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Charitable Fundraising Hazards: While Its ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Charitable Fundraising Hazards: While its laudable to donate a portion of sales to a charity, otherwise known as “cause marketing,” it’s a highly regulated and complex practice that poses numerous traps for the unwary. Prudent businesses will seek ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Costly Interruptions From Emails, Instant ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Costly Interruptions from emails, instant messages, the Web, and phone are decreasing U.S. business productivity by $588 billion annually finds a Basix study. Interruptions to workflow can cost the average knowledge worker ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

Higher Earners: From The Ages Of 18 To 65, The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Higher Earners: From the ages of 18 to 65, the average male college grad earns $2.5 million over his lifetime, 90% more than his high school counterpart. That’s up from 40% more in ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Job Tenure: The Median Job Tenure For U.s. Male ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Job Tenure: The median job tenure for U.S. male workers age 25 or older is 4.9 years, down from 5.9 in ’83. For female workers in the age group the figure has risen from 4.2 to ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Marriage Dividend: A New Study By Thomas ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Marriage Dividend: A new study by Thomas Rutledge, a psychologist at the University of California at San Diego, finds that of women 65 and older, those with a longtime husband coped with stress of aging, clocked lower blood pressure, and had stronger immune ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Gay Benefits: Of The Nation's Top 500 U.s. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Gay Benefits: Of the nation’s top 500 U.S. companies, 95% now offer anti- discrimination policies based on sexual orientation and 70% offer domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples. In ’00, the numbers stood at ...read more

Two Little Boys Were Walking Home From Sunday ...  PRO

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Sep 15, 2003

Two little boys were walking home from Sunday School where the lesson had been on the Devil and one asked the other “What do you think of this devil business?” “Well” replied the other boy, “You know ...read more

Tags: Children, Satan

Denomination: Wesleyan

There Is A Master Key To Success With Which No ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity. Simplicity, I mean, in the sense of reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem that besets us. Whenever I have met a business proposition ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

Dying Well

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 22, 2009

DYING WELL Willimon states this, "Despite the quest for wellness, risk-assessment analysis, and good works of Ralph Nader, nobody has created a way to make life last forever. You and I will die. So we might as well get on ...read more

Tags: Death

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Alfred Souza Observed,

Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2010

Alfred Souza observed, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to still be served, a debt to be ...read more

Tags: Trials And Difficulties

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The American Dream Of Starting At The Bottom And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

The American Dream of starting at the bottom and working your way up is fading according to new longevity studies (studies that follow individual and families over many years). Business Week reports that the number of families who stayed stuck in the same income bracket—be it the bottom or the ...read more

Tags: Workplace

A Father Was Having A Particularly Stressful Day ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

A father was having a particularly stressful day at work. So, he decided to take off work a few hours early to watch his son play soccer. His son’s team was made up of boys and girls who were still trying to learn how to play. After a few minutes, the coach blew the whistle and called the players ...read more

Tags: God Brings Purpose

In The Days Before Connecticut Became A State, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

In the days before Connecticut became a state, the colonial legislature was in session when a thick black cloud blocked out the sunlight. Someone shouted, "It is the Day of Judgment Let’s go home and get ready" But one member of the legislature, who happened to be an old church deacon, stood up ...read more

Tags: Second Coming

It's Interesting How We Share Faith. We All Have ...

Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008

It’s interesting how we share faith. We all have our own way based on our own abilities. I have always been impressed with those who can quote the appropriate scripture in times of crisis. My sister, Jean, can do that. My pastor in San Antonio, Texas, could do that. I just can’t do that. I’m ...read more

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

I'd Rather Have You

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2009

I'D RATHER HAVE YOU A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company. Then the father noted a change in his daughter. If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going. He grieved about it, but could not understand. When his birthday came, she presented him ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30

Tags: Family

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

Nondisparagement Clauses Are Popping Up In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Nondisparagement Clauses are popping up in employment contracts. Here is an example; “Employee agrees not to make any derogatory comments in any format, whether written, electronic, or oral, to the press, or any individual or entity regarding the company that relates to the company’s business or ...read more

Tags: Workplace

You Have Nothing To Do But To Save Souls. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most…It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

I Was Leaving The Nursing Home After Visiting ...  PRO

Contributed by Steven Easterwood on Jan 17, 2002

I was leaving the nursing home after visiting one of our members and I passed a lady in a wheel chair. "What’s your name?" she said, smiling sweetly. I told her my name and asked, "What’s your name?" Suddenly ...read more

Tags: Christian Love, Communication General

Denomination: Baptist

The Fastest-Growing Cell Phone Market In The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

The Fastest-Growing Cell Phone Market in the world is not in the U.S., Europe, or Asia. It's in Africa. Africans are buying more and more cell phones, partly because land lines are difficult to find there. Cell phones also eliminate days ...read more

Tags: Technology