In Sermon Illustrations: "Genesis 28 10 19a"

Hurting Pastors: They Are Pressured By The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Hurting Pastors: They are pressured by the responsibilities of their position and are under the assault of the enemy. Some of their common concerns: 97% of pastors feel inadequately trained, 80% say their ministry has had a negative impact on their children, 70% struggle with depression,71% are ...read more

Tags: Church General

Someone Tells About A Woman Who For Many Years ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Someone tells about a woman who for many years couldn’t sleep at night because she worried that her home would be burglarized. One night her husband heard a noise in the house, so he went downstairs to investigate. When he got there, he found a burglar. The husband said ...read more

Tags: Faith General

Aging Americans The Percentage Of The U.s. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

AGING AMERICANS The percentage of the U.S. population aged 65 or over continues to increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The figure has steadily climbed over the years: 7% (1940), 8% (1950), 9% (1960), 10% (1970), 11% (1980), 12% (1990) and again 12% (2000). For 2010 the ...read more

Tags: Politics

Interactive Marketing Spending In The Us Will ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Interactive Marketing spending in the US will more than triple over the next five years, reaching $61 billion by 2012, finds a Forrester Research report. The growth in interactive marketing spending represents a 27% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Interactive marketing, 8% of ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

U.s. Retailers Are Expected To Add Up To 600,000 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

U.S. retailers are expected to add up to 600,000 people to their employment rolls between now and December. Target alone will hire 50,000 to 80,000 seasonal workers. Retail staffs increase an average of 5% during the holidays, but some stores boost employee rolls by as much as 50%, a number to ...read more

Tags: Grace

While Fewer Canadians Are Getting Married, It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

While fewer Canadians are getting married, it remains the single most common foundation on which Canadians build a family. According to the ’06 census, there is a married couple living in nearly 70% of all families. Even so, common-law and same-sex couples are on the rise, with the number of ...read more

Tags: Homosexuality

The American Bible Society And The Gospel Music ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

The American Bible Society and the Gospel Music Association (GMA) have formed a partnership to create a new songwriting competition at GMA’s annual Music in the Rockies, held in Estes Park, CO. Songwriters are encouraged to adapt, derive or base music on Scripture from both the Old and New ...read more

Tags: Music

There Are Three Huge Gates That Lead Into The ...

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 9, 2008

There are three huge gates that lead into the Cathedral of Milan. Over one gate there is an inscription in marble (under a beautiful flower bouquet) that says, "The things that please are temporary." Over the second gate, there is a cross with this inscription: "The things that disturb us are ...read more

Tags: God Brings Hope

Denomination: Other

Moving And Friendships

Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009

MOVING AND FRIENDSHIPS We live in a society where people, especially young adults, move so often they don’t have time to develop deep friendships. My mom and step father lived in the place where I grew up for about 25 years. During that 25 years, I moved ...read more

Tags: Friendship General

Denomination: Baptist

Family—the Bottom Line Of Life

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009

Family--The Bottom Line of Life Chuck Swindoll said of the family, "Whatever else may be said about the home, it is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out. It is the place where life’s bills come due, the single most influential force in our ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-33, Ephesians 3:1-8

Tags: Family

As Christian We Might Have Dropped Some Of Those ...

Contributed by Ladonna Omobude on Nov 24, 2009

As Christian we might have dropped some of those four lettered curse words; however we still curse others by speaking evil and wishing evil upon them. The Bible says in James 3:10"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so ...read more

Tags: Conscience, Blessings Vs. Curses

Denomination: Pentecostal

J.c. Ryle On What Makes A True ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010

J.C. Ryle on what makes a true Christian J. C. Ryle: “Knowledge, orthodoxy, correct forms in worship, a respectable and moral life – these do not make a true Christian” (497). Do we love Jesus? That is the issue; it is the question Jesus asks Peter in John 21; we must ...read more

Scripture: John 21:15-19

Tags: Love For God

Respect The Redeemer!!!

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Jul 7, 2015

This new birth experience is bound to generate oodles of respect and love in the Saved for the Saviour (Luke 7:47). If Success in the Book of Thomas Edison is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration, then let it be said that major component of the “all odds surmounting love” (I Cor 13:7) in the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 34:8

Tags: Inspiration, Perspiration

Denomination: *other

[175]. A Message From A Poem – Bema – The Judgement Seat Of Christ

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 22, 2025

[175]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BEMA – THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST What do Christians think of the judgement that is coming for Christians that is outlined in these very telling verses? – {{1 Corinthians 3:11-15 “for no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:11-15, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 John 2:28, Revelation 4:10-11, Matthew 10:42, Revelation 22:12  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Heaven, Judgment, Cup Of Cold Water, Bema, Judgment Seat Of Christ, Judged, Shame, Penalty, Judge, Rewards, Ashamed, Reward  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The African Impala Can Jump To A Height Of Over ...  PRO

Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 23, 2004

The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall. Faith is the ability to trust ...read more

Tags: Doubt, Fear And Worry

Denomination: Baptist

A Recent Gallop Poll Found That 47% Of Americans ...  PRO

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004

A recent Gallop poll found that 47% of Americans do, in fact they hold a strict creationist view, that God created man pretty much in his present form within the last 10,000 years. Some 30% believe in some combination of evolution and creationism, where God was involved. Only 9% of Americans ...read more

Tags: Creation, Evolution

Denomination: Christian Church

I Read A Humorous Story About A Woman Who Fell ...  PRO

Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 27, 2005

I read a humorous story about a woman who fell out of a second-floor window and landed in a slow-moving garbage truck. Half-buried in the litter, she tried without success to get the truck-driver’s attention. A foreign diplomat standing on the sidewalk saw her and quipped, “another example of how ...read more

Scripture: Hosea 7:1-16

Tags: Women

Denomination: Baptist

Mega Churches: How Big? More Than 1.7 Million ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

Mega Churches: How Big? More than 1.7 million Protestants in the U.S. now attend mega-churches (churches that have a weekly attendance of 2,000 plus). That’s out of a pool of 105 to 111 million people who attend Christian churches weekly. Since 1970, the ...read more

Tags: Church General

Return To Roots: Mainline Denominations Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

Return To Roots: Mainline denominations are casting off generic texts and hymns and reasserting sectarian beliefs to stem declining memberships. Methodists, Presbyterians Lutherans and Episcopalians all too often don’t know their denomination’s historic distinctives. Frequently less than 25% of ...read more

Tags: Church Body Of Christ

More Believers: It Took 1900 Years For The Number ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More Believers: It took 1900 years for the number of dedicated believers to grow to 2.5% percent of the population, but only 70 years to double that to 5%. Since ‘70 – just 35 years – it has more than doubled again, to 11.2% today. At this rate, in 20 years the numbers will grow to 50%. ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To