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  • Have You Ever Been Around Someone Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2001
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    "Have you ever been around someone who was unbelievably good looking, extremely attractive, and a lot smarter than you are? When you’re in a social situation people want to listen to him, not you. Suppose you don’t care for that person, but you’re kept in a room with him twenty-four hours a day ...read more

  • Years Ago, When 20th Century Fox Advertised In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 23, 2001
    based on 107 ratings
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    - Years ago, when 20th Century Fox advertised in the New York papers to fill a vacancy in its sales force, one applicant replied: "I am at present selling furniture at the address below. You may judge my ability as a saleman if you will stop in to see me at anytime, pretending that you are ...read more

  • Have You Ever Been Around Someone Who Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2003
     | 847 views

    "Have you ever been around someone who was unbelievably good looking, extremely attractive, and a lot smarter than you are? When you’re in a social situation people want to listen to him, not you. Suppose you don’t care for that person, but you’re kept in a room with him twenty-four hours a day ...read more

  • Guarded By The Shepherd  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
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    GUARDED BY THE SHEPHERD Charles Spurgeon says this about the Great Shepherd: What is there in you, dear friend, more than there is in any other professor, why you should not prove an apostate after all? What is there about me that I should stand where so many others have fallen? There is ...read more

  • Marty Williams A Pastor Of Family Ministries Asks ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 15, 2004
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    Marty Williams a Pastor of Family Ministries asks the question that we all must ask ourselves today, “Am I Teachable?” He has 12 thoughts to help us discover if we are teachable: 1. I am willing to listen more than talk. 2. I admit when I am mistaken. 3. I observe before acting on a situation. 4. I ...read more

  • If We Could Shrink The Earth's Population To A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 22, 2004
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    If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of one hundred people; here’s the way the world would look: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, and 8 Africans. 50 would suffer from malnutrition and one would be near death. Only one would have a college ...read more

  • The Average U.s. Pastor Has Received Continuing ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Average U.S. Pastor has received continuing education on 3.6 different topics during the last two years. Ellison Research finds even though most ministers have gone through seminars or classes, 36% say their church doesn’t budget for it, and the average church that does so allocates just $1,504 ...read more

  • More Mega-Churches: New Research Reveals That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    More Mega-Churches: New research reveals that their may be 1200 or more mega churches in the U.S. rather than the widely assumed 850 count. A cooperative project by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Leadership Network discovered the discrepancy when the two groups, each of ...read more

  • Religion Pays: Economist Jonathan Gruber Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Religion Pays: Economist Jonathan Gruber has found a statistical correlation between attending church and a Better Economic Outcome. Published in a National Bureau of Economic Research paper, he finds a household with double the normal rate of religious attendance has 9.1% more income. That extra ...read more

  • It May Be That Praise, Like Gold And Diamonds, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    It may be that praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity, as Samuel Johnson said, but most of us would prefer to err on the side of giving too much praise than too little. One who would agree was the wife of an old Vermonter named Eb. Old Eb was, like many of his breed, rather ...read more

  • In April 1997 39 Devotees To A Ufo Cult Called ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
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    In April 1997 39 devotees to a UFO cult called Heaven’s Gate cult led by Marshall Applewhite, killed themselves believing after their deaths they would join an alien space they said was riding piggy-back on a comet. This event brought to the forefront again just how many people actually believe ...read more

  • Michelle Collins Of The Globe & Mail

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 13, 2007
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    Michelle Collins of the Globe & Mail: When 26-year-old Geoff Emery put money down on his first condominium, he started looking forward to moving out of his mother’s house. The move-in date of November 2005 rolled around only to find himself in November 2006 still living with his mom in Markham. He ...read more

  • Black Owned Businesses Are Among The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,790 views

    Black Owned Businesses are among the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy, says the Census Bureau. The number of black-owned businesses grew by 45% from ‘97 to ‘02, more than 4 times the overall rate. Blacks now own 5% of all non-farm U.S. businesses. Revenues increased 25%, to about $89 ...read more

  • Ron Mcclung Is A Former Pastor Of 33 Years And ...

    Contributed by Steve Smith on Aug 28, 2007
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    Ron McClung is a former pastor of 33 years and wrote these words: “God sees the dream in our hearts. People all around us have dreams of being better than they are, of doing better and climbing higher. Yet, sometimes we don’t recognize the dreams because we don’t see them clearly as God does. ...read more

  • I Want You To Know That God Is Alive And Well In ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
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    I want you to know that God is alive and well in the world today. Let me say that again. God is alive and well in the world today. Every day, “Over 30,000 Chinese accept Christ.” More people accept Christ in China every 3 days, than the entire population of Deltona. “In spite of the brutal ...read more

  • What Happens When We Pattern Our Sonship On Those ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 1, 2008
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    What happens when we pattern our Sonship on those around us? Illustration: 4276 Imitating Each Other Or Christ In the British Museum a Greek writing tablet, earlier than the Christian era, is shown. It is the classical equivalent of a child’s copybook. The headline has been written by the master. ...read more

  • I Call It The "It Theory". When You're In ...

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on Mar 26, 2008
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    I call it the “it theory”. When you’re in elementary school and you want that cool bike. You tell your parents, “I have to have that bike. That bike is really it! Then you eventually make it to high school and want that nice car. You tell yourself, “If I can just get that car that would be it! Than ...read more

  • Men Today Are Far More Involved With Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    "Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late '70s, sociologists found the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as ...read more

  • The Latest Barna Survey Finds That The Most ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    The latest Barna survey finds that the most radical differences of opinion on what needs to change in America are between evangelicals and those not born-again. Overall, 82% of American adults say a change in the overall care and resources devoted to children is absolutely necessary in the ...read more

  • Americans In Pain

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    AMERICANS IN PAIN Americans in households making less than $30,000 a year spend nearly 20% of their lives in moderate to severe pain vs. less than 8% of those in households earning above $100,000, finds a study by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and Stony Brook Univ. professor Arthur Stone. The ...read more