Sermon Illustrations about Loneliness
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Our Brains Are Wired to Connect with Others
A 72-year-long study conducted at Harvard tracked what really makes human beings happy. The study's longtime director, George Vaillant, when asked ...
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Does the Church Suffer from Agoraphobia?
When I was young, growing up in the United Kingdom, my family and I could always count on our next-door neighbor, Mrs. Oglive, to be around. We left a ...
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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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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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Suicide Victim Can't Find One Kind Person
The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the city of San Francisco with Marin County by spanning the Golden Gate Strait, is one of our world's most recognizable ...
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Scientists Search for Life on Other Planets
In July 2014 a panel of scientists from NASA announced that they're convinced they will soon find life outside planet Earth. One NASA scientist said, ...
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Woman Ministers to Telemarketers
Once, while speaking on the topic of grace in Toronto, I asked the audience about their own experiences conveying grace to others. One woman shocked us ...
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The 'Loneliest Human Being' in History Talks about Perspective
Al Worden, the command module pilot of the 1971 Apollo 15 moon mission, has the strange honor of having been the most isolated human being in history. ...
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Author Learns Her Late-Husband Was 'Love-Starved'
Joyce Carol Oates, an American novelist, and her husband, Raymond Smith, also a writer, met while attending graduate school in 1960. They got married ...
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Spanish "Telling Rooms" Model True Community
The region of Castile in northern Spain has a unique and beautiful way to experience deep community. The countryside is littered with bodegas, handmade ...
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