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  • Jeff Bezos, 36-Year-Old Founder Of Amazon.com, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Jeff Bezos, 36-year-old founder of Amazon.com, shared the following 5 time management tips in the Wall Street Journal. Set aside Tuesdays and Thursdays as your own, without any regularly scheduled meetings. Break your routines. Visit Stores. Scrutinize your own Web site. Learn from unexpected ...read more

  • New Megachurch Research A Major New Study Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    New Megachurch Research A major new study of megachurches shows that 93% of churches with an average weekly attendance of at least 2,000 are found in the South, the West and the Midwest. The states with the largest concentration are California, Texas, Florida and Georgia. Dr. Scott Thumma, faculty ...read more

  • Women Avoid Negotiating: These Figures Are Taken ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Women Avoid Negotiating: These figures are taken from Women Don’t Ask, Negotiation and Gender Divide. 2.5 times more women than men feel “a great deal of apprehension” about negotiation. Men initiate negotiations about 4 times as much as women. When asked to pick metaphors for negotiations, men ...read more

  • There Are An Estimated 66.3 Million Fathers In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    * There are an estimated 66.3 million fathers in the U.S. today. * There are 25.8 million fathers in married-couple families with their own children under 18. * There are 2,000,000 single fathers, up from 393,000 in ‘70. Today, 1-in-6 single parents is a father, vs. 1-in-10 in ‘70. * 105,000 ...read more

  • Tbn Troubles Ministry Watchdog Wall Watchers Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    TBN Troubles Ministry watchdog Wall Watchers has recommended Trinity Broadcasting Network leaders Paul and Jan Crouch step down from TBN leadership, citing their lavish lifestyle, a lack of TBN financial transparency, and other problems. The announcement also notes the couple takes home an annual ...read more

  • Consumer Trends: Two Major Trends Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Consumer Trends: Two major trends of paradigm-shifting proportions are changing the face of the entire consumer retail market today. Every consumer business is going to feel the effects. Trend #1: Connecting replaces cocooning as dominant consumer trend. The cocooning and nesting trend that is at ...read more

  • Episcopal Turmoil: A Growing Number Of American ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Episcopal Turmoil: A growing number of American Episcopal churches are leaving the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and aligning themselves with the Anglican Church of Uganda. The rupture occurred over the Church’s decision last year to permit the blessing of same-sex unions and to consecrate an openly gay ...read more

  • High School Workers: When Surveyed In ‘00 And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    High School Workers: When surveyed in ‘00 and ’02, a University of Washington study finds 56% of high school seniors had jobs in the last few months of their senior year. 4 of every 10 seniors didn’t work, two worked 15 hours a week or less, and 4 worked more than 15 hours a week. Most worked at ...read more

  • Orwellian In Sutter, Ca, A Close-Knit Farming ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Orwellian In Sutter, CA, a close-knit farming town northwest of Sacramento local school 7th & 8th graders are required to wear identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade and a RFID wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher’s handheld computer when ...read more

  • Value Concepts: To Younger Audiences, "Value" ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Value Concepts: To younger audiences, “Value” means price, fast service, free, bigger, instant gratification and ego building. Boomers and women place more value in quality, relationships, learning, personal service and making one’s life richer and more meaningful. Boomers and women will pay higher ...read more

  • In 1665 The Residents Of London Were Dying By ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 27, 2006
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    In 1665 the residents of London were dying by the thousands each day. The bubonic plague was spreading from house to house because of the unsanitary conditions. Rats and fleas spread the germs throughout the city. Almost 30,000 people died, almost a third of London’s population at the time. This ...read more

  • Online Donations To The Biggest U.s. Charities ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Online Donations to the biggest U.S. charities surged 63% last year from ‘03, finds a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study. The 164 groups surveyed raised a combined $166.2 million online. That is less than 1% of the total raised by most of the charities, but the growth will spur more online ...read more

  • Cohabitating Families Falling Apart: In Great ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Cohabitating Families Falling Apart: In Great Britain 75% of all family breakdowns affecting young children now involve unmarried parents, finds new research. An estimated 88,000 children aged under 5 were affected by the separation of their unmarried parents in ‘03, compared with about 31,000 ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, Diana And I Took Her Parents ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 8, 2006
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    Several years ago, Diana and I took her parents down around Tombstone, Arizona on a sight-seeing trip. We found a cave that supposedly hid outlaws in the old days, so we decided to go on a tour. The guides took one group of people after another down into that deep cave. I remember standing ...read more

  • Armand M. Nicholi, M.d., Professor Of Psychiatry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, had little compassion for the common person. Freud ...read more

  • Six Ways To Learn Everything You Ever Need To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Six ways to learn everything you ever need to know about a man before you decide to marry him: 1) watch him drive in heavy traffic. 2) Play tennis with him. 3) Listen to him talk to his mother when he doesn’t know you’re listening. 4) See how he treats those who serve him (waiters, maids). 5) ...read more

  • There Is Also A Mimetic Aspect To The Sufferings ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 19, 2006
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    "There is also a mimetic aspect to the sufferings of Christ. Peter tells us that Christ in His passion left us an example to follow in His steps (I Pet.2:21). The Bible makes it clear, however, that pain and suffering are not to be sought after for their own sake. That would indicate a ...read more

  • Well I Thought That Since We Just Celebrated ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andrew Hoover on Aug 3, 2006
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    Well I thought that since we just celebrated Christmas that I would start out this morning by sharing some of the most overheard comments regarding bad Christmas gifts. So here they are, the top five most overheard comments regarding bad Christmas gifts… 5. Hey, now there’s a gift. 4. If ...read more

  • In A Report That Was Dated June 28, 2003, Abc ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
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    In a report that was dated June 28, 2003, ABC news correspondent Catherine Valenti reported that America has less vacation time than other industrialized nations do and that Americans usually do not take all of their vacation time. The report goes on to state that “U.S. workers aren’t guaranteed ...read more

  • The Body Is A Masterpiece Of Exquisite Design. ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Sep 9, 2006
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    The body is a masterpiece of exquisite design. Beautifully "engineered," it is governed by several hundred systems of control -- each interacting with and affecting the other. His brain has 10 billion nerve cells to record what he sees and hears. His skin has more than 2 million tiny sweat glands ...read more