Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
There used to be an egg farm about 5 miles from here, out on Reed Ellis Road. From time to time, when I was growing up, we used to take one of our 2 ton trucks down there to the chicken farm and pick up a couple of loads of chicken manure to put on our pastures to help the grass grow.
I remember
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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Younger Children 800% More Likely To Receive Christ: Barna Research reports teens between ages 14 and 18 have only a 4% likelihood of accepting Christ compared to kids ages 5 through 13 who have a 32% probability. This challenges the widely held notion that the teen-age years are a prime time for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain
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Contributed by Joshua Parrish on Jun 19, 2008
* 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
* 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
* 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
* 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 8, 2009
TRAPEZE FAITH
Church growth writer Dr. Win Arn told of an experience he had:
"’Jump . . . go ahead . . . jump!’ The words flew upward from boys and girls some sixty feet below. High above, I clutched the bar of a trapeze swinging back and forth in great arcs. At the apex of each swing, an
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Shall I not bless the middle years? Not I for youth repine While warmly round me cluster
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy
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Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Aug 26, 2002
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For Joachim Neander praise was evoked by life-changing memories from his youth. To say he was a rebel is probably an understatement. Most of his youth was spent with little regard for God and His Word. Sometimes he even outrightly mocked the Word of God and those who preached it. Neander and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Wayne Major on May 14, 2001
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I conducted a personal survey for an evangelism course in seminary, examining the ways people come to faith in Christ. The single most influence in leading people to Christ? By far, it was the parents. Behind parents came pastors, youth pastors, Sunday School teachers, adults of the church. The
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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KNEELING WITH RUNKIE
Have you heard the story of the incident that took place in a Church youth group in Akron, Ohio, at Christmas time? What took place started a tradition in that church, a pattern for us to follow.
The high school boy's name was Howard, but he was best known as "Runkie". He had
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Jan 6, 2013
WHEN ADAM HAMILTON SAW CHRISTMAS
Adam Hamilton tells the story of leading his youth group in Dallas, TX to south Dallas, a part of town that was largely forgotten and the remaining people who lived there had been largely forgetten as well. The neighborhood was filled with empty lots, boarded up
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Methodist
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