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  • Colossians 4:6 Addresses The Way We Talk, Saying ...

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 18, 2008
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    Colossians 4:6 addresses the way we talk, saying that our speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt (4:6). In the ancient world, salt was valuable, and served at least two purposes as nothing else could do. First it was a purifying agent. In those centuries before refrigeration, salt was ...read more

  • How America Does Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    HOW AMERICA DOES CHURCH "Unattached"--people who had attended neither a conventional church nor a faith community during the past year represents 25% of adult Americans. A third of these have never attended a church. "Intermittents"--participated in a conventional church or a faith community ...read more

  • True Believer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    TRUE BELIEVER There was a young seminarian who was taking an oral examination for his ordination process. During the questioning, one of the examiners asked him if he believed in a personal devil. "No," he replied, "I do not believe in the devil." Hearing this, the examiners began to discuss the ...read more

  • Pressing Through The Pain

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Sep 4, 2008
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    Pressing Through the Pain Too many young Christians expect endurance to come quickly and easily. We bought a trampoline this summer for the girls. I love it too. The first time I got on that thing I thought I would have a heart attack. I've been using my legs for 40 years, but they were on ...read more

  • Being Completely Set Apart For God's Use And ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2008
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    Being completely set apart for God’s use and being a holistic community means able to define who God is calling us to be both individually and corporately. We may need to say “no” to some good things in order to become what we need to be to reach who God wants us to reach. I believe these seven ...read more

  • Often Times We Are Like The Children On The ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 30, 2008
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    Often times we are like the children on the Candid Camera episode Years ago on Candid Camera, children were used in an experiment about generosity. The children were placed by themselves in a room with a plate of cookies. On the plate were at least two cookies, there may have been more, but one of ...read more

  • The Jews Have This Concept, When They Celebrate ...

    Contributed by David Baeder on Nov 8, 2008
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    The Jews have this concept, when they celebrate the Passover, they are not only remembering the deliverance of their ancestors from Egypt, they are celebrating their own deliverance from Egypt. It is a concept of historical solidarity. The bible presents this same view in baptism and in the ...read more

  • Laminin

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 30, 2009
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    LAMININ Now here is the craziest thing. It is amazing. Some of you probably have seen this. In Christ, all things are held together. The heavens. The earth. And even our bodies. This is amazing. It is totally outrageous. And we call it Laminin. I first heard this through a preach named Louie ...read more

  • Who Do Your Kids Look Up To?

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
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    WHO DO YOUR KIDS LOOK UP TO? In 2003, two very interesting quotes were in the newspapers. Parents had been polled and asked who they thought the most influential role-models were in the lives of their preteen sons. The answer: bad boy Bart Simpson was named the top-role model. Parents of children ...read more

  • The Importance Of Relationships

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 4, 2009
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONSHIPS I recently read some interesting statistics that show how IMPORTANT relationships are in our lives. The American Institute of Stress conducted research on 232 patients who had undergone cardiac surgery. Of those patients, 21 died within six months. Here are two ...read more

  • Dallas And Irene Sherman Of Cincinnati Had A ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Sep 18, 2009
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    Dallas and Irene Sherman of Cincinnati had a really stormy relationship. During one of their many rows Irene deliberately wrecked two of their cars, which was the last straw for Dallas and he filed for divorce. But as time went by, he found that he couldn’t live without her, so they were ...read more

  • The Holy Huddle

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Oct 16, 2009
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    THE HOLY HUDDLE The job of the church is not to impact the church, but our job is to impact the world. It’s like a huddle in a football game. 70,000 people don’t pay $75.00 a ticket to watch the Texans huddle. What if you went to a Texans game and for two and a half hours you watched 11 men ...read more

  • Preacher Focuses On Baptism Regardless Of Sermon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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    Preacher Focuses On Baptism Regardless of Sermon Text The story is told of a pastor who had just starting serving a new congregation. For eight Sundays in a row he preached about baptism. Finally, the chairman of the elders approached him and said, “Preacher, we get the point about baptism and so ...read more

  • Twister Was The Subject Of A Huge Publicity ...

    Contributed by Timothy Gardner on Nov 7, 2009
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    “Twister was the subject of a huge publicity campaign when it was introduced in 1966. After Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor hooked themselves together in front of millions of viewers on the "Tonight" show in May of that year, the rush was on to buy the game. Considering the simplicity of its design ...read more

  • I Have Heard That Possums Are Smart Animals. You ...

    Contributed by Brandon Park on Jan 31, 2010
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    I have heard that possums are smart animals. You wouldn’t think so because you hardly ever see one except when it’s dead on the road. There’s a joke that goes, “why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done!” But possums, it turns out, are smart. They won’t enter ...read more

  • There Was A Tyrannical Husband Who Demanded That ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 31, 2010
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    There was a tyrannical husband who demanded that his wife conform to rigid standards of his own choosing. She was to do certain things for him as wife, mother, and homemaker. In time she came to hate him as much as she hated his list of rules. He died and in time she came to love another man whom ...read more

  • The Healing Power Of Laughter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
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    THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, Cousins reasoned the reverse was true. So he ...read more

  • Born Into The Family

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
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    BORN INTO THE FAMILY Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, in Leading on Empty, writes of his daughter, adopted when only three days old. The apple of his eye, Abby, compromised her faith and morality, making choices that expelled her from college, and for two years was searching for her identity, struggling why ...read more

  • Sadly, Those Who Believe The False Teachers Will ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 25, 2010
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    Sadly, those who believe the false teachers will be judged with them. Believing the "experts" can kill you. On March 20, 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington, a supposedly dormant volcano, began to quake and rumble. The local population was evacuated to a “safe” distance 8 miles away. Later, the ...read more

  • Seeing—and Believing

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 10, 2010
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    SEEING--AND BELIEVING Two children were playing on a hillside, when they noticed that the hour was nearing sunset, and one said, wonderingly: "See how far the sun has gone! A little while ago it was right over that tree, and now it is low down in the sky." "Only it isn’t the sun that moves; it’s ...read more