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  • A Recent Lutheran Brotherhood Poll Reveals Adults ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    A recent Lutheran Brotherhood poll reveals adults spend about the same amount time shopping in December as they do attending religious services. Men spend an average 12.7% of their time shopping vs. 13.6% attending religious services, while women spend 19.1% and ...read more

  • Pg Profit: For The First Time In 20 Years, Pg ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,522 views

    PG Profit: For the first time in 20 years, PG films made more money domestically than R-rated films. PG films grossed $2.3 billion, vs. $2.1 billion for R-rated, reports the National Association of Theatre Owners. PG-13 movies did the most ...read more

  • Record Giving: All U.s. '04 Charitable Giving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,805 views

    Record Giving: All U.S. ’04 charitable giving totaled a record $248.5 billion, according to the Giving USA Foundation. That record is expected to be broken in ‘05.by a special one-time tax break for major donors enacted by Congress allowing donors to deduct gifts up to ...read more

  • Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau Figures For '03 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,676 views

    Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau figures for ’03 find a third of men and about a quarter of women ages 30-34 have never married, nearly 4 times higher than in’70. Today a woman typically marries at age 23.2 while men wait until they ...read more

  • There Are Three Great Enemies Of The Christian: ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 22, 2006
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    “There are three great enemies of the Christian: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The world is against us. Our flesh is an enemy. As if that were not enough, we have a powerful foe in Satan, who is described […] as a ‘roaring lion looking for someone to devour.’ There are many things against ...read more

  • I Heard My Parent Complain Time And ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 24, 2006
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    Illustration: I heard my parent complain time and time again of how tired they were yet they went to work any way , how much they wanted this or that , yet they never bought it. That didn’t make since to me, if I want something I just take it, why didn’t they? The Burden of Love. I know now about ...read more

  • In His Book, Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    In his book, Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers, sociology professor Mark Regnerus says evangelical teens are slightly more sexually active than their non-evangelical peers. Non-evangelical teens have sex for the first time at age 16.7 vs.16.3 for evangelicals. ...read more

  • There's A Verse Of A Poem That's Stayed In My ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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    There’s a verse of a poem that’s stayed in my memory for years - "O God, that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood should be so cheap." ... John Wesley used to say that ...read more

  • First-Time Mothers Are Working Longer Into Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    First-Time Mothers are working longer into their pregnancy and returning to work sooner after giving birth, according to the Census Bureau. USA Today reports 57% of new mothers in 1996-2000 worked full-time while pregnant vs. 40% in 1961-65. Women with a higher education are likely to be in ...read more

  • What We Believe: A Recent Newsweek Poll Gauges ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    What We Believe: A recent Newsweek poll gauges Americans’ opinions on the Book of Revelation and end times: *36% believe the Book of Revelation contains “true prophecy,” while 47% say it is metaphorical. *55% think the faithful will be taken up to heaven in the rapture. *74% of Americans believe ...read more

  • Teen Faith: A New Study By Scholars At The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Teen Faith: A new study by scholars at the university of North Carolina at chapel Hill, finds that teens are really quite traditional faith. Only 3% say they don’t believe in God vs. 80% that say faith is important in their lives. Overall, kids prefer their parents religious groups. More than half ...read more

  • First-Time Mothers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,417 views

    First-Time Mothers are working longer into their pregnancy and returning to work sooner after giving birth, according to the Census Bureau. USA Today reports 57% of new mothers in 1996-2000 worked full-time while pregnant vs. 40% in 1961-65. Women with a higher education are likely to be in ...read more

  • Home Schooling Continues Its Rapid Growth With 2 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,540 views

    Home Schooling continues its rapid growth with 2 million U.S. children being home schooled in ’05 vs. half that in ’02. Mike Smith, Home School Legal Defense Assoc., claims home schooling has proven through standardized achievement tests that home schooled children out perform those in both private ...read more

  • Unacceptable- Only 44% Of Americans Say ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Unacceptable- Only 44% of Americans say homosexuality is morally acceptable while 51% say it is morally wrong. Yet, across society such tolerance ranges from 74% among liberal Americans to 18% among frequent churchgoers. A strong generational split is also evident, as only 32% of seniors say it is ...read more

  • Roe V. Wade Support Waning Harris Poll Has Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Roe v. Wade Support Waning Harris poll has been measuring Roe v. Wade support for 33 years and reports just 49% of U.S. adults support the decision today vs. 57% in ’98. 40% favor laws to make it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion, while another 40% ...read more

  • The Case Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2002
    based on 33 ratings
     | 3,637 views

    THE CASE OF CHRIST [Richard] Bandler tells one story about visiting a mental institution and dealing with a man who insisted he was Jesus Christ - not metaphorically, not in spirit, but in the flesh. One day Bandler walked in to meet this man. "Are you Jesus?" he said. "Yes, my son," the man ...read more

  • Surgery For The "New Born"

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
     | 1,828 views

    Surgery for the “New Born” Several years ago an orthopedic surgeon performed an operation on my son to repair a torn ACL. The operation didn’t restore his knee to its original condition, but it did allow him to walk, even though he still experiences pain from time to time. Recently my wife had ...read more

  • Fewer Teens Are Engaging In Sexual Activity. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,985 views

    Fewer Teens Are Engaging In Sexual Activity. According to a new National Center for Health Statistics report, teen girls, age 15 to 17, 38% had engaged in sexual intercourse in ‘95, vs. 30% in ‘02. Among boys that age, the sexual activity dropped from 43% to 31% in the same time period. The study ...read more

  • Educated Believers: Born-Again Christians Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Educated Believers: Born-again Christians are highly educated and intelligent. According to Barna, 29% of evangelical Christians have a college degree vs. the national average of 26%. Naomi Schaefer Riley reports in her latest book, God on the Quad , that enrollment at the 100 schools of the ...read more

  • Home Schooling Continues Its Rapid Growth With 2 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 1,917 views

    Home Schooling continues its rapid growth with 2 million U.S. children being home schooled in ’05 vs. half that in ’02. Mike Smith, Home School Legal Defense Assoc., claims home schooling has proven through standardized achieve-ment tests that home schooled children out perform those in both ...read more

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