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  • Camera, Action 16% Of American Adult Internet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Camera, Action 16% of American adult internet users have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. That translates into roughly 21 million people who have viewed material on web cams. And on any given day, about two million internet users are checking ...read more

  • Aging America: According To Data From Census ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Aging America: According to data from Census 2000, the median age in America reached its highest point ever at 35.3 years, up from 32.9 years in 1990. The most rapid increase in size of any age group was the 49% jump in the population of ...read more

  • Merchantmania: According To A July Ebay Survey, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Merchantmania: According to a July eBay survey, more than 724,000 Americans report eBay is their primary or secondary income source. Another 1.5 million say they supplement their income by selling on eBay. A separate MasterCard study estimates there are 5 million web-driven ...read more

  • Grandparents: The Census Bureau Reports That More ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Grandparents: The Census Bureau reports that more than 1/3 of the 2.4 million grandparents who are primary care-givers to a grandchild living in a home without the child’s parents. These grandparents were responsible for “most of the child’s basic needs.” This means 42% of all 5.8 ...read more

  • Grandparent Gap: There Are About 50 Million ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Grandparent Gap: There are about 50 million grandparents in the U.S., but their grandchildren do not know many of them. Only a third of grandparents live close enough to visit once or more each week. However, research shows that the relationship with a grandparent is second only to the emotional ...read more

  • We Christians Too Often Substitute Prayer For ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    “We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don’t hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, ...read more

  • There Are Different Kinds Of Fire; There Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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    "There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere ...read more

  • It Is Like The Man Who Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Toby Powers on Mar 15, 2006
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    ILLUSTRATION: It is like the man who was stranded all alone on the deserted island who was rescued. His rescuers asked him what the three structures were that he had built on the island. Three buildings seemed perplexing for just one man. He said one was his house, one ...read more

  • The African Impala Can Jump To A Height Of Over ...

    Contributed by Frederic Whittier on Nov 14, 2006
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    The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall. Faith is the ability to trust ...read more

  • Shopping Has. Today Shoppers Follow Two Different ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Shopping Has. Today shoppers follow two different tracks: necessities shopping where convenience and price are key and recreational shopping where a fun experience is sought. From ‘97 to ‘02, the share of retail sales credited to the 50 largest U.S. retailers grew from 25.7% to 31.7%. The new model ...read more

  • When Examining A Precious Stone, Gemologists ...

    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
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    When examining a precious stone, gemologists often look at it in the sunlight. When I was selling Rainbow cleaners, I would shine a bright light in the room to reveal dirt floating in the air. So how do our spiritual lives stand up to the sunlight? Are they ...read more

  • Two Apples Up In A Tree Were Looking Down On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2004
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    Two apples up in a tree were looking down on the world. The first apple said, "Look at all those people fighting, robbing, rioting -- no one seems willing to get along with his fellow man. Someday we apples will be the only ones left. Then we’ll rule the world." The second apple though for a ...read more

  • A Sunday School Teacher Was Trying To Demonstrate ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2004
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    A Sunday school teacher was trying to demonstrate the difference between right and wrong to her young teen class. She chose stealing for her example. The teacher said: "All right let’s use this example. If I were to go into a man’s pocket and take his wallet with all his ...read more

  • Imagination Has Brought Mankind Through The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these ...read more

  • It Is Time We Put A Stop To The Coercive And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "It is time we put a stop to the coercive and compulsory bans on religious expression in our public schools. Those who oppose such expression constantly point to their desire to protect constitutional rights and intents. However, they seem oblivious to the fact that those who wrote and adopted the ...read more

  • Kids Are Cute, Babies Are Cute, Puppies Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Kids are cute, babies are cute, puppies are cute. The little things are cute. See, nature did this on purpose so that we would want to take care of our young. Made them cute. Tricked us. Then gradually they get older and older, until one day your mother ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
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    A.W.Tozer also said “Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of ...read more

  • When The Kimberly-Clark Corporations Sent ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 16, 2009
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    When the Kimberly-Clark corporations sent observers to watch parents and toddlers use their diapers, they asked questions, listened to the parents, and noted the struggles that many toddlers and parents were having. They sent the info back to the research and development department and they came up ...read more

  • It Seems That Professional Golfer Ben Hogan Once ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 18, 2010
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    It seems that professional golfer Ben Hogan once accidentally taped his ball and it moved just slightly. Hogan said to his caddie, “That will cost us a stroke.” “I didn’t see it, Mr. Hogan,” the caddie said, “and I’m sure no one ...read more

  • Back To The Future

    Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Jan 26, 2010
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    Back to the Future Most of us may remember a movie by this same title. In fact there were several "Back to the Future" sequels. In the movie starring Michael J. Fox and Claudia Wells, after traveling back in time, they found that the only way to return to the future was to recreate the system and ...read more