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  • How Many Women Can A Man Marry?  PRO

    Contributed by Byron Sherman on Aug 17, 2001
    based on 63 ratings
     | 2,277 views

    A little boy was attending his first wedding. After the service his cousin asked him, "How many women can a man marry?" "Sixteen(16)", was his prompt reply. "How do u know that?" asked the cousin. "Easy," the little boy said. "All you have to do is add it up." Preacher said, "4 better, 4 worse, 4 ...read more

  • Being Criticized Is Not A Problem If You Develop ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2002
     | 2,026 views

    Being criticized is not a problem if you develop a positive way of dealing with it. Winston Churchill had the following words of Abe Lincoln framed on the wall of his office: "I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t ...read more

  • Being Criticized Is Not A Problem If You Develop ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 12, 2001
     | 1,359 views

    Being criticized is not a problem if you develop a positive way of dealing with it. Winston Churchill had the following words of Abe Lincoln framed on the wall of his office: "I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t ...read more

  • You Don't Have To Go!  PRO

    Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 14, 2003
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,751 views

    YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO! “One day, when Vice-President Calvin Coolidge was presiding over the Senate, one senator angrily told another to go “straight to hell.” The offended Senator complained to Coolidge as presiding officer, and Coolidge looked up from the book he had been leafing through while ...read more

  • Where Are The Young Clergy? The Numbers Of Young ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,751 views

    Where Are The Young Clergy? The numbers of young pastors have been steadily declining in recent years. In ’75, about 24% of Presbyterian ministers were under 35—today its just 7%. Episcopal priests under 35 have dropped from 19% to 4% over the same period. For Roman Catholic priests the rate has ...read more

  • Absolute Moral Truth: 35% Of Adult Americans Say ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,215 views

    Absolute Moral Truth: 35% of adult Americans say moral truth is absolute, not dependent upon circumstances. 32% say it is always determined by the situation and 33% don’t know if it is absolute or relative. 70% of evangelicals believe it’s absolute and 42% of non-evangelical born again adults ...read more

  • Christian T-Shirts Are More Popular Among Young ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,488 views

    Christian T-shirts are more popular among young adults (18-34) than NBA-themed or Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) logo tees, finds a new DATOmana survey. When presented with NBA and A&F shirts, 40% of those surveyed chose a religious T-shirt, vs. 16% for the NBA shirt and 30% for the A&F shirt. Most said ...read more

  • Overuse Of The Word "Love"

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 16, 2010
     | 1,963 views

    OVERUSE OF THE WORD "LOVE" Max Lucado states from his book 3:16, "Love. We’ve all but worn out this word. This morning I used love to describe my feelings toward my wife and toward peanut butter. Far from identical emotions. I never proposed to a jar of peanut butter (though I have let one sit on ...read more

  • Sprouting To New Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,682 views

    SPROUTING TO NEW LIFE A few years ago, when archaeologists began excavating in the courtyard of a medieval monastery, they found seeds that had been dormant for more than 400 years that had begun to grow. King Henry VIII had closed the monastery in 1539, and herbs tended by the monks died. But ...read more

  • Oil Was Used In The Time Of James

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 11, 2012
     | 2,732 views

    Oil was used in the time James wrote his epistle. In ancient times various oils had various purposes. It could be that James is referring to medicinal oils such as: Aloes (Burial oil, John 19.39); Cassia and Cinnamon (in God’s holy anointing oil, Exodus 30.22-31); Frankincense Numbers 16.46-50 ...read more

  • Grandma's Game

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,041 views

    GRANDMA'S GAME Eight-year-old Ann Johnson wrote this poem which expresses the influence of millions of grandparents on their grandchildren: My grandma likes to play with God, They have a kind of game. She plants the garden full of seeds, He sends the sun and rain. She likes to sit and talk with ...read more

  • Girls Who Become Sexually Active Before 17 Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 1,189 views

    Girls who become sexually active before 17 are 70% more likely to experience a crisis pregnancy in later life and 300% more likely to procure an abortion in their lifetime than those who wait until they are older, finds an Irish Crisis Pregnancy Agency study. The survey found 14.9% of Irish men and ...read more

  • During Gladys Aylward's Harrowing Journey Out Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 154 ratings
     | 3,035 views

    During Gladys Aylward’s harrowing journey out of war-torn Yang Chen during the Communist take-over, she faced one morning with no apparent hope of reaching safety. A 13-year old girl tried to comfort her by saying, "Don’t forget what you told us about Moses in the wilderness," to which Gladys ...read more

  • Do You Remember The Lord's Prayer? Twenty-Five ...  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Mar 5, 2002
    based on 43 ratings
     | 5,200 views

    Do you remember the Lord’s Prayer? Twenty-five percent of Christ’s fifty words have to do with deliverance from evil. What did he say? Matthew 6:13, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” I challenge you to make that petition before God. I challenge you to ...read more

  • In The Book Fan The Flame By J. Stowell Is Found ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on Mar 22, 2002
    based on 37 ratings
     | 2,514 views

    In the book Fan the Flame by J. Stowell is found the following: "Heart is used in Scripture as the most comprehensive term for the authentic person. It is the part of our being where we desire, deliberate, and decide. It has been described as ‘the place of conscious and decisive spiritual ...read more

  • Longer Engagements Bride's Magazine Finds The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 2,258 views

    Longer Engagements Bride’s magazine finds the average length of engagements rising sharply during this decade, from 11 months in ’90 to 13 months now. The study reports 27% of weddings are paid for by the couple, with the bride’s father picking the whole tab only 19% of the time. The tab is ...read more

  • Hot Numbers: Tweens Are Flocking To Buy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
     | 1,760 views

    Hot Numbers: Tweens are flocking to buy number-emblazoned apparel. Why numbers, why now? “Image-savvy youth, it seems, are sick of logos and brands splashed across their chests,” says Janine Lopiano, President of Sputnik , a teen trend tracker. “A fascination with digits comes from the popularity ...read more

  • Pastor's Pay: A Recent Christian Ministry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,165 views

    Pastor’s Pay: A recent Christian Ministry Resources (survey finds: Protestant pastors’ pay packages average $73,000. Mega-church pastors earn an average of $108,000. Pastors of congregations with less than 100 members receive $32,500. Average salaries increased to $60,000 for churches with 100 to ...read more

  • Origins On The Mind: A Recent Cnn/Usa ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,653 views

    Origins On The Mind: A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 75% of Americans have thought at least a moderate amount about human origins, and 66% say it matters to them which theory is correct. Americans are more likely to endorse a purely creationist view than an evolutionary one. The majority ...read more

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Was And Still Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,259 views

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was and still is generally regarded as one of the most outstanding justices in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was known as the Great Dissenter because he disagreed with the other judges so much. Holmes sat on the Supreme Court until he was 91. Two years later, ...read more