Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
Religious Freedom: Increasingly, legal experts say, religious organizations have been seeking and winning exemptions from other areas of the law, from land-use regulations to health requirements, like immunization. In the last few years, more than a dozen states have passed or considered
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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Religious Upswing: The 1st Gallup poll on religion after September 11 provided more evidence that faith has gained importance in lives of Americans. 64% of respondents said religion was “very important.” The only time that percentage was higher was in ’65, when it was 70%. 47% said they attended
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De Vries, Smeenge, “As a society we tend to avoid talking about unpleasant things, and death is in that category. We want to focus on happy thoughts, the beginnings rather than the endings. We work hard to accumulate and achieve, striving to do our best among the many challenges and difficulties of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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"Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2006
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Boat Compromise"
My friend wanted a boat more than anything. His wife kept refusing, but he bought one anyway. "I’ll tell you what," he told her, "In the spirit of compromise, why don’t you name the boat?"
Being a good sport, she accepted. When her husband went to the dock for his maiden voyage,
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Contributed by George Rhodes on Apr 19, 2006
A Christian couple was ministering to believers in Eastern Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. The couple had brought in Christian literature, blankets, and other necessary items. At the church gathering, the couple assured the believers that Christians in America were praying for believers in Eastern
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Contributed by Dan Brown on Nov 27, 2006
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A few years ago a reporter was doing a story on gang violence in the inner city. He found and interviewed 2 cousins who had been raised together in the same home by their grandmother, but had somehow ended up in rival gangs. In their interviews they both said that neither of them would hesitate
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 12, 2007
True story: On 21st February 2003 a man sneezed in a lift in a Hong Kong hotel six weeks later, more than 2,300 people in 17 countries have been infected and nearly 80 people have died.”
True story Far greater epidemic - At the beginning of creation one man and one woman our ancestors chose to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
Financially Illiterate 17% of the 5,775 high school seniors that took a 30-question financial test had taken a money management or personal finance class, yet they fared worse than their peers who had not taken such a class. Students only correctly answered 52.4% of the questions. Financially
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Evangelical Christianity Is Flourishing In Europe. France has witnessed an 8-fold increase in Evangelical Christians during the past 50 years, from roughly 50,000 to 400,000. Evangelicals represent less than 2% of the European population. Growth is particularly strong among immigrants from Africa,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
St. Pixels, the world’s first online 3D church, was created by UK Christian webzine shipoffools.com and is sponsored by the Methodist Church of Great Britain. During it‘s pilot run it had as many as 41,000 attempts to log in to the church and averaged over 7,300 visits per day. More than half the
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