that great preacher of 19th century spoke powerfully on this passage from his own experience. He said, “I can hardly speak of this matter without becoming personal and reminiscent, remembering a time forty years ago when ...read more

  • A Strong Foundation

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    1. A STRONG FOUNDATION • When building a structure, the key to that structures longevity is the base upon which it has been built • The structure, no matter how large or small must have strong ‘legs’ in order to stand in the midst of the storms that might come • The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy ...read more

  • I Will Close With A Record Of Something God Did ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Belcher on Nov 26, 2001
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    I will close with a record of something God did 130 years go in New York City. It illustrates how God has started every harvest time in history, through the concerted prayer of his people. Toward the middle of the last century the glow of earlier religious awakenings had faded. America was ...read more

  • Last Week I Read In The Advice Column In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Thompson on Jun 6, 2002
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    Last week I read in the advice column in the paper about a couple who was celebrating 50 years of marriage. The husband wrote that someone commented, ¡§Ken, 50 years is a long time.¡¨ He immediately responded: ¡§Not nearly as long as it would have been without her.¡¨ I couldn¡¦t get the man¡¦s ...read more

  • Staring Down The Critic's Barrel!" Proverbs 9: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 17, 2005
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    “Staring Down the Critic’s Barrel!” Proverbs 9: 7-10 Key verse(s): 8b:“. . . rebuke a wise man and he will love you.” The Bible tells us that “rebuke a wise man and he will love you.” Love? What happened to getting the emotional revenge that is so satisfying? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of ...read more

  • Fear And The Deceits Of The Heart  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
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    FEAR AND THE DECEITS OF THE HEART I think Edward Welch chose brilliantly the title for his book on overcoming the fear of man: When People are Big and God is Small. Maybe you can relate to his personal awakening to this problem when he was a high-school senior: "I had always been shy and ...read more