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  • Fewer Newspaper Readers In '70, According To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
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    Fewer Newspaper Readers In ’70, according to Editor & Publisher International Year Book, there were 62.1 million weekday newspapers in circulation—about 0.3 papers per person, while in ’06 there were just 52.3 million weekday papers—about 0.17 per person. In ’94, 49% of American adults told the Pew ...read more

  • Female ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    FEMALE CONSUMERS American women control more than half of commercial and consumer consumption that comprises America’s GDP. Business guru and author Tom Peters says it is "larger than the entire Japanese economy," or in excess of $5 trillion. Also women now comprise the majority of college degree ...read more

  • Encouraging Others

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 18, 2017
     | 6,135 views

    After analyzing many surveys, J. C. Staehle found that the principle causes of unrest among workers, were the following: 1. Failure to give credit for suggestions. 2. Failure to correct grievances. 3. Failure to encourage. 4. Criticizing employees in front of other people. 5. Failure to ask ...read more

  • The Person God Blesses

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    What do we notice about the person God blesses? The person God blesses has had a conversion to God’s ways. Where do I get this concept? I get it from Abram’s name change. When we first meet him he is known as "Abram." After an encounter with God (Gen. 17:5) he is known as "Abraham." In the Bible a ...read more

  • A Certain Congregation Was About To Erect A New ...  PRO

    Contributed by Norbert Garcia on May 29, 2001
    based on 144 ratings
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    A certain congregation was about to erect a new church edifice. The building committee, in consecutive meetings passed the following resolutions: 1. We shall build a new church 2. The new building is to be located on the site of the old one. 3. The material in the old building is to be ...read more

  • Top Five Reasons Why Men Are Better Than Women  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 806 views

    TOP FIVE REASONS WHY MEN ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN 5. Men can go to the bathroom without a support staff. 4. Men can open their own jar. 3. For men, wrinkles add character. 2. People never glance down at a man’s ...read more

  • When We Are Truly Trusting God, Then Our Faith ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 24, 2003
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    When we are truly trusting God, then our faith will demonstrate itself through our choice of words. c. What would you might have said if your were: 1) Noah pounding a nail 2) Joseph counting prison bars 3) David looking for rocks 4) Job ...read more

  • 7 Ways To Rationalize Your Way To Ruin

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 3, 2007
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    7 ways to Rationalize your way to Ruin 1. Everyone’s doing it 2. I’ll just try it once 3. It’s just a little lie 4. No one ever needs to know 5. No one will really get hurt 6. If I ...read more

  • Joseph Stowell, Former President Of Moody Bible ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joseph Stowell, former President of Moody Bible Institute, writes in his book Fanning the Flame: "The call of authentic Christianity is to ‘have heart’ - a heart for God . A heart for God requires (1) that we move from externals to internals ,(2) that we reject the easy way of ritual ...read more

  • The Children Worked Long And Hard On Their Own ...

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
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    The children worked long and hard on their own little cardboard shack. It was to be a special spot; a clubhouse where they could meet in solemn assembly or just laugh, play games, and fool around. As they thought long and hard about their rules, they came up with three rather ...read more

  • Manager Fears: When Asked Which Two Work Related ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Manager Fears: When asked which two work related activities make them the most uncomfortable, managers chose the following as their top anxiety producers: Building relationships with people I dislike 73%, Asking for a raise 25%, Speaking to large audiences 24%, Saying no to ...read more

  • I Came Across Some Interesting Statistics A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
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    ILL. I came across some interesting statistics a few years ago. Someone went to the trouble to research what people do with their time, & came up with these results: If we live to be 75, most of us will have spent 3 solid years, 24 hours a day, acquiring an education - grade school, high school & ...read more

  • It All Started By One Man Wanting To Pray  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2011
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    IT ALL STARTED BY ONE MAN WANTING TO PRAY In 1857 there was a 46 year old man named Jeremiah Lamphere who lived in New York City. Jeremiah loved the Lord tremendously, but he didn’t feel that he could do much for the Lord until he began to feel a burden for the lost and accepted an invitation ...read more

  • Christmas Adorations  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 15 ratings
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    Christmas Adorations For thousands of years the Israelites had been looking for the coming of the Messiah. There in Bethlehem by the miraculous power of God, Mary, a young virgin, gave birth to the Savior of the world. Most people missed that glorious event, but a few did not. Who are the ...read more

  • Our Body Is Murphy's Law In Action: If Anything ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Our body is Murphy’s Law in action: if anything can go wrong, it will. Five diseases - heart disease (29%), cancers (22.9%), stroke (6.8%), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (5.1%), and diabetes (3%) - claimed 1.6 million lives or more than two-thirds of all deaths in the United States. Not ...read more

  • Man Has Yet To Conquer Himself  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2011
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    MAN HAS YET TO CONQUER HIMSELF Ravi Zacharias put it well when he said, "In an attempt to be reasonable, man has become irrational. In an attempt to deify himself, he has defaced himself. In an attempt to be free, he has made himself a slave. And like Alexander the Great, he has conquered the ...read more

  • Needs Are Different

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 8, 2007
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    Illustration: Needs Are Different Perhaps our understanding for marriage is to give our spouse what we feel is best. Dr. Willard Harley, a Massachusetts psychologist, surveyed the perceived basic needs of men and women in marriage and found that the perceived needs are completely different. ...read more

  • Nation Losing Protestant ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
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    NATION LOSING PROTESTANT MAJORITY The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum estimates the U.S. is 78% Christian and about to lose its status as a majority Protestant nation, at 51% and slipping. More than 25% of U.S. adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or ...read more

  • Divorce Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
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    DIVORCE ACCEPTED A record 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable (up 59% from ’00), finds Gallup’s ’08 Values and Beliefs Survey. Marriage Savers’ Mike McManus says, “Since 1970, that’s 42 million divorces, shattering the lives of 40 million children. We have the highest divorce ...read more

  • The Powerhouse  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,095 views

    The Powerhouse Stephen Kuusisto grew up feeling a stigma about being legally blind. For him, sight consisted of a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors, and shadows. Privately he would press his face close to the page of a book and memorize street names in an exhausting attempt to appear more able to see ...read more