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  • The Fastest Growing Churches In America Since ‘80 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    The fastest growing churches in America since ‘80 have been the mega-churches. According to Leadership Network’s NetFax there are about 20,000 of them, while traditional denominations are steadily shrinking. Why? Experts credit it to the pastoral mega-churches asking “What is value?” to a ...read more

  • Fewer Protestants: A University Of Chicago Survey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,054 views

    Fewer Protestants: A University of Chicago survey shows U.S. Protestants are now 52% of the population, down from 62% in ‘93, and may no longer be the nation’s largest religious group by year’s end. The 52% included about 2% of respondents who said they were Church ...read more

  • Camera, Action 16% Of American Adult Internet ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,077 views

    Camera, Action 16% of American adult internet users have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. That translates into roughly 21 million people who have viewed material on web cams. And on any given day, about two million internet users are checking ...read more

  • Spiritual Growth Is A Low Priority: A Recent ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 4,292 views

    Spiritual Growth Is A Low Priority: A recent Barna survey explored seven dimensions of spiritual development, asking respondents to rate themselves in each area on a 5-point scale. Researcher George Barna noted, “most people do not feel as if they are learning enough about God, the Christian faith, ...read more

  • If Your Heart Takes More Pleasure In Reading ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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    “If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His ...read more

  • Two Men Were Marooned On An Island. One Man Paced ...  PRO

    Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jun 20, 2006
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    Two men were marooned on an Island. One man paced back and forth worried and scared while the other man sat back and was sunning himself. The first man said to the second man, "aren’t you afraid we are about to die." "No," said the second man, "I make ...read more

  • An Aunt Was Taking A Niece And Nephew On A Tour ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2007
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    An Aunt was taking a niece and nephew on a tour of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. She was explaining about in this church tradition they say a prayer and light a candle to allow the prayer to go to God while the candle burns. They all lit a candle and said a prayer. On the ...read more

  • Your Body Contains…

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 29, 2007
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    Your body contains about: 1. Enough iron to make a small nail, 2. Enough salt to fill an ordinary shaker 3. Enough sugar to fill a small bowl 4. Enough lime to whitewash a small chicken coop 5. Enough phosphorus to make a dozen matches 6. Enough fat to ...read more

  • In His Inaugural Address On March 4, 1933, ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
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    In his Inaugural Address on March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt made the most famous quote about fear when he said, ...The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to retreat into ...read more

  • Marvin Rosenthal, Writing In "Israel, My Glory," ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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    Marvin Rosenthal, writing in "Israel, My Glory," tells about a mother who was asked by a census taker how many children she had. She responded, "Well, there’s Billy and Harry and Martha and...." "Never mind the names," the man interrupted, "Just give me the number!" ...read more

  • One Very Important Ingredient Of Success Is A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. An enemy to an ambitious man is like the rhinoceros bird to the rhinoceros. When the enemy comes the rhinoceros bird tells about it. When a successful man is making mistakes the enemy immediately calls ...read more

  • Arthur Rubinstein, The World-Famous Pianist, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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    Arthur Rubinstein, the world-famous pianist, wrote years ago about the importance of practicing every day. He said: "If I don’t practice one day, nobody knows. If I don’t practice two days, then I know. But if I don’t practice three ...read more

  • According To A Recent Deloitte Consumer Product ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,614 views

    According to a recent Deloitte Consumer Product group, 62% of consumers read consumer-written product reviews on the Internet, and of these, more than 80% say their purchase decisions have been directly influenced by the reviews, either influencing them to buy a different product than the one they ...read more

  • Quote: "God Chasers Are After The Fresh ...

    Contributed by N A on May 18, 2008
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    QUOTE: “God chasers are after the fresh presence of the Almighty. Sometimes their pursuit raises the eyebrows of the existing church, but usually they lead the church from a place of dryness back into the place of His presence. It’s simply not enough to know about God. We have churches filled ...read more

  • One Old Minister Heard Some Ask In A Service ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 7, 2008
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    One old minister heard some ask in a service "Pastor did not Peter say the devil walk about as a roaring lion?" The pastor answered saying "The reason the devil is roaring is that Jesus pulled all his teeth and all the devil can do is make noise because he is ...read more

  • Purity Is Laughed At These Days. I Recently Read ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008
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    Purity is laughed at these days. I recently read an article on the internet about the recent reports and views expressed before a key Congressional Committee on abstinence only programs and their perceived failures. Some who testified thought they should be done away with while others thought that ...read more

  • Cohabiting ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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    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

  • A Mother Knows She's Been Home Too Long For The ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
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    A mother knows she’s been home too long for the following reasons: 1. She begins to talk to Barney as a real person. 2. She forgets which one is real – Mister Rogers or King Friday. 3. She cries for a wedding on Sesame Street. 4. She is one of the congregation ...read more

  • According To Wikipedia,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
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    According to Wikipedia, "The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million ...read more

  • As You All Know By Now, My Favorite Football ...

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Nov 12, 2009
     | 2,237 views

    As you all know by now, my favorite football team is the Cleveland Browns, and may God have mercy upon me! Our current coach, although hopefully not for long, has a favorite saying when ask about why his team is performing so badly. When asked he simply says, ...read more