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  • Many Christians Have Been Infected With The Most ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 21, 2001
    based on 81 ratings
     | 4,459 views

    Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life, what sociologist Robert Bellah calls "radical individualism." They concentrate on personal obedience to Christ as if all that matters is "Jesus and me," but in doing so, miss the point altogether. For ...read more

  • Robert Wuthnow, Author Of God And Mammon In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
     | 1,598 views

    Robert Wuthnow, author of God and Mammon in America states, "The more orthodox the (church) member’s belief and faith, the higher the giving--except among Catholics." (In general Catholic giving lags behind Protestant giving.) He also has discovered very predictable giving increases as a result of ...read more

  • Some People Do Not Like To Hear Much Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 24, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,190 views

    “Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.” Henry, Matthew In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that ...read more

  • Easter In An Anti-God Rally

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
     | 4,353 views

    EASTER IN AN ANTI-GOD RALLY During the early 1920's, a Communist leader named Nikolai Bukharin was sent from Moscow to Kiev to address an anti-God rally. For an hour, he abused and ridiculed the Christian faith until it seemed as if the whole structure of belief was in ruins. Then questions were ...read more

  • Karen Hunt Was A New Ager Who Spent Many Years ...

    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Oct 25, 2002
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    Karen Hunt was a new ager who spent many years searching – exploring all sorts of religious practice. She says “I’m now a Christian. I have been rescued from new age spirituality. It is a bondage. It is not the freedom it pretends to be. The fact that people are seeking should encourage us. They ...read more

  • Fewer Protestants: A University Of Chicago Survey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,056 views

    Fewer Protestants: A University of Chicago survey shows U.S. Protestants are now 52% of the population, down from 62% in ‘93, and may no longer be the nation’s largest religious group by year’s end. The 52% included about 2% of respondents who said they were Church ...read more

  • It Is Time We Put A Stop To The Coercive And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,633 views

    "It is time we put a stop to the coercive and compulsory bans on religious expression in our public schools. Those who oppose such expression constantly point to their desire to protect constitutional rights and intents. However, they seem oblivious to the fact that those who wrote and adopted the ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
     | 2,626 views

    A.W.Tozer also said “Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of ...read more

  • According To Wikipedia,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
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    According to Wikipedia, "The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million ...read more

  • Child Care: The Nation's Largest Childcare ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,189 views

    Child Care: The nation’s largest childcare providers are the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention with nearly 10,000 childcare centers between them. Since ’97, the number of church-based childcare centers has risen by 26% versus a 19% increase in all U.S childcare centers. ...read more

  • Prophecy In The Bible

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 15, 2010
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    PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE Hundreds of Bible prophecies have been fulfilled, specifically and meticulously, often long after the prophetic writer had passed away. For example, Daniel the prophet predicted in about 538 BC (Daniel 9:24-27) that Christ would come as Israel's promised Savior and Prince 483 ...read more

  • Hiding The Word Of God

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 10, 2012
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    HIDING THE WORD OF GOD During World War II, Jewish inmates of the Yanov labor camp in occupied Poland defied their Nazi guards, secretly conducting religious services inside their darkened barracks. To observe their ritual, the Jews had cut religious scrolls into sections, bound the parchment ...read more

  • Carl Rogers, A Psychologist, Was 22 Years Old ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 10, 2004
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    Carl Rogers, a psychologist, was 22 years old when he entered Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1924. While there, he participated in a seminar organized to explore religious doubts. Rogers later said of the group, “The majority of members...in thinking their way through questions they had ...read more

  • Geo. Washington "It Is Impossible To Rightly ...

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006
     | 1,391 views

    Geo. Washington “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God & the Bible.” ’Stonewall’ Jackson “The Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests.” John Adams “We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality & religion. … Our ...read more

  • Seeing But Not Eating

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 8, 2009
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    SEEING BUT NOT EATING The Jewish Rabbi known as Rav held a similar viewpoint. Brad Young summarizes his view, "One will be judged not only for sins committed against Torah but also for pleasures in life that were neglected because of a false religious abstinence. The sense of joy in living comes ...read more

  • Teens Admire...?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 10, 2010
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    TEENS ADMIRE...? Have you thought lately about who teenagers admire? World Almanac and Book of Facts surveyed eight graders a few years ago and discovered that the top thirty names were movie stars and athletes. Not one admired adult was a religious leader, statesman, author, painter, doctor, ...read more

  • The] Only Thing We Have To Fear Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Schäve on Jun 27, 2001
    based on 56 ratings
     | 4,623 views

    “...[The] only thing we have to fear is fear itself...,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his "First Inaugural Address," 4 March 1933. “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes our ...read more

  • Women Dominate Christian Ranks: Barna Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,431 views

    Women Dominate Christian Ranks: Barna Research reports that 46% of the nation’s women have beliefs that classify them as born again, versus 36% of men, meaning there are 11 to 13 million more born again women than men in the U.S. This helps explain why women account for nearly 80% of all Christian ...read more

  • Christianity Is A Very Personal Religion. ...

    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
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    Christianity is a very personal religion. (“I”...“I”...“I”; “I have sinned and I have been saved.”) Belief in Christ is a personal thing. A sinner needs a Saviour—not a teacher or encourager, or perfect Guide to teach to do better next time. Once after a missionary trip, we decided to swim on a ...read more

  • Reverend Dr. Mark Roberts, A Pastor, Author And ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 12, 2009
     | 2,213 views

    Reverend Dr. Mark Roberts, a pastor, author and retreat leader, cites the Barna Research group in relation to startling discoveries in American research, much of which fits the Canadian climate. Roberts quotes Barna as saying, “only 4% of American adults have a biblical worldview. This worldview ...read more