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  • A Young Business Owner Was Opening A New Branch ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,062 views

    A young business owner was opening a new branch office, and a friend decided to send a floral arrangement for the grand opening. When the friend arrived at the opening, he was appalled to find that his wreath bore the inscription: “Rest in peace.” Angry, he complained to the florist. After ...read more

  • William Weston, Sociology Professor At Center ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,477 views

    William Weston, sociology professor at Center College, Danville, KY reports in The Religion Market that strict churches are experiencing great growth. Strict is defined as having a clear, authoritative doctrine, rigorous religious practices, and demanding membership requirements. “What people want ...read more

  • Pastor's Pay: A Recent Christian Ministry ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,093 views

    Pastor’s Pay: A recent Christian Ministry Resources (survey finds: Protestant pastors’ pay packages average $73,000. Mega-church pastors earn an average of $108,000. Pastors of congregations with less than 100 members receive $32,500. Average salaries increased to $60,000 for churches with 100 to ...read more

  • Prayer Helps: A Recent Survey By Aarp And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 2,010 views

    Prayer Helps: A recent survey by AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving finds that 75% of U.S. caregivers cope with the demands of Caregiving through prayer. 61% talk with friends and relatives, 44% read books on Caregiving, 41% exercise to work off stress and 33% cope by going on line for ...read more

  • Home Theaters: With The Ascent Of Dvd Players, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,508 views

    Home Theaters: With the ascent of DVD players, flat-screen and high-definition TV and surround-sound home “theaters in a box” as standard equipment in American households, the furnishings of movie theaters are descending into the mass-marketplace. One hot item is home theater seating, typically a ...read more

  • In His Memoir Of His Experience In A Nazi ...

    Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
     | 1,120 views

    In his memoir of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Elie Wiesel notes that before his village was ever emptied of the Jewish settlers, a poor man, Moshe the Beadle, who had been deported on some of the first trains of Jews out of the Hungarian village and had seen first hand the ...read more

  • Follow The Money The National Geographic Society ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 2,323 views

    Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1 ...read more

  • Infolust Consumers Are Lusting After Detailed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 1,761 views

    INFOLUST Consumers are lusting after detailed information on where to get the best of the best, the cheapest of the cheapest, the first of the first, the healthiest of the healthiest, the coolest of the coolest, or on how to become the smartest of the smartest. The driving force behind INFOLUST is ...read more

  • Follow The Money The National Geographic Society ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
     | 1,519 views

    Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1 ...read more

  • Infolust Consumers Are Lusting After Detailed ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 1,943 views

    INFOLUST Consumers are lusting after detailed information on where to get the best of the best, the cheapest of the cheapest, the first of the first, the healthiest of the healthiest, the coolest of the coolest, or on how to become the smartest of the smartest. The driving force behind INFOLUST is ...read more

  • What Do You See? I Am Praying For You And Me To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,202 views

    What do you see? I am praying for you and me to get “Tunnel Vision”. > Not so much with the eye in our head but with the eyes in our heart.” You see, TV is usually a product of high pressure in the eye (glaucoma). This pressure pushes the optic nerve until it cups. With TV there is no peripheral ...read more

  • A Young Man Is Often Told, "You Look Like Your ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 16, 2008
     | 1,548 views

    A young man is often told, "You look like your dad!" Children often look like their parents - whether they want to or not! The similarity is undeniable. Parents cannot deny children who look like them, even if they wanted to! In the same way, believers who are like Jesus, because they have a ...read more

  • The Famous Young Man Who Died In A Car Crash A ...

    Contributed by Vonnie E James on Oct 13, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,556 views

    The famous young man who died in a car crash a week or so ago was nicknamed "Kaution". He drank of the fountain of idolatry –for it is said that he washed his car three times a day and treated it like God. Noticed both he and the thing he worshiped were destroyed. This morning God is reminding ...read more

  • Relationship Sins Cost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 3,284 views

    RELATIONSHIP SINS COST Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, finds a study funded by the New York-based Institute for American Values, the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Families Northwest of Redmond, WA, and the Georgia Family ...read more

  • How People Find A Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
     | 1,631 views

    HOW PEOPLE FIND A CHURCH 55% of unchurched people and 64% of church switchers find a church through recommendation from friends or family. 49% of unchurched people and 83% of church switchers do so from an in-person visit. 25% of unchurched and 21% of church switchers find or visit a churches ...read more

  • Not So Sure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2009
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    NOT SO SURE The famous preacher and founder of the Methodist church, John Wesley, once said, "When I was young, I was sure of everything. But after a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. And at present, I am hardly sure of ...read more

  • No Greater Gift To The Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
     | 2,997 views

    NO GREATER GIFT TO THE CHURCH Andrew Murray once said, "God has no more precious gift to a church or an age than a man who lives as an embodiment of His will, and inspires those around him with the faith of what grace can do (Andrew Murray, Leadership, Vol. 7, no. 4). Dear friends, by God's ...read more

  • What Not To Believe

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,762 views

    WHAT NOT TO BELIEVE Ben Patterson, campus pastor of Westmont College, tells the story of a retired pastor who began noticing that his former congregation was sliding away from orthodoxy. The pastor saw this as his fault and stated, in two sentences, his great failure as a pastor: "I always told ...read more

  • Moses And Elijah

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 6, 2022
     | 1,069 views

    Lessons to learn about the appearance of Moses & Elijah and departed loved ones: They lived on even though they had left earth hundreds of years before. They could be identified without any formal introduction. They could speak to each other. Their intelligence was not ...read more

  • When I Was In The First Grade In Cincinnati, ...

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 28, 2002
     | 1,967 views

    When I was in the first grade in Cincinnati, Ohio, we learned to draw and stay in the lines. My family could only afford the box of eight crayons. My eight crayons were big and fat and hard to keep in the lines. The girl that sat right in front of me had a big box of 64 Crayola Crayons. She had 8 ...read more