Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 16, 2005
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What is repentance? Gordon MacDonald helps us to understand with these sobering words: “Repentance is not necessarily repentance for what I have done although it may necessitate that. Repentance is for, more significantly, what is in me as a sinner. I suggest to you that the Bible is teaching
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Methodist
Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Apr 10, 2001
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An article in a National Geographic magazine provides a penetrating picture of God’s love for us. After a forest fire raged through a section of Yellowstone Park, one of the rangers found the charred body of a bird at the base of a smoking tree stump. When he knocked it with a stick, three tiny
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Baptist
Contributed by Terry Dashner on Dec 27, 2001
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The National Defense Council Foundation evaluated 193 countries which will be conflict areas for 2002. As I looked over the nations listed, I couldn’t help but notice that they all held something in common. They have, either presently or at some time in their history, been resistant and even
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their own independence upon the overruling power of God . . . and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proved by all history, that those
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2002
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OUR NATION’S GODLY HERITAGE
One of America’s well-known Colonial Americans began his career as a school teacher, using the Bible as his most valued textbook. Noah Webster was born in Connecticut and came of age during the American Revolution. He was educated at Yale University, and when he lacked
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 12, 2002
National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats)
Only 39% of elderly Americans report that they are in good health
Over 33 million Americans have arthritis to the point it alters their daily lives
Nearly 150 million Americans suffer with some sort of disability dealing with the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Sep 15, 2004
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, last year—in 2003—there were 2,187,000 couples that got married in the United States. And the Center reports that there were 1 million couples that divorced last year in
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2004
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A national Omnibus survey commissioned by spirituality.com in September 2003 focused on gratitude. The random national sample of more than 1,000 adults gives details on how grateful America feels today, and how Americans express that gratitude.
Through that survey here are some of the benefits that
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Nov 28, 2004
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“Addressing a national seminar of Southern Baptist leaders, George Gallup said, "We find there is very little difference in ethical behavior between churchgoers and those who are not active religiously...The levels of lying, cheating, and stealing are remarkable similar in both groups. Eight out of
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standards) set a new level of precision in 1949 by inventing the atomic clock. It counted the oscillations of the nitrogen atom in an ammonia molecule--and was reliable to within one second in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Starbucks will launch a national program this fall promoting a novel with point-of-sale and on in-store tables for at least a 6-8 weeks and expect to sell at least
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
In ’06 the national norm for the number of children per U.S. household is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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Deistic Teens- Researchers with the National Study of Youth and Religion have concluded American teens believe in a combination of works based righteousness, religion as psychological well-being, and a distant, non-interfering god. With no place for sin, judgment, salvation, or Christ; their creed
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