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  • Internet Evangelism: The North American Mission ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Internet Evangelism: The North American Mission board of the SBC has appointed its 1st missionary devoted entirely to Internet evangelism. Siam & Jennifer Rogers will coordinate all of the agency‘s Internet evangelism efforts. Over 140,000 people visit their evangelism sites each month with an ...read more

  • Small Churches About 60% Of U.s. Churches Have ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,838 views

    Small Churches About 60% of U.S. churches have 100 or fewer in weekly attendance. “The small church is the right setting for many adults under age 35.” George Barna predicts small churches will remain prevalent. Only 1/6th of Busters attend churches with 500 or more members, because they prefer ...read more

  • Euro-Missions Down: As The Value Of The Euro ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,607 views

    Euro-Missions Down: As the value of the Euro increases while the U.S. dollar decreases, some mission organizations may be forced to call some missionaries home to raise more money. Many missionaries go to the field with just enough support and when they lose some of that support in an exchange rate ...read more

  • Health Concerns: More Than 6 In 10 Americans ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Health Concerns: More than 6 in 10 Americans worry a “great deal” about the availability and affordability of healthcare, according to the Gallup survey. Healthcare ranks the #1 issue among 11 issues polled. Other high concern issues include crime and violence (mentioned by 46%), drug use (46%), ...read more

  • Divorce Used To Be Taboo In Asia, But No Longer. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Divorce used to be taboo in Asia, but no longer. In the last 20 years in China divorce rates have doubled. Divorce rates in South Korea rival those in Britain and Denmark. India’s divorce rate has increased in the last 10 years to 11 per 1,000 marriages. In Japan, there is a divorce ...read more

  • Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau Figures For '03 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau figures for ’03 find a third of men and about a quarter of women ages 30-34 have never married, nearly 4 times higher than in’70. Today a woman typically marries at age 23.2 while men wait until they ...read more

  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Is Giving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving nearly $11 million to public libraries in 37 states and DC to buy computers, software and faster Internet connections. 14 million Americans use the Internet at public libraries, including a disproportionately high number of blacks, Indians and ...read more

  • Hollywood Isn't Listening: There Wasn't A Single ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,686 views

    Hollywood Isn’t Listening: There wasn’t a single R-rated movie in the top 20 grossing movies last year. The 20 top grossing movies of last year all have one thing in common — not one carried an R rating. Experts say there’s a struggle between what families ...read more

  • Global Religion: According To Idea News Service, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Global Religion: According to Idea News service, the fastest growing religion in the world is Islam, followed by Hinduism. Christianity is the 3rd fastest growing religion, with a 1.3% annual growth rate. The report also found that over 26% of the world’s population has not heard the Christian ...read more

  • Statistics On Fear And Depression

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 25, 2006
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    U.S.A. Statistic: •“Approximately 6.3 million American adults ages 18 to 54 or about 4.4 percent…have some type of specific fear.” http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/fear-statistics.html CANADIAN Statistic: •1,315,314 ...read more

  • Some Christians Don't Believe In Hell Or The ...

    Contributed by Brian Menear on Feb 23, 2007
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    Some Christians don’t believe in Hell or The Devil. We should have 3 problems with that. 1 Calling God a liar-It is written in his Word, therefore it is true. 2 Calling Jesus a liar-He talked about it so it’s true. 3 Setting themselves up for a big shock ...read more

  • Forgiveness Is Strength

    Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 24, 2007
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    Illustrations: Forgiveness Is Strength Christian forgiveness should not be a refusal of strength, but rather ought to manifest an alternative power; Christian love, whether of neighbors or of enemies, should be a sign not of repressed anger and hatred but of anger and hatred confronted and, ...read more

  • Computers And Spouses Today 8 In 10 Americans ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Computers and Spouses Today 8 in 10 Americans are more dependent on their computers than 3 years ago, claims a Kelton Research study. 65% of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their spouse. “As computers become increasingly pervasive in our lives, our relationships with them ...read more

  • Editors Evolve

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,655 views

    EDITORS EVOLVE As print's dominance wanes, publishers are asking editors to expand their skill sets and become much more public brand stewards. The volume of content and pages online is not just two or three times that in print, it is 50 to 1,000 times, states Steve Fox, Editor and chief of ...read more

  • God Reigns Over All. He Does As He Pleases. ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 2, 2009
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    God reigns over all. He does as He pleases. Wayne Grudem writes, "God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them; (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their ...read more

  • The Enemy Is Not In Here

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE ENEMY IS NOT IN HERE There’s an old story of two American soldiers in Vietnam. While eating lunch in the mess hall, they exchanged harsh words. And they got into a big fight. But the sergeant was there. And he grabbed those two soldiers by the collars. He took them outside. Pointed out to ...read more

  • God's Love Is Everything

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 18, 2009
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    GOD'S LOVE IS EVERYTHING The Pope tells us that "For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, 'God is love'...: everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it, ...read more

  • Prayer Of The Persecuted

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
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    PRAYER OF THE PERSECUTED Author Eugene Peterson says in Reversed Thunder, "While conflicts raged between good and evil, prayers went up from devout bands of 1st c. Christians all over the Roman empire. Massive engines of persecution and scorn were ranged against them. They had neither weapons ...read more

  • Avoiding Sales

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
     | 2,749 views

    AVOIDING SALES The Houston Chronicle, Sept. 25, 1995 records the following quote. As a man sat contemplating the impending expenses of Christmas, his wife burst through the door with an armload of packages. She gleefully remarked, "You told me to stay away from all of those sales so ...read more

  • Pizza Party?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 21, 2022
     | 623 views

    I READ A LESSON ABOUT RUNNING OUT, NOT ENOUGH… THERE WAS A PIZZA PARTY THAT DEMONSTRATED TWO ATTITUDES… 1. GROUP ONE SAW THAT IT WAS OBVIOUS THEY WOULD RUN OUT OF PIZZA, SO THEY GRABBED 4 OR 5 PIECES OF THE PIZZA TO MAKE SURE THEY WOULD HAVE ENOUGH. 2. THE SECOND GROUP SAW THERE WAS NOT ...read more

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