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  • Robert Clinton Has Studied And Written A Great ...

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Jul 21, 2008
     | 1,862 views

    Robert Clinton has studied and written a great deal about leadership. Clinton has come to the conclusion that over 70% of leaders don’t finish well. For Christian leaders, he offers six factors that contribute to leadership failure. One is, leaders quit learning and growing. Contentment is ...read more

  • Robert Clinton Has Studied And Written A Great ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,760 views

    Robert Clinton has studied and written a great deal about leadership. Clinton has come to the conclusion that over 70% of leaders don’t finish well. For Christian leaders, he offers six factors that contribute to leadership failure. One is, leaders quit learning and growing. Contentment is a ...read more

  • Jesus And Unity

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 24, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 10,413 views

    JESUS AND UNITY Jesus knew that people contribute their uniqueness to churches and therefore they make it stronger. Each person in the body (on the team) contains a host of knowledge, insight and experiences to a scenario, or a situation. Mike Murdoch makes this observation, "Look at those who ...read more

  • Money That Individuals Give Comes To The Church ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Mar 7, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 2,458 views

    Money that individuals give comes to the church from five sources, or "pockets." Obviously, these are not actual pockets, but symbolic pictures representing five major motives of church members in giving to their church. When church leaders understand the nature and source of their church’s ...read more

  • The Church Doesn't Need Squirts

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 7, 2009
     | 1,316 views

    THE CHURCH DOESN'T NEED SQUIRTS Soren Kierkegaard once wrote about a town where a fireman lived. Everyone liked the fireman because he was a nice guy. He made it a habit to be gentle and kind, which was unusual for firemen, who were supposed to be tough. There was a fire one day, and the fireman ...read more

  • It Is Sometimes Argued (Sadly) By Christians, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 2,062 views

    It is sometimes argued (sadly) by Christians, “What’s wrong with buying a lottery ticket? What’s wrong with putting a few quarters into a slot machine?” The problem is that such spending supports and propagates an immoral, predatory and exploitative industry that destroys families and society. In ...read more

  • Arthur Pink Wrote About How Some People Do Not ...  PRO

    Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 5, 2002
    based on 46 ratings
     | 3,340 views

    Arthur Pink wrote about how some people do not worship: They bring their bodies to the house of prayer but not their souls. They worship with their mouths but not in spirit and in truth. They are sticklers for early morning communion with God but they take no thought about keeping their hearts ...read more

  • But I Just Have To Give!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 22, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,312 views

    BUT I JUST HAVE TO GIVE! Eric Hulstrand writes in Leadership magazine: "While I was preaching one Sunday, an elderly woman, Mary, fainted and struck her head on the end of the pew. Immediately, an EMT in the congregation called an ambulance. As they strapped her to a stretcher and got ready to ...read more

  • Sugging And Frugging

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,825 views

    Sugging & Frugging: Have you been receiving phone calls asking you to participate in a survey? It’s quite likely you were the victim of Sugging (Selling under the guise of research) or Frugging (Fundraising under the guise of research), where telemarketers ask a few obligatory questions prior to ...read more

  • Since God Is Good, Can I Have His Name?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,408 views

    SINCE GOD IS GOOD, CAN I HAVE HIS NAME? If you’re in Lake City, Fla., one of these days and happen to run into a 50-something fellow with a sandy moustache, a receding hairline, and aviator glasses, you may be in the presence of I Am Who I Am. Really. But that’s because Columbia County Court ...read more

  • From The Classes To The Masses: Why Is The Luxury ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,125 views

    From The Classes To The Masses: Why is the luxury market so important? It’s not only the depth of their pockets and their contribution to the consumer economy. The affluent, luxury consumer is a bellwether of trends coming to the great mass market. All luxury concepts after first being ...read more

  • Horses In The Salad—readers' Digest Online, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,623 views

    Horses in the Salad—Readers’ Digest Online, Reader Contributions, Hazel Boone, Kelowna, BC, 1999 "I took Spanish lessons every day while my husband and I lived in Argentina. After a month, my tutor encouraged me to ’speak to the shop clerks, the maid. Speak to everyone and practise, practise.’ A ...read more

  • Work In God's Kingdom  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 23, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,063 views

    WORK IN GOD’S KINGDOM John Stott tells a joke against his vocation: a clefgyman is the last person in the world to write about work. For, as everybody knows, he has not done an honest day’s work in his life. As the old saying goes, he is ‘six days invisible and one day incomprehensible!’ The ...read more

  • In Readers Digest, Alexander Saul Writes: "I ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
    based on 83 ratings
     | 4,174 views

    In Readers Digest, Alexander Saul writes: "I have spent well nigh fifty years working on the history of the Russian Revolution. In the process I’ve collected hundreds of personal testimonies, read hundreds of books, and contributed eight volumes of my own. But if I were asked today to formulate ...read more

  • Remember That William Carey, The Father Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 1, 2002
    based on 35 ratings
     | 1,410 views

    Remember that William Carey, the Father of modern missions told his churches, If you will hold the ropes, I will go down to look for the lost." He started out with only six supporters but ended up staying 47 years in India and setting in motion the entire modern missionary movement because of those ...read more

  • Stop Paying The Bully  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,713 views

    STOP PAYING THE BULLY In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes: There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons. But then the karate lesson guy said I had to ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, I Was Working On Replacing An ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
     | 1,112 views

    Several years ago, I was working on replacing an old, falling-over retaining wall on the side of my house. Some of the stones I replaced were too big for me to move and some were cemented together into “blobs” of rock and concrete. So I set out to bust them up with a sledge hammer. I struck ...read more

  • The Spirit's Message And Power Can Only Be ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 25, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,989 views

    The Spirit’s message and power can only be understood by the help of the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:11-16). i. His wisdom is what brings us understanding in this world of confusing messages. ii. His wisdom is what helps us to see in the darkness of this world. iii. His wisdom is what helps us to see if ...read more

  • Give Yourself Right Now

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 26, 2008
     | 2,149 views

    GIVE YOURSELF RIGHT NOW Those in recovery groups talk about seeing what he or she can “pack into the stream of life.” Many addicts and alcoholics initially think of themselves as pretty good people who just need to cut back drinking. If they have problems, they happen because of other people. ...read more

  • Talking About Heaven

    Contributed by John Crowe on Jul 17, 2014
     | 5,565 views

    My 5-year-old great – grandson, Travis, and his mother had a conversation about heaven. “Mom, I don’t think I want to go to heaven.” “Sure you do.” “No. I don’t think so.” “But why not?” “I think I’ll be hungry.” “No, baby. Jesus will make sure to feed you.” “I know, but Jesus feeds everybody fish, ...read more