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  • Young Money: Americans Ages 12-19 Spent $170 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Young Money: Americans ages 12-19 spent $170 billion last year finds Teenage Research Unlimited. That’s up 10% from 2 years ago. PBS reports that 22% of college students in ’00 owned a credit card in high school versus 11% in ’94. In ’99 a Consumer Federation of America study found ...read more

  • Home Schooling: Brian Ray, President Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Home Schooling: Brian Ray, President of the National Home Education Research Institute estimates 1 to 2 million children representing 2% to 4% of all U.S. school children are taught at home. 96% of colleges reported a steady or higher number of home-schooled applicants last year. In ’00 50% of U.S. ...read more

  • Gospel Music Up According To Nielsen Soundscan, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Gospel Music Up According to Nielsen SoundScan, gospel music album sales had an 11.6% sales rise the first half of ’06, the genre’s first since ’02. As of 7/2/06, nearly 18 million gospel music albums, including those sold via digital download, have been sold YTD. The ...read more

  • India)--Elsewhere, Christian Aid Mission ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 7, 2002
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    (India)--Elsewhere, Christian Aid Mission reports that a ministry based in Tamil Nadu is seeing a rich harvest of souls. Missionaries of the outreach say over the last year, there were more than 12-thousand professions of faith that eventually grouped into nearly 300 small churches. The ministry ...read more

  • What Really Makes People Satisfied With Their ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2001
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    What really makes people satisfied with their lives? Amazingly, the secret may lie in a person’s ability to handle life’s blows without blame or bitterness. These are the conclusions of a study of 173 men who have been followed since they graduated from Harvard University in the early 1940s. The ...read more

  • What Really Makes People Satisfied With Their ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 21, 2004
     | 2,103 views

    What really makes people satisfied with their lives? Amazingly, the secret may lie in a person’s ability to handle life’s blows without blame or bitterness. These are the conclusions of a study of 173 men who have been followed since they graduated from Harvard University in the early 1940s. The ...read more

  • The Ten Commandments In Verse  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 13, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,619 views

    The Ten Commandments in Verse Above all else love God alone; Bow down to neither wood nor stone. God’s name refuse to take in vain; The Sabbath rest with care maintain. Respect your parents all your days; Hold sacred human life always. Be loyal to your chosen mate; Steal nothing, ...read more

  • A World In Turmoil

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 25, 2007
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    A World In Turmoil The Personnel Journal reported this incredible statistic: since the beginning of recorded history, the entire world has been at peace less than eight percent of the time! In its study, the periodical discovered that of 3530 years of recorded history, only 286 years saw peace. ...read more

  • Women Are More Likely To Work During Pregnancy ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Women are more likely to work during pregnancy than they were 30 to 40 years ago. They also are returning to work more rapidly after having their first child; 64% are back at work within a year vs. 17% in the 60s. 66% of women who had their first child between ’01 and ’03 worked during their ...read more

  • Affluent People Are Increasingly Likely To Use ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    Affluent People are increasingly likely to use the Internet to make their charitable donations, reports The Chronicle of Philanthropy. But charities are turning off some of their biggest donors (those who give $1,000 or more). Some send too many messages to donors who say they don’t want them, ...read more

  • Living Standards In Britain Are Set To Rise ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    Living standards in Britain are set to rise above those in America for the first time since the 19th century, according to a report by the respected Oxford Economics consultancy. It says the GDP per head in Britain will be £23,500 in '08 vs. £23,250 in the U.S., reflecting both the strength of the ...read more

  • Long-Term Care

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    LONG-TERM CARE A survey by Genworth Financial, a long-term care insurer, reports the cost of a private room in a nursing home for a year averages more than $76,000 (up 17% since ’04), an assisted-living facility $36,000 annually and $38 an hour for a Medicare-certified home health aide. Genworth ...read more

  • E. Stanley Jones, Famous Missionary To India At ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
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    E. Stanley Jones, famous missionary to India at the beginning of the last century, summed up the matter for us. Prayer is surrender – surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boat hook from a boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to ...read more

  • What Americans Believe

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
     | 1,118 views

    WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE In the Barna Report: What Americans Believe, 1991, George Barna, the church statistician, states that there is "a great deal of ambivalence among Americans with regard to their beliefs. For instance, while 62 percent of the respondents said they have made a personal ...read more

  • Before Andrew Jackson Became The 7th President ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 12, 2009
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    Before Andrew Jackson became the 7th President of the US, he served as a major general in the Tennessee militia. During the War of 1812 his troops reached an all time low in morale. As a result they began arguing, bickering, and fighting among themselves. It is reported that Old Hickory called ...read more

  • Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Was Impeached ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 26, 2009
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    Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was impeached by the state House by a 114 to one vote. After racing back to his Chicago home before the vote could deprive him of a ride home on the state plane, Blagojevich once again said he was the victim of a rush to judgment. "And the fight goes on," he told ...read more

  • To Children On School

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
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    TO CHILDREN ON SCHOOL School is your job right now. It is where you spend a great deal of time, just like parents spent a great deal of time a work. School is where you learn important habits that are important to work. Like showing up on time. Being respectful. Doing your work to the best of your ...read more

  • Missing Husband

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012
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    MISSING HUSBAND A woman went to the police station to report her husband as missing. She described him as "29 years old, six foot three, athletic, and handsome." The sergeant shook his head. "Wait a minute, lady. I know your husband. He’s 50, short, and overweight." The woman said, ...read more

  • Deadly Vending Machines  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 12, 2012
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    DEADLY VENDING MACHINES The media’s been reporting on the health risks of too much soda and other sugary drinks; New York's Mayor Bloomberg has taken the step of banning super-size sodas...but even more deadly are the vending machines. Each year, dozens of people are killed by vending machines. ...read more

  • If Your Friend Jumped Off A Clift Would You?  PRO

    Contributed by Dale Bird on Jan 7, 2006
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    IF YOUR FRIEND JUMPED OFF A CLIFT WOULD YOU? 450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths By The Associated Press posted: 08 July 2005 11:22 am ET ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) _ First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as ...read more

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