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  • Mobilization Is Not Filling Slots," Claims Carol ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    “Mobilization is not filling slots,” claims Carol Davis, veteran church leadership trainer, “Mobilization is activating the incredible capacity of Christ’s church to serve the purposes of God in our own generation. Mobilization happens when I’m being used as an activator. I listen to and watch for ...read more

  • Fewer Absolute Truth Believers: Some 20 Months ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Fewer Absolute Truth Believers: Some 20 months prior to the 9/11 attacks, people were asked if they believed that “there are moral truths that are absolute, meaning that those moral truths or principles do not change according to the circumstances” or that “moral truth always depends upon the ...read more

  • No Religion: Experts Who Compared The Results Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    No Religion: Experts who compared the results of religious identification surveys for ’90 and ‘01 report that those who said they have “no” religious identification are the fastest growing U.S. religious group. They comprised 8% of respondents in ‘90 and 14% in ‘01, or approximately 30 million ...read more

  • Charge It: A New Gallup Poll Shows That Just Over ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Charge It: A new Gallup Poll shows that just over half of Americans have at least one credit card on which they do not pay off the full amount due each month. 29% say they have at least one card, but always pay the full amount each month. 21% don’t have any credit cards. The average outstanding ...read more

  • Multigenerational Households: In The 2000 Census ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Multigenerational Households: In the 2000 Census extended families with kids, parents and grandparents, totaled 4.2 million homes. Another 43.6 million households included people from two generations. 57.5 million households consisted of only one generation. Single-adult households are now the most ...read more

  • Albert Mohler Jr. -- "At Some Point In The ...

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 8, 2006
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    Albert Mohler Jr. -- “At some point in the nineteen-sixties, Hell disappeared. No one could say for certain when this happened. First it was there, then it wasn’t. Different people became aware of the disappearance of Hell at different times. Some realized that they had been living for years as ...read more

  • When Fighting Ceased In 1918 The Mud Of The ...

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 4, 2006
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    When fighting ceased in 1918 the mud of the battlefields was allowed to rest and nature began to be restored and before long the wild flowers grew and bloomed including the poppy. The colour of red reminded people of bloodshed and the sacrifice by millions of brave soldiers of their lives. And so ...read more

  • Our Personal Rainbow

    Contributed by Susan Blader on Nov 27, 2006
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    Our Personal Rainbow And did you know that God gives each of us our own personal rainbow? No two people will see the same rainbow. A rainbow is formed by a raindrop that acts like a prism, separating sunlight into its individual color components. If you stand looking at a rainbow, and someone ...read more

  • When You Are Born Again, The Holy Spirit Does ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 29, 2006
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    When you are born again, the Holy Spirit does not do a “renovation project” on you, but gives you a brand new life. It’s like the new home some of you visited last week. In Augusta, we renovated an older home with flooring, paint and fixtures. But here, we didn’t want to go through that costly ...read more

  • Legalized Gambling Americans Spend More Money On ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Legalized Gambling Americans spend more money on more forms of legal gambling now than at any time in the nation’s history. 70% of Americans say legalized gambling encourages people to gamble more than they can afford. Only 62% expressed that concern in ’89. Interestingly 71% approve of state ...read more

  • Social Impact Theory

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 4, 2007
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    According to Wikipedia: Normative influence is a function of social impact theory (Lantane, 1981), which has three components. A group’s strength is how important the group is to you. Groups we value generally have more social influence. Immediacy is how close the group is to you in time and space ...read more

  • Dorothy Sayers, In A Book Of Her Essays Entitled ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Dorothy Sayers, in a book of her essays entitled The Whimsical Christian, has one essay called “The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,” where she writes, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has ...read more

  • Who Came To Worship

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Henry Ward Beecher knew he was going to be absent from the pulpit of Plymouth Church one Sunday, so he asked his brother to preach for him. When the worship service began, and it became apparent that the great preacher would not be speaking that particular morning, some people got up and started to ...read more

  • The Baptist Preacher Carlyle Marney Visited A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    "The Baptist preacher Carlyle Marney visited a college campus. A student asked, ’Dr. Marney, would you say a word or two about the resurrection of the dead?’ Marney answered, ’I will not discuss that with people like you.’ When the student wanted to know why, Marney said, ’Look at you, in the ...read more

  • George Macleod "I Simply Argue That The Cross Be ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    George MacLeod "I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the market place as well as on the steeple of the church, I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles: But on a cross between two thieves; on a town garbage heap; At a ...read more

  • C.s. Lewis Understood That Confidence And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C.S. Lewis understood that confidence and arrogance were components of pride, too, and that humility was what kept them in balance. There was no simpering, sniveling, “I can’t do anything,” in what he did, but neither was there the pride that says “It’s all me.” He suggested a definition that I ...read more

  • I Was Reading About The Rev. George Whitefield. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I was reading about the Rev. George Whitefield. He was the greatest preacher that the Church of England ever had. But he also worked well with Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and anyone else who believed in the gospel. One day, a colleague asked him, “Why do you do this? Why do you work with ...read more

  • William Barclay Wrote: "For Most Of Us The ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jul 15, 2007
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    William Barclay wrote: “For most of us the threat of life is not so much that we should plunge into disaster, but that we should drift into sin. There are few people who deliberately and in a moment turn their backs on God; there are many who day by day drift farther and farther away from him. ...read more

  • In His Excellent Book On A Christian's Place In ...

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
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    In his excellent book on a Christian’s place in tomorrow’s world, Wild Hope, Tom Sine urges Christians to take change seriously. He writes, “If we don’t begin in our lives, professions, and churches to anticipate both the new challenges and the new opportunities the twenty-first century brings us, ...read more

  • Back In College, My Agriculture Extension ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 21, 2007
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    Back in college, my agriculture extension lecturer used to warn us about our field work activities that we ought to be careful when visiting some homesteads. He emphasized on the significance of learning the peoples culture and traditions. This was due to the fact that in some families, several ...read more