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  • Lifelong A New National Fatherhood Initiative ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
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    Lifelong A new National Fatherhood Initiative survey finds 88% of Americans believe marriage should be a lifelong commitment and 89% agree “all things being equal, it is better for children to be raised in a household that has a married mother and father.” Also, 71% reject the statement: “Either ...read more

  • Honesty Ranking: Firefighters Top The Annual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Honesty Ranking: Firefighters top the annual CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll ranking the honesty, integrity and ethical standards of various professions. 90% of Americans rated them “high” or “very high.” Close behind firefighters in the ratings were nurses (84%), members of the military (81%), policemen ...read more

  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Is Giving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving nearly $11 million to public libraries in 37 states and DC to buy computers, software and faster Internet connections. 14 million Americans use the Internet at public libraries, including a disproportionately high number of blacks, Indians and ...read more

  • We Believe: According To A Recent Newsweek Poll, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    We Believe: According to a recent Newsweek Poll, 78% of Americans believe that Jesus rose from the dead after the crucifixion, and 75% believe He was sent to earth to absolve mankind of sin. The article, From Jesus to Christ, also reports that Christianity is now the world’s largest faith, with two ...read more

  • Compassion International And The International ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Compassion International and the International Bible Society have launched a 4-year children’s Bible-reading initiative, called Aventuras Biblicas, to effectively present God’s Word to children registered in Compassion’s sponsorship programs in Latin America. More than 100,000 children, ages 5-7, ...read more

  • Statistics On Fear And Depression

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 25, 2006
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    U.S.A. Statistic: •“Approximately 6.3 million American adults ages 18 to 54 or about 4.4 percent…have some type of specific fear.” http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/fear-statistics.html CANADIAN Statistic: •1,315,314 ...read more

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • Geo. Washington "It Is Impossible To Rightly ...

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006
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    Geo. Washington “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God & the Bible.” ’Stonewall’ Jackson “The Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests.” John Adams “We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality & religion. … Our ...read more

  • Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
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    Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

  • One Out Of Three Children In The United States ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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    One out of three children in the United States are growing up without a father present in the home. Last year in a number of major U.S. cities more children were born out of wedlock than within. The American home is in crisis. Very serious diseases are affecting and infecting our home life. Things ...read more

  • Sharing Our Resources?

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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    Sharing Our Resources? · Number of children who don’t get enough food to fully develop mentally and physically: 500,000,000. · Number of hunger-related deaths every day: 40,000. (World Bank. Leadership, "To Verify.") · Amount of money Americans spend annually on pet ...read more

  • Teens These Days Are Highly ‘spiritual,' But ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2008
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    “Teens these days are highly ‘spiritual,’ but they are not very religious, nor are they naturally inclined to embrace Christianity as their faith of choice. They are, after all, the first generation of Americans (same can be said of Canadians) to be raised without the culturally established ...read more

  • The Enemy Is Not In Here

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE ENEMY IS NOT IN HERE There’s an old story of two American soldiers in Vietnam. While eating lunch in the mess hall, they exchanged harsh words. And they got into a big fight. But the sergeant was there. And he grabbed those two soldiers by the collars. He took them outside. Pointed out to ...read more

  • Two Psychiatrists Meet At Their 20th College ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Nov 2, 2009
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    Two psychiatrists meet at their 20th college reunion. One is vibrant, while the other looks withered and worried. "So what’s your secret?" the older looking psychiatrist asks. "Listening to other people’s problems every day, all day long, for years on end, has made an old man of ...read more

  • The Ground Is Level At The Foot Of The Cross

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 28, 2024
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    General Robert E. Lee was a devout follower of Jesus Christ. It is said that soon after the end of the American Civil War, he visited a church in Washington, D.C. During the communion service he knelt beside a black man. An onlooker said to him later, "How could you do ...read more

  • I Read A Humorous Story About A Woman Who Fell ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005
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    I read a humorous story about a woman who fell out of a second-floor window and landed in a slow-moving garbage truck. Half-buried in the litter, she tried without success to get the truck-driver’s attention. A foreign diplomat standing on the sidewalk saw her and quipped, “another example of how ...read more

  • Generations Differ Researcher George Barna Cites ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Generations Differ Researcher George Barna cites varied generational response to authority (older Americans accept it, Boomers want to control it, Busters ignore it), handling contradictions (elder citizens ignore them, Boomers strive to solve them, Busters appreciate them), and life fears ...read more

  • Giving Held Steady Last Year, In Spite Of An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Giving Held Steady last year, in spite of an uncertain economy, according to Giving USA. Americans gave an estimated $240.92 billion in ’02, a 0.5% decrease on an inflation-adjusted basis. Estimated giving amounted to 2.3% of the nation’s gross domestic product, extending a trend that began in ’99 ...read more

  • Pornography & Sexual Addiction: The National ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Pornography & Sexual Addiction: The National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families reports Americans invested $220 million at fee-based adult sites in ‘01, and 27.5 million visited a pornography website in January ‘02. 3%-6% of the U.S. public is thought to be sexually addicted. More ...read more

  • According To A New Study By Sociologists At Duke ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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    According to a new study by sociologists at Duke University and the University of Arizona. Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, “This change ...read more