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  • Americans' Exposure To Christian Stores

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Americans Exposure to Christian Stores: · 1% shop them at least weekly. · 2% visit them about 2-3 times a month. · 9% shop them about once a month. · 21% have shopped within the past 6 months (but usually less than monthly). · 31% have shopped one, but not in the past 6 months. · 17% are aware of ...read more

  • Public's Confidence: Gallup's Annual Measure Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Public’s Confidence: Gallup’s annual measure of public confidence in institutions reports the military is #1 followed by the police and the church. Banks are #4. While the military’s rating is lower than in ‘02, the church has been slowly recovering from the sharp decline in confidence it ...read more

  • How Mosaics Evangelize: Researcher George Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    How Mosaics Evangelize: Researcher George Barna says recent Barna Group research finds that Mosaics (adolescents through 20’s) are much more likely to share their faith through ongoing discussions with friends and through e-mail and instant message conversations than older adults. He advises ...read more

  • The Author Inside You: Americans Write 750,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Author Inside You: Americans write 750,000 book-length manuscripts a year, of which fewer than 60,000 are published. A ‘02 Jenkins Group survey found: 81% of Americans feel they should write a book., 28% see it as a self-help or DIY book, 27% a non-fiction book, 27% a fiction work, and 20% ...read more

  • Under Funded Retirement: The Annual Retirement ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Under Funded Retirement: The annual Retirement Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds 65% of workers are “very” or “somewhat” confident of funding their retirements. That’s down from 68% last year. Although the overall confidence reading remains high, most workers ...read more

  • Megachurch Facts: According To John Vaughn, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Megachurch Facts: According to John Vaughn, Church Growth Today, There are now more than 1000 mega-churches (attendance of 2000 or more) in the U.S. vs. just 10 in ’70. Other 2005 megachurch firsts are: A church passed the 30,000 weekly attendance mark (Lakewood Church, Houston, TX). Overall ...read more

  • U.s. Individuals Out Give G8: The G8 Has Proposed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    U.S. Individuals Out Give G8: The G8 has proposed to cut debt among some African nations by giving up to $40 billion. That is a lot of money, but far less than the $249 billion given to charity by individuals, and corporations in ’04. Of this, $88 billion went to religious organizations. The Barna ...read more

  • Abortion Losing Favor: Americans Appear To Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Abortion Losing Favor: Americans appear to be shifting their attitudes on abortion. A new survey by Zogby International, found that 22% of Americans have views that are less favorable toward abortion than they held 10 years ago—nearly twice the number who say they’ve become more pro-choice over the ...read more

  • Dialog Encouraged: The Nae Has Adopted Guidelines ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Dialog Encouraged: The NAE has adopted guidelines for churches for urging evangelicals, who have not made a priority of interfaith dialogue, to interact more with Muslims. But the guidelines promote a fundamentally different approach to interfaith relations than that used by mainline Protestant ...read more

  • During The American Revolution A Man In Civilian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 6, 2006
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    During the American Revolution a man in civilian clothes rode past a group of soldiers repairing a small defensive barrier. Their leader was shouting instructions, but making no attempt to help them. Asked why by the rider, he retorted with great dignity, “Sir, I am a corporal!” The stranger ...read more

  • When Researchers Examined Data From The Late ...

    Contributed by Tim Stutler on Mar 27, 2006
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    "When researchers examined data from the late 1980s on 5,232 married adults, they found that 645 subjects reported marital dissatisfaction. When the unhappy spouses were surveyed five years later, those who had remained married were more likely than divorced subjects to state that they were happy. ...read more

  • Junior Seau Recently Retired From Professional ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 16, 2006
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    Junior Seau recently retired from professional football. In San Diego, from the team he spent the most time with as defensive linebacker, Junior addressed the current Chargers at their training camp. He emphasized football’s grind rather than its glories. His voice was loud and his passion was ...read more

  • Like The Story I Heard About A Lady Strolling In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
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    Like the story I heard about a lady strolling in the park, & a little frog came hopping up to her. The frog looked up at her & said, "If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a bank president." She looked at the frog for a moment, then reached down, picked up the frog, put it in her pocket & then kept on ...read more

  • There Is No Wonder That God Considered Us Worthy ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 4, 2006
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    There is no wonder that God considered us worthy dying for, when one realises how intimately He knows us! His love for you is so deep that he has numbered every hair on your head – and renumbers them when some fall out (Matthew 10:30)! Around that verse, in verse 29 and then the verses following ...read more

  • In Reflecting On Handel's Messiah, Joseph E. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2006
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    In reflecting on Handel’s Messiah, Joseph E. McCabe wrote: “Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all ...read more

  • Wireless Music According To An Idc Study, U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    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 ...read more

  • Social Justice, Contrary To Conventional Wisdom, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Social Justice, contrary to conventional wisdom, is more actively supported by evangelicals than mainline Protestants finds Calvin College research fellow Stephen Monsma. Of 500 welfare-to-work programs studied, 96 were Protestant programs, 61 sponsored by evangelical churches vs. 35 by mainlines. ...read more

  • The Statue Of Liberty Was Built In The Late ...

    Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 21, 2007
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    The statue of Liberty was built in the late 1800’s. The craftsmen who worked on it paid as much attention to the details on the top of the stature as they did to the rest of the statue though at that time there was no way for anyone to ever notice it; no planes flew at that time, no high rises, ...read more

  • One Man Once Said These Words "I Will Tell You ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 26, 2007
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    One man once said these words “I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, ...read more

  • You And I, Your Neighbors And My Neighbors, We ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "You and I, your neighbors and my neighbors, we share with each other our liberties and [our] civil rights.They are ours. They belong to all of us, not just to each of us. Liberty is not any one man's possession. When a man asks Freedom for himself alone, both he and his neighbor lose what he ...read more