3. Facts About Marital Distress and Divorce
Scott M. Stanley & Howard J. Markman
University of Denver and PREP, Inc.
a. Younger people in the U.S. who are marrying for the first time face roughly a 40-50% chance of divorcing in their lifetime under current trends (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992,
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2010
AMAZING!
When dementia had taken its course, Bess (not her real name) was left with just a couple of words, but one word which she used to respond to almost any situation was the word "AMAZING!" After a lifetime of words, what a great word to have on your lips at the end of your life. Matthew
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 19, 2011
SILVER LINING
We have in the English language a proverb, "Every cloud has a silver lining," It comes from John Milton's masque (dramatic entertainment) 'Comus' (1634). 'Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth her silver lining on the night?'
The proverb means that out of a negative
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Dr. Colbert states, “Your perceptions determine how you see the world. The mind is similar to a computer –the brain is the hard drive, and the perceptions are the ‘software.’ It is the perception of people, demands, issues, and circumstances-not the actual people, demands, issues, or circumstances
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 5, 2007
Charles A. Lindbergh said, “We actually live today in our dreams of yesterday and living in these dreams, we dream again. A healthy church lives out of a healthy dream. But not all church dreams are created equal. Some congregational dreams are founded on hope and concern for others. Some begin
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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Divorce used to be taboo in Asia, but no longer. In the last 20 years in China divorce rates have doubled. Divorce rates in South Korea rival those in Britain and Denmark. India’s divorce rate has increased in the last 10 years to 11 per 1,000 marriages. In Japan, there is a divorce
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Herbert Schlossberg, in his book Idols for Destruction, astutely observed: “Western society, in turning away from the Christian faith, has turned to other things. This process is commonly called secularization, but that conveys only the negative aspect. The word connotes the ‘turning away from
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InPlainsite.org notes this about our subject: The Generational curse referred to in the preceding passage (passages) is not God cursing a person, but the negative behavior patterns passed down to succeeding generations…A person’s spirit carries uncounted numbers of scars that exist because of their
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jan 20, 2003
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E. Stanley Jones stated it graphically, "If you don’t make up your mind, then your unmade mind will unmake you. Here is the place where there must be no dallying. For any dallying will be the Trojan horse that will get on the inside and open the gates to the enemy. God can do anything for the man
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Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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According to a new study by sociologists at Duke University and the University of Arizona.
Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, “This change
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