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  • One Summer Morning In The 1920s, A Scotsman Named ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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    One summer morning in the 1920s, a Scotsman named Arthur Ferguson stood idly in London’s Trafalgar Square. As he watched, an obviously well-to-do American began admiring the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson and the column it rested on. Struck with a sudden inspiration, Ferguson put his remarkable ...read more

  • A Professor Of Psychology Had No Children Of His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jan 8, 2006
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    A professor of psychology had no children of his own, but whenever he saw a neighbour scolding a child for some wrongdoing, he would say, "you should love your boy, not punish him." One hot summer afternoon the professor was doing some repair work on a concrete driveway leading to his garage. Tired ...read more

  • New American Values: Since The Attacks On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    New American Values: Since the attacks on the nation Americans say they are more inclined to spend more time at home with loved ones (46%); watch TV with family and friends, as opposed to alone (30%); cook meals at home (25%); and read books (22%). Activities that were found to be less appealing to ...read more

  • Robert Fulghum Wrote In The Kansas City Times, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. "These are the things I learned: ...read more

  • The Sleep Son  PRO

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Aug 28, 2006
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    THE SLEEP SON A mother watched her son begin to drain of energy as the week went on. By the end of the week he’d lost his desire to get out of bed. She heard the alarm go off through his bedroom door. Apparently he just kept punching the little snooze button on the top. Finally, after 3 or 4 extra ...read more

  • Where Did The Grandma Of Yesterday Go? The ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 25, 2006
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    "Where did the Grandma of yesterday go? The Grandma that took all the kids to the show; who stopped by to chat & before we could ask it; had tackled the laundry that spilled from the basket. Who offered to mend and made the girls dresses; and who pitched in to help when the toddler made messes; ...read more

  • Advice

    Contributed by Kenneth Anthony on Dec 31, 2006
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    ADVICE A man was on the practice golf course when the club pro brought another man out for a lesson. The pro watched the fellow swing several times and started making suggestions for improvement, but each time the pupil interrupted with his own version of what was wrong and how to correct it. ...read more

  • No More Players

    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 10, 2007
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    Being a kid on the 6th grade playground, I remember the awful experience of running to the ball field at recess only to hear those awful words shouted just before I joined in the game…”No more players!” How many games I had to sit and watch because the kids wouldn’t ...read more

  • Michelle Collins Of The Globe & Mail

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 13, 2007
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    Michelle Collins of the Globe & Mail: When 26-year-old Geoff Emery put money down on his first condominium, he started looking forward to moving out of his mother’s house. The move-in date of November 2005 rolled around only to find himself in November 2006 still living with his mom in Markham. He ...read more

  • Integrity Test  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
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    Integrity Test: We might be like the Salesman I read about. He was waiting to see the Purchasing Agent so he could submit his Company’s bid. While he was waiting, he couldn’t help but notice that his Competitor’s bid was sitting on the Purchasing Agent’s desk. Unfortunately, the actual figure ...read more

  • Childlike Forgiveness

    Contributed by Ramon Canals on Jun 5, 2009
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    CHILDLIKE FORGIVENESS A few months ago, I was in El Paso holding an evangelistic meeting, and the young people were serving dinner to the mothers being that it was Mother’s Day. I was seating in a chair watching what was going on, and right in front a four-year-old girl pushed a two-year-old boy, ...read more

  • Keep Up Your Spiritual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009
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    Keep Up Your Spiritual Guard The 4,000-mile-long Great Wall of China was built to keep invaders from the north. The first wall was constructed by Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China, who lived between 259 - 210 BC. But in AD 1644 the Manchus broke through the Great Wall and overran China. They ...read more

  • An Anonymous Friar, Looking Back On His Life ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 6, 2010
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    An anonymous friar, looking back on his life during his latter years, declared, ’If I had my life to live over again, I would try to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax, I’d limber up, and I’d be sillier than I’ve been on this trip. I’d take more trips. I’d be crazier: I’d climb more ...read more

  • In An Effort To Attract The Unchurched, Some ...

    Contributed by John Dobbs on Jan 9, 2010
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    In an effort to attract the unchurched, some churches have considered translating their unfamiliar terminology into familiar football phrases: *Blocking: Talking endlessly to the preacher at the church door and keeping everyone else from exiting. *Extra Point: What you receive when you tell the ...read more

  • We All Have Scar Tissue On Our Lives From Sexual ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 16, 2010
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    We all have scar tissue on our lives from sexual sin. This sin is ripping our culture apart today and it’s destroying the fabric of this nation. It’s responsible for ripping the family unit apart today more than ever. Lust today is called love but lust is not love! We watch the news and we see one ...read more

  • In A Major City In A Large Public Park, There ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 7, 2010
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    In a major city in a large public park, there was a beggar who held out his cup. A businessman enjoying a break was in that same park and watched that beggar. He was a distance behind the beggar and he noticed that everyone passing by put at least a few coins in his cup. Interested in how this ...read more

  • Youngest Mp Ever

    Contributed by John Perry on Oct 2, 2010
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    YOUNGEST MP EVER In the recent federal election Australia’s youngest ever MP was elected into office. One article reads - WATCHING Australia's youngest-ever MP shake hands and stop to greet members of the public, you'd think he had been doing it for years. But Wyatt Roy, 20, who won the ...read more

  • Shaping To Fit "Up There"

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    SHAPING TO FIT "UP THERE" A Christian man who in a time of business recession lost his job. He then also lost a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home. To add to his sorrow, his wife died, and having no children and very few relatives, he found himself very much alone. The man was a Christian and ...read more

  • The Wisdom Of Children

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    THE WISDOM OF CHILDREN Patrick aged 10: "Never trust a dog to watch your food." Michael aged 14: "When your dad is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?" don't answer him." Joel, aged 10: "Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a cricket bat." Andrew aged 9: "Puppies still have bad breath ...read more

  • Timothy Smith Writes In His Sermon On Jesus Being ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 27, 2011
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    Timothy Smith writes in his sermon on Jesus being born to die, "I was watching "48 Hours Mystery" last Tuesday night on CBS. Their show that night was called "The Mystery of Christmas." It was all about finding and looking at historical evidence for the birth of Christ. Early in the show Maureen ...read more