Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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Preparing Kids For Life: A new Barna study finds 50% or more of all adults contend that children are “not being prepared well enough” or are “poorly prepared” for the emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral dimensions of life. Intellectual preparation ranked highest with a mere 18% of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Prayer: U.S. News and the Internet site Beliefnet funded a poll to learn more about why, how, where and when people pray. Here is a summary of the findings:
· 75% percent were Christian.
· 64% say they pray more than once a day.
· 56% say they most often pray for family members, with 3.3% saying
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Church Planting In NYC: While New York’s 5 boroughs claim 8.1 million residents, an estimated 22 million people live within 50 miles of Times Square. The city is home to millions of immigrants representing hundreds of languages and countries. A 16 denomination alliance has committed to planting 700
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group research has identified several significant changes affecting children’s programs: (1) A declining percentage of pastors viewing Sunday School as their top priority. (2) Fewer churches offering Sunday School for children under age 6 or for junior high
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 10, 2006
A former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, kept this saying on his desk calendar: "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names!" But God isn’t like that. David goes on to say in this psalm, "As far as the
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Baptist
Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 11, 2007
Can you imagine being in Time’s Square in New York City, and there on the jumbo-tron screen was every sin you have ever committed being displayed for all to see?
How horrible would that be? How humiliating would that be?
We all know we have sin in our life, we just don’t want everyone else to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Unprotected A new Harris Poll finds while 88% of PC owners have anti-virus software, 65% do not update it
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Muslim Martyrs A new UK study reveals 7% of the Muslims there believe suicide attacks on civilians can be justified. 13% regard recent Islamic suicide bombers as martyrs. If those percentages are similar in the U.S., there could be more than 500,000 people who feel that attacks on civilians could
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Ad Jacket A hot new trend in Japan where they are called Brajackets, are ads disguised as a dust jacket for a book. Made from high-quality, coated paper that makes designs and colors pop, they come with a built-in bookmark and are available Free, and no purchase necessary from
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
NPO Mergers About 120 new nonprofits are started every day and many find funding scarce. As a result there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Non Profit Oorganizations mergers, reports Bob Harrington, Sr. Manager at La Piana Assoc., non-profit merger consulting firm. Merger minded
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