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More Channels: The Average U.s. Household ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

More Channels: The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4, ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

More Channels The Average U.s. Household Received ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007

More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4, ...read more

More Channels The Average U.s. Household ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007

More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4, ...read more

More Channels The Average U.s. Household Received ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4, ...read more

Tags: Television And Movies

U.s. Workers Feel Rushed On The Job, But Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

U.S. Workers feel rushed on the job, but are getting less accomplished due to technology intended to make work quicker and easier. “Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it’s slowed everything down, paradoxically,” says John Challenger, Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

Job 1: 5 When A Period Of Feasting Had Run Its ...

Contributed by Olorunnisola Oni on Jan 17, 2008

JOB 1: 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

Televangelists Devote Less Time To Fundraising ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Televangelists devote less time to fundraising than commercial TV does airing commercials, according to Stephen Winzenburg, Grand View College. On average, televangelists use 17% of their airtime fundraising and promoting their ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Let Me Tell You A Story About A Christian Just ...  PRO

Contributed by Thomas Black on Feb 2, 2005

Let me tell you a story about a Christian just like you and I. Let’s call him George for no good reason. George woke up Monday morning after a remarkable Weekend. Family time was well spent and The church services were excellent. He’d had testimonies of answered prayer in his own life and the ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

He Wasn't Cured But He Was Healed

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

He wasn’t cured but he was healed Can sickness, even sickness unto death, be such a blessing for a Christian? On the surface it would seem not. How can a Christian do God’s will if he is lying in bed, flat on his back? How can pain, discomfort, medical treatment and surgery as well as the ...read more

Tags: Cross Agony

The Christmas Tree  PRO

Contributed by Jennifer Mathews on Dec 28, 2004

The Christmas tree: It was on a Tree that God hung His greatest gift to humankind. The Christmas tree is symbolic of a broken curse, its evergreen branches representing everlasting life. Our exchange of gifts isn’t a surrender to commercialism, but ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Diogenes Was One Day Standing On A Street Corner ...

Contributed by Arulselvam Rayappan on Mar 7, 2005

DIOGENES was one day standing on a street corner laughing like a mad man. “Why are you laughing?” He was asked. “Do you see that stone in the middle of the street? More than ten persons have already stumbled on it, then looked at the ...read more

Tags: Parable General

Denomination: Catholic

Faith Can't Be Bought: The New York Times ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Faith Can’t Be Bought: The New York Times recently reported a poll finding that nearly 80% of Americans earning under $30,000 a year believe faith in God is “very important,” vs. only 54% of ...read more

Tags: Faith General

Happiness And Religion

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009

HAPPINESS AND RELIGION 45% of people who consider themselves very religious consider themselves very happy. Just 28% of people who consider themselves not religious also consider themselves very happy. 29% of people ...read more

Tags: Joy

No Faith In The Future, No Power For The Present

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2012

NO FAITH IN THE FUTURE, NO POWER FOR THE PRESENT Years ago, a small town in Maine was proposed for the site of a great hydroelectric plant. Since the dam would be built across the river, the entire town would be submerged. When the project was announced, the people were given many months to ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:10-14, 1 John 3:3

Tags: Future

Rural Seekers: Today 52% Of Rural Residents Go ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Rural Seekers: Today 52% of rural residents go online vs. 67% of urban dwellers and 66% of suburbanites finds a new Pew Internet & American Life Project study. Rural Internet users are more likely than others to access ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

Plastic Prevails For The First Time, Americans' ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Plastic Prevails For the first time, Americans’ use of credit cards, debit cards and other electronic bill paying has eclipsed paper checks. Last year there were 44.5 billion electronic transactions vs. 36.7 billion ...read more

Tags: Money

A Lutheran Youth Fellowship '07 Poll Finds 28% ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008

A Lutheran Youth Fellowship '07 poll finds 28% cite their personal faith as their top concern while 23.8% say the future; 23.3% family relationships; 23.1% college and 16.3% unbelievers. Others included terrorism 9.4% and war 7.9%. 58.4% of respondents said pre-marital sex is always wrong, down ...read more

Tags: Youth

The Bible As Holy

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009

THE BIBLE AS HOLY The Bible is deemed a holy book by 84% of the U.S. public. Although 84% of Barna Research respondents described themselves as Christian, 7% did not consider the Bible to be sacred, while 38% of adults who do not consider themselves Christian categorized it as such. Most ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1

Tags: Bible Truth

Tuition Hike: College Tuition Climbed 10.5% At ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Tuition Hike: College tuition climbed 10.5% at public 4-year colleges vs. 6% at private institutions. The College Board reports the average tuition for in-state students at 4-year public colleges is $5,132 this year ...read more

Tags: Money

Checkless- A Checkfree Corporation Study Finds ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Checkless- A CheckFree Corporation study finds that 69% of U.S. online households are paying at least one bill online. Online payments are steadily replacing checks. Among those surveyed, 37.5% use paper checks for all bill ...read more

Tags: Money