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  • Eharmony.com Founded By Christian Author And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    eHarmony.com founded by Christian author and marriage counselor psychologist Dr. Neil Clark led the Internet personals category in new subscriptions by grabbing nearly 38% of total U.S. subscription sales generated by the top 12 dating sites, reports comScore. eHarmony’s radio and television ad ...read more

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  • Consumer Trends: Two Major Trends Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Consumer Trends: Two major trends of paradigm-shifting proportions are changing the face of the entire consumer retail market today. Every consumer business is going to feel the effects. Trend #1: Connecting replaces cocooning as dominant consumer trend. The cocooning and nesting trend that is at ...read more

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  • High School Workers: When Surveyed In ‘00 And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    High School Workers: When surveyed in ‘00 and ’02, a University of Washington study finds 56% of high school seniors had jobs in the last few months of their senior year. 4 of every 10 seniors didn’t work, two worked 15 hours a week or less, and 4 worked more than 15 hours a week. Most worked at ...read more

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  • Orwellian In Sutter, Ca, A Close-Knit Farming ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Orwellian In Sutter, CA, a close-knit farming town northwest of Sacramento local school 7th & 8th graders are required to wear identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade and a RFID wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher’s handheld computer when ...read more

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  • Online Donations To The Biggest U.s. Charities ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Online Donations to the biggest U.S. charities surged 63% last year from ‘03, finds a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study. The 164 groups surveyed raised a combined $166.2 million online. That is less than 1% of the total raised by most of the charities, but the growth will spur more online ...read more

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  • Two Income Trap: Even Though The Modern ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Two Income Trap: Even though the modern two-earner family brings in 75% more inflation-adjusted income than the one-earner family of a generation ago, it actually has les discretionary income—and far more financial instability. The decline of public education has dramatically raised the price of ...read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln's Secretary Of War, Edwin ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, was angered by an army officer who accused him of favoritism. Stanton complained to Lincoln, who suggested that Stanton write the officer a sharp letter. Stanton did, and showed the strongly worded missive to the president. "What are you going to ...read more

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  • In His Retirement, Thomas Jefferson Founded The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    In his retirement, Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Because Jefferson trusted that students would take their studies seriously, the code of discipline was lax. Unfortunately, his trust proved misplaced when the misbehavior of students led to a riot in which professors who tried ...read more

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  • Lady Nancy Astor, The First Woman Ever Seated In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism -- but proved herself capable of giving as well as receiving in that arena. Once, at a formal dinner, Lady Astor said to her neighbor that she considered men to be more conceited than ...read more

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  • On June 4, 1783 At The Market Square Of A French ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rages. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of "a respectable assembly and a ...read more

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  • A Number Of Years Ago The Douglas Aircraft ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the DC-8 were close to ...read more

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  • Marathoner Loses By A Mustache." So Read The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    "Marathoner Loses by a Mustache." So read the headline of a recent Associated Press story. It appeared that Abbes Tehami of Algeria was an easy winner of the Brussels Marathon--until someone wondered where his mustache had gone! Checking eyewitness accounts, it quickly became evident that the ...read more

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  • Dynamic E-Books: The Biggest Barrier To E-Book ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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    Dynamic E-Books: The biggest barrier to e-book world domination has to be the screen. An LCD display has much lower resolution than paper, and is reflective. On a PDA reading time is severely limited by battery life. But the dedicated e-book reader is about to make a comeback. Soon to be released ...read more

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  • Back In 1968, Will Herberg Wrote An Article ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
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    Back in 1968, Will Herberg wrote an article called “What Is the Moral Crisis of Our Time?” “The moral crisis of our time cannot, it seems to me, be identified merely with the widespread violation of accepted moral standards, for which our time is held to be notorious. There has never been any lack ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Nov 13, 2006
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    Perserverance: In Sydney, Australia you can climb the Sydney Harbor bridge...for a fee of course $145 per person... This opportunity is available because a gentleman by the name of Paul Cave had the vision to establish the business Bridge Climb... At one stage it looked like the business would ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • The Religious Dead Play At A Façade Of Piety ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 20, 2006
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    "The religious dead play at a façade of piety while trusting that the big check they dropped in the plate today will cover for their indulgence in the lusts of the flesh yesterday. They take a week or two to travel to a third world country and pass out rice and Bibles and that washes away any ...read more

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    Denomination: Orthodox

  • Select Stats On Change

    Contributed by Dan Brown on Nov 27, 2006
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    Select Stats on Change: In the 1950’s: -a car cost $1,220 -gas $0.23 -College Tuition- $525 -round of golf @ Pebble Beach $2 -Coke, Hershey bar, coffe- $0.05 -stamp $.03 -Annual Salary for a teacher $2,640 -computer $500,000 It took the radio 40 years to reach 50 million domestic users. It took ...read more

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  • What Does This Faith Look Like? I Know A Young ...

    Contributed by David Heflin on Feb 8, 2007
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    What does this faith look like? I know a young lady from a Muslim family. She’s not Arab. Stephanie is from OK. Some people shared the gospel with her at OU and she wanted to give her life to Christ. Her family told her that if she made that choice she would be dead to them. She made her ...read more

    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Leonard Ravenhill (While Revival Tarries, Chapter ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 15, 2007
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    Leonard Ravenhill (While Revival Tarries, Chapter 2, Prayer Grasps Eternity) No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop-window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no ...read more

    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Dynamic E-Books The Biggest Barrier To E-Book ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,490 views

    Dynamic E-Books The biggest barrier to e-book world domination has to be the screen. An LCD display has much lower resolution than paper, and is reflective. On a PDA reading time is severely limited by battery life. But the dedicated e-book reader is about to make a comeback. Soon to be released ...read more