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  • Women Dominate Christian Ranks: Barna Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,431 views

    Women Dominate Christian Ranks: Barna Research reports that 46% of the nation’s women have beliefs that classify them as born again, versus 36% of men, meaning there are 11 to 13 million more born again women than men in the U.S. This helps explain why women account for nearly 80% of all Christian ...read more

  • Believers Lack Biblical Understanding: A Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,439 views

    Believers Lack Biblical Understanding: A Barna poll reveals that many born again Americans hold beliefs contrary to Scripture. Among the most disturbing is that 68% think the Bible teaches that God helps those who help themselves. Other alarming beliefs are; that the Holy Spirit does not exist ...read more

  • Christian Bookstores Saw A $100 Million Decline ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,100 views

    Christian Bookstores saw a $100 million decline in their retail sales of Christian products from ’00 to ’02 while general retailers experienced an equal sales increase of Christian merchandise. Plus 271 of the 2,700 or so Christian retailers in the U.S. closed their doors in ‘03. The Christian ...read more

  • Homeschooler Numbers Continue To Grow. Brian Ray ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,668 views

    Homeschooler numbers continue to grow. Brian Ray of National Home Education Research Institute estimates 1.9 million to 2.4 million K-12 children were home educated during '05-06. Research shows homeschoolers on average exceed the national average on standardized achievement test for elementary and ...read more

  • If God Is Omnipresent, He Must Needs Be ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 12, 2008
     | 1,896 views

    “If God is omnipresent, he must needs be omniscient; but he is omnipresent; this supposes the infinite and immensity of his being, from which follows the ubiquity of his presence; heaven and earth include the whole creation, and the Creator fills both (Jer. 23:24); he not only knows both, and ...read more

  • Be Found Doing Your Duty  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 27, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,007 views

    BE FOUND DOING YOUR DUTY "Keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come"(Matt 24:42). A man named Col Davenport was speaker of the Connecticut house of representatives in the late 1700s. On May 19, 1780, the sky of Hartford darkened ominously, and some of the ...read more

  • Noah Legends

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 25, 2011
     | 3,220 views

    NOAH LEGENDS One website I visited examined different flood stories from such diverse nations as · East Africa · Argentina · Australia · Bolivia · Borneo · Burma · Cuba (original natives) · Fiji · Egypt (Book of the Dead) · Iceland · India · Mexico · New Zealand · Russia- Vogul · Vietnam- ...read more

  • E.s.p.  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 8, 2012
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    E.S.P. I heard about a man who asked his wife to balance the checkbook. He came home that night to find she had four neatly typed pages, detailing all the expenses of the past months--the milkman, the cleaners, the grocery store, and many others. One entry read, "E.S.P. $24.21." "What does that ...read more

  • Christian Man Displays Cross

    Contributed by Matthew Oliver on Oct 20, 2012
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    Christian man Carl Behr of Baldwin, Pennsylvania received a notice on Monday ordering him to remove the 24-foot high illuminated cross he has installed in his front yard and kept lit day and night. But Behr plans to fight the order at a municipal meeting. “It’s all about my faith, and some people ...read more

  • When Is Jesus Coming?

    Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
     | 6,648 views

    What do these dates have in common (1248, 1306, 1689, 1792, 1836, 1844, 1914, 1936, 1960, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2011)? They all represent the times in which people predicted that the second coming of Christ would occur. No one, not even Jesus knows the exact time of Christ’s coming. ...read more

  • False Alarm

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 27, 2020
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    July 24 2020 (UPI) -- A British police department said officers responding to a report of a "large apex predator" -- a black panther -- in a public park arrived to find the supposed dangerous animal was only a stuffed toy. Hors The department said the officers who arrived at the scene ...read more

  • Horses And Teamwork

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Nov 18, 2020
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    Teamwork can be illustrated by thinking of the combined strength of draft horses. A single draft horse can pull a load up to 8,000 pounds. So we would expect that two draft horses linked together should be able to pull 16,000 pounds. But here’s the surprise! Two draft horses pulling together can ...read more

  • According To The A.c. Nielsen Co., The Average ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 5, 2002
    based on 43 ratings
     | 937 views

    According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches three hours and 46 minutes of TV every day, that’s more than 52 days of ...read more

  • Lord Shaftesbury, The Great English Social ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 23, 2004
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    Lord Shaftesbury, the great English social reformer, said near the end of his life, “I do not think that in the last 40 years I have lived one conscious hour that ...read more

  • Overworked: The Average Employee In France Puts ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Overworked: The average employee in France puts in 1,459 hours per year compared to 1,707 for Brits, 1,809 for the Japanese and an exhausting 1,815 for ...read more

  • A Medical Doctor Provides A Physical Description: ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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     | 2,612 views

    A medical doctor provides a physical description: The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels for the depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square wrought-iron nail through the ...read more

  • 9 / ...

    Contributed by Susan Babb, Osl on Oct 9, 2008
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    9 / 11 A. Let me tell you about a whole town that epitomized this scripture B.. Gander, Canada 1. population 9,600 2. smack dab in the middle of Newfoundland 3. Canada’s eastern most province along the Atlantic 4. it had a community center, an aviation museum, 4 city ...read more

  • God Comes First  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2003
    based on 14 ratings
     | 3,846 views

    GOD COMES FIRST If you’ve never been, I suggest you go sometime to Jamestown, VA. It is one of the earliest English-speaking settlements in the new world, & it has been carefully restored so that we can see what life was like 350 years ago. At Jamestown, you’ll discover many interesting things ...read more

  • I Will Never Forget In 1945, As A Student In ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 12, 2006
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    I will never forget in 1945, as a student in Baylor University, I took a course in “The Life and Writings of the Apostle Paul”. When the professor came to the Romans 7:14-25 passage, he paused and asked “How many of you, starting from the time you were saved, can live without ever sinning against ...read more

  • Americans Are Sleeping Less Than They Did 20 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 3,393 views

    Americans Are Sleeping Less than they did 20 years ago, and about 50 to 70 million people nationwide suffer from chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders, reports the CDC. 10% of adults report not getting enough rest or sleep in any of the previous 30 days. Only 29.6% say they got enough rest or ...read more