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  • Perhaps The Best Illustration Of How This Truth ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 23, 2005
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    Perhaps the best illustration of how this truth can affect us is found in the sinking of the ship named Express of Ireland. As the ship began to sink in the cold Atlantic Ocean it was discovered that there were not enough life belts on board for all the passengers. On that ship were 130 Salvation ...read more

  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, I pulled into my driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when I returned to the car, I found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors—and I had left the key in the ignition. For an hour ...read more

  • French Novelist And Playwright Alexandre Dumas ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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    French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas once had a heated quarrel with a rising young politician. The argument became so intense that a duel was inevitable. Since both men were superb shots they decided to draw lots, the loser agreeing to shoot himself. Dumas lost. Pistol in hand, he ...read more

  • The French Mathematician, Lecompte De Nouy, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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    The French Mathematician, Lecompte de Nouy, examined the laws of probability for a single molecule of high dissymmetry to be formed by the action of chance. De Nouy found that, on an average, the time needed to form one such molecule of our terrestrial globe would be about 10 to the 253 power ...read more

  • Although 4 Of 5 Teens Claim They Are Christian, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Although 4 of 5 teens claim they are Christian, only 1 in 4 also claims to be “absolutely committed” to the Christian faith.” That is only about half the percentage found among adults. Although an impressive 70% of all teens are engaged in some church-related effort in a typical week, only about ...read more

  • United In Opposition: According To Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
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    United In Opposition: According to Barna Research, there are many attitudes in which Christians are not distinct from non-Christians, but in their most recent study abortion and homosexuality are not among them. The survey found the following: 75% of born again adults say abortion should be ...read more

  • Sending Churches: The Fund For Theological ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Sending Churches: The Fund for Theological Education has underwritten a study of congregations that consistently send people into ministry. In summary, the following are five characteristics of those congregations: · Lay people are in ministry. Through collaboration with their pastors, lay people ...read more

  • New Megachurch Research A Major New Study Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    New Megachurch Research A major new study of megachurches shows that 93% of churches with an average weekly attendance of at least 2,000 are found in the South, the West and the Midwest. The states with the largest concentration are California, Texas, Florida and Georgia. Dr. Scott Thumma, faculty ...read more

  • Mommy Exodus: Participation In The U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Mommy Exodus: Participation in the U.S. workforce by married mothers with a child less than 1 year old has declined 6% between ’97 and ‘00. This first ever decline is mostly among 30-year-old, well-educated, white female professionals. The Census Bureau reports 22% of moms with graduate or ...read more

  • High School Workers: When Surveyed In ‘00 And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    High School Workers: When surveyed in ‘00 and ’02, a University of Washington study finds 56% of high school seniors had jobs in the last few months of their senior year. 4 of every 10 seniors didn’t work, two worked 15 hours a week or less, and 4 worked more than 15 hours a week. Most worked at ...read more

  • Confusing Beliefs: Although A Statement Passed By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Confusing Beliefs: Although a statement passed by the Presbyterian Church (USA) 2001 General Assembly affirmed salvation through Jesus, recent survey results from the denomination reveal some puzzling beliefs among its clergy and laity. The survey found that at least 70% of members, elders and ...read more

  • Years Ago New Engineers In The Lamp Division Of ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 6, 2006
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    Years ago new engineers in the Lamp Division of General Electric were assigned, as a joke, the impossible task of frosting light bulbs on the inside. None of the engineers took the assignment seriously since frosting a bulb on the inside was not a possibility by engineering standards. Eventually, ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, Diana And I Took Her Parents ...

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Feb 8, 2006
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    Several years ago, Diana and I took her parents down around Tombstone, Arizona on a sight-seeing trip. We found a cave that supposedly hid outlaws in the old days, so we decided to go on a tour. The guides took one group of people after another down into that deep cave. I remember standing ...read more

  • Have You Ever Heard Of The 2nd Law Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Feb 23, 2006
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    Have you ever heard of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? It’s a basic Scientific Law – right up there with the Law of Gravity. One definition of it says: The entropy (disorder) of a closed system will not decrease for any sustained period of time. (That was the shortest one I found.) To put it ...read more

  • Armand M. Nicholi, M.d., Professor Of Psychiatry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, had little compassion for the common person. Freud ...read more

  • Returning Home One Afternoon With My Two ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
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    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the ...read more

  • Yet, So Much Communication Is Happening Over ...

    Contributed by Mark Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
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    YET, so MUCH Communication is happening over INTERNET - people DON’T SEE Each Other SO - IS OUR COMMUNICATION CLEAR? Personally, I’ve found Email & IM – WORST way to communicate because it doesn’t convey my heart or emotions! New study - University of Chicago confirms / When reading e-mails ...read more

  • Kagawa Is A Famous Japanese Christian. He Said ...

    Contributed by W F on Apr 6, 2007
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    Kagawa is a famous Japanese Christian. He said that in the cross he found Christianity’s greatest uniqueness. He said, “I am grateful for Shinto, for Confucianism and for Buddhism. I owe much to these faiths. Yet these three faiths utterly failed to minister to my heart’s deepest needs. I was a ...read more

  • In Aesop's Fables There Is A Tale Of The Crow ...

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Mar 20, 2009
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    In Aesop’s Fables there is a tale of The Crow And The Pitcher A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far ...read more

  • Old Testament Scholar Christopher Wright States ...

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 26, 2009
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    Old Testament scholar Christopher Wright states in his book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, "I find myself aware that in reading the Hebrew Scriptures, I am handling something that gives me a closer link with Jesus than any archaeological artifact could do...Above all, this is where he ...read more