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  • Novelist And Essayist George A. Birmingham Was In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Novelist and essayist George A. Birmingham was in his nonliterary life a clergyman in Ireland where he was pestered by bishops and other authorities to fill in recurring questionnaires. He took particular umbrage against the annual demand from the education office to report the dimensions of his ...read more

  • Parables: Ground ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    PARABLES: GROUND RULES The parables help clarify the ground rules of the kingdom. If you’ve ever played baseball, you know that certain parks have ground rules, and the umpires and coaches discuss these rules before each game. For example: At Wrigley Field, a ball that gets lodged in the vines ...read more

  • E-Mail Lowers Iq: According To A Hewlett Packard ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    E-Mail Lowers IQ: According to a Hewlett Packard study, the IQ of workers who tried to juggle e-mail messages and other work fell by 10 points, more than double the 4 point fall seen after smoking pot, and about equal ...read more

  • Quotes On Humility

    Contributed by Billy Nale on Apr 13, 2011
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    QUOTES ON HUMILITY "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." -- Charles de Montesquieu "Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth." -- Madame Guizot "None are so empty as those who are full of themselves." -- ...read more

  • A Family In My Church Run A Family Farm, And ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 13, 2005
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    A family in my church run a family farm, and they don’t have health insurance. The wife began having heart problems, and had to be hospitalized as well as several trips to the emergency room. The medical bills totalled as much as their yearly income. However, they paid their tithe, and paid the ...read more

  • Divorce Used To Be Taboo In Asia, But No Longer. ...

    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 ...read more

  • Info Overload: New Research Conducted By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Info Overload: New research conducted by professors at the University of California at Berkeley found that the volume of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media doubled between ’99 and ’02. Last year alone, enough new information was generated to fill half a million ...read more

  • Children Born Out Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
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    CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK 40% of all babies born in the U.S. in 2006 (most recent data) were born out of wedlock, double the rate of 1980. More than 80% of babies born to teen moms in the U.S. in ’06 were born outside of marriage. 60% of babies born to ...read more

  • E. Stanley Jones Stated It Graphically, "If You ...  PRO

    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 ...read more

  • According To A New Study By Sociologists At Duke ...  PRO

    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 ...read more

  • Os Guiness Gives A Very Helpful Definition Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 21, 2000
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    Os Guiness gives a very helpful definition of doubt in his book In Two Minds. He says, "When you believe, you are in one mind and accept something as true. Unbelief is to be of one mind and reject that something is true. To doubt is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at the same ...read more

  • The Rich Are Stingy & The Poor Are Generous: In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    The Rich Are Stingy & The Poor Are Generous: In recent years the rich have become a lot richer, but are giving less. Business Week (1/24/00) reports that poor households (incomes of under $10,000) average gifts to charities was 5.2% of their income in ’98, nearly double the 2.3% they gave in ’93. ...read more

  • Music: Although Us Recorded Music Sales Are Up ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Music: Although US recorded music sales are up modestly in ‘04, the industry is struggling. Driven by downloads, digital music spending will nearly double in ‘04 to reach over $270 million. Still, neither digital markets nor online sales will restore music spending to its ‘99 heights, so the ...read more

  • Teen Gambling: A Recent Annenberg Public Policy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Teen Gambling: A recent Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found 11% (almost double from last year) of high-school boys play cards for money weekly; 26% report gambling in the last month. Researcher Rachel Volberg notes one of the biggest problems with teen gambling is that hitting the jackpot ...read more

  • I Worked With My Daddy On Saturdays In The ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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    I worked with my Daddy on Saturdays in the grocery from the time I was a senior in high school through being a senior in college. The farmers would come to the movies on Saturday night and wait until after the double feature and the serial and the previews to pick up their groceries. Daddy would ...read more

  • Greed Vs. Envy

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
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    Greed vs. Envy Envy is the evil eye that looks on the success and happiness of another and resents his being so blessed. It is different from covetousness, which desires to have what another has. Envy simply resents the other person's having it. There's an old legend about a greedy man and an ...read more

  • I Lost It - The Number Of Church-Going Americans ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
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    I Lost It - The number of church-going Americans who dropped out of church DOUBLED in the past decade, from 7% of the population to 14%. Calvin College professor Ruth A. Tucker says many of those who leave have put in years - some even decades - of faithful service to the church. She says winning ...read more

  • Blogs Are Increasingly The Way People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Blogs are increasingly the way people communicate. There are some 37 million blogs in the world, with a new one created every second, reports blog track site Technorati. Blogs as a social network, doubles in size every 6 months. It is now 60 times bigger than 3 years ago, with 1.2 million new ...read more

  • The Bolted Door

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 4, 2010
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    The Bolted Door C.S. Lewis, Irish Oxford Scholar and well-known author for his Narnia fiction series for children, wrote after the death of his wife, "Where is God? ...Go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound ...read more

  • It's Not Easy Being A Consumer. Current ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    It’s not easy being a consumer. Current estimates indicate the average urban dweller is exposed to between 3,000 and 5,000 advertising messages every day. That means, settling on the middle number, that every waking hour you’re presented with an ad every 14.4 seconds. That’s 14.4 seconds of every ...read more