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Illustration: Sports, Marriage

Sports appreciation is good for couples....

Pornography

According to a U.S. government study based on over 200,000 pieces of pornography, nearly three-quarters of all pornographic material is prepared for children under the age of 18. Pornography in the U...

Excuses

Before you make too many excuses based on your having gotten a poor start in life consider the study made by Victor and Mildred Goertzel. They studied the backgrounds of hundreds of highly successful ...

Habit

A survey conducted by George Washington University reveals that many of the young people who got hooked in drugs in the 1960's are still using them. The 5,000-person study suggests that while the perc...

Humility

Ruth Harms Calkin does a masterful job on the subject of humility in her poem: I Wonder You know, Lord, how I serve you with great emotional fervor in the limelight. You know how eagerly I speak for ...

Parental Example

In a study several years ago it was learned that more than half of those who became Christian ministers had decided on this vocation by the age of eleven. Now, more than ever before or after, the pare...

Leadership

What Makes a Good Leader? John W. Gardner, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, who directs a leadership study project in Washington, D.C., has pinpointed five ch...

Joy

Happy people live longer. That is the conclusion of Marilyn Elias writing in USA Today. She quoted Beverly Bennett of Duke University Medical Center as saying, “People could potentially exten...

Happiness

A University of Southern California study found that greater wealth didn't translate into greater happiness. The survey monitored the lives of approximately 1,500 people over the course of thirty y...

Fornication

Somebody Always Pays. Someone always pays for promiscuity - and it is not always the primary participants who pay the most. This year there will be 1.2 million pregnant teenagers. Do you know that it....

Mission

The world was saddened to learn of the recent death of Fred Rogers of “Mister Rogers Neighborhood.” After graduating from Rollins College in Florida, Rogers intended to go to a seminary ...

Obedience

Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 to former slaves who had escaped from Kentucky to Ontario via the Underground Railroad. His parents sent him to study in Scotland, where he earned a degree in engineer...

Study the Passage: The vital step in preparing powerful sermons

The first step in preparing a biblical message is to study the passage......

Illustration: Abundant Life

According to news reports, the International Journal of Epidemiology just published an article that maintains bored people die sooner than people who are excited about life. Britton and Shipley of the...

Honored Faith

People who play it too safe take the greatest risks. Did you know that? In the long haul, the intelligent risk takers develop the greatest security. It's a wise person who learns the importance of ris...

Earthly Riches

Businessmen say lives 'empty': A study of 4,126 male business executives reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the corporate experience. Forty-eight percent of all middle managers said that despite ...

Training of Children

Belsky cites such studies as a 1982 one in which preschool personnel observed that children who had been in group day care since infancy seemed more anxious, aggressive and hyperactive. Another study ...

Illustration: Faith and Happiness

People who live their lives without God are found to be less joyful than those who are churched and abiding in Him....

Sin

Results from a new study released from Ellison Research finds that 13 percent of Americans do not believe at all in the concept of sin. But, a majority of Americans (87%), however, do believe in this ...

Paradoxes

The Lord's Wisdom Upon first reading, these precepts gleaned from the gospels seem to defy human logic. A deeper study, however, will reveal that in them the Lord has outlined a wondrous pattern and a...