Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2001
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The Boston Globe documented how the lottery saturates poor Massachusetts neighborhoods with outlets. For example, Chelsea, an economically struggling community, has one lottery retailer for every 363 residents. By comparison, the affluent suburb of Milton has one for every 3,657 residents.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2001
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Dr. Anne Catherine Speckard, of the University of Minnesota, reports the following long-term (five to ten years) consequences of abortion:
· 81 percent reported preoccupation with the aborted child
· 73 percent reported flashbacks of the abortion experience
· 54 percent recalled nightmares related
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I MUST NOT HATE
In October of 2001, on the ABC network morning show, Diane Sawyer interviewed the sister-in-law of Osamma Bin Laden. She has been estranged from one of Bin Laden’s 23 brothers, Yeslam, and is seeking a divorce. For 27 years she put up with abuse – and she wants out!
Diane
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Contributed by Kevin Taylor on Oct 28, 2001
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George Barna’s Research Group has conducted several nationwide surveys on this subject . This survey information, taken from telephone interviews with a nationwide random sample of 1002 adults, was conducted in February 2000.
(a) For instance, 9 out of 10 adults describe themselves as being
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2001
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The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgment Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to gray and by mid-afternoon had blackened over so densely that, in that religious age, men fell on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2001
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In Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg tell this story:
A newly promoted colonel had moved into a makeshift office during the Gulf War. He was just getting unpacked when out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a private with a toolbox coming his way.
Wanting
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 13, 2001
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YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE WHEN:
10) There are more pine needles on your carpet than on your tree
9) The credit card is smoked along with the turkey and ham.
8) It’s A Wonderful Life has been shown for the 13th time
7) A trip to the mall and back is more challenging then the Indy 500
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In a certain pond, there were two ducks and a frog who were neighbors and the best of friends. They played together all day long during the summer time.
But as the cold drew near and the water dried up, the ducks realized they would have to move. This would be easy for them, but what about their
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2002
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“The word ‘Christian’ means different things to different people. To one person, it means a stiff, uptight, inflexible way of life—colorless and unbending. To another, it means a risky, surprised-filled venture, lived on tiptoe at the edge of expectation. Either of these pictures can be
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 31, 2002
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You may have seen news stories this week about President Bush’s pick to be Surgeon General, a man from Arizona named Richard Carmona. He has been a green beret, a trauma surgeon, a part-time policeman and SWAT team member. One of the exploits he is known for is an incident that happened 2 1/2 years
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Apr 14, 2002
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In his spiritual autobiography, William Barclay, the venerable Scottish scholar, tells the tragedy of losing his 21-year-old daughter and her fiance who were drowned in a boating accident. He writes, "God did not stop that accident at sea, but he did still the storm in my own heart so that somehow
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 16, 2001
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Many of you have probably seen the movie “Castaway” where Tom Hanks is stranded alone on an island. The film does a good job of showing his intense longing for the day when he will be rescued. He has a small picture of his fiancée, which he looks at day after day, year after year. Hoping,
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Contributed by Michael Gibney on May 19, 2002
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In his book, Psalms of the Heart, George Sweeting illustrated a great truth from the experience of two Moody Bible Institute graduates, John and Elaine Beekman. God called them to missionary work among the Chol Indians of southern Mexico. Sweeting reports that they rode mules and traveled by dugout
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on May 19, 2002
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This past December (12/01), the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” was finally reopened to the public, after having been closed for almost a dozen years. During that time, engineers completed a 25 million dollar renovation project designed to stabilize the tower. They removed 110 tons of dirt, and reduced its
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
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When I am conscious of the fear of failure holding me back, I go through a kind of personal checklist:
1. Does this fear come basically from pride, a fear that I will not live up to my own expectations or to those of others?
2. Do I remember that God has called me first to faithfulness, then
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Contributed by Greg Tonkinson on Jul 11, 2002
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1. One in five people have an STD (American Social Health Association)
2. 2/3 of all STD’s occur in people who are 25 years old or younger. (ASHA)
3. Atleast 15% of all infertile women in America are infertile because of tubal damage caused by PID or Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, which is the result
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