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  • The Healing Power Of Laughter

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
     | 3,999 views

    THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, Cousins reasoned the reverse was true. So he ...read more

  • Billy Graham: Can Money Buy Happiness?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,984 views

    BILLY GRAHAM: CAN MONEY BUY HAPPINESS? Rev. Billy Graham: "The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness. Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money cannot buy entrance into the Kingdom of God. If God has given you more than your neighbors around about you, ...read more

  • Culture's Collaborators  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 3, 2013
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,567 views

    Tim Woodroof: We live in a world that has shaped our priorities, skewed our perspectives, and taught us what to value. Rather than permitting God to challenge those values--to confront and replace them--a great deal of energy is expended in the attempt to win God’s approval and support of the ...read more

  • How America Does Church Unattached

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 2,396 views

    HOW AMERICA DOES CHURCH UNATTACHED People who had attended neither a conventional church nor a faith community during the past year represents 25% of adult Americans. A third of these have never attended a church. Intermittents - participated in a conventional church or a faith community within the ...read more

  • Advertisers And Marketers, Struggling To Keep Up ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,933 views

    Advertisers and Marketers, struggling to keep up with changing consumer habits, are about to make massive investments in new digital and out-of-home media platforms, forecasts research company PQ Media. Companies will spend more than $160.8 billion in ’12 (up 82% from ’08) on 18 emerging markets, ...read more

  • How America Does Church

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
     | 1,378 views

    HOW AMERICA DOES CHURCH "Unattached"--people who had attended neither a conventional church nor a faith community during the past year represents 25% of adult Americans. A third of these have never attended a church. "Intermittents"--participated in a conventional church or a faith community ...read more

  • This Is A True Story. Two Guys In A Church, Paul ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 11, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
     | 9,177 views

    This is a true story. Two guys in a church, Paul and William decided that they really wanted to become godly men. So they started meeting with one another to pray and encourage one another; they even set goals for themselves and their behavior, and then were accountable to the other one. Paul ...read more

  • Today We Are All Rushing About Working For That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,582 views

    Today we are all rushing about working for that next pay raise. But what is that pay raise really going to profit us? We often can’t see the big picture for striving for something greater. Maybe we should have the attitude of this father. The young man was feeling very proud of himself. As a ...read more

  • There Seems To Be An Attitude Among Many People, ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 16, 2008
     | 1,358 views

    There seems to be an attitude among many people, both Christians and non-Christians. It’s an attitude that demands things of God. They try to order God around like He’s their servant or something. “Do this, God. I claim that, God. (Even if there is nothing in Scripture to back up what they’re ...read more

  • Paid In Full, Finally

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Apr 10, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,821 views

    It’s always a happy day when you make the final payment on a car loan or any other kind of loan! The money you’ve been sending somewhere else you can now send to another bill—oops—or savings account or wherever you feel led to put it. I know, there are some folks who are greatly excited if you ...read more

  • More Mega-Churches: New Research Reveals That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,031 views

    More Mega-Churches: New research reveals that their may be 1200 or more mega churches in the U.S. rather than the widely assumed 850 count. A cooperative project by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Leadership Network discovered the discrepancy when the two groups, each of ...read more

  • Where Evangelicals Live: 7% Of The U.s Adult ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 985 views

    Where Evangelicals Live: 7% of the U.S adult population (15 million people) is evangelical. Little Rock has the highest percentage of evangelicals (22%) of all large U.S. metro areas. Los Angeles has more evangelicals than New York, Chicago and Boston areas combined! A new Barna Group report shows ...read more

  • The Kingdom Of Ebla Was About 300 Miles ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eddie Snipes on Jan 13, 2001
    based on 75 ratings
     | 3,069 views

    The Kingdom of Ebla was about 300 miles southwest of Haran and Abram would have passed through it on his journey to Canaan. The Ebla Kingdom was unknown to history until it was discovered in 1968 by Archaeologists and Professor Paolo Matthiae of the University of Rome. In 1975 the archives of the ...read more

  • The Caste System Is A Unique Feature Of The Hindu ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2002
     | 1,484 views

    The caste system is a unique feature of the Hindu religion. The account of its origin is an interesting story. Brahma created Manu, the first man. From Manu came four different types of people, as the creator Brahma determined. From Manu’s head came the Brahmins, the best and most holy people. ...read more

  • There Are Many Ways To Address Problems. North ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tom Doubt on May 17, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 2,829 views

    There are many ways to address problems. North Dakota Indian tribe wisdom[sermon-fodder.com, 9-27-03]: If you discover you are riding a dead horse, dismount. We often expand this basic tribal wisdom in our church life and personal life. If we find ourselves on a dead horse, we simply change ...read more

  • In The Early Part Of This Century, A Group Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,178 views

    In the early part of this century, a group of lawyers met in England to discuss the biblical accounts of Jesus’ resurrection. They wanted to see if sufficient information was available to make a case that would hold up in an English court of law. When their study was completed, they published the ...read more

  • How Many Of You Still Balance Your Checkbook By ...

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 1, 2010
     | 1,506 views

    How many of you still balance your checkbook by hand every month? How many of you have so little money in your account, you have to balance it every month? How many of you have so much money in the bank, you don’t have to worry about balancing it? Every month the bank sends you a statement that ...read more

  • Battling The Temptation To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2010
     | 7,980 views

    Battling the Temptation to Steal Listen to the man who was tempted: A man in a responsible position, entrusted with large sums of money, was one day tempted to put some of the cash to his own account. He knew that it would be a long time before his theft could be discovered. He resisted the ...read more

  • Shepherding In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 8, 2010
     | 7,904 views

    Shepherding in Israel H.V. Morton gives an account of this sort of thing: "Early one morning I saw an extraordinary sight not far from Bethlehem. Two shepherds had evidently spent the night with their flocks in a cave. The sheep were all mixed together and the time had come for the shepherds to go ...read more

  • Timothy Smith Writes In His Sermon On Jesus Being ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 27, 2011
     | 1,704 views

    Timothy Smith writes in his sermon on Jesus being born to die, "I was watching "48 Hours Mystery" last Tuesday night on CBS. Their show that night was called "The Mystery of Christmas." It was all about finding and looking at historical evidence for the birth of Christ. Early in the show Maureen ...read more

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