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  • True Leaders Must Be Rather Than Just Do. They ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    True leaders must be rather than just do. They must lead by vision and values of the organization rather than by mere hierarchical position. The emerging role of future leaders has at least 5 dimensions: (1) to articulate and communicate the mission, vision and values of the organization; (2) to ...read more

  • Gifting Occasions: About 53% Of The Gifters' ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Gifting Occasions: About 53% of the gifters’ $2,062 annual budget is spent to buy gifts for holidays. After Christmas, which accounts for $843, Mothers Day is the next. The remaining 47% of the annual gifting budget is spent for gift occasions. Birthdays top the list with the typical gifter buying ...read more

  • Fewer Wal-Mart Shoppers: Although Wal-Mart's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Fewer Wal-Mart Shoppers: Although Wal-Mart’s sales were up 3% and Target’s up 5.1% during the ‘04 holidays, fewer U.S. households actually shopped there. A Leo J. Shapiro survey finds 54% of households shopped at Wal-Mart (down 2% from ‘03) and 36% at Target (down 7%). ...read more

  • Liberal Educators: A Study By Political Science ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Liberal Educators: A study by political science professors Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Neil Nevitte finds that 72% of those teaching at U.S. universities and colleges are liberal and 15% are conservative. 50% of the faculty members surveyed identified themselves as Democrats vs. 11% as ...read more

  • Reshaping The Church Researcher George Barna Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Reshaping The Church Researcher George Barna has identified 4 factors he describes as “indicative of the reshaping of the church in the U.S.” They are: (1) The priorities embraced by church leaders. Most local churches essentially ignore: ministry to children, ministry to families and prayer. (2) ...read more

  • Families Rate: A Recent Gallup Poll Reveals That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Families Rate: A recent Gallup Poll reveals that Americans rank their family and health as the two most important aspects of life. Family was seen as extremely important or very important by 96% and health was rated high by 90%. Work, friends, money and religion were viewed as roughly equal in ...read more

  • Switch To Vibrate Companies Are Limiting On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Switch to Vibrate Companies are limiting on the job cellphone use in reaction to the noisy jangle of beeps and tunes emanating from incoming personal calls. 30% of employees say cellphones ringing at work is their #1 pet peeve, according to a Randstad USA study. A Sprint survey finds 53% of workers ...read more

  • Teen Sex Roughly 20% Of Young Teens (Ages 13-16) ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Teen Sex Roughly 20% of young teens (ages 13-16) are sexually active; not counting those who don’t think oral sex is really sex. 12% have had oral sex. Only 15% of parents say their young teen is sexually active beyond kissing while nearly 30% of teens admit going there. About 85% of parents think ...read more

  • Blogs Are Increasingly The Way People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Blogs are increasingly the way people communicate. There are some 37 million blogs in the world, with a new one created every second, reports blog track site Technorati. Blogs as a social network, doubles in size every 6 months. It is now 60 times bigger than 3 years ago, with 1.2 million new ...read more

  • Uncensored An Arbitron Study Of Cable Tv ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Uncensored An Arbitron study of cable TV subscribers finds nearly two-thirds prefer the government not restrict cable programming, agreeing channels like MTV, E!, and Comedy Central should be able to carry whatever they please. 77% said premium networks (e.g. HBO) should be given even greater ...read more

  • Can't Buy Me Love  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Feb 23, 2003
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    CAN'T BUY ME LOVE A minister was speaking to the Sunday school about the things money can’t buy. “It can’t buy laughter and it can’t buy love” he told them. Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your mother and father?” Stunned ...read more

  • Top 10 Things To Do Inside A Whale  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2003
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    TOP 10 THINGS TO DO INSIDE A WHALE 10) “Can you hear me now?” 9) Pray … he’s bulemic 8) Bonfire and fish fry! 7) Open a sushi bar 6) "Consider it pure joy" 5) Floss … the whale 4) Finally get motivated to read Moby Dick 3) Listen to tapes of your preacher’s old ...read more

  • Research Is Wonderful. Sometimes It Means ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2004
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    Research is wonderful. Sometimes it means nothing and sometimes there can be a lot of information in these statistics. For instance, researchers for the World Almanac and Book of Facts asked 2000 American eighth-grade students to name prominent people they admired and wanted to be like. Those ...read more

  • The Late Vance Havner's Wife Was Also Named ...  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Black on Feb 2, 2005
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    The late Vance Havner’s wife was also named Sarah. Shortly after her untimely death, Warren Wiersbe met him at Moody Bible Institute, and expressed his condolences with the simple words, "I’m sorry to hear you lost your wife." Dr. Havner smiled and replied, "Son, when you know where something is, ...read more

  • St. Mark

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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    St. Mark Was born of Jewish parents of the tribe of Levi. He is supposed to have been converted to Christianity by Peter, whom he served as an amanuensis, and under whose inspection he wrote his Gospel in the Greek language. Mark was dragged to pieces by the people of Alexandria, at the great ...read more

  • Searing Our Conscience

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
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    SEARING OUR CONSCIENCE My dad had a ‘76 Honda Accord. One day, the "service engine" light came on. He said, "Here, I’ll show you how we fix that," and he pushed the key into a slot right below it that reset it. The light went off, but I'm not sure that was the point of it being there in the ...read more

  • No Wonder The People Wept When They Heard The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
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    No wonder the people wept when they heard the message! (The Hebrew word Bochim means “weepers.”) However, their sorrow was because of the consequences of their sins and not because the wickedness of their sins had convicted them. It was a shallow and temporary sorrow that never led them to true ...read more

  • Are Your Life's Priorities ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 4, 2010
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    Are Your Life’s Priorities Reversed? Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, used to say that the three most important things in his life were God, his family, and McDonald’s and that when he got to the office, the order was reversed. As Christians we must never reverse that order. We are an ...read more

  • Dear Abby Once Wrote In Her Column About A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 17, 2011
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    Dear Abby once wrote in her column about a lifeguard who was being charged with the death of a teenager. The lifeguard was working at a large pool with two or three others each with a specific area to cover. He was approached by a group of teenagers excitedly telling him of someone who was lying at ...read more

  • Hell Is Past Calvary

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
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    HELL IS PAST CALVARY Adrian Rogers once recalled hearing about a nightclub called "The Gates of Hades." The story goes that a newcomer to the city was looking for this nightclub and he stopped a policeman to ask directions. It just so happened that there was a church on that same street called ...read more