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  • Psychology Today

    Contributed by Ryan Peters on Mar 10, 2009
     | 2,242 views

    Psychology Today The Dangers of Loneliness (Aug 2003) Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find that human beings have fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for close relationships. We are truly social ...read more

  • No Mundane Stuff Allowed! ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 8, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,892 views

    No Mundane Stuff Allowed! (06.10.05--Family--Song. 4:1-7) It has been said that one of the major problems with families is that they start out wrong from the start. From the moment the marriage license is signed spouses are inclined to view the privilege as more of a hunting license than a ...read more

  • Someday Soon  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,646 views

    SOMEDAY SOON You just know that some things are going to happen sooner or later. That’s the way it was with Michael Parfit, a writer for Smithsonian magazine. For a feature article on the mighty Mississippi River, Parfit rode in a twelve-foot rubber dinghy down the Mississippi from Memphis, ...read more

  • There Was Once A Bridge Which Spanned A Large ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Cuddeford on Oct 18, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,496 views

    There was once a bridge which spanned a large river. During most of the day the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to pass thru freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times each day, a train would come along and the bridge ...read more

  • Some Gifts You Keep  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
    based on 40 ratings
     | 2,019 views

    *Some Gifts You Keep* Some things you keep. Like good teeth. Warm coats. Bald husbands & chubby wives. They’re good for you, reliable and practical and so sublime that to throw them away would make the garbage man a thief. So you hang on to the older gifts, because something old is sometimes ...read more

  • The Vineyard Caretaker

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 29, 2008
     | 2,091 views

    THE VINEYARD CARETAKER Mark 11:27-12:12 In high school I was on the track team – I was a sprinter. Our coach would make us sprinters run long distance as well as run sprints for practice. We hated running long distance, it was so boring, it was so tedious, we felt it was against our nature. But ...read more

  • Does God Calls Everybody To Sacrifice Greatly To ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 8, 2009
     | 2,401 views

    Does God calls everybody to sacrifice greatly to follow Jesus? I believe that God does and that we often rationalize in order to justify our choices. You might not see it that way. But I can share with you our experience and I do this not to boast because if I boast it is in the Lord and what Jesus ...read more

  • Community: A Lost Art  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,658 views

    COMMUNITY: A LOST ART I inherited an old trunk that sat in my grandma’s basement. It had belonged to the generation before, who had used it to bring their possessions across the sea from Sweden. It sits in my dining room. It smells a little musty, but I treasure it as a link to my heritage. I was ...read more

  • Facing Down A Mountain Lion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 14, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,158 views

    FACING DOWN A MOUNTAIN LION Did you know that in the United States, mountain lions are the number one predator of human beings? So says author and naturalist, Craig Childs. On one occasion, he was doing research on the lions in Arizona’s Blue Range Wilderness. As he approached a water hole from ...read more

  • End Of The World Predictions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2012
     | 3,698 views

    END OF THE WORLD PREDICTIONS It's hard to believe it was just a year ago that the head of The Family Radio Broadcasting Network--Harold Camping--predicted, through 2,000 billboards worldwide, that on May 21, 2011 the righteous, which totaled 3 percent of humanity, was to be whisked away to heaven, ...read more

  • A Keen Eye For Stray Coins

    Contributed by Manny Salva Cruz on May 29, 2015
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,782 views

    A KEEN EYE FOR STRAY COINS There was a story from the Week magazine regarding a 67 year man by the name of Roger Pasquier. He was a retired ornithologist who has a keen eye for spotting stray coins. In fact, he had found almost two thousand dollars’ worth of coins dropped onto New York City’s ...read more

  • I Am Not But I Shall Be

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Aug 22, 2021
     | 1,577 views

    Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2) The one thing about getting older is that you get to look back on more things each year and have more to ...read more

  • Statements From Actual Resumes And Job ...

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Jul 23, 2008
     | 2,326 views

    Statements from actual resumes and job applications – ones you might want to file these under the category of “what not to use” on a resume or application. First this one – it was under the “qualifications” line on a resume. “I was wholly responsible for two failed financial institutions.” That ...read more

  • Living The Full Christian Life

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 24, 2008
     | 2,683 views

    Living the Full Christian Life As believers, we have received a great inheritance and legacy. In Acts 17:11, Luke writes, "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what ...read more

  • Getting Worse Before It Gets Better

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,995 views

    GETTING WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER "Celente, who is CEO of Trends Research Institute, has the best track record in the professional forecasting industry, so when he speaks people listen. He was almost alone in predicting well in advance the 1987 stock market crash, the 1990 collapse of the Soviet ...read more

  • Passing The Torch  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,019 views

    PASSING THE TORCH On August the 13th, the Summer Olympics begin 16 jam pack days of competition at the site of the original Olympic Games, Athens, Greece. This month we have watched American athletes compete for a spot on the team in track and field and swimming and if their times carry over to ...read more

  • On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
     | 3,032 views

    ON PRAYER Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer told a story on the subject of prayer. A certain minister was in the habit of profound prayers, oftentimes resorting to words beyond the understanding of his simple flock. This went on week after week, to the dismay and frustration of the congregation. At last, a ...read more

  • An Observation About Aging—and Baseballs

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jul 7, 2022
     | 797 views

    Introduction: You just can’t change some facts. Aging is one of those facts! Text: Ecclesiastes 12:1, KJV: 1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; Thoughts: Like most good ...read more

  • The Mission Of David Livingstone  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
    based on 6 ratings
     | 11,383 views

    THE MISSION OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE The modern missionary movement really got started about 150 years ago with people who were concerned about the continent of Africa. There was a Scottish preacher by the name of Robert Moffatt who was serving in South Africa. He returned to Scotland to try to enlist ...read more

  • Last Year I Compiled The Index Of Leading ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,698 views

    Last year I compiled the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, a statistical portrait of American behavioral trends of the past three decades. Among the findings: Since 1960, while the gross domestic product has nearly tripled, violent crime has increased at least 560%. Divorces have more than ...read more

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