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  • One Day She Was Reading The Newspaper And Came ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,885 views

    One day she was reading the newspaper and came across an article about the ministry of D.L. Moody and the Revival that was taking place in the United States. Even though she had never heard of him before, she began to pray and ask God to send Moody to her church in England. Some time later, Moody ...read more

  • One Sunny Sunday Morning, Henry Jones Awoke To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Darrin Koone on May 10, 2002
    based on 21 ratings
     | 1,887 views

    One sunny Sunday morning, Henry Jones awoke to find his wife standing over him,shaking him by the shoulder. "You have to get up," she urged. "We have to get ready for church.” "I don’t want to go to church," he replied. "I want to stay in bed.” Crossing her arms over her chest, his wife ...read more

  • Barna Also Revealed That "Less Than One Out Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 23, 2003
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,584 views

    Barna also revealed that "Less than one out of every ten regular attendee of Christian churches give 10% or more of their income - a tithe - to their church." a. Another recent poll from Barna reveals a more disturbing trend happening in America with people and their giving to God note what he ...read more

  • Years Ago, An Evangelist Was Holding A Meeting ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 27, 2004
     | 1,637 views

    Years ago, an evangelist was holding a meeting in South Carolina. Two men in the church a man and his son-in-law had not spoken to each other for many years. Each of them came to church every Sunday. The father-in-law sat on one side of the church and the son-in-law sat on the other side. The ...read more

  • Robert Lewis, Founding Pastor Of Fellowship ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,792 views

    Robert Lewis, Founding Pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, Arkansas said this, “…Our church along with several others, organized to renovate some of the public schools in our area. Teachers and school officials had not asked for our help and were clearly surprised when we offered it. ...read more

  • Back When I Was Still Wet Behind The Ears In My ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,266 views

    Back when I was still wet behind the ears in my 1st ministry, our church had a joint VBS with one of the denominational churches in town. I liked their preacher, but I made the mistake of letting him give the invitation. His church sprinkled babies and ours only baptized adults… so he was a little ...read more

  • According To The Australian Bureau Of ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Mar 3, 2008
     | 1,833 views

    According to the Australian Bureau of statistics Australian society in 1901 40% of the population being Church of England, 23% Catholic, 34% other Christian 1% professing non-Christian religions. 2001 Census question, 27% Catholic, 21% Anglican, 21% other Christian denominations 5% ...read more

  • Being One With Other Christians Is Much Like A ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 8, 2008
     | 1,354 views

    Being one with other Christians is much like a biological body. In any flesh-and-bones body, there are a variety of cells. There are nerve cells, blood cells, muscle cells, and many others, each having a distinct function. The body operates smoothly, not because the cells get together and vote on ...read more

  • Same Old Story...?  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Nichols on Apr 17, 2009
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     | 3,432 views

    SAME OLD STORY...? The little boy was not exactly happy about going to church on Easter Sunday morning. His new shoes were to tight, his tie pinched his neck and the weather outside was just too beautiful to be cooped up inside...so as he sulked in the pew his parents heard him mutter to no one in ...read more

  • If We Want To Come To Jesus There Will Be Opposition

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 15, 2012
     | 2,861 views

    If we want to come to Jesus there will be opposition. John Stott was the pastor of All Saints Church in London. I had a chance to meet John Stott while I was in London. He died last year. He is really credited with starting the evangelical movement in England. Before that movement was started, ...read more

  • Vision Killers  PRO

    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Oct 23, 2003
    based on 13 ratings
     | 5,434 views

    This church is about people reaching people. If a young person gets saved then they will reach 19% of their family If a woman gets saved she will reach 32% of her family If a man gets saved He will reach 82% of his family. We Must Be Mindful of Vision Killers. Last time I spoke we talked about ...read more

  • Dennis Jernigan Said His Struggle With ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,129 views

    Dennis Jernigan said his struggle with homosexuality began with sexual experimentation with other small boys at six years of age. He never told anyone about his struggle, because he saw hatred in the response of the church to homosexuals. As a senior in college he went to a 2nd chapter of Acts ...read more

  • Standing Out

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 23, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,036 views

    STANDING OUT I remember an experience as a 16-year-old, Salvation Army soldier. I was walking to the church from my house for Bible study. In those days, soldiers wore uniforms to every church function. On route to the church, there were 12 or 15 peers hanging outside the pool hall that I had to ...read more

  • Prayer

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 21, 2025
     | 344 views

    Story: A friend of mine, Alun Morris was a pastor in a Swiss Pentecostal Church for many years. One day, he went to a funeral and saw a man who he knew to be an atheist come into church and bow his head for about a minute in front of the altar as he came in. It seemed to Alun that the man was ...read more

  • John Havlik, With The Southern Baptist Home ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    John Havlik, with the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, declared that two factors were discovered in launching lay evangelism schools One was that the average layperson has a greater desire to be used in evangelism than church leaders realize. The other was that ...read more

  • Separatists?

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 4, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 666 views

    Separatists? A church had a sign in front: JESUS ONLY. One night a storm blew out the first three letters and left US ONLY. Too many churches have come to that. (Vance Havner, from The Vance Havner ...read more

  • The Weight Of The Cross

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 4, 2010
     | 4,182 views

    THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS When a group of churches advertised their Easter celebration, no reference was made to the cross. The omission was deliberate. One church official explained, "The cross carries too much cultural baggage." The true weight of the cross is not in its ...read more

  • Sin Separates. Sin Divides. Sin Brings Death To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 23, 2004
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,054 views

    Sin separates. Sin divides. Sin brings death to relationships and destroys fellowship. God unites. God brings oneness and unity. On the day of Pentecost, God reversed the Babel process, and with one language from heaven, He demonstrated that all in Him will be sharers of one divine ...read more

  • Prayer And 19th Century Revival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
     | 3,843 views

    PRAYER AND 19TH CENTURY REVIVAL Dr. A. T. Pierson once said, "There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer." Let me recount what God has done through concerted, united, sustained prayer. [J. Edwin Orr. Personal Notes.] Not many people ...read more

  • The Old Structures Of The Denominations Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 2,071 views

    "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