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  • Education Pays: A White Woman With A Bachelor's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Education Pays: A white woman with a bachelor’s degree typically earned $37,800 in ‘03, vs. $43,700 for an Asian woman, $41,100 for a black woman and $37,600 for a Hispanic woman with an education. Regardless of race or gender, a college grad on average earned over $51,000, compared with $28,000 ...read more

  • When Asked, "Which Factor Most Influences Your ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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    When asked, “Which factor most influences your decision to try a new product?” college students responded as follows: · 44% Word of mouth (Adweek 6/7/99) · 22% Advertising · 22% Price · 10% Brand name · 2% Packaging · 19% of college students shell out ...read more

  • Collegiate Spiritual Practices: A New Survey Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Collegiate Spiritual Practices: A new survey of students attending 46 colleges and universities finds a majority says religion and spirituality are important in their lives, but they also show a sharp drop-off of religious involvements as they move through their college years. Findings include: 73% ...read more

  • Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    CHURCH DROP-OUTS 70% of people who discontinue going to church in America do so between ages 18 and 22. Of those who attend college, 69% of active churchgoing youth stop attending church for at least a year between ages 18 and 22. Yet 71% of active churchgoing youth ...read more

  • Christian Education: The 102 Members Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Christian Education: The 102 members of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities saw enrollment surge 70.6% from ‘90 to ‘04. That compares with 28% for all independent 4-year schools and 12.8% for all public 4--year campuses, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges ...read more

  • Home Schoolers Excel: A National Home Education ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Home Schoolers Excel: A National Home Education Research Institute study has reveals that home-schoolers are more likely to attend college and be more politically active than their peers. 74% of home-schoolers ages 18-24 had taken college courses (compared with 46% of their general population ...read more

  • Cheating: Between 75% And 98% Of High School And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Cheating: Between 75% and 98% of high school and college students say they’ve cheated and 5 out of 6 college students believe they need to cheat to get ahead in the world today. 95% say they have never been caught and 90% say cheaters never pay the price for cheating. Even worse, 20% of adults ...read more

  • Young Money: Americans Ages 12-19 Spent $170 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Young Money: Americans ages 12-19 spent $170 billion last year finds Teenage Research Unlimited. That’s up 10% from 2 years ago. PBS reports that 22% of college students in ’00 owned a credit card in high school versus 11% in ’94. In ’99 a Consumer Federation of America study found ...read more

  • Home Schooling: Brian Ray, President Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Home Schooling: Brian Ray, President of the National Home Education Research Institute estimates 1 to 2 million children representing 2% to 4% of all U.S. school children are taught at home. 96% of colleges reported a steady or higher number of home-schooled applicants last year. In ’00 50% of U.S. ...read more

  • It Is Reported That In The Late 1860s, President ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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    It is reported that in the late 1860s, President Ulysses S. Grant gave a cigar to Horace Norton, philanthropist and founder of Norton College. Because of his respect for the President, Norton chose to keep the cigar rather than smoke it. Upon Norton’s death, the cigar passed to his son, and later ...read more

  • Most Likely To Divorce Born Again Christians Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
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    Most Likely To Divorce Born again Christians are just as likely to get divorced as are non-born again adults. Overall, 33% of all born again individuals who have been married have gone through a divorce, which is statistically identical to the 34% incidence among non-born again adults. Adults who ...read more

  • Bad Granny And Gramps

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 13, 2007
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    Bad Granny & Gramps. I know grandparents who promised their grandchildren the same thing, Finish high school and we will pay for your college; And they could, they were very, very, well off. The grandparents picked the potential schools for each of the three children; Stanford, Berkley, ...read more

  • A Walk By Faith

    Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Aug 10, 2008
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    A WALK BY FAITH I have a friend in Alaska. Some years ago he was a rising executive in a large, influential business. Then God spoke to him to quit his job and go to full-time Bible college. He did so, with no guarantees and no looking back. After he finished Bible college, to the amazement of ...read more

  • Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 Million Families Had At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 million families had at least one child over 18 living at home in ‘03, up 7% since ‘95 and 14% since ‘85, according to the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey. They leave and come back, sometimes more than once, often after college, between jobs, before marriage, after ...read more

  • The Wise ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2008
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    The Wise Fool There is an old, corny story about the young man who was the first in his family to go to college. In fact, he was the first in his small town to go to college. And so when he came home after his freshman year, he was the apple of his father’s eye. His dad, who had never in his life ...read more

  • The Good Old ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    The Good Old Days A girl who went to college, but she just hated it. She told herself, “If I can ever get out of college, get married and have children, I know I’ll finally be able to enjoy life.” So she stuck with it. She went to classes every day and finally graduated from college. Then she got ...read more

  • I Began My Education At A Very Early Age In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "I began my education at a very early age in fact, right ...read more

  • Education Is A Private Matter Between The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has ...read more

  • Your Before And After Doesn't Have To Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Your before and after doesn’t have to be complicated. It is simply sharing from your heart what God has done for you and leaving the results with God. Listen to the story of Spud Webb. At 5’ 6” Spud was like Zaccheus in the NBA where the average height is 6’ 8”or 6’ 9”. Spud played for 9 years in ...read more

  • S. I. Mcmillen, In His Book "None Of These ...

    Contributed by Joel Santos on Aug 22, 2007
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    S. I. McMillen, in his book "None of These Diseases," tells a story of a young woman who wanted to go to college, but her heart sank when she read the question on the blank application that asked, "Are you a leader?" Being both honest and conscientious, she wrote, "No," and returned the ...read more