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                    The scientific world has been bamboozled into believing that evolution has been proved.  Nothing could be further from the truth … Every competent space mathematician would assure you that such a Darwinian idea had no chance of working … Every computer expert will in fact assure you that throwing
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Herbert Schlossberg, in his book Idols for Destruction, astutely observed: “Western society, in turning away from the Christian faith, has turned to other things.  This process is commonly called secularization, but that conveys only the negative aspect.  The word connotes the ‘turning away from
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    Sales Of Religious-Themed Products grew 28% from 02 to 05 and are expected to reach $9.5 billion by ’10, reports The Religious Products Market in the U.S. from Packaged Facts. Books, inspirational gifts/merchandise, and audio/video /software sales reached $7.5 billion in ‘05, up 9% over ‘04. Books
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Simplicity is the answer for people tired and weary.  Simplicity is marked by a contented lifestyle that rests in God’s grace.  It is the commitment to clear out, scale down, and realize the essentials of what we truly need to live well.  The intimate search for wholeness is not found by
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I believe in miracle, but not too much miracle, for too much miracle would weaken us, make us dependent on miracle instead of our obedience to natural law.  Just enough miracle to let us know he is there, but not too much, lest we depend on it when we should depend on our own initiative and on his
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The application of misplaced desires eventually becomes a cycle of addiction where stimulating encounters, relief, and the mad search for new experiences become ingrained in the recesses of the mind.  The insatiable appetite to acquire, to own, to indulge, to take pleasure, to consume, is
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In evangelical individualism people think of their personal relationship with God in isolation (“Just me and Jesus”) and forge their destiny apart from any church authority.  While holding relatively low opinions of history, traditions, and the church, they turn to the experiences of self and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    General George Patton of WW II fame was a great student of the history of warfare. During the battles of North Africa, Patton’s troops and tanks were engaged in a series of attacks and counter-attacks with the German Panzer Divisions under the command of General Erwin Rommell, generally considered
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
                
                
                
                    Paul Galloway, writing for the Chicago Tribune in the fall of 1992, described a “striking linguistic comparison between William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Chicago playwright David Mamet’s Glengary Glen Ross, noting that while both treat human greed and ambition, they are exactly 232
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SPENDING TIME WITH THE KIDS?  
The April 6, 1990, issue of the Wall Street Journal reported that, on the average, American parents spend less than fifteen minutes a week in serious discussion with their children.  For fathers the amount of intimate contact with their children is an average of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A FATHER'S ROLE
James Dobson and Gary Bauer in their book Children at Risk articulate the importance of the father’s leadership and his role in the children’s emotional development and moral education: “Fathers must be there to tame adolescent boys, to give a young son a sense of what I means to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THEY NEED A FATHER
... “almost 75 percent of American children living in fatherless households will experience poverty before the age of eleven, compared to only 20 percent of those raised by two parents.  Children living in homes where fathers are absent are far more likely to be expelled from or
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WORKING HARD? 
Workers around America frankly admit that they spend more than 20 percent of their time (seven hours a week) at work goofing off.  That amounts to a four-day work week across the nation.  Almost half of Americans admit to chronic malingering, calling in sick when not sick, and doing
                    
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                    THEY NEED A FATHER
... “almost 75 percent of American children living in fatherless households will experience poverty before the age of eleven, compared to only 20 percent of those raised by two parents. Children living in homes where fathers are absent are far more likely to be expelled from or
                    
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