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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    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

  • Family Structure: According To The Institute For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Family Structure: According to the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, 20 of 23 studies find a link between family structure and delinquency, affirming that kids from broken homes are much more likely to enter lives of crime. 90% of the increase in violent-crime rates can be attributed to the ...read more

  • Family: According To The Religion & Ethics ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Family: According to the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly survey on Faith & Family in America, a third of Americans define “family” as parents and children. 52% feel divorce is alright, while 49% believe its OK for a couple to live together. Even with such changes in the modern American family, 55% of ...read more

  • Household Restructure: For The First Time In U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Household Restructure: For the first time in U.S. history, the traditional family―a married couple with kids at home―comprises less than 25% of U.S. households. Non-family households are nearly 1/3 of the total, a 50% increase since ’70. Multigenerational homes, with 3 or more ...read more

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

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
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    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

  • According To The Teaching Of Our Lord, What Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God’s non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who ...read more

  • America Has Entered A Great Struggle That Tests ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We continue to pursue the terrorists in cities and camps and caves across the earth. We are joined by a great coalition of nations to rid the world of terror. And we will ...read more

  • A Young Lad Was Hospitalized Because A ...

    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Nov 28, 2006
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    A young lad was hospitalized because a life-threatening condition had developed. The boy became sad during the lengthy stay. One of his school teachers asked permission from the nurse to visit the boy in his room and review grammar and math with him. When questioned by the nurse, after the lad ...read more

  • Grace Is For Beggars  PRO

    Contributed by Stan Coleman on Jan 17, 2007
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    Listen to this from R.C. Sproul: “Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want ...read more

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    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

  • Chuck Swindoll Said, "When The Ritz-Carlton ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 26, 2007
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    Chuck Swindoll said, "When the Ritz-Carlton Hotels won a prestigious award; I had the opportunity to congratulate the owner of that organization, Mr. William Johnson, my good friend who lives in Atlanta. In typical humility and his wonderful “Southern drawl,” Bill gave others the credit. He added ...read more

  • Come And Die  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004
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    COME AND DIE In The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “The cross is laid on every Christian. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death–we give over our lives to death. The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and ...read more

  • If We Could Journey Through The Halls Of Hell ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004
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    If we could journey through the halls of hell and could talk to its inhabitants, we would find all kinds of people there: thieves, adulterers, liars, murderers, good people, moral people, respectable people¡ people who always obeyed the law. What are they doing there? Well, if we would ask them, ...read more

  • Good Is The Enemy Of Great. And That Is One Of ...

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
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    “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because ...read more

  • J.c. Ryle ...

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 17, 2009
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    J.C. Ryle wrote, “We…born in sin, surrounded by sinners, living in a constant atmosphere of weakness, infirmity and imperfection, can form none but the most inadequate conceptions of the hideousness of evil. …The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive ...read more

  • The Effects Of Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans, ...

    Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Sep 15, 2009
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    The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, were shattering and long-lasting. By August 31, 2005, Eighty percent of New Orleans was flooded with some parts of the city under 15 feet of water. Though ninety percent of southeast Louisiana residents were successfully evacuated, many who remained ...read more

  • The Words I Would Say

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 22, 2009
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    "The Words I would say" By Sidewalk Prophets "Be strong in the Lord and, Never give up hope, You’re going to do great things, I already know, Gods got his hand on you so, Don’t live life in fear, Forgive and forget, But don’t forget why your here, Take your time and ...read more

  • Materialism Buys

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
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    MATERIALISM BUYS One highly successful advertiser stated "I am a success because I can convince people that the longing they have in their lives can be fulfilled with the stuff I have for them to buy. I know that they will buy into my item and in turn buy my product only to discover that after a ...read more

  • No Greater Gift To The Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
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    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

  • Our Will Is Ours

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 28, 2010
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    OUR WILL IS OURS "We have no direct control over our feelings, but we have over our will. Our wills are ours, to make them God's. God does not hold us responsible for what we feel, but for what we will. In His sight we're not what we feel, but what we will. Let us, therefore, not live in the ...read more