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  • Teenagers Whose Parents Eat With Them At Least 5 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    Teenagers whose parents eat with them at least 5 times a week are significantly better adjusted (i.e., least likely to be on drugs or depressed, most motivated to excel at school, etc.) than classmates who dine alone, according to research by psychologist Blake Bowden of Cincinnati ...read more

  • Record Giving: All U.s. '04 Charitable Giving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Record Giving: All U.S. ’04 charitable giving totaled a record $248.5 billion, according to the Giving USA Foundation. That record is expected to be broken in ‘05.by a special one-time tax break for major donors enacted by Congress allowing donors to deduct gifts up to ...read more

  • When The Author Walks On The Stage The Play Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There ...read more

  • We Christians Too Often Substitute Prayer For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    “We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don’t hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, ...read more

  • I Heard Of A Couple Who, As They Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Smith on May 5, 2006
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     | 3,344 views

    ILL: I heard of a couple who, as they were paying for groceries in the check-out line, were discussing their soon to be 50th wedding anniversary, when the young cashier interjected by saying, "I can’t imagine being married to same man for 50 years!" The wife wisely replied, ...read more

  • Thwe Wright Brothers Story: Big News In Dec 1903 ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 28, 2006
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    Thwe wright brothers story: Big News In Dec 1903 the Wright brothers telegram their sister it read we flew 120 feet today. We will be home for Christmas. Katherine took the telegram to the editor of the local newspaper who said that’s good they will be home for Christmas. He totally missed the big ...read more

  • Some People Have Such Bad Nerves That They ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 25, 2007
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    1.Some people have such bad nerves that they cannot sleep in church. 2. If people sleep during the sermon, the pastor needs to wake up. 3. Sometimes how well you sleep depends on how little you lie. 4. If you cannot sleep at night, don’t count sheep, talk to the ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Movie "Frequency"? And How ...

    Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 8, 2009
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    Do you remember the movie "Frequency"? And how Johnny ("Chief") talks to his friend over a time-warped CB transmission to his lifelong friend Gordo, and tells him "Yahoo!" In the movie, Gordo buy stock in Yahoo and becomes quite rich. Six months after the movie came out, the ...read more

  • Early African Converts To Christianity Were ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 22, 2010
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    Early African converts to Christianity were earnest and regular in private devotions. Each one reportedly had a separate spot in the thicket where he would pour out his heart to God. Over time the paths to these places became well worn. As a result, if one of these believers began to neglect ...read more

  • Counting "The Lost"

    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 18, 2010
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    COUNTING "THE LOST" We have a national missing persons register in Australia. 35,000 people are reported missing each year in Australia - one person every 15 minutes! 95% of those are found w/i a short period of time. But there are still currently 1,600 long term ...read more

  • What Team Are You On?

    Contributed by James R. Debusk on Mar 25, 2011
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    WHAT TEAM ARE YOU ON? At this time of the year, young men are signing letters of intent to play football to the various colleges that have recruited them. These young athletes are making a choice of where they will play football. In life we have a spiritual decision on which team we will be a ...read more

  • Spiritual Hunger: Stop Feeding People Who Are Not Hungry!

    Contributed by Kingdom Focus Institute on Jan 31, 2016
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    About that time there was once again a large crowd with nothing to eat. Jesus called his disciples and said to them, 2 “I feel sorry for the people. They have been with me three days now and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them home before they’ve eaten, ...read more

  • Healthy Benefits Of Friendship

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
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    HEALTHY BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP A in depth study revealed that people with friends enjoy better health, live longer, are happier and find greater fulfilment in life. Time spent with friends will ENRICH our lives & make us healthier – it acts as medicine to help boost the immune system against both ...read more

  • Volunteers Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    VOLUNTEERS DOWN In ’06 more than 61 million Americans donated their time to charity, the fewest since ’02, and down 4.4 million from ’05, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts note volunteering spiked after 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina may have played a role in that it wiped out ...read more

  • The Son Of God Came For This Purpose: To Destroy ...

    Contributed by Michael West on Sep 29, 2008
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    The Son of God came for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s work. NCV Jesus not only came to restore and to redeem, but to wage war. When is the last time you destroyed anything evil? Have you toppled any strongholds lately? This week? Will you next week? Evil can be destroyed in many different ...read more

  • How Can You Praise When You Feel Down? Look Back ...

    Contributed by Michael West on Sep 29, 2008
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    How can you praise when you feel down? Look back to where you have been and recall the blessings and miracles, recall what God has already done in your life and through your life. Then put on the garment of praise for those things and in a short period of time of praising and giving thanks ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer, Wrote About Humility: "A Humble Man ...

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    A.W. Tozer, wrote about humility: “A humble man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time he is in ...read more

  • Jesus Was Not An Effective Leader. Not By The ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 21, 2009
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    Jesus was not an effective leader. Not by the world’s standards. After all, in the corporate crisis, nobody bailed him out and his entire staff ran out on him. His chief operating officer denied him three times and only his mother and his office gofer were with him at his death. And yet, in ...read more

  • People And Especially Kids Want To Get Away With ...

    Contributed by Kyle Blanton on May 14, 2007
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    People and especially kids want to get away with what they can get away with. I can’t count how many times I’ve been home with the kids and something breaks, or is left in the middle of the floor for me to step on or trip over, or a light is left on. And would you ...read more

  • Chuck Swindoll Stated: Most Churches Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Chuck Swindoll stated: Most churches have programs and activities, but little worship. There are songs and hymns and musicals, but so little worship. There are announcements and readings with prayer but so little worship. The meetings are regular but dull and predictable. The events are held on ...read more