In Sermon Illustrations: "5 Loaves And 2 Fishes"

Americans Plan To Spend An Average Of $3,800 This ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Americans plan to spend an average of $3,800 this year on home improvements, up from $2,900 in ’00. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

No Referral A University Of Chicago Survey Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

No Referral A University of Chicago survey of American doctors finds 52% oppose abortion and others won’t refer women to ...read more

Tags: Abortion

More Than Half The Books Sold In The U.s. In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008

More than half the books sold in the U.S. in recent years are bought by people over 50, claims Borders ...read more

Tags: Aging

Marital Advice: 1) Keep Your Eyes Wide Open ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Marital advice: 1) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards. 2) Never speak loudly to ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

How To Get Rich

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 10, 2010

HOW TO GET RICH J.D. Rockerfeller’s advice on how to get rich: (1). Go to work early. (2). ...read more

Tags: Money

Denomination: Brethren

Common-Ism In The Church  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009

COMMON-ISM IN THE CHURCH Years ago I ran across this following definition of the various forms of government. They compared capitalism (the economic model we try to follow in our country) with communism and socialism, and they used a simple illustration to drive their point home. In a capitalist ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:42-48

Tags: Church Body Of Christ

Faith And Works Should Travel Side-By-Side, Step ...  PRO

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 6, 2002

Faith and works should travel side-by-side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again—until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other. William ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Tags: Faith General, Faith Vs. Works, Love Of The Disciples

Denomination: Baptist

And Unless You're An Expert In Denial, Living ...

Contributed by Juan Lane on Nov 26, 2005

And unless you’re an expert in denial, living within your means is essential to your mental health. According to a survey by credit counseling firm Myvesta.org, about 40 percent of people with problem debt reported symptoms of severe depression. (By contrast, ...read more

Tags: Disappointment, Money

Denomination: Pentecostal

A November Gallup Poll Asked Americans To Rate ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006

A November Gallup Poll asked Americans to rate the honesty and ethical standards of professions. The top six rated professions are: nurses (82%), pharmacists (67%), medical doctors (65%), high school teachers (64%), policemen (61%), and clergy (54%). ...read more

Tags: Profession, Workplace

The Old Structures Of The Denominations Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

"The old structures of the denominations are realigning, redefining and collapsing in a way that they haven’t for 200 years," says Bill Leonard, Dean of Wake Forest Divinity School and American Christianity historian. People switching to evangelical, nondenominational churches is on the ...read more

Tags: Unity

Women Are More Spiritual: Barna Research Online ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Women Are More Spiritual: Barna Research Online reports; 7 out of every 10 women say they are deeply spiritual compared only 5 out of 10 men. 46% of U.S. women hold beliefs that classify them as born again, ...read more

Tags: Women

Prices Rising Throughout Corporate America The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Prices Rising Throughout corporate America the ability to hike prices is on the upswing. After years of price resistance, consumers seem willing to accept some price increases. Everything from airlines and meat packers to hotels, paper makers and drug ...read more

Tags: Money

Ethics Breeches Widespread: Kpmg Llp Research ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Ethics Breeches Widespread: KPMG LLP research reports 75% of employees say they have observed violations of the law or company standards in the previous 12 months, but 61% were unwilling to report them because they thought management wouldn’t administer ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Multi-Site Churches: According To Leadership ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Multi-Site Churches: According to Leadership Network research, at least 1,000 churches across North America could currently be described as multi-site. They do so by extending themselves to more than one location—some across town, some across the ...read more

Tags: Church General

Pricey Proms Almost 20 Million Students Attended ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Pricey Proms Almost 20 million students attended proms this year, with the average 17-year old spending $638, or more than $1,200 per couple, according to research by Conde Nast, which publishes Your Prom and Modern Bride ...read more

Tags: Children

Blast Welding

Contributed by Andy Taylor on Dec 17, 2006

Illustration: Blast welding imagine two things put together that seem incompatible, Jesus humanity and divinity, being joined together by the great power of God and His love for us. It’s like in building a ship, joining aluminum of the top 10 stories of an ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Home School Tutors The U.s. Department Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Home School Tutors The U.S. Department of Education’s most recent home schooling survey was in ‘03. It found from ‘99 to ’03 the number of children educated at home had soared 29% percent to 1.1 million ...read more

Christian Publishers Receive A Combined Total Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Christian Publishers receive a combined total of about 250,000 manuscripts per year. All Christian publishers combined (slightly over 300) publish approximately 12,000 new tittles per year. This indicates that about 5% of manuscripts get ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

"When We Give Our Hearts To Christ In Salvati...

Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009

“When we give our hearts to Christ in salvation, we experience “peace with God” (Romans 5:1); but the “peace of God” takes us a step farther into God’s blessings. This does not mean the absence of trials on the outside, but it does mean a quiet confidence within, ...read more

Tags: Thought, Heart

Denomination: Baptist

Mishna Character

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 31, 2009

MISHNA CHARACTER The Mishna says that whoever possesses the three characteristics of a good eye, a lowly spirit, and a humble soul is a disciple of our father Abraham; while one who has the three opposite characteristics is a disciple of the wicked Balaam (Avot 5:22). (Arthur ...read more

Tags: Character

Denomination: Independent/Bible