Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 20, 2001
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THE AGE BAROMETER
Change is a fact of life. The older you are the more change you’ve seen. This morning I have a test called "The Age Barometer". By taking this simple test you can determine how old you really are.
Give yourself one point for each item you remember:
1. Blackjack chewing
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THE GLORY OF AGING
A woman nearly 100 years old wrote:
This old shell in which I dwell
Is growing old, I know full well,
But I am not the shell.
What if my hair is turning gray,
Gray hair is honorable, they say.
What if my sight is growing dim,
I still can see to follow Him.
What should I care
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 28, 2009
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Dr. Jess Moody once wrote with biting sarcasm,
"What do aged atheists have to talk about, as they sit around waiting to die? Do they discuss the legacy of morality, decency, integrity, and spiritual sensitivity they have given to their children? Or the good atheism has done the world: the
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 22, 2012
THE AGE OF THE TEMPLE
A tourist is traveling with a guide through one of the thickest jungles in South America, when he comes across an ancient Mayan temple. The tourist is entranced by the temple, and asks the guide for details. To this, the guide states that archaeologists are carrying out
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 3, 2012
ROCK OF AGES
"Rock of Ages" is a popular Christian hymn by Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady, written in 1763 and first published in The Gospel Magazine in 1775.
Tradition says the hymn was written when Augustus Toplady was walking in the gorge of Burrington Combe in the Mendip Hills in England.
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Denomination:
Brethren
Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 26, 2014
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“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.”
- Jennifer Yane
As you grow older, what’s inside you doesn’t change but your body changes, and it’s confusing to look in the mirror.
If you live your life as though you are a perpetual image contestant, your age is
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Denomination:
Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
The U.S. is an aging nation. Our median age, which today is 33, will be 38 by 2020, aging about 1 to 1.5 years in every 5.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 29, 2008
MIDDLE AGE IS MISERABLE
Middle age is truly miserable, according to an 80-country study showing depression is most common among men and women in their 40s. Researchers found happiness follows a U-shaped curve where life begins cheerful before turning tough during middle age and then returning to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
SEVEN AGES OF MAN
Someone described the seven ages of man in these ways: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills.
Spills - Infancy.
Drills - Childhood. We get drilled about doing this and that.
Thrills - Teen years perhaps. I'm not sure they are all that thrilling, however.
Bills -
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Contributed by Errol Joseph on Jul 15, 2001
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The Encarta Encyclopedia defines aging as the “irreversible biological changes that occur in all living things with the passage of time, eventually resulting in death.”
In developed nations, life expectancy has increased more in the 20th century than it has in all of recorded history. A person
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
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It was the winter of 1926, an age where narrow-mindedness and bigotry still had power in many places. A woman from Chicago named Thelma Goldstein decided to go to Florida for her first real vacation. She was not familiar with the area, and she unknowingly drove to a restricted hotel in North
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The trouble with aging is that by the time you finally know your way around,
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