Contributed by Allan Kircher on Jun 23, 2011
                
                
                
                    TROUBLING TEEN STATISTICS
20 teens attempt to end their lives every 30 minutes. 
685 teens become drug users ever 30 minutes. 
23 teenage girls have abortions every 30 minutes. 
3 million American teenagers have been treated for
                    
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                    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 30, 2018
                
                
                
                    Dr. John Geddie, a Presbyterian missionary, went to Aneityum, an island in the South Pacific in 1848 and worked there for God for 24 years. On a tablet erected to his memory in the church where he preached, these words are inscribed: 
When he landed, in 1848, there were no Christians. When he
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Nov 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    A pastor friend asked me to go with him to cleanse a house for a church member that keep having apparations in his house.  They lived alone but people kept seeing people in his house when no one was there.  We prayed through the house annoiting it with oil and dedicating it to Jesus, and commanded
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 21, 2008
                
                
                
                    Devil says “I’ll make your music career take off if you quit singing gospel”
                              “I’ll make you popular if you Party and have sex”
                              “I’ll make your self esteem higher if you sleep with a lot of people”
                              “I’ll give
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 7, 2008
                
                
                
                    Anger, is about loss: the loss of power, the loss of eligibility (or being left out), the loss of influence, the loss of purpose, and the loss of dignity. All of us have experienced and will continue to experience these types of losses in our lives until we die. The question is, ‘How do we
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    The economics professor at the university was invited by the Farm Bureau to talk about finance. He thought he did a wonderful job of covering only the basics in about 45 minutes. At the end the farmer who was presiding gave his evaluation. “We would all do well to live by
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 3, 2008
                
                
                
                    -[Illustration] Some of you are aware that Robin and I are in the middle of a house hunt. We would like to buy a house, and live there for quite awhile, if the Lord is willing. We have wanted to buy a home all along, but I just always assumed that we did not really have the buying power to purchase
                    
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                    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 31, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Do you remember the story of Samuel Upham on his deathbed?  Samuel Upham had been a professor at Drew Theological Seminary for years and as he lay dying, friends gathered about.  The question arose as to whether he was still living or not.  Someone
advised, "Feel his
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Treasuring is an attitude we carry in our hearts, a conviction we hold deep down inside.  It’s one big decision that plays itself out in 10,000 little decisions every day of our lives.  This one giant choice to treasure your husband lights up a
                    
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                    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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                    Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 3, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is a doctrine that is becoming popular that teaches that a Christian can reach a point in their lives where sin no longer has an effect on them.   They cease to sin.  Of course this totally goes against the Word of God.  Hopefully, as we grow and mature as Christians sin has less of a hold on
                    
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                    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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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 29, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Over 20 years ago a retired couple, concerned about the threat of nuclear war, decided to carefully research the safest place on earth to which they could move and live. They studied and traveled, traveled and studied.
Finally they found THE PLACE. And on Christmas they sent their pastor a card
                    
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                    To illustrate the need christians have for one another, I use a story my sister in law told me.  If your hand get amputated for any reason and is not reconnected with the body, it does not go on and strive to live on it’s own.  No, it dies. The same thing happens to us
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Family According to the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly survey on Faith & Family in America, a third of Americans define “family” as parents and children. 52% feel divorce is alright, while 49% believe its OK for a couple to live together. Even with such changes in the modern American family, 55% of
                    
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