Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2011
Mom was Right!
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for everyone. Many studies have found a relationship between eating breakfast and learning ability, attention span, and general well-being. The American Dietetic Association (www.eatright.org) reports that adults who eat breakfast
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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Is There A Hell? A recent USA Today (reported in the 10/31/97 issue) poll discovered 52% of adults are certain that there is a hell, and 27% think there might be. 48% think it will be a real place where people suffer eternal torment, with 46% thinking it will be an anguished state of existence
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Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 29, 2008
1918-1919, a fifth of the worlds population was infected with influenza. This pandemic killed 675K Americans, 10 times more than died in WWI (over 20M worldwide).
Malaria now infects some 300 million people each year, killing at least 2 million children and adults. Two children die of malaria
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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American Faith is Diverse, as Shown Among Five Faith-Based Segments
In this report we are looking at five segments of the population according to the nature and intensity of their faith. The five groups are evangelical Christians, born again Christians, people who describe themselves as Christian
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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What Purpose Drives Americans? With over 20 million having read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, The Barna Group polled Americans on the question, “What do Americans perceive their purpose in life to be?” Priorities differed according to faith commitments. Evangelicals were the only segment
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
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We’re interested in rest. At least, as a nation, we are because
9 yrs ago, CNN reported Sleep problems were estimated to be the #1 health-related problem in America
We sleep on average 6.9 hrs/day, almost an hour less than a few decades ago. One estimate reports that almost
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
Behind the scenes of an Arizona circus, Bobb Biehl started chatting with a man who trains animals for Hollywood movies: " ’How is it that you can stake down a ten-ton elephant with the same size stake that you use for this little fellow?’ I asked, pointing to a baby elephant who weighed three
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Behind the scenes of an Arizona circus, Bobb Biehl started chatting with a man who trains animals for Hollywood movies: " ’How is it that you can stake down a ten-ton elephant with the same size stake that you use for this little fellow?’ I asked, pointing to a baby elephant who weighed three
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 14, 2008
When Shane Claiborne was in Baghdad during the initial stages of the Iraqi war as a civilian and peacemaker, he attended a birthday party for a girl whose family he had become friends with. She was turning 13. (I told the story last week of Shane’s harrowing escape from Baghdad in the midst of
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND MORMONS
New studies reveal most adult Witnesses have made a personal commitment to Christ they consider important in their life, but only 10% base their hope of salvation on a confession of sins and acceptance of Jesus as savior. 61% of Jehovah’s Witnesses, vs. 42% of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
Twilight of the Book In 1937, 29% of American adults told the pollster George Gallup they were reading a book. In ’55, only 17% were. In ’78, a survey found that 55% had read a book in the previous 6 months. The question was even looser in ’98 and ’02; 71% of Americans had read a novel, short
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Contributed by Thomas Monroe on Feb 18, 2002
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Barna research shows:
That divorce in the church is just as commonas outside the church. In the church 33%, outside the church 34%.
Also, the south is second in the nation in divorce. The south has a divorce rate of 35%, just behind the west (38%), and leading the Midwest (32%) and
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Baptist