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  • Friends And Family, This You Need To Hear And ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 28, 2006
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    Friends and family, this you need to hear and understand today. If you are one who has believed from your heart in Jesus Christ as the One who shed His blood and died to pay the penalty for your sins and then rose bodily from the dead on the third day just as He said that He would, and you now ...read more

  • Don't Fear The Unchurched: Thom Rainer, Author Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Don’t Fear The Unchurched: Thom Rainer, author of The Unchurched Next Door, recently interviewed unchurched people across the U.S. to understand how they think. Many Christians think anytime they share their faith they’re going to be blasted, criticized, and ridiculed. The research shows 90% of ...read more

  • Us Magazines

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Magazines Hit Wall: A National Endowment for the Arts study finds that book reading has increased 10% since ’92 and fewer than 47% read any form of literature in the previous 12 months. The Audit Bureau of Circulations data shows that U.S. magazines grew nicely from 245 million copies in ’70 to ...read more

  • Religious Teens: The Majority Of American Teens ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Religious Teens: The majority of American teens believes in God and worship in conventional congregations, but their religious knowledge is remarkably shallow, finds The National Study of Youth and Religion funded by the Lily Foundation. Devout teens hold more traditional sexual and other values ...read more

  • The Average U.s. Pastor Has Received Continuing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Average U.S. Pastor has received continuing education on 3.6 different topics during the last two years. Ellison Research finds even though most ministers have gone through seminars or classes, 36% say their church doesn’t budget for it, and the average church that does so allocates just $1,504 ...read more

  • More Mega-Churches: New Research Reveals That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    More Mega-Churches: New research reveals that their may be 1200 or more mega churches in the U.S. rather than the widely assumed 850 count. A cooperative project by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Leadership Network discovered the discrepancy when the two groups, each of ...read more

  • Religion Pays: Economist Jonathan Gruber Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Religion Pays: Economist Jonathan Gruber has found a statistical correlation between attending church and a Better Economic Outcome. Published in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper, he finds a household with double the normal rate of religious attendance has 9.1% more income. That extra ...read more

  • Women's Priorities: A Recent Center For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Women’s Priorities: A recent Center for the Advancement of Women survey finds 51% of women in the U.S. believe in banning abortion completely or allowing abortion only in cases of rape, incest, or saving the mother’s life. 30% agree with abortion being “generally available to those who want it.” ...read more

  • One By One

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 21, 2006
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    Taking today’s problems one by one, instead of diving into the things in this life that concern us tomorrow, is the best way of avoiding have all the troubles in life collapsing on us at the same time. In 480 B.C. the outmanned army of Sparta’s King Leonidas held off the Persian troops of Xerxes by ...read more

  • Charles Swindoll Gives Us Some Interesting Advice ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 21, 2006
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    Charles Swindoll gives us some interesting advice when he states: When you live in darkness, you not only have no ray of light, you don’t even know where home is. That is the way it is for the majority in the world. Some folks are born, raised, and die in cultures that have never seen their first ...read more

  • A Clergyman Walking Down A Country Lane And Sees ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 18, 2007
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    A clergyman walking down a country lane and sees a young farmer struggling to load hay back onto a cart after it had fallen off. "You look hot, my son," said the cleric. "Why don’t you rest a moment, and I’ll give you a hand." "No thanks," said the young man. "My father wouldn’t like it if I ...read more

  • When Pompeii Was Destroyed By The Eruption Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    When Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius there were many persons buried in the ruins who were afterwards found in very different positions. There were some found in deep vaults, as if they had gone there for security. There were some found in lofty chambers. But where did they ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom In The Hiding Place Relates An ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place relates an incident which taught her this principle. She and her sister, Betsy, had just been transferred to the worst German prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck. Upon entering the barracks, they found them extremely overcrowded and flea-infested. Their ...read more

  • The Happy Hypocrite." It Is A Story About A Man ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    “The Happy Hypocrite." It is a story about a man who was born with an awful facial deformity. He grew up alone and lonely. When reaching adulthood, he decided to move from his town to begin a new life. On his way he discovered a beautiful mask that fit his making him look handsome. At first the ...read more

  • In January 2001 Nairobi Police Raided The Home ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In January 2001 Nairobi police raided the home of a former university lecturer and his wife to find their six children emaciated and starving. The kids were ages 2-11 and could not stand up they were in such a bad state. Their legs were stick thin, their hair was falling out and they were all ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of An Only Survivor Of A Wreck ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The story is told of an only survivor of a wreck who was thrown on an uninhabited island. After a while he managed to build himself a hut, in which he placed the little that he had saved from the wreck. He prayed to God for deliverance, and anxiously scanned the horizon each day to hail any passing ...read more

  • Frederick Nolan

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Frederick Nolan Frederick was fleeing from his enemies in North Africa during a time of great persecution. Exhausted with no other place to hide, he fell into a cave nearby and expected his enemies to soon find and kill him. As he lay there awaiting his death, a spider began weaving a web at the ...read more

  • Take The Poison

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joke- Take the Poison A man goes to see the Pastor. "Pastor, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it." The Pastor asked, "What’s wrong?" The man replied, "My wife is poisoning me." The Pastor, very surprised by this, asks, "How can that be?" The man then pleads, "I’m ...read more

  • One Of The Wisest Statements I Ever Read Said ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One of the wisest statements I ever read said that feelings must be owned before they can be disowned. People who make the psychological approach of “stuffing their feelings” do themselves a disservice. They avoid hard reality instead of working through it. Joseph Scriven, whose fiancée was ...read more

  • Clarence Thomas, The Brilliant Supreme Court ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    CLARENCE THOMAS, THE BRILLIANT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WRITES: “AS CHRISTIANS WE NEED TO KNOW THAT BEING A NEIGHBOR IS IN EVERY WAY AN EXERCISE IN MEEKNESS. ON THE ONE HAND WE ARE TO SERVE OUR NEIGHBOR; ALWAYS WILLING TO TOLERATE HIS WEAKNESSES AND IDIOSYNCRASIES. WE MUST EXERCISE THIS TO THE ...read more