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  • Parents Accept Responsibility: A New Barna Study ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,474 views

    Parents Accept Responsibility: A new Barna study finds that 85% of parents of children under 13 believe they have the primary responsibility for teaching their children about religious beliefs and spiritual matters. Just 11% say their church has the responsibility, and 1% say it is the domain of ...read more

  • Olympian Ben Johnson Stripped Of Gold Medal For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
     | 2,647 views

    Olympian Ben Johnson Stripped of Gold Medal for Cheating In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Ben Johnson of Canada won the one-hundred-meter dash, setting a new Olympic record and a new world record. Our American contender, Carl Lewis, came in second, and most were shocked that he ...read more

  • Living The Impossible Dream!" Job 40: 1-5: Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 3, 2004
    based on 28 ratings
     | 2,543 views

    “Living the Impossible Dream!” Job 40: 1-5: Key verse(s): 2 “‘Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!’” Sooner or later everyone reads or hears about Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote. Cervantes is thrown in prison in Seville. Finding himself ...read more

  • A Few Years Back I Coached My Son's Little ...

    Contributed by Greg Baskerville on May 19, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 22,884 views

    A few years back I coached my son’s Little League Team. We spent many hours practicing. We practiced and practiced and learned the fundamentals; how to hit, how to bunt, how to throw, how to pitch and catch. We learned all of the secret coaching signs. We honed our skills day after day in the ...read more

  • Transformation  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 18, 2002
    based on 50 ratings
     | 7,792 views

    TRANSFORMATION The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few pine ...read more

  • What Adults Believe Some Of The Key Findings ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,503 views

    What Adults Believe Some of the key findings tracked by The Barna Group for the last two decades: 87% claim their religious faith is very important in their life today. 75% strongly affirm this idea. 77% are with the Christian faith, 12% are atheist or agnostic, while 11% are with some other faith ...read more

  • Bringing The Old Life With You  PRO

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on May 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,440 views

    BRINGING THE OLD LIFE WITH YOU The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst ...read more

  • Choosing A New Setting

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
     | 2,559 views

    CHOOSING A NEW SETTING The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few ...read more

  • Under Your Skin: The Fda Has Cleared The Way For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 2,259 views

    Under Your Skin: The FDA has cleared the way for a Florida company to market implantable chips that would provide easy access to individual medical records. The approval is expected to bring public attention to a simmering debate over a technology that has evoked Orwellian overtones for privacy ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll Lists What He Calls The "Four ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,487 views

    Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws": Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.) Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to the ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll Lists What He Calls The "Four ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 1,769 views

    Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws": Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.) Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to the ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll Lists What He Calls The "Four ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,916 views

    Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws": Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.) Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to the ...read more

  • Professor And Speaker Tony Campolo Writes These ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2004
     | 1,780 views

    Professor and speaker Tony Campolo writes these challenging words: In December of 1987, I had the wonderful opportunity of speaking at the great Urbana missionary conference sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In the course of my address to the more than eighteen thousand collegians ...read more

  • Others Have Prejudices, But We Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 5, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,679 views

    Others have prejudices, but we have convictions. Others are conceited, but in me it’s self-respect. Others are social-climbing snobs, but with me it’s just trying to get ahead. If you are unyielding about your views of Scripture, that’s just plain stubbornness; but in me, it’s contending for ...read more

  • Alternative Church: In A Typical Week, 22% Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,117 views

    Alternative Church: In a typical week, 22% of American adults engage in spiritual encounters outside the traditional church, 9% participate in a house church while more than 10% turn to the Internet as their foundation for interactive faith experience (Most in tandem with another form). Revolution, ...read more

  • The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,525 views

    Illustration: The Leo Burnett advertising agency did a nationwide telephone survey a few years ago on lying, cataloging when we lie, how we lie and why we lie. The results were interesting. Ninety-one percent of all Americans confessed that they regularly lied… One out of every five admitted that ...read more

  • And – Do You Know What Is Really Sad – This Lack ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 6, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 1,661 views

    AND – do you know what is really sad – this lack of prayer in the church that we see today – this putting not just on the back burner, BUT in the garage the POWERFUL weapon of prayer – has been a problem in the church for a very long time…hundreds of years… Fenelon a French writer of the late ...read more

  • Sara Hughes Illustration: The Women's' Ice ...  PRO

    Contributed by William Yates on Jun 12, 2002
    based on 38 ratings
     | 2,900 views

    Sara Hughes Illustration: The Women’s’ Ice Skating Competition in the 2002 Winter Olympics was supposed to be a clash of the Titans for the gold with U.S. skater Michelle Kwan pitted against Irina Slutskaya. Sara Hughes, a 16-year-old fourth place contender, however, stunned the world when she took ...read more

  • "Theology In The Pew"  PRO

    Contributed by Ronald Keller on Oct 15, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 6,025 views

    “THEOLOGY IN THE PEW” “A large share of people who attend Protestant or Catholic churches have adopted beliefs that conflict with the teachings of the Bible and their church, according to the latest release from the Barna Research Group (www.barna.org). There are some fundamental Christian precepts ...read more

  • Bold Witness

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 25, 2016
     | 9,489 views

    Hugh Hewitt in his book “The Embarassed Believer” contends that most Christian are embarrassed believers. They do not talk about their faith or church. They don’t have Bibles on the corner of their desks. They never engage others in spiritual conversations. And the result has been the dramatic ...read more