Contributed by Tim Richards on Dec 7, 2004
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Roughly (1 billion) people in the world suffer from the effects of malnutrition.
Roughly ( 75% ) of Americans are overweight.
A full ( 33% ) of us are clinically obese.
We spend over ( $30 billion ) annually trying to lose weight. (Thomas Trask, Wayde
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 31, 2002
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Each day across the USA 50,000 people quit their jobs. In a recent survey of workers across the USA, nearly 85% said that they could work harder at their job. More than half claimed they could double their effectiveness "if
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 30, 2002
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In this year’s hot holiday film, "The Santa Clause 2," there is a line that made me sit up and take notice. Charley, Santa’s son, says to a cynical principal who later in the story becomes Mrs. Claus, something to
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David Phillips, research sociologist at UCSD, states, "Most of us are all cognizant of the fact that fear plays a leading role in television and theater productions. People want to be, ’scared to death’, and are usually not knowledgeable, or don’t care about the ill
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
God … has created us perfectly free to disbelieve in Him as much as we choose. If we do disbelieve, then … we must take the consequences in a world ruled by cause and effect. (Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
Top Business Books Good to Great, The World is Flat, and Blink were the top 3 most recently read books by senior-level marketing execs. All -time favorite business books they’ve ever read Good to Great, Positioning, and 7
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Contributed by Et Tapper on Feb 9, 2009
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In a recent experiment, psychologists asked undergraduates to complete a survey that included a happiness scale and measures of gratitude and thankfulness.
Then over the next six weeks, the participants wrote down, once a week, five things for which they were grateful. It had a dramatic effect on
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 7, 2003
72% of teens who reported having sexual intercourse said they did it in the homes of their parents or their partners parents. Six out of ten of those having sex in homes believe their parents know about their sexual behavior. When parents say nothing about wrong
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Mac Hammond in his book “Doorways to Deception” says, “Satan cannot afflict you with the destructive effects of the curse unless you allow it by choosing, with your own free will, something that opens you up to those effects. Think about it for a moment. Satan is not called the father of
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Contributed by Bob Aubuchon on Apr 2, 2001
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A hurricane had struck. People were huddled together. A preacher was praying with great oratorical effects in the midst of this violent storm, crying out "Send us the spirit of the children of Israel, the children of Moses, the children of the Promised land." At this, an old man with less oratory
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 21, 2001
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[The Help of the Body, Citation: Watchman Nee, Leadership, Vol. 9, no. 3.]
Alone I cannot serve the Lord effectively, and he will spare no pains to teach me this.
He will bring things to an end, allowing doors to close and leaving me ineffectively knocking my
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Contributed by Melvin Shelton on Aug 20, 2003
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There is a legend that the devil was having a yard sale. People were buying articles such as lying, cheating. etc. An article was on the end of the table that had a sign not for sale. What is this item that is not for sale, people ask. The devil said I use this a lot of times and found it to be
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A hurricane had struck. People were huddled together. A preacher was praying with great oratorical effects in the midst of this violent storm, crying out "Send us the spirit of the children of Israel, the children of Moses, the children of the Promised land." At this, an old man with less oratory
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Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Nov 23, 2002
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John Wesley was asked what he would do if he knew his Lord would return at that time the next day. He said in effect, "I would go to bed and go to
sleep; wake up in the morning, and go on with my work, for I
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