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  • Your Church Magazine Reports Staff Compensation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Your Church magazine reports staff compensation accounts for more than 40% of an average church’s budget. Churches with budgets over $500,000 spend 40% while smaller budget churches spend closer to 46% on compensation. Church facilities expenses account for 20%, Missions receives 16%, church ...read more

  • Distorted Teen Beliefs 86% Of Teens Claim That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Distorted Teen Beliefs 86% of teens claim that they are Christian (34% are born again) and 3 out of 5 say they believe the Bible is totally accurate in all it teaches. Yet many embrace views inconsistent with the Bible. A new Barna survey finds 2/3 stated Satan is not a living being; merely a ...read more

  • Many Converts, Few Disciples  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,848 views

    Many Converts-Few Disciples: This is the conclusion of George Barna after 2 years of research. Is this why church-es have lost their relevance in American culture? Not one person polled, when asked to identify their most important goal for their life, said it was to be a committed follower of Jesus ...read more

  • Educated Believers: Born-Again Christians Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 3,083 views

    Educated Believers: Born-again Christians are highly educated and intelligent. According to Barna, 29% of evangelical Christians have a college degree vs. the national average of 26%. Naomi Schaefer Riley reports in her latest book, God on the Quad , that enrollment at the 100 schools of the ...read more

  • License To Kill: British Scientist , Ian Wilmut, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    License To Kill: British scientist , Ian Wilmut, famous for cloning Dolly the sheep in ’96, has been granted a cloning license by British regulators to clone human embryos and extract stem cells for medical research. Though he calls this “therapeutic cloning” and claims it does not result in a ...read more

  • Need A Break? A Recent Quill Corporation Survey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,269 views

    Need A Break? A recent Quill Corporation survey of business people finds only 20% feel thinking about work while on vacation ruins their fun or relaxation, but it jumps to 50% when asked about actually doing work on vacation. 40% take work with them on vacation. 60% report it takes anywhere from ...read more

  • Young Money: Americans Ages 12-19 Spent $170 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Young Money: Americans ages 12-19 spent $170 billion last year finds Teenage Research Unlimited. That’s up 10% from 2 years ago. PBS reports that 22% of college students in ’00 owned a credit card in high school versus 11% in ’94. In ’99 a Consumer Federation of America study found ...read more

  • Definition Of Leadership  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Feb 11, 2006
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     | 3,712 views

    Definition of Leadership There are lots of ideas of what leadership is. 1 : the office or position of a leader 2 : capacity to lead 3 : the act or an instance of leading - Merriam Webster "The art of leadership...consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary ...read more

  • Without Kindness The Teachable Become Arrogant In ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 8, 2006
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    Without kindness the teachable become arrogant in their learning. Without kindness we have only puffed up people, they taunt, they think it’s all about M-E! Video Clip - Coach Carter - mpeg 2:04 Coach Carter s right. When is working hard not enough? When is winning not enough? When it’s ...read more

  • My Testimony Of How I Gave Every Thing To God, ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Sep 8, 2006
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    My testimony of how I gave every thing to God, then after a night of prayer He spoke to my heart after I gave Him my all and said “Now everything I have is yours. 1. God speaking me of do not worry over pensions and how our needs would be met when we are ...read more

  • Gospel Music Up According To Nielsen Soundscan, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Gospel Music Up According to Nielsen SoundScan, gospel music album sales had an 11.6% sales rise the first half of ’06, the genre’s first since ’02. As of 7/2/06, nearly 18 million gospel music albums, including those sold via digital download, have been sold YTD. The ...read more

  • Retirement Realty- 25% Of U.s. Boomers Own More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Retirement Realty- 25% of U.S. boomers own more than one property, finds the National Association of Realtors. Boomers own 57% of vacation homes and 58% of rental property. Beyond their primary residences, 13% own vacant land, 8% rental property, 7% a vacation or seasonal home and 2% commercial ...read more

  • Brenda Nichol, A Teacher's Aide In Glen Campbell, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Doubt on Jul 15, 2003
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    Brenda Nichol, a teacher’s aide in Glen Campbell, PA knows the meaning of not forsaking the Lord [SBC Life, June/July 2003]. She was suspended for one year, without pay, for wearing a necklace with a cross. The PA Public School code prohibits employees from wearing religious accessories. She had ...read more

  • Nearly 75% Of All Americans Drink At Least ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jason Cole on Feb 18, 2004
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     | 1,226 views

    Nearly 75% of all Americans drink at least occasionally 13 million people in America have alcohol problems 7 million people in this country are in some form of alcoholism 50% of fatal car crashes involve drunkenness 64% or murders are associated with alcohol 1 out of every 10 “social drinkers” ...read more

  • Bob Dylan Once Sang "I Did Not Know That The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 11, 2004
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    1. Bob Dylan once sang "I did not know that the Devil could come to my door with blond hair blue eyes and tight fitting jeans." 2. Mel Gibson in his movie The Passion of the Christ portrays evil as in some sense beautiful and alluring. Watch the picture of evil dressed in black in the movie you ...read more

  • What Really Makes People Satisfied With Their ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 21, 2004
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    What really makes people satisfied with their lives? Amazingly, the secret may lie in a person’s ability to handle life’s blows without blame or bitterness. These are the conclusions of a study of 173 men who have been followed since they graduated from Harvard University in the early 1940s. The ...read more

  • Mamie Adams Always Went To A Branch Post Office ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Oct 18, 2004
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    Mamie Adams always went to a branch post office in her town because the postal employees there were friendly. She went there to buy stamps just before Christmas one year and the lines were particularly long. Someone pointed out that there was no need to wait in line because there was a stamp ...read more

  • There Are Those That You Can Count On To Attend ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There are those that you can count on to attend every service they are called “the Core”. One choir director was upset because the choir members were not dedicated to choir practice but the piano player had attended every practice. So he bragged on him in front of the choir for being their every ...read more

  • Dentist

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Dentist Nobody likes a complainer. A dentist once heard a patient grumbling about his fee. “Two hundred dollars – just to pull out a tooth” she exclaimed, “And you only work for one minute” “Well, if you wish,” the dentist replied, “I can pull it out slowly.” 8) ...read more

  • Top 10 Reasons Why People Worry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,193 views

    Top 10 Reasons Why People Worry Results of a national poll: Industry Week Magazine… 1. Own health and fitness - 73% 2. Lack of time for family or leisure pursuits - 49% 3. Their children’s problems - 43% 4. Job related stress - 43% 5. Personal investments - 39% 6. Estate planning - ...read more