Contributed by Ryan Yandris on Jan 8, 2009
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SMOKING STATS
Did you know that one out of five deaths are contributed to tobacco products?
Every 8 seconds someone in the world dies of tobacco.
Cigarette smoke contains 69 chemicals that are known to cause cancer.
1 out of 3 smokers will die from a tobacco related disease.
400,040 smokers die
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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MERCY IN NIGHT COURT
One night in 1935, Fiorello H. La Guardia, mayor of New York, showed up at a night court in the poorest ward of the city. He dismissed the judge for the evening and took over the bench. One case involved an elderly woman who was caught stealing bread to feed her grandchildren.
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Have you ever experienced the power of healing words that were either spoken to you or that you spoke to another? We must admit that there are also times when our actions speak louder than words. “Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once told about a contest he was asked to judge. The
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United Methodist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
Love her or loathe her, Winfrey has become proof that you can’t be too rich, too thin or too committed to rising to your place in the world. With 49 million viewers each week in the USA and more in the 122 other countries to which the show is distributed, Winfrey reaches more people in a TV day
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 29, 2006
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There’s a Native American fable about a young brave who happened upon a nest of golden eagle eggs. Deciding to have some fun, he took one of the eggs and placed it in the nest of some prairie chickens. The egg hatched and the changeling eagle grew up with the brood of prairie chickens. Believing
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Baptist
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DO WE KNOW THE PESSIMIST’S CREED?
THINK, IF THE PESSIMIST HAD A CREED WHAT WOULD IT BE?
ALL BUT ME AND THEE!
THE PESSIMIST CREED!
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Why rejoice in sunshine?
It will just turn to dark clouds and much rain!
Besides that, the sunshine can hurt your eyes,
More than that it
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
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SING TO THE CHILDREN
A tradition that Evelyn Knowles has chosen for posterity is to sing to her babies. The very first time she held each of her newborn grandchildren cheek to cheek and heart to heart, they heard their grandmother softly sing-- Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 1, 2002
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MAKING HISTORY--COMMUNION MEDITATION
The author Circian writes:
“Nathan Hale was a young man who had every prospect for a happy and fulfilling life. He was very well educated for his day—a Yale graduate in an era when very few went to college. Although there are many contemporary accounts
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ONE LITTLE BOY GREW A NEW APPROACH TO THE GAME.
We have this little boy at church, Seth Keown, Seth is 6 years old and plays PeeWee football.
Our son is the coach of the Packers. Our grandson Matthew plays on the same team with Seth.
There are only two teams in this league, the Packers and the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2004
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Tony Campolo, who for years was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and now teaches at Eastern College, says that every year, usually in May, students come into his office, look at him across the desk, and say, “Doc, I’m not coming back next semester.”
Campolo then whips off his
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on Nov 20, 2002
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that has spread over the last 20 years in countries all over the world. Already more than 33 million people throughout the world are infected. More than 14 million have died.
HIV is a virus. Illnesses caused by a virus cannot be cured by antibiotics.
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 20, 2002
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Dr. Maurice Rawlings, is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, and his colleagues are constantly treating emergency patients, many of whom have had near-death experiences. A study of these cases by Dr. Rawlings was reported in
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Independent/Bible
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