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April 2008
One of the greatest tragedies for people would be to live in darkness when they could live in the light....
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March 2008
Results from a new study released from Ellison Research finds that 13 percent of Americans do not believe...
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March 2008
In a Preaching magazine sermon called "Easter as an Earthquake," William Willimon concluded with these...
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March 2008
In the May 1982 issue of Guideposts, Norman Vincent Peale told of a distinguished British violinist named...
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March 2008
A survey published in American Sociological Review revealed that in 2004 one out of every four Americans...
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March 2008
AGE
There is a birthday card making the rounds that says, “You know what they say about age — it’s all...
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February 2008
Rick Ezell shares this story: Everett Alvarez Jr. was the first American pilot shot down over North Vietnam...
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Marriage, Family
Marriage, Family
In a recent survey reported by the media, the Pew Research Center surveyed 2,020 adults concerning their views of marriage and childbearing. The results were quite enlightening. Non-marital childbearing numbers rose to 36.8 percent of all births in 2005, up from 5.3 percent in 1960. In the 1990s, only about a third of these non-marital births were to women co-habiting with their partners. Now almost half of all out-of-wedlock births are to women co-habiting with their partners. In addition, 47 percent of people in their 30s and 40s have lived in a co-habiting relationship. In spite of the rise in co-habitation, 71 percent of those surveyed think that births to unwed women are a “big problem” and 59 percent believe unmarried couples having children is bad for society. The task is challenging for the contemporary church to hold up the ideals of a Christian marriage and family to a society that continues to de-value them.
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