Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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Preparing Kids For Life: A new Barna study finds 50% or more of all adults contend that children are “not being prepared well enough” or are “poorly prepared” for the emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral dimensions of life. Intellectual preparation ranked highest with a mere 18% of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study finds 70% of 15- to 17-year-olds have viewed pornography online. (Foster
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Small Church Study: A Barna new survey discovered that small churches (defined as average weekend attendance of 100 or fewer adults) are more likely than either mid-sized (301-999 adults) or large churches (1000 or more adults) to draw people who are not college graduates and are more likely to
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 9, 2006
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There was a ten-year-old boy who decided to study judo, despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn’t understand why, after three months of training, the master had
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Contributed by Gene Edwards on Jan 12, 2007
I FIRST BEGAN THE STUDY OF GOD’S WHITE STONE IN REV. 2 MANY YEARS AGO, AT MY FIRST PASTORATE, BECAUSE OF A GEOLOGIST IN THE CHURCH THAT ELUDED TO THE WHITE STONE VERSE,IN A BIBLE STUDY LESSON I HEARD HIM GIVE. I LATER WAS STUDYING THE REVELATIONS AT D.B.U., UNDER DR. BELL, WHO IS ONE OF THE
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Wait & Shop According to a Time, Inc. study, over 80% of waiting room readers act on ad or editorial content they see while waiting for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Muslim Martyrs A new UK study reveals 7% of the Muslims there believe suicide attacks on civilians can be justified. 13% regard recent Islamic suicide bombers as martyrs. If those percentages are similar in the U.S., there could be more than 500,000 people who feel that attacks on civilians could
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Wireless Music According to an IDC study, U.S. wireless music services will have over 50 million users and generate more than a billion dollars in ’10. By the end of ‘06, the number of U.S. OTA customers, those with the ability to download and install content over a wireless network, will be
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A 2003 study from the Barna Research Group shows that many of our country’s moral and spiritual challenges are directly related to the absence of a biblical worldview among Americans.
Barna’s study of 2,033 adults showed that only 4 percent have a biblical worldview as the basis of their
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 20, 2001
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Author Irving Stone has spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of famous people … [He] was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life…have a vision or dream of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 26, 2002
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¡Ka noted neurosurgeon, did his own study on the effects of brief times of touch. With half his patients in the hospital, he would sit on their bed and touch them on the arm or leg when he came in to see how they were doing. With his remaining patients, he would simply stand near the bed to
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