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  • Within Months Fred Whiteman Went Through More ...

    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008
     | 1,450 views

    Within months Fred Whiteman went through more pain than most of us do in a life time. Cancer claimed his best friend. Then his mum died and his wife was killed. Next, he underwent a heart transplant. And while he was still recovering he had to ...read more

  • A.t. Pierson Wrote,

    Contributed by Don Jones on Mar 24, 2009
     | 1,627 views

    A.T. Pierson wrote, "Whatever is done for God, without respect of its comparative character as related to other acts, is service, and only that is service. Service is, comprehensively speaking, doing the will of God. He is the object. All is for Him, for His sake, as unto the Lord, not as unto ...read more

  • Ten Commandments For Spouses  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,914 views

    TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR SPOUSES I. Thou shalt not wrap thy husband’s sandwiches in magazine articles about a man’s responsibility to love his wife. II. Thou shalt not leave Scripture verses about submission taped to they wife’s hairdryer. III. If thou teachest Sunday School, thou shalt ...read more

  • More Kids Living With Grandparents In '97, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,706 views

    More Kids Living With Grandparents In ’97, the most recent year for which figures are available, 5.5% of all children under 18 in the U.S. live with a grandparent. That compares to only 4.9% in ’92 and 3.6% in ’80. The Census bureau blames social ills such as child abuse, ...read more

  • Is Spiritually Passing On? A New Barna Group ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,301 views

    Is Spiritually Passing On? A new Barna Group study finds 62% of Americans consider themselves to be deeply spiritual, unchanged n the past decade. Yet, the younger a person is, the less likely they are to claim to be deeply spiritual. In fact only 4% of Mosaics made such a claim compared to 55% of ...read more

  • Cohabiting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
     | 1,210 views

    COHABITING COUPLES The National Marriage Project study of a sampling of Western European and Scandinavian nations, Australia, Canada and New Zealand found 15% to 30% of couples live together, compared with about 10% in the U.S. Since 1970, cohabitation has risen from 500,000 to 5 ...read more

  • How Little Of Scripture There Is In Modern ...

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Nov 19, 2011
     | 1,630 views

    "How little of Scripture there is in modern sermons compared with the sermons of those masters of theology, the Puritan divines! Almost every sentence of theirs seems to cast side lights upon a text of Scripture; not only the one they are preaching about, but many others as well are set in a new ...read more

  • Towering Over Edinburgh, Scotland, Is The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 36 ratings
     | 1,997 views

    Towering over Edinburgh, Scotland, is the Edinburgh Castle. And in the midst of very old buildings is the comparatively new World War I memorial. It carries a quotation from Thucydides: "The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men, and their story is not graven only on stones over their clay, but ...read more

  • In A Revealing Poll, Almost All (97 Percent) ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 21, 2006
     | 1,135 views

    "In a revealing poll, almost all (97 percent) who rate their communication with their partner as excellent are happily married, compared to only 56 percent who rate their communication as poor. The poll concluded, ’In an era of increasingly fragile marriages, a couple’s ability to communicate is ...read more

  • Elton Trueblood, The Quaker Scholar, Once ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2001
    based on 128 ratings
     | 1,214 views

    Elton Trueblood, the Quaker scholar, once compared evangelism to fire. Evangelism occurs, he said, when Christians are so ignited by their contact with Christ that they in turn set other fires. It is easy to determine when something is aflame. It ignites other material. Any fire that does not ...read more

  • Song Lyrics From 33 Miles- Now I'm Living In The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 17, 2007
     | 1,088 views

    Song lyrics from 33 miles- Now I’m living in the days ahead. I’m already dancing on the streets of gold and I can’t stop celebrating in my soul. I’m living in the days ahead. Nothing on earth could ever compare. Can’t wait for the ...read more

  • Standard Of Comparison  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 27, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,382 views

    STANDARD OF COMPARISON Michael Green, in his book Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, shares a good lesson which I think is appropriate for beginning our message this evening. He states: All of us frequently compare ourselves favorably with someone else. We all think of someone whom we ...read more

  • Mormons Out-Give Evangelicals By About 3 To 1. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,649 views

    Mormons out-give evangelicals by about 3 to 1. Mormons give an average of 7.5% of their income to the church compared to evangelicals 2.5%. Add to this the fact that all but 85 top LDS leaders are volunteers which frees up millions of dollars for their worldwide mission efforts. The average ...read more

  • Christian Education: The 102 Members Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,718 views

    Christian Education: The 102 members of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities saw enrollment surge 70.6% from ‘90 to ‘04. That compares with 28% for all independent 4-year schools and 12.8% for all public 4--year campuses, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges ...read more

  • Want Better Kids? Buy A House! A New Ohio State ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,520 views

    Want Better Kids? Buy a house! A new Ohio State University study finds that compared to kids living in rented premises; those in owner-occupied houses have 9% higher math scores, 7% higher reading scores, and 1% to 3% fewer behavioral problems. The difference is credited to an improved ...read more

  • College Student Gamers: Fully 65% Of College ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,541 views

    College Student Gamers: Fully 65% of college students reported being regular or occasional game players. Women are more likely than men to be regular players of computer and online games--approximately 60% of women compared to 40% men reported this. 20% of gaming students felt that gaming helped ...read more

  • The Seriousness Of Errant Doctrine Can Be ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,994 views

    The seriousness of errant doctrine can be compared to a missile aimed a mere one degree off target. The difference seems slight and negligible at first, yet the results of the error increase dramatically throughout the flight, until the missile totally misses its intended target. So it is with ...read more

  • A Survey Asked Mothers To Keep Track Of How Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
     | 1,830 views

    A survey asked mothers to keep track of how many times they made negative, compared with positive, comments to their children. They admitted that they criticized ten times for every time they said something favorable. A three-year survey in one city’s schools found that the teachers were 75% ...read more

  • The La Times Recently Stated "Pastors Are The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,445 views

    The LA Times recently stated “Pastors are the single most occupationally frustrated group in America.” Eventually 30%-40% of religious leaders drop out of the ministry and about 75% go through a period of stress so great that they consider quitting. Incidents of mental breakdown are so high that ...read more

  • 1no Religious Affiliation: 1 Out Of Every 9 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
     | 2,085 views

    1No Religious Affiliation: 1 out of every 9 Americans do not belong to any organized religion. Among young people its 17% compared with only 7% of people over 65. William J. Murray, a D.C. based religious activist, reports, young people “identify with angels, say they believe in a superior being, ...read more

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