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  • Morals Sub Par: One Thing That Most Americans Can ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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    Morals Sub Par: One thing that most Americans can agree on is that moral values in the U.S. are less than good and are getting worse. Older adults are particularly critical of the state of moral values today. Overall, only 19% of Americans describe moral conditions in the country as “excellent” or ...read more

  • Divorce Accepted  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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     | 3,096 views

    DIVORCE ACCEPTED A record 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable (up 59% from ’00), finds Gallup’s ’08 Values and Beliefs Survey. Marriage Savers’ Mike McManus says, “Since 1970, that’s 42 million divorces, shattering the lives of 40 million children. We have the highest divorce ...read more

  • Children Of Divorce Often Blame Themselves For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    Children Of Divorce often blame themselves for the breakup of their parent’s marriage, and many grow up alienated from church and God. A survey of adults whose parents divorced when they were young, found divorce had a major impact on their spiritual lives. They were much less likely to go to ...read more

  • Not The Only Light!  PRO

    Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 118 ratings
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    NOT THE ONLY LIGHT! On July 06, 2000, Hugh Downs the guest host on the Larry King Live Show lead a round table discussion on the questions, "Who is Jesus? And why is there such a fascination with that question now?" Among his guests was Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Dean of Oxford L’chaim Society. During ...read more

  • I Have An Elderly Acquaintance Of About Eighty, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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     | 1,555 views

    "I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of unbroken selfishness and self-admiration from the earliest years, and is, more or less, I regret to say, one of the happiest men I know. From the moral point of view it is very difficult!...As you perhaps know, I haven’t ...read more

  • In Our Southern Baptist Convention We Pass ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 5, 2002
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    In our Southern Baptist Convention we pass resolutions every year. A resolution is a position statement, on certain moral and ethical issues that arise. One of the things that the Southern Baptist Convention did a few years ago was to pass a resolution about Jesus being the only way to salvation. ...read more

  • 2002 Poll On Uniqueness Of Christianity, ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002
    based on 63 ratings
     | 1,738 views

    [2002 Poll on Uniqueness of Christianity, Citation: "Faith in America," U.S. News & World Report (5-6-02), p. 42; source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/features/religion_survey.htm] PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly/U.S. News & World Report poll conducted March 26–April 4, 2002 In a spring ...read more

  • A Professor In A World-Acclaimed Medical School ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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    A professor in a world-acclaimed medical school once posed this medical situation -- and ethical problem -- to his students: "Here’s the family history: The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children. The first is blind. The second had died. The third is deaf. The ...read more

  • Armand M. Nicholi, M.d., Professor Of Psychiatry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, had little compassion for the common person. Freud ...read more

  • Good Without God

    Contributed by John Sears on Jul 20, 2011
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    GOOD WITHOUT GOD An atheist organization recently got into hot water when it put up a billboard that crossed over onto church property. The message on the billboard read, "I can be good without God." What do you think? The funny thing is I agree, I think they are right! They have hit something ...read more

  • Richard Dawkins, The Famous Oxford Biologist Who ...

    Contributed by Randy Hohf on Feb 6, 2008
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    Richard Dawkins, the famous Oxford biologist who is one of the most ardent atheist scholars and debaters today, and who recently published “The God Delusion” in which he spews his hatred for religion and especially for the God of the Bible, peddles his own t-shirts stamped “Atheists for Jesus” and ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Of Our Day Seem To Be Totally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. Somewhere along the ...read more

  • A Barna Study Finds 65% Of U.s. Teens Recall ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
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    A Barna study finds 65% of U.S. teens recall learning about moral and ethical standards in the last 12 months; 62% relationships, 55% faith traditions and 50% personal evangelism. Fewer recall church teachings on media, movies and TV within the last year (35%); money and finances (30%); the ...read more

  • Too Many Christians Of Our Day Seem To Be Totally ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
     | 1,417 views

    Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. Somewhere along the ...read more

  • No Difference

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 3,569 views

    NO DIFFERENCE Too many Christians of our day seem to be totally unconcerned with the need to be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom.8: 29). Rather, they seem to think that they can live pretty much as they please, as long as they admit it to God. This could not be farther from the truth. ...read more

  • U.s. Donor Profiles: According To Campbell ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,798 views

    U.S. Donor Profiles: According to Campbell research, the following are typical profiles of U.S. donors. (1) Gender: 60% female, 40% male. (2) Ethic Origin: 85% Caucasian, 7% African American, 3% Hispanic, 1% Asian and 4% other. (3) Median Age: 54. Of course individual organiza-tions donor profiles ...read more

  • U.s. Donor Profiles According To Campbell ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    U.S. Donor Profiles According to Campbell research, the following are typical profiles of U.S. donors. (1) Gender: 60% female, 40% male. (2) Ethic Origin: 85% Caucasian, 7% African American, 3% Hispanic, 1% Asian and 4% other. (3) Median Age: 54. Of course individual organiza-tions donor profiles ...read more

  • Abraham Vs. Balaam

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2010
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    ABRAHAM VS. BALAAM Whosoever possesses these three qualities belongs to the disciples of Abraham our father: a generous eye, a humble spirit, and a meek soul. But he who possesses the three opposite qualities--an evil eye, a proud spirit, and a haughty soul--is of the disciples of Balaam the ...read more

  • What Is Christianity?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? A number of years ago, in preparation for a discussion period on a Christian radio program, an interviewer went into the streets of Philadelphia to ask people this question: "What is Christianity." The answers were surprising. Some said that Christianity is "the American ...read more

  • Marriage Insight

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Nov 15, 2021
     | 1,126 views

    Destructive to marriage is the self fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become whole or happy. The assumption is that there is someone just right for us to marry and that if we look closely enough we will ...read more