Contributed by Claude White on Mar 5, 2007
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Two shepherds lean on their crooks at the end of a long day and the first asks the second, "So, how’s it going?" The second one sighed and shook his head, "Not good, I can’t pay my bills, my health isn’t good, my kids don’t respect me, and
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 18, 2011
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WHAT IS "DAILY BREAD"?
Martin Luther wrote in 1529:
"What does daily bread mean? Everything that nourishes our body and meets its needs, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, yard, fields, cattle, money, possessions, a devout spouse, devout children, devout employees, devout and faithful
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Nov 2, 2009
Two psychiatrists meet at their 20th college reunion. One is vibrant, while the other looks withered and worried. "So what’s your secret?" the older looking psychiatrist asks. "Listening to other people’s problems every day, all day long, for years on end, has made an old man of
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
Did you know that we spend roughly 68 times more money caring for the average felon than on a church’s ministry to a spiritually hungry child. From George Barna, Transforming
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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Unwed Mothers birthed 1.5 million of the 4 million total births in the U.S. last year. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 55% percent of births for those ages 20-24 were to unwed mothers; almost 28% for ages 25-29. Unwed couples seem to have a positive
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Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Jul 11, 2002
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The McIlhenry Tabasco Sauce folks have adopted the Scoville Heat Unit scale to rate the spiciness of their sauce. To give you an idea, catsup would be about a zero on the Scoville heat unit scale. Their mild Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce would rate about 600 Scoville Heat Units; their medium
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United Methodist
Contributed by Don Parmely on Sep 11, 2006
A [recent] study by The Barna Group shows that despite an intense surge in religious activity and expression in the weeks immediately following 9/11 the faith of Americans is virtually indistinguishable today compared to pre-attack conditions.
The director of the Barna study, David Kinnaman, put
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Fewer Teens Are Engaging In Sexual Activity. According to a new National Center for Health Statistics report, teen girls, age 15 to 17, 38% had engaged in sexual intercourse in ‘95, vs. 30% in ‘02. Among boys that age, the sexual activity dropped from 43% to 31% in the same time period. The study
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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 Bret Toman on May 20, 2010
October 17, 1977, People Magazine
"I sit in my house in Buffalo and sometimes I get so ..... lonely it's unbelievable," "Life has been so good to me. I got a great wife, good kids, money, my own health—and I'm lonely and bored. ... I often
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