Sermon Illustrations about Gossip
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A Mob Murders Two Men Based on a Rumor
In Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel The Ox-Bow Incident, an exited youth passes on a rumor that popular rancher has been murdered and his cattle stolen. ...
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Booing Cardboard Cutout of Baseball Star
Robinson Cano is an all-star second baseman who left the New York Yankees at the end of the 2013 season to take a 10 year, 240 million dollar contract ...
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Company Excels at Tearing Products Apart
When the latest smartphone is released workers from Teardown.com line up in the early morning hours at stores to buy these devices. Then they returne ...
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The Remarkable Power of Belief
You've all heard about "the placebo effect," the power of the brain to help alleviate pain or disease merely by the belief that treatment ...
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Are We Addicted to Negative Words?
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, has lectured throughout this country on the powerful, often negative impact of words. ...
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An Object Lesson about What Fills Our Heart
Matthew Mitchell explains how he uses a simple object lesson to illustrate "the principle of overflow," which simply means that our words overflow ...
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Animal Farm as a Parable about Blaming Others
George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm provides a parable about how we often treat each other in Christian community, families, and work settings. ...
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Judging Others is One of Our Favorite Activities
Like most of us, John Burke (pastor of Gateway Church in Austin, Texas) assumed that he was not a judgmental person. But just in case he was wrong, he ...
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Why We Rejoice when Famous People Fail
Why do we enjoy watching others—especially rich, powerful, famous people—"fall from grace"? Joseph Epstein commented on our need ...
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Small Town Embittered by Anonymous Gossip
In September 2011, The New York Times ran an article about a small town in Missouri called Mountain Grove. Gossip and rumors have always existed in this ...
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