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Christian Shopper Facts

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Christian Shopper Facts: George Barna’s 2003 Update: Christian Bookstore Shopping reports: · 14% of all U.S. women are frequent Christian-store shoppers. · 15% of Boomers (born between ’46 and ’64) are Christian-store frequent shoppers. · Evangelical’s account for 69% of the most active Christian ...read more

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Christian Product Purchasers' Median Income Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Christian product purchasers’ median income is 46% higher and the percentage of households making over $85,000 is 76% higher than the U.S. average. In ’01, Wal-Mart Supercenters were the fastest growing ...read more

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77% Go Out Of Their Way To Encourage Or ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

77% go out of their way to encourage or compliment someone for something excellent or special they have done. (Foster ...read more

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85% Of All U.s. Adults Contend That Their ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

85% of all U.S. adults contend that their religious faith is very important in their life, finds Barna Research Group. ...read more

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Inspired Kindness: A New Survey By The National ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Inspired Kindness: A new survey by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago finds that those who attend church weekly and take part in other religious activities perform an average of 128 acts of kindness a year versus 96 ...read more

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Americans Support Christian Monuments In A New ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Americans Support Christian Monuments In a new USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll Americans are overwhelmingly thumbing their noses at liberal judicial activists who seek to strip the public square of all references to God. The poll shows the following preferences: * The inscription “In God we trust” on ...read more

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Info Overload: New Research Conducted By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Info Overload: New research conducted by professors at the University of California at Berkeley found that the volume of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media doubled between ’99 and ’02. Last year alone, enough new information was generated to fill half a million ...read more

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If A U.s. Voter Attends Church Regularly, They ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

If a U.S. voter attends church regularly, they will probably vote Republican by a 2-1 margin. If they never go to church, the vote will likely be Democratic by a 2-1 ...read more

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It Is Always Easier To Fight For One's Principles ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian psychiatrist. Quoted in Phyllis ...read more

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Obedience Is The Mother Of Success, And Success ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.), Greek ...read more

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Never Trust The Advice Of A Man In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop (6th century B.C.), Greek ...read more

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Just As A Servant Knows That He Must First Obey ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the ...read more

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Keep Us Little And Unknown, Prized And Loved By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God ...read more

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Our Peace And Confidence Are To Be Found Not In ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness ...read more

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Wherever The Fear Of God Rules In The Heart, It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

"Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 7:10-13

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There Is No Work Better Than To Please God; To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

"There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler,, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, ...read more

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Nothing Is More Generally Known Than Our Duties ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is ...read more

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But He Is Unworthy The Name Of A Minister Of The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for ...read more

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It Is Not How Much We Have, But How Much We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2006

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” ...read more

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Have A Sense Of Direction?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 10, 2006

HAVE A SENSE OF DIRECTION? STEALING THE BELL In the North Sea at Firth of Tay, Scotland there is a dangerous rock to navigators. Every tide that comes in covers the rock just beneath the surface of the waters. Many ships have been damaged by this hidden rock. The Abbot of Aberbrothok fixed a great ...read more

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Denomination: Assembly Of God