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  • Religious Practice Varies By Race: A New Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Religious Practice Varies By Race: A new Barna survey examined 8 elements of religious behavior (reading the Bible, praying to God, giving money to churches and watching Christian television) and discovered that blacks are the most religiously active racial group. Blacks were also notably less ...read more

  • Why Christian Lifestyles Aren't Different: George ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Why Christian Lifestyles Aren’t Different: George Barna, researcher and author of the book, Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions, says, “For years we have reported research findings showing that born again adults think and behave very much like everyone else. It often seems that their ...read more

  • A Nation Of Singles: The U.s. Census Bureau's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    A Nation Of Singles: The U.S. Census Bureau’s newest numbers show that married-couple households have slipped from nearly 80% in the ‘50s to just 50.7% today. That means that the U.S.’s 86 million single adults could soon define the new majority. Already, unmarrieds make up 42% of the workforce, ...read more

  • New Barna Research Has Discovered That A Person's ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    New Barna Research has discovered that a person’s lifelong behaviors and views are generally developed when they are young – usually prior to reaching teen years. The research showed 4 critical outcomes. First, a person’s moral foundations are generally in place by the time they reach 9. Their ...read more

  • The Movie "Saving Private Ryan" Ends With Captain ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Mcguire on Feb 7, 2007
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    The movie "Saving Private Ryan" ends with Captain Miller(Tom Hanks’ character)sitting near a bridge after an attack by German forces. His life is ebbing away as he pulls Ryan (Matt Damon)down toward him. Struggling for breath he whispers, "Earn this, earn this." As Ryan stands his face morphs back ...read more

  • Every Year In Alaska, A 1000-Mile Dogsled Race, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Every year in Alaska, a 1000-mile dogsled race, a run for prize money and prestige, commemorates an original "race" run to save lives. Back in January of 1926, six-year-old Richard Stanley showed symptoms of diphtheria, signaling the possibility of an outbreak in the small town of Nome. When the ...read more

  • Gary Richmond, A Former Zookeeper, Had This To ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
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    Gary Richmond, a former zookeeper, had this to say: Raccoons go through a glandular change at about 24 months. After that they often attack their owners. Since a 30-pound raccoon can be equal to a 100-pound dog in a scrap, I felt compelled to mention the change coming to a pet raccoon owned by a ...read more

  • As Someone (Dr. Waights G. Henry, Jr.) Put It: ...

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 24, 2009
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    As someone (Dr. Waights G. Henry, Jr.) put it: “The past remains with us. For good or ill what we are is a result of what we have done.” To illustrate this point let us consider an example from the life of the Duke of Windsor. Someone asked him if they could show film taken from various segments ...read more

  • The Amazing Heart

    Contributed by David Tack on Oct 17, 2011
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    THE AMAZING HEART "The human heart: The human heart is a hard-working marvel. It can keep on beating automatically even if all other nerves were severed. In a 70-year lifetime, it will beat an average of 75 times a minute, forty million times a year-or two and a half billion times. At each beat ...read more

  • While In College, My Basketball And Track Coach ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 12, 2006
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    While in college, my basketball and track coach was a gentleman by the name of Tommie Smith. For Tommie Smith to join the faculty of Oberlin College in 1972 was significant for two reasons. First, there were not many African American faculty members at Oberlin College at all in the early 1970’s, ...read more

  • In His Book Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides Tel...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    In his book Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides tells the story of a dramatic mission during World War II. On January 28th, 1945, 121 hand-selected Army Rangers slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POW’s who had spent three years in a hellish ...read more

  • On The Random Stack Of Things That Magically ...

    Contributed by Christopher Kennedy on Jan 22, 2009
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    On the random stack of things that magically appear outside my office door from time to time, this week I discovered a scrapbook that caught my attention. It was a scrapbook of the first years of Shepherd of the Hills. I was curious to look at the old pictures, letters, bulletins, and other ...read more

  • One Time In College, I Was Sitting At A Table In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 29, 2002
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    One time in college, I was sitting at a table in the student union having some lunch, when I overheard a buddy of mine complaining about all the “furry foreigners” at our college. I was blown away, and here’s the reason: his last name was Levondoski. You understand? He’s the descendant of ...read more

  • Pornography Revenues Now Exceed The Combined ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    Pornography revenues now exceed the combined revenues of Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas. ’96 porn video sales & rental profits were $4.2 billion. Americans spend more money at strip clubs than at Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and nonprofit theaters; at the opera, the ballet, ...read more

  • Merchantmania: According To A July Ebay Survey, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Merchantmania: According to a July eBay survey, more than 724,000 Americans report eBay is their primary or secondary income source. Another 1.5 million say they supplement their income by selling on eBay. A separate MasterCard study estimates there are 5 million web-driven ...read more

  • Lambie Renounces Citizenship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration: 5179. Lambie Renounces Citizenship Dr. Thomas Lambie went to Ethiopia as a medical missionary. After some time he wanted to buy land for a mission station. An Ethiopian law said that no land could be sold to foreigners. Because Dr. Lambie had great love for Christ and the Ethiopians, ...read more

  • There Was A Spiritual Reason For This. For Three ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a spiritual reason for this. For three days, Jonathan Edwards had not eaten a morsel of food, nor closed his eyes in sleep. Over and over again, he cried out “Oh, God, give me New England Give me New England” Because of his total devotion to Jesus Christ, Edwards was able to preside ...read more

  • Volunteers Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    VOLUNTEERS DOWN In ’06 more than 61 million Americans donated their time to charity, the fewest since ’02, and down 4.4 million from ’05, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts note volunteering spiked after 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina may have played a role in that it wiped out ...read more

  • Suffering = Service

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 10, 2009
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    SUFFERING=SERVICE Roger Staubach is an American football player. He was once asked when injured, "How do you keep on keeping on if you’re playing professional football"? Roger said something important, "If you’re not playing hurt, you’re not playing football." Paul expresses a similar ...read more

  • In A Hurry

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2011
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    IN A HURRY The American minister and writer Philip Brooks (1835-93); was noted for his poise and quiet manner. However, one day a friend saw him feverishly pacing the floor like a caged lion and asked him what the trouble was. "The trouble is," replied Brooks, "that I’m ...read more