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  • A Few Years Ago Psychologist Ruth W. Berenda And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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    A few years ago psychologist Ruth W. Berenda and her associates carried out an interesting experiment with teenagers designed to show how a person handled group pressure. The plan was simple. They brought groups of ten adolescents into a room for a test. Subsequently, each group of ten was ...read more

  • Mike Breaux, When He Was The Sr. Pastor At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 14, 2006
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    Mike Breaux, when he was the Sr. Pastor at Southland Christian Church in Lexington, KY, made this point in a dramatic fashion. On the day he was to preach on the very text we’re studying, from James 2, Mike dressed up as a destitute bag lady and entered the Church service just as it began. He was ...read more

  • Sue Herzog Was 18 When She Was Killed On New ...  PRO

    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 14, 2006
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    Sue Herzog was 18 when she was KILLED on New Year's Day 1982. Kevin Tunell was 17, so his case went to JUVENILE COURT, where he was CONVICTED of MANSLAUGHTER and DRUNKEN DRIVING. Louis and Patricia Herzog filed a $1.5 million suit against Tunell, but settled for $936.00, to be paid $1.00 at a ...read more

  • Have You Not Heard Of The Madman Who Lit A Lamp ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Have you not heard of the madman who lit a lamp in the bright morning and went to the marketplace crying ceaselessly, "I seek God! I seek God!" There were many among those standing there who didn’t believe in God so he made them laugh. "Is God lost?" one of them said. "Has he gone astray like a ...read more

  • Picture A Scene From The Old West, Sometime In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Picture a scene from the Old West, sometime in the 1870s. Weary cowboys in dusty Levi’s gather around a blazing campfire after a day on the open range. The lonely howl of a coyote counterpoints the notes of a guitar as the moon floats serenely overhead. Suddenly a bellow of pain shatters the night, ...read more

  • A. I Was Riding With Retired Air Force Officer ...

    Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Aug 7, 2006
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    A. I was riding with retired Air Force officer Wally Hall. We were approaching the guard house at the entrance to Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan. Wally was about to give me my first tour of a military base. I wondered how I would get in. Would they ask me a lot of questions and make ...read more

  • I've Been Reading This Week About The True Story ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 2, 2006
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    I’ve been reading this week about the true story of Juan Tomaylla (‘Tried by Fire’, ISBN in the UK 1-85424-638-0 or ISBN in USA 0-8254-6236-3). Juan was a humble Christian taxi driver in Peru and on 10 July 1993 he was falsely imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. For the first two days he was ...read more

  • John Maxwell Stated This On Page 1351 Of The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 1, 2006
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    John Maxwell stated this on page 1351 of the Leadership Bible: 1. What most impresses me about Apollos, however, is his teachability. He never thought he had learned so much that he couldn’t improve his game. Luke points out several facts about this man: a. He came from a cultured city (v. ...read more

  • When People Claim That Science And Faith Are At ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
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    When people claim that Science and Faith are at odds often point out that back in the Middle Ages the Catholic Church refused to accept Galileo’s theory that the earth revolved around the sun. (rather than the other way around.) That is true --- but the Church did not reject this theory based on ...read more

  • In His Book The Spiritual Life Of Children, The ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 4, 2007
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    In his book The Spiritual Life of Children, the famous Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles, tells the story of Alice, a ten-year-old girl who came from a family that did not believe in God. She expressed her doubts to him with these words: “I remember... I saw the people next door coming home from ...read more

  • Christian Missionaries First Went To Africa 200 ...

    Contributed by W F on Mar 24, 2007
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    Christian missionaries first went to Africa 200 years ago. One of the groups they sought to "convert" there were these bushmen of the Kalahari desert. However, this article pointed out that the bushmen of the Denui village in particular, consistently refused to become Christians. Instead they have ...read more

  • A Few Years Ago During The Easter Season A Very ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 3, 2007
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    A few years ago during the Easter season a very unusual cross was constructed on the front lawn of a church in Dallas, Texas. The cross, which was at least 10 feet tall, became extremely controversial. Many people in the community, some of whom were church members, wanted the cross to be taken ...read more

  • As Time Passed, However, The Inevitable ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As time passed, however, the inevitable occurred. They began to lose and lose and lose. The blame fell, at least in part, not on Coach George Allen, but on a quarterback named Sonny Jurgenson, in my opinion one of the most gifted and effective quarterbacks to ever play the game. Jurgenson possesses ...read more

  • There Is A Fascinating Article In The April 2007 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is a fascinating article in the April 2007 issue of Smithsonian Magazine about French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1947 he was labeled the “photographer of the decisive moment.” The article states that, “since 1952 and the publication of his book of photographs, The Decisive ...read more

  • A Striking Christmas Card Was Once Published ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A striking Christmas card was once published with the title "If Christ Had Not Come". It was founded upon our Savior’s words "If I had not come." The card represented a pastor’s falling into a short sleep in his study on Christmas morning and dreaming of a world into which Jesus had never come. ...read more

  • A Family Was Sitting Around The Dinner Table One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A family was sitting around the dinner table one evening waiting for their dad to get in from work. Finally, he came in late because it had been a rough day. When he came in, he sat down at the table and offered thanks for the food. As soon as he finished his prayer, he began to complain and ...read more

  • A Lot Of People In Our Society Spend A Lot Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A lot of people in our society spend a lot of time blaming others for their own lack of initiative, insight, ambition, and effort. The Southern Baptists one year had a slogan for church growth that would fit us individually: “If it is to be, it is up to me.” Zig Ziglar said, “If you’re looking ...read more

  • In An Interview With Time Magazine, Bill Gates Is ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Jul 31, 2007
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    In an interview with TIME magazine, Bill Gates is quoted as saying: “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” Bill Gates has a net worth of 56 billion dollars. To put that in perspective, there are ...read more

  • The Existence Of God  PRO

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Sep 3, 2007
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    "The Existence of God" One day a 6-year girl was sitting in the classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy: Teacher: Tommy do you see the tree out side? Tommy: Yes. Teacher: Tommy, do you see the grass out side? Tommy: ...read more

  • It Is Well With My Soul  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 1, 2010
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    IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL Horatio Gates Spafford, a 43-year-old Chicago Businessman, suffered financial disaster in the great Chicago fire of 1871. He and his wife were still grieving over the death of their son shortly before the fire, and he realized they needed to get away for a vacation. Knowing ...read more