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  • Motherhood In Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn Notes ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Motherhood In Newsweek’s Jane Bryant Quinn notes “a rising proportion of young women appear to be choosing motherhood over career.” Her theory on why,” It’s one of prosperity’s side effects.” A booming economy has driven up young men’s wages, making a second income a ...read more

  • Trading Down: The Majority Of Affluent American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,780 views

    Trading Down: The majority of affluent American consumers only occasionally indulge in luxury across most product categories. That means half of the high income shoppers aren’t likely to buy anything but items on the sale rack or the more affordable brands presumably offered for lower-income ...read more

  • Hurting Pastors: They Are Pressured By The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 2,767 views

    Hurting Pastors: They are pressured by the responsibilities of their position and are under the assault of the enemy. Some of their common concerns: 97% of pastors feel inadequately trained, 80% say their ministry has had a negative impact on their children, 70% struggle with depression,71% are ...read more

  • Again Emotions Would Temp Us To Do What Is Easy ...

    Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Jul 22, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,540 views

    Again emotions would temp us to do what is easy and selfish. When Donna and I were leaving our family at the airport in Montreal for Melbourne we were experiencing emotions we had never experienced before. The temptation would have been to tear up the tickets and stay with our family, but God was ...read more

  • Finding One Of Her Students Making Faces At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Shane Hart on Aug 10, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
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    Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Mrs. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling sweetly, the Sunday School teacher said, "Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if that I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay ...read more

  • Some Christians Don't Believe In Hell Or The ...

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Feb 23, 2007
     | 1,468 views

    Some Christians don’t believe in Hell or The Devil. We should have 3 problems with that. 1 Calling God a liar-It is written in his Word, therefore it is true. 2 Calling Jesus a liar-He talked about it so it’s true. 3 Setting themselves up for a big shock ...read more

  • One Out Of Three Children In The United States ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
     | 1,613 views

    One out of three children in the United States are growing up without a father present in the home. Last year in a number of major U.S. cities more children were born out of wedlock than within. The American home is in crisis. Very serious diseases are affecting and infecting our home life. Things ...read more

  • A Farmer Noticed A Highway Department Truck ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Jan 19, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 4,755 views

    A farmer noticed a highway department truck pulling over on the shoulder of the road. A man got out and dug a hole, then got back into the truck. Then the other occupant got out, filled up the hole and got back in the truck. Every fifty yards this amazing process was repeated. “What are you doing?” ...read more

  • One Sunday In Church, Members Were Praising The ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jun 12, 2008
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    One Sunday in church, members were praising the Lord for what he had done in their lives that week. Mr. Segault had said that the roof of his house had caught on fire, but fortunately, a neighbor had seen it, and the possible disaster was averted with only minor damage. A minute ...read more

  • There's A Story About A Little Girl Who Climbed ...

    Contributed by Skip Alexander on Jun 30, 2008
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    There’s a story about a little girl who climbed up on the lap of great-grandmother, looked at her white hair and wrinkles, and then asked, "Did God make you?" "Yes," she said. Then she asked, "Did God make me, too?" Grandma said, "Yes." "Well," ...read more

  • When We Use The Name Of God, We Aren't Talking ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 2, 2008
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    When we use the name of God, we aren't talking about the peanut farmer down the road. We're not talking about the person who picks up our trash, nor even our father and mother. Trivialize the names of those people if you will, but don't trivialize God. Flippantly ...read more

  • Larger Families, Longer Lifespan

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    LARGER FAMILIES, LONGER LIFESPAN A 2006 Univ. of Maryland study of Amish in Lancaster, PA found that men born between 1749 and 1912 who lived 50 or more years averaged 0.23 more years of life per additional child. Women from the same period averaged ...read more

  • Two Men Were Talking One Day When A Church Lady ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 9, 2009
     | 1,935 views

    Two men were talking one day when a church lady came walking up the road. One turned to the other and said, “That’s sister Brown. She has nothing bad to say about anyone.” The other one, wanting to put it to the test said, “Sister Brown, what do you ...read more

  • Miss California Gets To Keep Her Title. She ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
     | 1,959 views

    Miss California gets to keep her title. She stood up for marriage, but not for modesty. Is there a contradiction there? We are surely blind if we think the world respects our position when we are not really any different than they are. She certainly represents California well, and probably many ...read more

  • Prayer Of The Persecuted

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
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     | 5,397 views

    PRAYER OF THE PERSECUTED Author Eugene Peterson says in Reversed Thunder, "While conflicts raged between good and evil, prayers went up from devout bands of 1st c. Christians all over the Roman empire. Massive engines of persecution and scorn were ranged against them. They had neither weapons ...read more

  • Gift Giving Should Be Personal And Relational

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 11, 2011
     | 2,633 views

    GIFT GIVING SHOULD BE PERSONAL AND RELATIONAL Have you ever seen the episode of "Friends" where Joey and Chandler wait too long to buy Christmas gifts? They end up having to buy gifts from a gas station. They give Rachael wiper blades and an air freshener. When Rachel ...read more

  • Not That Amazing

    Contributed by Bruce B. Miller on Dec 22, 2011
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    NOT THAT AMAZING While reading John 3 to her little daughter, a mother paused after the 16th verse and exclaimed, "Don't you think that's amazing, dear?" The child looked up in surprise and said, "No!" Thinking she might have misunderstood, the mother repeated the question. Again the girl ...read more

  • My Favorite Christmas Card Greeting

    Contributed by David Simpson on Dec 16, 2012
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    My favorite Christmas card greeting is one I received many years ago. It describes the birth of Jesus in a nutshell. The printed greeting read: "He became what we are so we could become what he is." God has come through Jesus to dwell among us. He gave up the wonders of ...read more

  • The Flat Tire  PRO

    Contributed by Normand Cote on May 16, 2001
    based on 195 ratings
     | 4,079 views

    Introduction: > A man was driving down a road and he almost didn’t see the old lady, > stranded on the side of the road. But even in the dim light of day, he > could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and > got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached ...read more

  • Not A Guest, But Family

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Dec 10, 2008
     | 5,162 views

    NOT A GUEST, BUT FAMILY Ellen Porter tells the story of Mitsuyo, a Japanese exchange student coming to live with her family. Her father had written and warned Ellen that Mitsuyo was a willful child, but she saw no signs of that at all. She dressed the same each day, was silent while eating at the ...read more