Sermon Illustrations about Friendship
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Harry Potter's Friend Holds Him Accountable
Toward the end of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, there's a scene where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are about to break the rules and leave ...
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Surveys Reveal an Erosion of Social Trust
In the past 40 years in the U.S. we've witnessed a massive decline in our openness to trust other people. A recurring survey asks people, "Generally ...
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We Weren't Meant to Suffer Alone
In her funny, off-beat memoir, journalist and writer Heather Havrilesky reminds us how community (whether in a family or a church family) implies carrying ...
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Intervention for Anorexic Woman at Gym
At the height of her eating disorder, strangers on the streets of Nashville would stop Lauryn Lax to tell her to "Go eat a cheeseburger" or ...
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Social Isolation Crushes Body, Brain, and Spirit
For two of his five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, Senator John McCain was locked in a tiny isolation cell, cut off from all human contact. He was beaten ...
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Cartoonist Gets Published After 610 Tries
Up to his neck in debt, directionless, feeling lost, Tom Toro moved back into his parents' place and slipped into a dark depression. But things started ...
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Flunking a Relationship
15+6= what? For one almost-groom in India, it is the math problem that he might never recover from, after it ruined his wedding day. Lovely, the bride, ...
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Even Ants Need Friends
Genesis 2:18 says "It is not good for man to be alone." Scientists have been researching this principle in humans and in animals for generations ...
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Isolation Can Make Us Ill or Dead
Recent research studies show how much we crave community and friendship. A study of 3,000 women with breast cancer found that those with a large network ...
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The Death of the Third Place
Deane Barker, writing for the popular BoingBoing site, laments the death of America's "third places." These are the gathering spots, neither ...
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