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  • No Time To Make Money

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on May 1, 2005
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    NO TIME TO MAKE MONEY Charles Spurgeon shared this story of a friend - Professor Agassiz was a very talented who took on a simply job and spent most of his time serving the Lord. One close friend expressed his wonder that a man of such abilities as Agassiz should remain contented with such a ...read more

  • First-Time Mothers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,521 views

    First-Time Mothers are working longer into their pregnancy and returning to work sooner after giving birth, according to the Census Bureau. USA Today reports 57% of new mothers in 1996-2000 worked full-time while pregnant vs. 40% in 1961-65. Women with a higher education are likely to be in ...read more

  • Youth Is The Time For The Adventures Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,616 views

    "Youth is the time for the adventures of the body, but age for ...read more

  • Not In Time, Place Or Circumstance, But In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,608 views

    "Not in time, place or circumstance, but in the ...read more

  • At The Time Appointed, The End Will ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    AT THE TIME APPOINTED, THE END WILL BE Baptist preacher William Miller, founder of the Millerites, announced that Christ would come on March 21, 1843, and when that failed, he proposed a new date of October 22, 1844. In a Philadelphia store window the following sign was displayed: "This shop is ...read more

  • Just In The Nick Of Time

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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    JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME A favorite literary device of authors, playwrights, and screen writers is that of the hero who shows up just in the nick of time. You’ve read books or seen movies like this. Just when everything seems lost and all hope is gone and disaster is imminent, the hero arrives to ...read more

  • The Problem Of Living For Time

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2009
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    THE PROBLEM OF LIVING FOR TIME By the time it’s all over, Tom Brady’s will be the fourth face on the Mount Rushmore of New England sports, right up there with Larry Byrd, Bobby Orr and Ted Williams. He is what they were: single-minded, blessed with the ability to lift a team, a cutthroat ...read more

  • Take Time To By Holy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 4,772 views

    TAKE TIME TO BY HOLY Let me begin with what little I could glean concerning this hymn and its author: For many years, the only information known about this gospel song was what Ira D. Sankey wrote in his autobiography. Sankey (1840-1908) was the well-known gospel singer and hymn writer who ...read more

  • You Are A Full-Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,335 views

    YOU ARE A FULL-TIME MINISTER In his book, Doing Church as a Team, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, wrote the following: "Every member is a minister. God calls us to be full-time ministers! Full-time? Yes! Not just on Sundays, not just at Bible studies, but full-time. Do we love God just part-time? Do we ...read more

  • 7-Eleven Time  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 10, 2009
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     | 1,386 views

    7-ELEVEN TIME Essayist Noelle Oxenhandler writes, "But increasingly we live in the twenty-four-hour time of commerce, of convenience. It is 7-Eleven time, the fluorescent time of unmodulated, shadowless light, where coffee and doughnuts are available at all hours, where the rhythm of breakfast, ...read more

  • Time Magazine On The Benefits Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2009
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    Time Magazine on the Benefits of Religion Some time ago, Time Magazine ran an article that reported on the benefits of religion and the church, and some of the observations included: 1. Heart-surgery patients who draw comfort from their religious faith have a significantly higher survival rate than ...read more

  • Waste More Time

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    WASTE MORE TIME In his book God Came Near, Max Lucado tells this story: Norman Geisler, as a child, went to a certain church because he was invited by some neighbourhood children. He went back to the same church for Sunday School classes for 400 Sundays. Each week he was faithfully picked up by a ...read more

  • Some Time Later

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 10, 2010
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    SOME TIME LATER Day after day the drudgery of books had began to depress me. Don't misunderstand. I love reading books. I was working in a warehouse at the time. Two of us would work in a large cubicle to pack books into boxes according to a computer order and convey them to be stacked onto ...read more

  • Actual Time Served

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 21, 2011
     | 1,877 views

    ACTUAL TIME SERVED One of the great challenges parents face today is the apparent lack of consequences that permeate our society. One aspect of our judicial system provides an example of this sad fact. In spite of the length of sentences for various crimes, the actual time served is often much ...read more

  • Jail-Time Repentance

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2012
     | 5,046 views

    JAIL-TIME REPENTANCE I want to share with you a small auto-biographical story that I believe illustrates the type of repentant heart needed to continue in getting rid of guilt. She had always been a good girl so finding herself in this place was unimaginable to her. How was she going to survive ...read more

  • Wasting Time At Work

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2012
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    WASTING TIME AT WORK For many American workers today, time’s a wastin’ - literally. According to a new survey by America Online and Salary.com, the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time. As a matter of practice, ...read more

  • What Time Is It?  PRO

    Contributed by Rod Elmore on Feb 18, 2013
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    WHAT TIME IS IT? An old man was standing on a crowded bus. A young man standing next to him asked, "What time is it?" The old man said nothing. As the young man walked away, the old man's friend asked, "Why were you so rude to the young man?" The old man answered, "If I had given him the time ...read more

  • Growth Takes Time

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 18, 2018
     | 4,859 views

    GROWTH IS RARELY AN ACCIDENT, GROWTH HAS A PLAN… GROWTH REQUIRES EFFORT… THE MORE EFFORT THE MORE THE GROWTH WILL THRIVE… Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall get exactly what he expected. Les Brown tells a wonderful illustration that we need to consider… There is a tree that grows in ...read more

  • Your Time On Earth

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 15, 2019
     | 1,945 views

    You’re going to spend about 150,000 hours of your life working, which is about 40% of your waking hours. The average American spends 46 hours a week at work. If you’re a professional, you spend an average of 52 hours a week working and if you’re a small business owner/operator you work an average ...read more

  • Cruel Times Are Coming...

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 2, 2020
     | 2,438 views

    In 1988, evangelical philosopher and theologian Carl Henry made a stunning prediction in his book, Twilight of a Great Civilization. He said that as America progressively loses its Christian heritage, paganism would grow bolder. What we saw in the last half of the 20th-century was a kind of benign ...read more