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  • Alan Redpath Once Formed A "Mutual Encouragement" ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Sep 21, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
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    Alan Redpath once formed a "mutual encouragement" fellowship at a time of stress in one of his pastorates. The members subscribed to a simple formula applied before speaking of any person or subject that was perhaps controversial. · T - Is it true? · H - Is it helpful? · I - Is it inspiring? · N - ...read more

  • Margaret Mead, The Noted Anthropologist, Has Said ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 1,366 views

    Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, has said a lot of controversial things, but you will find no authorities debating her statement in her article Grandparents and Educators. In it she said, "Somehow we have to get the older people, grandparents, widows and widowers, spinsters and bachelors, ...read more

  • More Than 80 U.s. Companies Allow Babies In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,270 views

    More than 80 U.S. companies allow babies in the workplace, according to Parenting in the Workplace Institute, which says that number is likely to be low. It’s an extreme (and controversial) example of how employers are seeking more ways to help workers strike a balance between work and the rest of ...read more

  • Creationists Impact Films: The Evolution Fight ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,773 views

    Creationists Impact Films: The evolution fight has reached the big, big screen. Several Imax theaters are refusing to show movies that mention the subject—or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth—fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin ...read more

  • Eileen Guder, Author Of God, But I'm Bored:  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 28, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,783 views

    Eileen Guder, author of God, But I’m Bored: “You can live on bland food so as to avoid an ulcer; drink no tea or coffee or other stimulants, in the name of health; go to bed early and stay away from night life; avoid all controversial subjects so as never to give offense; mind your own business ...read more

  • In An Interview With George Marsden, Professor Of ...

    Contributed by John Quigley on Mar 1, 2005
     | 1,789 views

    In an interview with George Marsden, Professor of History, Notre Dame University, regarding the fundamentalist - modernist controversy of the late 1800’s - early 1900’s the question was asked: "What do you appreciate most about fundamentalists?" Marsden replied thusly: "Fundamentalists are ...read more

  • You Can Live On Bland Food So As To Avoid An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2001
    based on 41 ratings
     | 1,261 views

    "You can live on bland food so as to avoid an ulcer; drink no tea or coffee or other stimulants, in the name of health; go to bed early and stay away from night life; avoid all controversial subjects so as never to give offense; mind your own business and avoid involvement in other people’s ...read more

  • Judge Not...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2009
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    JUDGE NOT... Several years ago Bobby Knight, Indiana University’s long time, legendary and often controversial head basketball coach was fired. After this several sports news programs showed various heated interviews with Bobby Knight over this incident and several others over the years. One of ...read more

  • Joy To The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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    JOY TO THE WORLD Sadly, our period in history is not, by any means, the first to argue, fight or shoot at one another over our opinions about what does and does not make a worthy song of worship. Nor is ours the first in which there were scores of people in the congregations who sang the words of ...read more

  • Although He Wasn't The First To Use Ether As An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    Although he wasn’t the first to use ether as an anesthetic, Boston dentist William Morton was credited with this discovery after using ether for a tooth extraction in the mid-1840s. But Morton had done so at the recommendation of Boston chemist Charles Jackson, who also claimed part of the credit. ...read more

  • Submission?

    Contributed by Tim Chinn on Apr 4, 2011
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    SUBMISSION? A poll was taken a few years ago asking, both men and women this question, “Should wives submit to their husbands?” (In 1998, the Southern Baptists also sparked controversy with their statement that wives should "submit graciously" to the "servant leadership" of their husbands. At that ...read more

  • Orwellian In Sutter, Ca, A Close-Knit Farming ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,359 views

    Orwellian In Sutter, CA, a close-knit farming town northwest of Sacramento local school 7th & 8th graders are required to wear identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade and a RFID wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher’s handheld computer when ...read more

  • Earlier This Month, President George W. Bush ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 15, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,408 views

    Earlier this month, President George W. Bush granted a pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a 2 ½ year prison term in a CIA leak case. Libby was the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was convicted in March of lying to authorities and obstructing the ...read more

  • The New York Yankees Had Been The World Champions ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
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    The New York Yankees had been the world champions in baseball 26 times when they came to the American League Championship Series in 2004. They trampled the Boston Red Sox by taking the first three games of the championship playoffs. The third game was a complete drubbing at 19-8. But after Game ...read more

  • The Life Of Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
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    THE LIFE OF YOUR MIND "The French sculptor Auguste René Rodin, an innovative and sometimes controversial artist, created masterpieces such as The Man with the Broken Nose, St. John the Baptist, The Bronze Age, or the uncompleted Gates of Hell. But he is most likely known for his work entitled The ...read more

  • Men And Women's Roles

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011
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    MEN AND WOMEN'S ROLES Wayne Grudem and John Piper identified and addressed a problem in leadership back in 1991 which is still relevant: "A controversy of major proportions has spread through the church. It began over 20 years ago in society at large. Since then an avalanche of feminist ...read more

  • You've Heard The Term "On The Bubble." It Refers ...

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 18, 2008
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    You’ve heard the term “on the bubble.” It refers to a team that may or may not be eligible for a tournament. So many times we feel as if we’re on the bubble. We’re not. We’re in! A lot of controversy lately about College Football – the BCS. Now you Oklahoma fans have no problem with it. ...read more

  • Ayn Rand Vs. Christian Community

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2014
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    What we observe in that early community of Christians stands in stark contrast to the philosophy of Ayn Rand, who has been getting a lot of press lately. She is known for her belief in what she called Rational Egoism which translates Rational Self-Interest which she described as "The Virtue of ...read more

  • Josh Mcdowell Writes, In His Book, Answers To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 11, 2003
    based on 45 ratings
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    Josh McDowell writes, in his book, Answers To Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About The Christian Faith; Lest anyone think this isn’t something marvelous, we’d like to give you this challenge. Find ten people from your local area having similar backgrounds, who speak the same language, and ...read more

  • Musalaha In Jerusalem

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 30, 2011
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     | 1,540 views

    MUSALAHA IN JERUSALEM Musalaha is a charity in the Holy Land working for reconciliation. It is an Arabic word that means "reconciliation" and I recently received this communication from the head of Musalaha - Salim Munayer, who writes: At the end of 2010, more than 150 people assembled, stood ...read more