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  • Can't Buy Me Love  PRO

    Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Feb 23, 2003
    based on 28 ratings
     | 4,605 views

    CAN'T BUY ME LOVE A minister was speaking to the Sunday school about the things money can’t buy. “It can’t buy laughter and it can’t buy love” he told them. Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your mother and father?” Stunned ...read more

  • Luther's Ten Qualifications For The Minister

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 27, 2005
     | 2,396 views

    Luther"'s ten qualifications for the minister: 1) He should be able to teach plainly and in order. 2) He should have a good head. 3) Good power of language. 4) A good voice. 5) A good memory. 6) He should know when to stop. 7) He should be sure of what he means to say. 8) And be ready to ...read more

  • While 88% In A Recent Barna Poll Believe Jesus ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,788 views

    While 88% in a recent Barna poll believe Jesus Christ was a real person, what they believe about him differs sharply from scriptural teaching. 42% (even 1/4th of the “born again” Christians) believe that while on earth Jesus sinned just like other people. 61% believe the devil is just a symbol of ...read more

  • True Leaders Must Be Rather Than Just Do. They ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,292 views

    True leaders must be rather than just do. They must lead by vision and values of the organization rather than by mere hierarchical position. The emerging role of future leaders has at least 5 dimensions: (1) to articulate and communicate the mission, vision and values of the organization; (2) to ...read more

  • What America's Children Really Think About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
     | 997 views

    What America’s Children Really Think About Working Parents, (William Morrow, $25) by Ellen Galinsky, reports the findings of a study of 1,000 3rd through 12th graders. From their perspective, the thing they desire most is that their parents would bring less stress home from work, and they want ...read more

  • Hispanic Believers: According To Barna Research, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 1,093 views

    Hispanic Believers: According to Barna Research, during a typical week Hispanics are just as likely to attend church (40%), volunteer at their church (24%), pray to God (81%), attend a Sunday school class (15%), and attend a small group meeting for spiritual purposes (15%) as are non-Hispanic ...read more

  • Gifting Occasions: About 53% Of The Gifters' ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,179 views

    Gifting Occasions: About 53% of the gifters’ $2,062 annual budget is spent to buy gifts for holidays. After Christmas, which accounts for $843, Mothers Day is the next. The remaining 47% of the annual gifting budget is spent for gift occasions. Birthdays top the list with the typical gifter buying ...read more

  • Fewer Wal-Mart Shoppers: Although Wal-Mart's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,314 views

    Fewer Wal-Mart Shoppers: Although Wal-Mart’s sales were up 3% and Target’s up 5.1% during the ‘04 holidays, fewer U.S. households actually shopped there. A Leo J. Shapiro survey finds 54% of households shopped at Wal-Mart (down 2% from ‘03) and 36% at Target (down 7%). ...read more

  • Liberal Educators: A Study By Political Science ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,582 views

    Liberal Educators: A study by political science professors Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Neil Nevitte finds that 72% of those teaching at U.S. universities and colleges are liberal and 15% are conservative. 50% of the faculty members surveyed identified themselves as Democrats vs. 11% as ...read more

  • Reshaping The Church Researcher George Barna Has ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,221 views

    Reshaping The Church Researcher George Barna has identified 4 factors he describes as “indicative of the reshaping of the church in the U.S.” They are: (1) The priorities embraced by church leaders. Most local churches essentially ignore: ministry to children, ministry to families and prayer. (2) ...read more

  • Families Rate: A Recent Gallup Poll Reveals That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,118 views

    Families Rate: A recent Gallup Poll reveals that Americans rank their family and health as the two most important aspects of life. Family was seen as extremely important or very important by 96% and health was rated high by 90%. Work, friends, money and religion were viewed as roughly equal in ...read more

  • Top 10 Things To Do Inside A Whale  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,022 views

    TOP 10 THINGS TO DO INSIDE A WHALE 10) “Can you hear me now?” 9) Pray … he’s bulemic 8) Bonfire and fish fry! 7) Open a sushi bar 6) "Consider it pure joy" 5) Floss … the whale 4) Finally get motivated to read Moby Dick 3) Listen to tapes of your preacher’s old ...read more

  • Research Is Wonderful. Sometimes It Means ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,309 views

    Research is wonderful. Sometimes it means nothing and sometimes there can be a lot of information in these statistics. For instance, researchers for the World Almanac and Book of Facts asked 2000 American eighth-grade students to name prominent people they admired and wanted to be like. Those ...read more

  • Every 24 Hours, About 146,000 People Die, And ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jan 16, 2005
     | 918 views

    Every 24 hours, about 146,000 people die, and most of them without Christ. Every 24 hours, about 345,000 babies are born. Will we win these? Our denomination wins about 400,000 people to Christ a year, which is less than the number of people born January 1 & 2 each year. My ...read more

  • The Late Vance Havner's Wife Was Also Named ...  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Black on Feb 2, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 8,458 views

    The late Vance Havner’s wife was also named Sarah. Shortly after her untimely death, Warren Wiersbe met him at Moody Bible Institute, and expressed his condolences with the simple words, "I’m sorry to hear you lost your wife." Dr. Havner smiled and replied, "Son, when you know where something is, ...read more

  • Switch To Vibrate Companies Are Limiting On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,261 views

    Switch to Vibrate Companies are limiting on the job cellphone use in reaction to the noisy jangle of beeps and tunes emanating from incoming personal calls. 30% of employees say cellphones ringing at work is their #1 pet peeve, according to a Randstad USA study. A Sprint survey finds 53% of workers ...read more

  • Teen Sex Roughly 20% Of Young Teens (Ages 13-16) ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
     | 1,429 views

    Teen Sex Roughly 20% of young teens (ages 13-16) are sexually active; not counting those who don’t think oral sex is really sex. 12% have had oral sex. Only 15% of parents say their young teen is sexually active beyond kissing while nearly 30% of teens admit going there. About 85% of parents think ...read more

  • Screen Kids- 83% Of Children Under 6 Use "Screen ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 719 views

    Screen Kids- 83% of children under 6 use “screen media” for an average of 2 hours in a typical day finds a Kaiser Family Foundation study. Media use increases with age, from 61% of infants younger than 1 to 90% of 4- to 6-year-olds. Parents use media to help them keep their kids occupied, calm them ...read more

  • Blogs Are Increasingly The Way People ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 938 views

    Blogs are increasingly the way people communicate. There are some 37 million blogs in the world, with a new one created every second, reports blog track site Technorati. Blogs as a social network, doubles in size every 6 months. It is now 60 times bigger than 3 years ago, with 1.2 million new ...read more

  • Uncensored An Arbitron Study Of Cable Tv ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,188 views

    Uncensored An Arbitron study of cable TV subscribers finds nearly two-thirds prefer the government not restrict cable programming, agreeing channels like MTV, E!, and Comedy Central should be able to carry whatever they please. 77% said premium networks (e.g. HBO) should be given even greater ...read more

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