Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 12, 2002
National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats)
Only 39% of elderly Americans report that they are in good health
Over 33 million Americans have arthritis to the point it alters their daily lives
Nearly 150 million Americans suffer with some sort of disability dealing with the
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Contributed by Jess Bousa on Jan 2, 2005
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There is a story in the Bible about a man named, Mephibosheth. He was the grandson of King Saul and the son of Jonathan. Saul’s son, Jonathan, and David were best friends. They actually entered into a covenant relationship, similar to the ancient covenant of being blood brothers. This means
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 21, 2007
“The church, especially in the realm of evangelicalism, has over history bounced between two extremes. On the one hand isolationism, which makes us very sure of what we have to say but there’s no one to talk to, on the other an absorption by the culture, which gives us someone to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2001
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Billy Graham, who has often played the 20th century role of John the Baptizer, had these comments about the disease running rampant in our world: "We’re suffering from only one disease in the world. Our basic problem is not a race problem. Our basic problem is not a poverty problem. Our basic
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 23, 2002
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Astronaut James Erwin is one of but a few men to walk on the moon. As he stood upon the lunar landscape and looked up at the earth, he prayed for the first time in his life. He thought about the strife among nations, poverty, hunger, and rampant evil; and he thought to himself: "What is more
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 15, 2004
IN – the introduction to his book, ‘What The Bible says About Money,’ Alger Fitch writes;
We need to be aware that we are but a small percent of the world’s population (less than 5%)… yet it is estimated that we own 50% of the earth’s wealth. We are an island of plenty in the sea of poverty. We
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 9, 2010
GOD'S STRANGE ANSWERS
He was a Christian, and he prayed. He asked for strength to do greater things, but he was given infirmity that he might do better things.
He asked for riches that he might be happy; he was given poverty that he might be wise.
He asked for power that he might have the
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BARNA: GOD'S TRUTH
George Barna from his book Turning Vision Into Action states, "Abraham was successful until God showed him that material wealth was poverty in eternity. Moses had it made as the adopted son of the Egyptian pharaoh, but he discovered that the finest clothing, the best education
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 22, 2007
It is like you have an uncle you hated, mistreated, made fun of, never did a kind thing to,
because someone told you lies about him, you never visited, you hung out with his mortal
enemy. In your total poverty, as you lost your job, house, car and family. Your uncle makes you the
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 5, 2002
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There is a story of a Persian king who was elevated from a poverty-stricken home to the glory of a royal throne. When he became king he sent his servants to the old shack where he was reared, with orders to gather every relic of those days. They brought fragments of his home many broken toys, and
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 28, 2008
Our Code of Jewish Law states that a person should work for a living, but he should "work to live," and not "live to work." After morning Torah study, a person "should go to work, for all Torah which is not accompanied by work is destined to be nullified and in danger of causing transgression,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
Go through the optical illusions: (slides 1-6)
The eyes can be deceiving. The brain may tell us one thing while our eyes see another.
Dog: How do we respond? (7)
Most of us warm to animals.
Children begging: How do we respond? (8)
The sight of children may cause us to think more deeply about the
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
Judson Cornwall was a prominent teacher in the charismatic renewal in the sixties, seventies and eighties. He said a major facet of Israelite worship was gift giving. Three times God discussed the compulsory feast that His covenant people were to attend and all three times He commanded that they
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 9, 2009
My first major wall that I went through came when I got sober. But along the way, I ran into walls that now I know were just small ones. One of these had to do with my expectations of those that supposedly loved.
Through the years of drinking and using, I had developed some very unhealthy
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 20, 2004
Some students rushed off to Bible college, trusting God for finances. The problem was that these students had left debts at home that needed to be paid. When they got to college they increased their debt. They became so burdened with debt that their lives ended up a shipwreck.
Living by faith
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