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  • Yet, So Much Communication Is Happening Over ...

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
     | 1,197 views

    YET, so MUCH Communication is happening over INTERNET - people DON’T SEE Each Other SO - IS OUR COMMUNICATION CLEAR? Personally, I’ve found Email & IM – WORST way to communicate because it doesn’t convey my heart or emotions! New study - University of Chicago confirms / When reading e-mails ...read more

  • A ‘05 Cdc Study Reports 47% Of U.s. High School ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 936 views

    A ‘05 CDC Study reports 47% of U.S. high school students have had sexual intercourse, vs. 54% in ’91. Yet the nation is the world leader in teen pregnancies and STDs. A Child Trends report revealed less than 30% of females and less than 50% of males consistently use condoms, and nearly 20% of ...read more

  • Contributions To U.s. Churches In '05 (Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,801 views

    Contributions to U.S. churches in '05 (most recent data available) were 2.58% of members' income vs. 2.56% in '04 according to empty tomb. Giving to "church, other religious organizations" accounted for 72% of funds directed to charity. The under-25 age group gave 87% of their donations to ...read more

  • Marriage Stats 78% Of U.s. Adults Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,860 views

    Marriage Stats 78% of U.S. adults have been married at least once and 33% of those have been divorced at least once says a new Barna Group study. 84% of born-again Christian adults have tied the knot, vs. 74% of people aligned with non-Christian faiths and 65% of atheists and agnostics. Those with ...read more

  • Church Is Good For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 1,452 views

    CHURCH IS GOOD FOR MARRIAGE Married couples who attend church services frequently are happier and more likely to succeed in their marriages than those who don’t attend church often or not at all, finds a Univ. of Virginia study. 70% of husbands who attend church regularly are “very happy” in their ...read more

  • Old-School Church Discipline

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 3,999 views

    OLD-SCHOOL CHURCH DISCIPLINE The Amish practice shunning – ignoring, turning away from, avoiding. When a person is disciplined by the community, relationships are severed between parents and children, or brother and sister, or even husbands and wives. Because the Amish are so isolated from those ...read more

  • Loss Of Original Purpose

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 4,422 views

    LOSS OF ORIGINAL PURPOSE In the town of Delburne, Alberta, there was an old water tower built in 1926. Standing empty, the building was bought by two men who wanted to turn it into a dining and cocktail lounge. Plans called for a bar to be built on the second floor. Something similar has already ...read more

  • I Remember Playing Basketball One Day With An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 7, 2001
    based on 71 ratings
     | 1,861 views

    I remember playing basketball one day with an African American boy. He was from Wilson High School in San Francisco. He was failing his biology class at Choate Rosemery. Although I was teaching biology and human anatomy at Choate, I didn’t offer to tutor him because he had no interest in study. ...read more

  • Do You Know This Man? His Name Is Thomas ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,988 views

    Do you know this man? His name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson. In 1851 he resigned from the army to teach at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. In the ensuing years tension arose between the Union states and the Southern states over slavery. In November 1859, Jackson was one of ...read more

  • Lonely Americans Have A Third Fewer Close ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 1,953 views

    Lonely Americans have a third fewer close friends and confidants than 20 years ago, a sign people may be living lonelier, more isolated lives than in the past. In ‘85, the average American had 3 people in whom to confide important matters vs. 2 in ’04, finds an American Sociological Review study. ...read more

  • What Has Caused People To Not Have A Biblical ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,397 views

    What has caused people to not have a Biblical worldview and to edit the Ten Commandments to please one’s self? Maybe it’s not just the preacher you listen to. A study of 104 leading television writers and executives conducted by the center for media and public affairs found that Hollywood’s ...read more

  • I'd Like A Little More Audience Participation In ...

    Contributed by Darren Mccormick on Feb 26, 2008
     | 1,221 views

    I’d like a little more audience participation in the next few moments. Here’s what I’d like you to do. If you’re 34 years of age or younger---I’d like for you to stand up….some on, go ahead it’ll just take a couple of moments. Okay you can be seated. And I hope you count yourselves as some of ...read more

  • Advertisers And Marketers, Struggling To Keep Up ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,910 views

    Advertisers and Marketers, struggling to keep up with changing consumer habits, are about to make massive investments in new digital and out-of-home media platforms, forecasts research company PQ Media. Companies will spend more than $160.8 billion in ’12 (up 82% from ’08) on 18 emerging markets, ...read more

  • Pastor Prays Honestly After Loss Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2009
     | 2,364 views

    Pastor Prays Honestly After Loss of Son O The Beauty of Honest prayer (I think God prefers angry honesty vs. flowery fakeness) Heard a story this week of a pastor who lost his precious little son in a tragic accident. Told how he drove the freeways of Los Angeles in the grief of that loss. Said… ...read more

  • Happy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 4,291 views

    HAPPY According to a 12/07 Gallup poll, 84% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in their personal life at this time, while 14% are dissatisfied. This ratio has been fairly stable since 1979. The poll asks respondents to choose "very happy," "fairly happy," or "not too happy." ...read more

  • This I Know

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Aug 21, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,936 views

    THIS I KNOW After the Communist Government of China kicked out all foreign Missionaries, most contact with China was cut off. A lot of people wondered if Chrisitianity would die out completely. In 1972, a group of American Christians were thrilled to receive an unusual message from contacts in ...read more

  • Real Life In The Bible

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jan 16, 2007
     | 2,277 views

    Listen to these facts about a few Bible heroes: · Adam blamed his wife for his problems. · Cain killed his brother, Able · After surviving the flood, Noah despaired and got drunk. (Now, think about it. After spending a year closed up in a floating barn, then finally getting out to see nothing ...read more

  • In 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Berkley on Oct 9, 2001
    based on 26 ratings
     | 3,005 views

    In 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in America. The word spread from Capitol Hill down into the valleys of Virginia, and the Carolinas, and evens into the plantations of Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. The headlines read, ’Slavery Legally Abolished!’ However, the greater ...read more

  • The Great Philanthropist Stanley S. Kresge Was ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
     | 917 views

    The great philanthropist Stanley S. Kresge was often in the company of college presidents or other fund-raisers asking for endowment or financial aid. During the course of discussion, Mr. Kresge would always ask one question, "Do you think the world is better today than it was 2,000 years ago?" I’d ...read more

  • By The Power Of His Holy Spirit Filling And ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Jul 2, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,658 views

    By the power of His Holy Spirit filling and empowering us, let us fulfill the fervor of Dorothea Day’s poem “My Captain”: Out of the night that dazzles me, Bright as the sun from pole to pole, I thank the God I know to be For Christ the conqueror of my soul. Since His the sway of ...read more

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