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  • Make Two Fists Right Now, Please. Squeeze Your ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Flowers on Jun 2, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
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    Make two fists right now, please. Squeeze your fists as hard as you can. Tighter. Tighter. Don’t let go until I tell you to. Just hold it there for a while. Are you getting tired? Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Just a little tighter. Okay, now let go. First did you notice the pain in your ...read more

  • My Oldest Son Loves To Read. His Mom Gets The ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 13, 2005
     | 1,271 views

    My oldest son loves to read. His mom gets the credit for that. She has a ferocious appetite for reading, (as well as being extremely beautiful). One of the first series of books Kenny read was the children’s version of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The seventh book is entitled The Last ...read more

  • E-Mail Marketing Tips: Local E-Mail Marketing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
     | 2,039 views

    E-mail Marketing Tips: Local E-Mail Marketing indicates 42% of small businesses will use e-mail for some form of marketing by ‘05, with promotional coupons being the most popular method. Because the economics of e-mail -- no paper, printing, postage, or design costs -- make it one of the few ...read more

  • Sticky Tips: To Better Understand How Consumer ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,309 views

    Sticky Tips: To better understand how consumer eyeballs behave on the Web, Ziff-Davis’ Smart Business Labs teamed up with usability specialists from eyetracking.com to figure out what makes a site more or less sticky—in other words, what makes visitors stay at a site for a longer period of time. ...read more

  • What's Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, A New Book ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,655 views

    What’s Wrong With Same Sex Marriage, a new book from Crossway by D James Kennedy & Jerry Newcombe, is packed with revealing and insightful data that can help jolt many believers out of their complacency on this core cultural threat. Netherlands researchers (where homosexual marriage has been legal ...read more

  • The Power Of Communication

    Contributed by Jess Bousa on Feb 16, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,773 views

    The Power of Communication Tap-Tap . .. . .tap-tap-tap . . .. .tap-tap-tap-tap .. . . . .tap-tap-tap . . .” Captain Red McDaniel rapped carefully on the walls of his cell in the Hanoi Hilton, practicing the special camp code prisoners used to communicate with each other. He knew he had to be ...read more

  • John 12:26...the Word (Diakoneo) Means To Wait ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Apr 3, 2006
     | 1,410 views

    John 12:26...The word (diakoneo) means to wait on. We get our English equivalent deacon, or servant from the word. The other word (servant) means literally union on the road. So Jesus is saying something like, Join me on the road of serving others. The world in which we live says, Grab on, ...read more

  • In Pro Football, If You're The Last Player ...

    Contributed by James Bryant on Jul 10, 2006
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    In Pro Football, if you’re the last player selected coming out of college, you own the title, “Mr. Irrelevent.” Because being the last person selected, your not supposed to amount to much… In 1992, the National Football League held it’s annual draft. · Selected #1 overall was the much herald ...read more

  • House Church Growth: A New Barna Group Study ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    House Church Growth: A new Barna Group study finds 9% of U.S. adults attend a house church during a typical week, vs. 1% in ‘96. 10% report attending a house church at least once a month. It is estimated more than 70 million adults have at least experimented with a house church. The survey revealed ...read more

  • One Of The Great Things About Kids Is That Their ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
     | 1,076 views

    One of the great things about kids is that their perspective can often give us adults a new perspective on things that we take fore granted or they can give us an entirely new view of something unique and different. I am reminded of this in a heart-touching story about four year old Shane and the ...read more

  • When Some Elementary Kids Were Ask If They Had ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,549 views

    When some elementary kids were ask if they had any questions for God, this is what they said: • Dear God, is it hard for you to love everybody in the whole world? There are only 4 people in my family and I can never do it. – Nan • Dear God, My Grandpa says you were around when he was - little ...read more

  • Some Years Ago The Late Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 18, 2006
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    Some years ago the late Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse was traveling from Alabama to Florida. Feeling a tire going flat, he pulled to the side of the road and inwardly groaned at the thought of removing hundreds of books in the trunk, so as to reach his spare tire. Seeing a jeep coming over the hill, he ...read more

  • In The September 11th Issue Of The Los Angeles ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,533 views

    In the September 11th issue of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Goldstein wrote an article entitled, ‘Five Years Later: Pop Culture of Denial.’ Its subtitle made a very interesting statement, ‘Our fascination with glitz is unabated, and artists remain cautious. We haven’t come to grips with ...read more

  • Finding Nemo

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 5, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    Many of you have seen the movie, “Finding Nemo”. •It’s a powerful story of the love and determination of a caring father. •It’s the story of being lost, and then found. •It’s a story that can help us understand our Heavenly Father and His love for us. In the movie, Nemo’s father Marlin loved him ...read more

  • I Love Working In My Yard. In Fact My Neighbors ...

    Contributed by A. David Hart on Feb 20, 2007
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    I love working in my yard. In fact my neighbors think that I take yard work all too seriously. I’ll cut my grass and make sure that it is cut in a certain pattern. I make sure that my lines are straight from the lawnmower wheels and my flowers have to be just right. But one day disaster struct. ...read more

  • In 1996 Reverend Christopher Gray A Vicar Was ...

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Mar 29, 2009
     | 2,182 views

    In 1996 Reverend Christopher Gray a vicar was knifed to death in the grounds of his vicarage by a man he had been helping who had recently been released from prison. Reverend Gray was apparently a great academic with a heart for the poor and disadvantaged. He turned down a good job in the ...read more

  • Bad Experiences With Christians

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Apr 4, 2009
     | 2,556 views

    BAD EXPERIENCES WITH CHRISTIANS A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with the Rt. Hon. Adam Ingram MP. I dared to ask him about something I had heard to see if it was true. I had been told that Adam Ingram as a young man had attended the BTI (Bible Training Institute) Bible College in Glasgow. ...read more

  • The Church: We Need One Another

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 6, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    THE CHURCH: WE NEED ONE ANOTHER A pastor received a call from a chronic alcoholic. He just couldn't seem to stay sober. He had tried several other churches, but they didn't seem to have anything to help him. Finally he called this pastor whose church had a reputation for not giving up on people. ...read more

  • Jesus' Words

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,345 views

    JESUS’ WORDS There is a hopefulness in life as we hear and become empowered by Jesus’ words. A Sunday School teacher illustrated this concept of hopefulness in life by drawing on the blackboard two pathways. In the middle of one she placed a large rock, covering the entire path. At the end of ...read more

  • The Adultery Market

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
     | 3,962 views

    THE ADULTERY MARKET Many of us have seen the wild and funny TV ads that go along with the Super Bowl. But fans in Texas got quite a shock during the game this year. An ad by AshleyMadison.com was seen as inappropriate by the NFL and NBC. But local affiliates in Texas decided that the $250,000 for ...read more