THE DECLINE OF MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN
Rutgers University Sociology Prof. David Popenoe, and Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago divinity School. Concluded that the decline of marriage is mainly responsible for the deteriorating well-being of
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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God’s grace sets you free to be yourself and not compromise to please people. God’s grace also sets you free from legalism. One of the black marks on so called Christians is legalism. Legalism is having a critical and judgmental attitude toward others. It is having spiritual pride and a superior
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Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 22, 2007
Back in 1990, I was a tenant residing in a compound where the landlord and his family were also enclosed. The landlord and the tenants respected my family since they understood my position as a minister and servant of God. He allowed the believers to have their weekly fellowships within his
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 25, 2008
Not only were we delivered, or saved, but God then transferred us, or moved us from there, to His glorious kingdom. Imagine a family whose modest 1,200 square foot house caught fire. For whatever reason, they were unable to get themselves out of there in time, and were doomed to die. But then, a
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Baptist
Contributed by Ethan Sayler on Aug 5, 2002
Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, once shared that his father, a pastor of a 15 member church in Sulfur, TX, was known as the man with no leather on the toes of his shoes. The reason he had no leather on the toes of his shoes was that he spent three or four hours a day
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 26, 2002
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A nationwide survey of 2200 seven to eleven years old by the Foundation for Child’s Development indicated that most American children feel good about their lives, their families, and just being themselves. But more than two-thirds are also afraid. Afraid of “someone bad” skulking around their
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United Methodist
Contributed by Tom Doubt on Jun 30, 2003
In the movie "Hope Floats", the young character Denise follows her father to his car. The family has suffered a divorce, and the father tells Denise that she can live with him anytime she wants. However, this day Denise is told that he does not want her in his life at this time.
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Baptist
Contributed by James Chandler on Dec 9, 2003
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I can remember as a young boy saying prayer for the family one Thanksgiving meal. In my prayer I included the phrase, "Dear God, I sure hope the Oakland Raiders make it to the Superbowl." I learned that wasn’t really appropriate. As I grew, I also learned that real hope is not the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Stan Rodda on Oct 13, 2004
I talked about the wealthy CEO who is wondering if there is more out there, the happy family that is actually falling apart because no one understands them, the successful entrepreneur who is unfulfilled in his job, and the popular student who even though everyone wants to be like them they are
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Business destroys relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family. It cultivates a program that plows under priorities. Many a church boasts about its active program: "Something for every night
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
A Note written by one of the miners who died in the West Virginia mining accident was made public. ‘Tell all I’ll see them on the other side," family members say one scrawled note, found with the body of 51-year-old mine foreman
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jun 2, 2008
>>>When I think of sincerity or honesty I think of the woman doing a family history and had to do something about the reputation of two members who were hung and electrocuted...
For the uncle electrocuted for murder, she wrote, "occupied the chair of applied electricity at a large state
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