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  • Mennonites Merge: In A Vote Eclipsing All ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
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    Mennonites Merge: In a vote eclipsing all expectations, the Mennonite Church (based in Elkhart, Ind.) and the General Conference Mennonite Church (based in Newton, Kan.) merged to form the Mennonite Church USA. The new denomination brings together the 125,000 members of the two groups. Over ...read more

  • Overweight Kids Are Lonely And Sad More Often ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Overweight Kids are lonely and sad more often than other children, and they are often bullied, ridiculed and teased by their peers, says child psychologist Sylvia Rimm. Many “fight their sadness by cheating on eating,” creating a vicious cycle, she says. Nationally, about 20% to 30% ...read more

  • Morning Showers: As Earth Rotates, The Side ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Morning Showers: As Earth rotates, the side facing the direction of its orbit around the Sun tends to scoop up more space debris. This part of the sky is directly overhead at dawn. For this reason, the Perseids and other meteor showers (and also random shooting stars in ...read more

  • Home Ownership Nearly 70% Of Americans Own Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
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    Home Ownership Nearly 70% of Americans own their homes, a record high, but the rate of homeownership for working families with children is lower than in ’78. The surprising trend is being driven by: soaring housing costs that have overshot wage increases, higher health care bills, and a ...read more

  • Zookeepers In The Netherlands Are Planning To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Zookeepers in the Netherlands are planning to hook up Dutch and Indonesian orangutans over the Internet and believe the link could at some stage be used as an online dating service where apes could get to know one another and keepers could work out whether they ...read more

  • Home Ownership Nearly 70% Of Americans Own Their ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,696 views

    Home Ownership Nearly 70% of Americans own their homes, a record high, but the rate of homeownership for working families with children is lower than in ’78. The surprising trend is being driven by: soaring housing costs that have overshot wage increases, higher health care bills, and a ...read more

  • Religion Gap Voters Who Go To Church Every Week ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Religion Gap Voters who go to church every week usually vote for Republicans while those who go to church less often or not at all tend to vote Democratic. In 2000, 25% of voters said they attended church weekly. The religion gap didn’t exist ...read more

  • Anglican Church Faces Split: The Worldwide ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Anglican Church Faces Split: The Worldwide Anglican Communion has delivered an ultimatum to the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada: Stop endorsing homosexuality or leave the Anglican Communion! Both churches must cease ordaining homosexuals and presiding over same-sex ceremonies ...read more

  • Employers Must Destroy Personal Information About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Employers Must Destroy Personal Information about their employees they got from a credit report before they throw it out. That means “shredding or burning” paper documents or “smashing or wiping” computer disks. All employees are included, even if you have only one. Non-compliance risks state ...read more

  • Among Americans 45 Or Older Who Describe ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Among Americans 45 or older who describe themselves as somewhat religious, 20% say prayer is the best way to find spiritual or religious satisfaction, according to USA Today. Other pleasing spiritual experiences include living a moral life and helping others, both at 19%. And 13% view being with ...read more

  • The Female Brain, By Louann Brizendine, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine, University of California-San Francisco Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic, sets out to show the ways in which the female brain is different from the male brain. Though certainly not politically correct, she admits the female brain is a machine ...read more

  • Peter Johnson Related This Story In The April 14, ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 5, 2008
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    Peter Johnson related this story in the April 14, 1988, issue of USA TODAY. “Have you ever noticed that sometimes we get angry and remain bitter with people and actually forget why we’re so upset? Take, for example, the notorious Hatfield-McCoy feud. “It hit newspaper front pages in the 1880’s, ...read more

  • Love/Hate Technology: An Annual Mit Survey Found ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Love/Hate Technology: An annual MIT survey found that among adults asked what invention they hate most but can’t live without, 30% said the cell phone. Alarm clocks were a close second at 25%, followed by the television at 23% and razors at 14%. Microwave ovens, computers, and ...read more

  • Honesty Ranking: Firefighters Top The Annual ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Honesty Ranking: Firefighters top the annual CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll ranking the honesty, integrity and ethical standards of various professions. 90% of Americans rated them “high” or “very high.” Close behind firefighters in the ratings were nurses (84%), members of the military (81%), policemen ...read more

  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Is Giving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving nearly $11 million to public libraries in 37 states and DC to buy computers, software and faster Internet connections. 14 million Americans use the Internet at public libraries, including a disproportionately high number of blacks, Indians and ...read more

  • Nae & Global Warming: The National Association ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    NAE & Global Warming: The National Association of Evangelicals has scheduled two meetings on Capitol Hill and in the Washington suburbs where more than 100 leaders will discuss issuing a statement on global warming. The meetings are considered so pivotal that Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat ...read more

  • Women Working From Home: The Labor-Force ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Women Working From Home: The labor-force participation rate of women ages 25 to 54 with at least 4 years of college declined from 84.7% in ‘94-‘95 to 81.8% in ‘03-‘04, and the decline was most pronounced for married women with children under age 3, according to Regional Review. A ...read more

  • Statistics On Fear And Depression

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 25, 2006
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    U.S.A. Statistic: •“Approximately 6.3 million American adults ages 18 to 54 or about 4.4 percent…have some type of specific fear.” http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/fear-statistics.html CANADIAN Statistic: •1,315,314 ...read more

  • As I Worked The Internet This Week, I Stumbled On ...  PRO

    Contributed by Floyd Johnson on Nov 19, 2006
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    As I worked the internet this week, I stumbled on the web page for the Colombian government. The Ambassador from Columbia to the USA is Andrés Pastrana. According to the web page he has two jobs – one is to manage the Columbian Embassy in Washington DC, which is responsible for serving Colombian ...read more

  • U.s. Retailers Are Expected To Add Up To 600,000 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    U.S. retailers are expected to add up to 600,000 people to their employment rolls between now and December. Target alone will hire 50,000 to 80,000 seasonal workers. Retail staffs increase an average of 5% during the holidays, but some stores boost employee rolls by as much as 50%, a number to ...read more

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