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  • Martin Luther Understood This When He Wrote, "The ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 13, 2005
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     | 1,530 views

    Martin Luther understood this when he wrote, "The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays -- not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. “The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty --- not by ...read more

  • Motherhood Issues A Recent Poll By Wahara.com ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
     | 2,099 views

    Motherhood Issues A recent poll by Wahara.com finds 79% of mothers list personal, emotional and physical challenges as their hardest. Women know children are time consuming and demanding, but what these women are finding is that children are ALL consuming and ALL demanding. 38% reported sleep ...read more

  • William Weston, Sociology Professor At Center ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,482 views

    William Weston, sociology professor at Center College, Danville, KY reports in The Religion Market that strict churches are experiencing great growth. Strict is defined as having a clear, authoritative doctrine, rigorous religious practices, and demanding membership requirements. “What people want ...read more

  • Cheating: Between 75% And 98% Of High School And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,010 views

    Cheating: Between 75% and 98% of high school and college students say they’ve cheated and 5 out of 6 college students believe they need to cheat to get ahead in the world today. 95% say they have never been caught and 90% say cheaters never pay the price for cheating. Even worse, 20% of adults ...read more

  • Worship & Live Longer: Researchers Have Concluded ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,929 views

    Worship & Live Longer: Researchers have concluded those who go to church regularly have reduced levels of a body chemical called interluekin-6, a protein linked to weakened immunity. Harold Koenig, M.D., of the Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and health at Duke University claims, ...read more

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 2,142 views

    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

  • File Swapping Decline: The Number Of Online ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,625 views

    File Swapping Decline: The number of online Americans downloading Internet music files has dropped by 50% and the numbers who are downloading files on any given day have plunged since the RIAA began filing copyright infringement suits in September. Conversely, comScore has observed that in recent ...read more

  • High Stress: 50% Of U.s. Adults Lack The Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,168 views

    High Stress: 50% of U.S. adults lack the time they need to do the things they want. 75% are sometimes stressed in their daily lives, including 33% who experience stress “frequently. Time is in particularly short supply for parents of children under 18 and people who are employed. Stress correlates ...read more

  • Prayer Helps: A Recent Survey By Aarp And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,017 views

    Prayer Helps: A recent survey by AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving finds that 75% of U.S. caregivers cope with the demands of Caregiving through prayer. 61% talk with friends and relatives, 44% read books on Caregiving, 41% exercise to work off stress and 33% cope by going on line for ...read more

  • Flex Time: Almost 29 Million Full-Time ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,476 views

    Flex Time: Almost 29 million full-time wage-and-salary workers, or nearly 29%, have schedules that allow them to vary the time they begin and end their workday while working 40 hour weeks, according to the Labor Department. Flexible schedules are most common among executives, administrators and ...read more

  • Wal-Mart Moulds Popular Culture: Wal-Mart And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,027 views

    Wal-Mart Moulds Popular Culture: Wal-Mart and other big discount chains—now often account for more than 50% of the sales of a best-selling album, more than 40% for a best-selling book, and more than 60% for a best-selling DVD. Critics claim this has bent American popular culture toward the tastes ...read more

  • Home Theaters: With The Ascent Of Dvd Players, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,519 views

    Home Theaters: With the ascent of DVD players, flat-screen and high-definition TV and surround-sound home “theaters in a box” as standard equipment in American households, the furnishings of movie theaters are descending into the mass-marketplace. One hot item is home theater seating, typically a ...read more

  • In His Memoir Of His Experience In A Nazi ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
     | 1,128 views

    In his memoir of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Elie Wiesel notes that before his village was ever emptied of the Jewish settlers, a poor man, Moshe the Beadle, who had been deported on some of the first trains of Jews out of the Hungarian village and had seen first hand the ...read more

  • Healthy Dining An 8 Year Columbia University ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 2,155 views

    Healthy Dining An 8 year Columbia University study has verified kids who have dinner with their parents less than 3 times a week are much likelier to smoke, to drink, or to use drugs than kids who have dinner with their parents 5 to 7 times a week. Kids who dine frequently with parents have reduced ...read more

  • Video Church- About 1,000 Churches, Mostly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,923 views

    Video Church- About 1,000 churches, mostly evangelical, use remote feeds, live or via DVD. In ‘05, 91% of mega-churches used the technology, up from 65% in ‘00, states a Hartford Seminary survey. Many Christians have taken to “godcasts” through video churches. Video technology allows leaders of ...read more

  • Six Rules For A Happy Life 1.avoid Fried Meats, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,572 views

    "Six Rules for a Happy Life 1.Avoid fried meats, which angry up the blood. 2.If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 3.Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 4.Go very light on vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ...read more

  • Not So Sure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2009
     | 2,541 views

    NOT SO SURE The famous preacher and founder of the Methodist church, John Wesley, once said, "When I was young, I was sure of everything. But after a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. And at present, I am hardly sure of ...read more

  • One Cannot Escape Any Number Of Jokes And ...

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Nov 10, 2009
     | 3,555 views

    One cannot escape any number of jokes and misunderstandings when it comes to the concept of prayer. Most of us have heard about the child who believed God’s name was Harold because each week they prayed, "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name". Likewise, there is the story of the ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    A.W. Tozer on Time A.W. Tozer wrote: “Time is a resource that is nonrenewable and nontransferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day–when it’s lost it’s unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember ...read more

  • No Greater Gift To The Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
     | 3,017 views

    NO GREATER GIFT TO THE CHURCH Andrew Murray once said, "God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of His will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do (Andrew Murray, Leadership, Vol. 7, no. 4). Dear friends, by God's ...read more