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  • If The World Were A Village Of 1000 People, Next ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 7, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,832 views

    If the world were a village of 1000 people, next year’s population would be 1018. Twenty-eight people would be born, but 10 would die: three from lack of food, one from cancer, two in birth, one from war or crime, and three from natural causes. Two-hundred people from this village would receive ...read more

  • Godless Americans March On Washington

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,769 views

    GODLESS AMERICANS MARCH ON WASHINGTON An article from Sunday’s Washington Times reported on the event by saying, "Thousands of nonbelievers converged on the Mall yesterday to demand equal rights under the Constitution and separation between politics and the pulpit during the first-ever Godless ...read more

  • What Children Hear  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 3,708 views

    WHAT CHILDREN HEAR I was reading the story of Jesus’ birth to my day-care children one morning. As usual, I stopped to see if they understood. "What do we call the three wise men?" I asked. "The three maggots," replied a bright 5-year-old. "What gift did the MAGI bring baby Jesus?" ...read more

  • Even If You Never Saw The Movie "A Few Good Men," ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 6, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 37,182 views

    Even if you never saw the movie “A Few Good Men,” you’re probably familiar with one scene. Tom Cruise plays a military lawyer and is interrogating tough-guy Jack Nicholson. Cruise is getting nowhere and finally yells, “I WANT THE TRUTH!” And Jack Nicholson shouts back. “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE ...read more

  • Susannah Wesley's Rules For Raising Children  PRO

    Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Sep 24, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,478 views

    “Susannah Wesley’s Rules For Raising Children: 1. Subdue self-will in a child and thus work together with God to save his soul. 2. Teach him/her to pray as soon as he can speak. 3. Give him nothing he cries for and only what is good for him if he asks for it politely. 4. To prevent lying, punish ...read more

  • The Article "What Good Is A Tree?" In Reader's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,235 views

    The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition. In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots of different trees--even of dissimilar species. A whole forest may be linked together. If one ...read more

  • Carol Podemski Has A Story That Really ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 833 views

    Carol Podemski has a story that really demonstrates this. The story goes like this. When my son was five years old, I showed him around my grandfather’s farm, pointing out the hard work and skills it once took to farm the land. As we entered the cow barn, I gazed up at the long, handmade ladder ...read more

  • Friday, I Did A Quick Web Based Search, And I Was ...

    Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 5, 2005
     | 1,243 views

    Friday, I did a quick web based search, and I was surprised by what I found. I answered four questions: 1. Do you and your spouse have any children under the age of 18 from this marriage? 2. Can you locate your spouse, and is he or she willing to sign the divorce documents with you? 3. Have you ...read more

  • Brand Building: How Do You Build A Big Brand ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,151 views

    Brand Building: How do you build a big brand without the ad budget or marketing muscle of a giant operation? Business Week Small recommends four key steps. (1) Carve out a unique niche, often becoming the first and dominant brand in the category. (2) Outsource manufacturing and other functions that ...read more

  • Christian Giving Down: The Empty Tomb Reports ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 2,108 views

    Christian Giving Down: The Empty Tomb reports that church donations have dipped to a 35 year low. As a portion of after-tax income, giving has fallen from 0.66% per capita in ’68 to 0.38% in ’02. However, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that giving to the 400 largest charities rose 2.3% in ...read more

  • Wary Workers Believe They're Monitored In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,436 views

    Wary Workers believe they’re monitored in the workplace to assure productivity and because employers don’t trust them, finds a Society for Human Resource management survey. HR professionals, however, say employee monitoring assures the integrity of business critical systems and safeguards ...read more

  • Moral Compass: 54% Of American Adults Claim They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,443 views

    Moral Compass: 54% of American adults claim they make their moral choices on the basis of specific principles or standards they believe in. 16% claim they make their moral choices based on the Bible. 60% of evangelicals rely on the Bible as their main source of moral counsel vs. 20% of ...read more

  • Evangelical Christians Are…

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,873 views

    Evangelical Christians Are: · Slightly more likely to be female and aged 50 and older than the overall national adult population. · Somewhat less likely to be college grads than the total population, but incomes mirror the national population. · Most prevalent in the South, least so in the East ...read more

  • What's A Church Worth? Ram A. Cnaan, Author Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,101 views

    What’s A Church Worth? Ram A. Cnaan, author of The Invisible Caring Han: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare, found through research that the net value of local congregational, social, and community services averages $15,307 per month, or approximately $184,000 per congregation per ...read more

  • Parents Support Abstinence Based Sex Education ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,765 views

    Parents Support Abstinence based sex education according to a new Zogby International poll. It found that 75% of parents disapproved of the condom-based sex education curriculum promoted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 61% also disapproved of the “comprehensive” sex ...read more

  • Pastoral Pay Increases: Compensation For Pastors ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,422 views

    Pastoral Pay Increases: Compensation for pastors has increased faster than inflation over the last 25 years, finds a Duke University Divinity School survey. Median pay for Protestant clergy in the U.S.—including the value of provided housing—is now $40,000, similar to that of school-teachers and ...read more

  • Porn Plague: Today, There Are Over 200,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,935 views

    Porn Plague: Today, there are over 200,000 pornographic listings on the Internet. Newsweek Magazine claims that visits to adult sites comprise 33% of all on-line usage. Dr. Laura Schlessinger claims at any given time 62% of those on the Web are visiting a porn site—the discrepancy probably lying in ...read more

  • Individuals Read Web Pages In An "F" Pattern. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 1,568 views

    Individuals Read Web Pages in an “F” pattern. They’re more inclined to read longer sentences at the top of a page and less and less as they scroll down says a recent Nielsen Norman Group study. That makes the first 2-3 words of a sentence very important. Surfers connect well with images of people ...read more

  • I. Barna Notes "Our Most Recent Surveys Indicate ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 10, 2006
     | 1,365 views

    i. Barna notes “Our most recent surveys indicate that about half of all adults listen to preaching or Bible teaching in a typical week; one out of three read the Bible; one out of ten study the Bible during the week; fewer than one out of every twenty-five devote themselves to memorizing at least ...read more

  • Legalized Gambling, Available In 48 States, Cost ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,347 views

    Legalized Gambling, available in 48 states, cost Americans $80 billion in ’05 loses reports U.S. News & World Report. 73 million visited more than 1,200 U.S casinos, up from 53 million in ’00. 42 states now run lotteries. The 2005 National Annenberg Risk Survey of Youth claims 2.9 million young ...read more

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