Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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A recent survey by America’s most popular teen magazine revealed that only 4.1% of the teenage girls in America feel they could to go their father to talk about a serious problem. Even more recently, USA Today published the eye-opening results of a study of teens under stress. When asked where they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Gen X In Church: The 48 million Gen X group tends to go to church with greater frequency than do Boomers (78 million). They are searching for excellence and authenticity and have shown that once they find these qualities in a church, they remain surprisingly loyal. Gen X has shown a tendency to
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i. Barna notes “Our most recent surveys indicate that about half of all adults listen to preaching or Bible teaching in a typical week; one out of three read the Bible; one out of ten study the Bible during the week; fewer than one out of every twenty-five devote themselves to memorizing at least
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 12, 2007
When Queen Victoria was a child she didn’t know she was in line for the throne – Here instructors, trying to prepare her for the future, were frustrated because they couldn’t motivate her. He just didn’t take her studies seriously. Finally her teachers decided to tell her that one day she would
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Collegiate Online 43% of college students go online at least 10 hours a week, while 31% spend 6 to 10 hours a week online and 19% visit the Web for 3 to 5 hours a week, finds a recent Experience study. By contrast, just 17% watch TV more than 10 hours a week, and a mere 1% spend 10 hours a week
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Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Oct 5, 2007
Illustration: "Objectivity," or the Breath of Hell
A young Englishman ... was in Germany when Nazis degraded the Jews in the streets. At first he was sick at the sight and rushed down a side street. The next time he felt he could look, and stopped for a full minute. The third time he watched.
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2008
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Illustration: Heart Buried in Africa
There is a story of the great missionary David Livingstone. The body of David Livingstone was buried in England where he was born, but his heart was buried in the Africa he loved. At the foot of a tall tree in a small African village the natives dug a hole and
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Contributed by John Gerald on May 5, 2005
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"Six hundred students at a university were asked to write on a piece of paper the most beautiful word in the English language.
422 wrote the
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Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
Dwight Lehman once heard a missionary tell how he was trying to do translation work in a particular tribe and found it hard to translate the word "pride," or at least the concept. He finally came to the idea to use their word or words for the ears’ being too far apart. In other words, he conveyed
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Pentecostal
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