In Sermon Illustrations: "2 Corinthians 5 20b 6 10"

So God Is What He Is In Himself, He Does Not ...

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 6, 2005

“So God is what He is in Himself, He does not become what we believe. “I AM WHO I AM”. We are on safe ground only when we know what kind of God He is and adjust our entire being to the holy ...read more

Scripture: Hosea 11:9-10

Tags: God's Omniscience

Denomination: Orthodox

Barna Research Group Reports That More Than 1 Out ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

Barna Research Group reports that more than 1 out of 7 adults change their church each year, and another 1 out of 6 attend a carefully chosen handful of selected churches on a rotating basis rather than sticking with the same ...read more

Tags: Church General

A Perk For The Dogs: More Companies Are Offering ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

A Perk For The Dogs: More companies are offering pet insurance on their menu of employee benefits. William M. Mercer recently surveyed 1,000 companies employing IT workers and found that those with pet-friendly policies had a half-percent ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Donor Age Recent Studies Conducted By Campbell ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Donor Age Recent studies conducted by Campbell Research show that the median age of U.S. donors is 57, well above the national median age of 35. Depending on the charitable sector, median donor age varies from 49 to 64 years. Aging donors ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Congregation Finances 57% Of U.s. Congregations ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Congregation Finances 57% of U.S. congregations report their financial situation is good or excellent vs. 66% in ’00. Financial health of congregations varies by faith community. 48% of Old-line Protestant congregations report their financial situation is good or ...read more

Tags: Church General

God-Honoring Spiritual Sacrifice Begins When ...

Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 1, 2006

“God-honoring spiritual sacrifice begins when believers offer God all their human faculties, including their minds and every part of their bodies. The unregenerate yield the members of their bodies to sin, but the redeemed yield their members as instruments of righteousness ...read more

Denomination: Orthodox

Congregation Finances 57% Of U.s. Congregations ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007

Congregation Finances 57% of U.S. congregations report their financial situation is good or excellent vs. 66% in ’00. Financial health of congregations varies by faith community. 48% of Old-line Protestant congregations report their financial situation is good or ...read more

Dangerous Sacrifice: What It ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 20, 2008

Illustration: "Dangerous Sacrifice": What it means to go above what is required of us. Interview with Rick and Kay Warren – They communicate the message about being a doer of the Word of God and being willing to sacrifice for others ...read more

Tags: Sacrifices

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Why Polygamy Is Wrong

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 23, 2011

WHY POLYGAMY IS WRONG Mark Twain once debated with some Mormons that polygamy was wrong. Polygamy is a form of marriage in which a person has more than one wife at the same time. When asked to prove it from the Bible, Mark Twain ...read more

Tags: Marriage Struggle

Denomination: Brethren

Martin Luther On Faith

Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Apr 23, 2014

Martin Luther said: "Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible. Then, it accepts the impossible, does without the indispensable and bears the intolerable." Hebrews 11:6 says ‘Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-6

Tags: Living By Faith, Walking By Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Shouts Of Praise  PRO

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008

Shouts of Praise There is a loud declaration of our Lord's purpose for coming to earth at the triumphal entry. "As Jesus approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives... Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches ...read more

Scripture: Mark 11:1-10

Tags: Easter Palm Sunday

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Future Christianity: Religion & History Professor ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Future Christianity: Religion & History Professor Philip Jenkins predicts that by ’50 there will be 3 billion Christian believers in the world, of which only 1 in 5 will be ...read more

Tags: Sharing My Testimony

Before You Pick A Fight You Ought To Be Sure You ...

Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Dec 10, 2002

Before you pick a fight you ought to be sure you can win the war. President Roosevelt appeared before a joint session of Congress the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and declared, “Yesterday, December 7, 1941–a date which will live in infamy–the United States of America was suddenly and ...read more

Tags: Satan

Denomination: Assembly Of God

More Than A Decade Ago, Matt Thom, A Few Help...

Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Aug 1, 2008

More than a decade ago, Matt Thom, a few helpful young teens and me conceived of and set in motion a tree house for our back yard. The tree had a great section where branches came together but it wasn’t large enough for a good side platform. Instead, we placed four 12’ pressure treated 4x4’s around ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

A Good Example Of A Bad Example  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2010

A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A BAD EXAMPLE In 1989 the unthinkable happened. After seventy years of communism and forty years of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain fell and the brutal, sadistic power of the U.S.S.R. began to disintegrate. Russia for seven decades had been repressed, murdered, and brutalized by ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 50:1-23

Tags: America

How To Miss The Treasure Of Pilgrim's Progress ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010

How to Miss the Treasure of Pilgrim’s Progress Through Ignorance Ravi Zacharias tells this story: Some years ago, I was visiting the town of Bedford in England. The reason most tourists go to Bedford is because it was the home of the famed 17th Century writer John Bunyan who penned his immortal ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:13-16

Tags: Ignorance

Games Are Hot: Sales Of Board Games Rose 23% In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Games Are Hot: Sales of board games rose 23% in the 1st 10 months of ’00. The boom is being fed by Americans wanting to spend more time with their kids. They are also a backlash against the ...read more

Cynicism Undermines Trust: Paul Nelson, President ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Cynicism Undermines Trust: Paul Nelson, President of ECFA, recently quoted Public Sector Research finds that “Pubic confidence in charities is up—but the trust in those charities to carry out ...read more

Tags: Giving General

11 Internet Direct Mail Tips: Robert Bly, Writing ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

11 Internet Direct Mail Tips: Robert Bly, writing it the 6/12 issue of DM News notes the following techniques that seem to be successful in e-marketing. · Use short statements that tease the reader. · Use incentives, discount, gift, free shipping, etc. · Free money is a powerful offer. · With a ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

I Heard About A Man Who Visited A Very Formal ...  PRO

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 10, 2001

I heard about a man who visited a very formal church one Sunday. He said that right in the middle of the service a guy had a heart attack & died, but that the ...read more

Tags: Church Practices

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ