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  • Last Year In India I Prayed For A Young Woman ...

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Nov 3, 2005
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    Last year in India I prayed for a young woman who had known success. She was a university graduate, but grief had overtaken her when someone close had died. She was unable to release it to the Lord. Over time she became possessed by Demonic Spirits, when I first met her she could not talk but only ...read more

  • Six Inches Beyond  PRO

    Contributed by Frank Gough Ii on Nov 4, 2005
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    Do you any of you remember Bruce Lee? He was a world-champion martial artist and an actor, and he had a fighting style unlike any other because he developed it himself. In demonstrations, he often exhibited an almost inhuman ability in the force and power of his blows. He was once asked by ...read more

  • In C.s. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch And The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 15, 2005
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    In C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, we have a story of love–love between four siblings and love for and by Aslan, the Lion-Savior. It is this love that gives these youngsters courage to go on. Legend has it that a wealthy merchant traveling through the Mediterranean world looking ...read more

  • When Pope Julius I Authorized December 25 To Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    When Pope Julius I authorized December 25 to be celebrated as the birthday of Jesus in A.D. 353, who would have ever thought that it would become what it is today. When Professor Charles Follen lit candles on the first Christmas tree in America in 1832, who would have ever thought that the ...read more

  • In 1983 A Fifty-Year-Old Tradition Was Quietly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    In 1983 a fifty-year-old tradition was quietly dropped by the U.S. House of Representatives. The tradition involved the annual reading of George Washington’s farewell address on the occasion of his birthday. Democratic and Republican leaders decided it was useless to continue to read the lengthy ...read more

  • Fortune Magazine Has Cited The Creation Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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    Fortune Magazine has cited the creation of the paperback book as the leading product of the century in communications. However, they incorrectly credit a Britt by the name of Allen Lane as its inventor in 1935. Dwight L. Moody had already been publishing Christian paperback books for at least 5 ...read more

  • The 2000 Edition Of The Yearbook Of American & ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    The 2000 edition of the Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, published by the NCC reports that for first time, the Southern Baptist Convention had a loss (1.03%) rather than a gain in membership last year. Membership totals for the 3 largest denominations are reported as follows: Roman ...read more

  • A Look At The Future: Business Strategist B. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
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    A Look At The Future: Business strategist B. Joseph Pine II sees a tectonic shift under way for businesses of all sizes. The ground rules are changing just as they did when the nation’s economic focus switched from agriculture to mass production. This time, the shift is from mass production to what ...read more

  • The American Psychological Association Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    The American Psychological Association research has found that religious involvement is the best indicator of psychological self-esteem among 8th graders. H.B. London of Focus on the Family notes that is the same age as young people in churches begin to drift. Other findings in the study: · 8th ...read more

  • Church Wins Kids For Life: A New Barna Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Church Wins Kids For Life: A new Barna Research study finds that 71% of Americans adults had a period of time during their childhood when they regularly attended a Christian church. 61% of those who attended church as a youngster attend regularly today, while a 78% of those who didn’t still don’t ...read more

  • Youth Pastor Burnout: The Bridges Project, A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Youth Pastor Burnout: The Bridges Project, a research study of the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, has identified several factors common to youth pastors who experience burn-out or a lack of success in ministry: ►Inability to shape healthy work relationships ...read more

  • Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 Million Families Had At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 million families had at least one child over 18 living at home in ‘03, up 7% since ‘95 and 14% since ‘85, according to the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey. They leave and come back, sometimes more than once, often after college, between jobs, before marriage, after ...read more

  • Human Distraction: Humans Specialize In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Human Distraction: Humans specialize in distraction, especially when the task at hand requires intellectual heavy lifting. But in the era of e-mail, instant messaging, Googling, e-commerce and iTunes, potential distractions while seated at a computer are not only ever-present but very enticing. ...read more

  • Parents Accept Responsibility: A New Barna Study ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Parents Accept Responsibility: A new Barna study finds that 85% of parents of children under 13 believe they have the primary responsibility for teaching their children about religious beliefs and spiritual matters. Just 11% say their church has the responsibility, and 1% say it is the domain of ...read more

  • On The Fourth Of July In 1951, Florence Chadwick, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 30, 2006
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    On the Fourth of July in 1951, Florence Chadwick, the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, attempted to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. The challenge was not so much the distance, but the bone-chilling waters of the Pacific. To complicate matters, a dense ...read more

  • You Wonder Why People Choose Fields Away From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    "You wonder why people choose fields away from the States when young people at home are drifting because no one wants to take time to listen to their problems. Ill tell you why I left. Because those Stateside young people have every opportunity to study, hear, and understand the Word of God in ...read more

  • In The Film ‘the Buddy Holly Story', Gary Busey ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 10, 2006
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    In the film ‘The Buddy Holly Story’, Gary Busey starred as Buddy Holly. The year is 1956. Buddy Holly and his band ‘The Crickets’ have sold thousands of records with their first hit ‘That’ll be the day’. Somehow they manage to get themselves a live concert at a very popular venue. The crowd have ...read more

  • In A Harvard Study Of Several Hundred ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 13, 2006
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    "In a Harvard study of several hundred preschoolers, researchers discovered an interesting phenomenon. As they taped the children’s playground conversation, they realized that all the sounds coming from little girls’ mouths were recognizable words. However, only 60 percent of the sounds coming from ...read more

  • Chalmers Illustration

    Contributed by Andy Beech on Mar 2, 2006
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    Chalmers Illustration The other day I was reading a story from Graham Twelftree’s book ‘Get the Point Across’ about two African chiefs who came to the missionary Chalmers and asked for Christian teachers for their villages, but he apologised saying he didn’t have anyone to send. Two years went by ...read more

  • It's What You Do—not When You Do It

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    IT’S WHAT YOU DO--NOT WHEN YOU DO IT Ted Williams, at age 42, slammed a home run in his last official time at bat. Mickey Mantle, age 20, hit 23 home runs his first full year in the major leagues. Golda Meir was 71 when she became Prime Minister of Israel. William Pitt II was 24 when he ...read more