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  • Salvation Swing

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Dec 6, 2011
     | 4,710 views

    SALVATION SWING I remember back, as though it was yesterday, when my daughters were just little tykes. There was a great playground just down the hill from our seminary apartment where the girls would climb, slide and swing. Day after day they’d ask, "Mom, Dad, can we go to the park and swing?" ...read more

  • Noble Career  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,064 views

    NOBLE CAREER There is no career more noble than that of motherhood at its best. There are no possibilities greater and in no other sphere does failure bring more serious penalties. To attempt this task unprepared and untrained is tragic, and its results affect generations to come. On the other ...read more

  • In '70, Unmarried People Represented 28% Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,586 views

    In ’70, unmarried people represented 28% of the adult population in the U.S. In ’96 40% of all adults are unmarried. Causes are postponement of first marriage (average age is now 27.1 for men and 24.8 for women), higher levels of divorce (10% of the population has been divorced and not remarried) ...read more

  • Canadian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,016 views

    CANADIAN IMMIGRATION New Census Bureau data shows one in five Canadians is foreign-born. Between ’01 and ’07, the nation’s foreign-born population increased by 13.6%--four times the rate of the overall population. Australia (22%) is the only western country with a higher ...read more

  • Deadly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 3,540 views

    DEADLY PROFESSION Every year, between 300 and 400 doctors take their own lives (roughly one per day). No other profession has a higher suicide rate. And, in sharp contrast to the general population where male suicides outnumber female suicides 4 to 1, the rate among male and ...read more

  • What Makes Life Worthwhile Is Having A Big ...  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 15, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,935 views

    "What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know ...read more

  • More Kids Living With Grandparents In '97, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,819 views

    More Kids Living With Grandparents In ’97, the most recent year for which figures are available, 5.5% of all children under 18 in the U.S. live with a grandparent. That compares to only 4.9% in ’92 and 3.6% in ’80. The Census bureau blames social ills such as child abuse, ...read more

  • Healthy Benefits Of Friendship

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,786 views

    HEALTHY BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP A in depth study revealed that people with friends enjoy better health, live longer, are happier and find greater fulfilment in life. Time spent with friends will ENRICH our lives & make us healthier – it acts as medicine to help boost the immune system against both ...read more

  • Book Of Ezra. Why Was The Lord’s Temple ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
     | 2,403 views

    Book of Ezra. Why was the Lord’s temple begun first, even before the city wall? The temple was used for spiritual purposes; the wall, for military and political purposes. God had always been the nation’s protector, and the Jews knew that the strongest stone wall would not protect them if God was ...read more

  • God Knows What Is Happening In Your Nation

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Aug 21, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 551 views

    Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that God is asleep when it comes to nations, or that He is out of touch when it comes to carnal banquets, or that He sits in Heaven wringing His hands when it comes to godless rulers (and foolish presidents!) who make unfair, rash, or stupid decisions. Mark it ...read more

  • Lay Aside The Weights

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 24, 2002
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,037 views

    In high school we had this star player that was lazier than mud. Often the coach placed 5 pound bags of sand around his ankles, he had to wear them all week. Right before the game, the coach untied the weights and sent the boy to the floor. He jumped higher and built ...read more

  • Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau Figures For '03 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,820 views

    Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau figures for ’03 find a third of men and about a quarter of women ages 30-34 have never married, nearly 4 times higher than in’70. Today a woman typically marries at age 23.2 while men wait until they ...read more

  • Up To 10 Percent Of The World's Population That ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 28, 2008
     | 1,003 views

    Up to 10 percent of the world’s population that does not attend church on a regular basis describes itself as “spiritual, but not religious.” The term actually seems to come out of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1970’s as AA was trying to explain that although a belief in a higher power was required, ...read more

  • Optimism Is Healthy

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 19, 2013
     | 2,482 views

    OPTIMISM IS HEALTHY "Middle-aged adults who are more optimistic about their future tend to have higher antioxidant levels than their less optimistic peers, according to new research out of Harvard. Investigators studying nearly one thousand people over ten years found that increases in optimism ...read more

  • High Goats

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 3, 2024
     | 917 views

    Ben Hooper or UPI writes, “A flock of sheep found their way into a greenhouse in Greece and ate more than 600 pounds of marijuana plants being cultivated for medical use. “Yiannis Bourounis, owner of the greenhouse in Magnesia …estimated the sheep munched their way through more than 600 pounds of ...read more

  • The Center For Creative Leadership In San Diego ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
     | 1,965 views

    The Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego reports that companies whose leadership was rated high in ethics, employee motivation, employee development and communication enjoy 20% higher profits. Employee replacement costs range from $5,700 to $50,000 per person, not counting the immeasurable ...read more

  • Women Lead: Recent Studies Show That Women ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 2,427 views

    Women Lead: Recent studies show that women execu-tives, when rated by peers, underlings, and bosses, out-score their male counterparts on a wide variety of mea-sures from producing high-quality work to goal setting to mentoring employees. Using elaborate performance eval-uations of execs, ...read more

  • Spirituality Is A Major Contributor To A Child's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 2,945 views

    Spirituality is a major contributor to a child’s overall happiness (more so than for adults), finds a University of British Columbia study. Past studies have shown that in adults, spiritual feelings and higher levels of religious behavior typically account for about 5% of a person’s overall ...read more

  • Death Or Disability? Americans Choose Death  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,642 views

    DEATH OR DISABILITY? AMERICANS CHOOSE DEATH 52% of people in the U.S. would rather be dead than disabled says a Disaboom study, a website for disabled people. 63 % of younger Americans chose death over disability. 56% of Americans 65 and older would rather die than live with a disability. Those ...read more

  • Is It Really Possible To Be In Love With God? ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 11, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 3,689 views

    Is it really possible to be in love with God? Gloria Gather answers this question for us by noting: His Love ... Reaching Right from the beginning God's love has reached, and from the beginning man has refused to understand. But love went on reaching, offering itself. Love offered the eternal ...read more