Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Fewer Teens Are Engaging In Sexual Activity. According to a new National Center for Health Statistics report, teen girls, age 15 to 17, 38% had engaged in sexual intercourse in ‘95, vs. 30% in ‘02. Among boys that age, the sexual activity dropped from 43% to 31% in the same time period. The study
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
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A few years ago, Dr. Paul Vitz, then professor of psychology at New York University, worked with a committee that examined sixty social studies and history textbooks used in public schools across the United States. The committee was amazed to find that almost every reference to the Christian
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
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HUMILITY?
Dr. Harry Ironside was once convicted about his lack of humility. A friend recommended as a remedy, that he march through the streets of Chicago wearing a sandwich board, shouting the scripture verses on the board for all to hear. Dr. Ironside agreed to this venture and when he returned
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Brethren
Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 21, 2011
Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind:
"Openness and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings is the great insight of our times. The true believer is the real danger. The study of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 1, 2007
A New Barna report came out this week (Sept 07) :
"The new study shows that only 3% of 16 - to 29-year-old non-Christians express favorable views of evangelicals…
"… Among young non-Christians, nine out of the top 12 perceptions were negative. Common negative perceptions include that present-day
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 3, 2008
"Our lives should always be the first things to speak; and if our lips speak more than our lives, it will avail very little. So often the tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in words, but their whole life and demeanor has been a denial of it. The world does not pay much attention to
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