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  • Barna's Latest Survey Shows 11% Of The People Who ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,975 views

    Barna’s latest survey shows 11% of the people who attend a Christian church at least once a month plan to change their place of worship in the coming year. If true, more than 15 million people will change their church home in the next 12 months. Barna concludes, "Despite their fascination with ...read more

  • Where Are The Young Clergy? The Numbers Of Young ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,665 views

    Where Are The Young Clergy? The numbers of young pastors have been steadily declining in recent years. In ’75, about 24% of Presbyterian ministers were under 35—today its just 7%. Episcopal priests under 35 have dropped from 19% to 4% over the same period. For Roman Catholic priests the rate has ...read more

  • Pray For Health 35% Of U.s. Adults Use Prayer For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,691 views

    Pray For Health 35% of U.S. adults use prayer for health reasons, according to the Archives of Internal Medicine. Of these, 75% prayed for “wellness” (staying healthy and warding off illness) and 22% used prayer to help cure specific conditions. 69 % of those thought prayer had been very helpful. ...read more

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt Made An Important ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 9, 2006
     | 1,472 views

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt made an important speech before Congress on January 6, 1941. After the war was over, he shared his vision of all people enjoying four basic freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Warren Wiersbe, conference speaker, ...read more

  • When You Go Through The Fire You Will Develop ...

    Contributed by Miguel Monge Jr. on Dec 11, 2006
     | 2,025 views

    When you go through the fire you will develop godly character, patience, understanding how God works and knowing his timing, trust, confidence in God and his ability to keep you in any circumstance, a deeper relationship with God!!! You see, God is the God of Purpose and he intends to bring you ...read more

  • Now To A Jewish Person, Any Time The Word ...

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 19, 2010
     | 2,069 views

    Now to a Jewish person, any time the word “sacrifice” was used, they would’ve immediately thought about the lambs that were sacrificed at the temple. Those sheep were raised up, they were fed, taken care of and protected, for the sole purpose of the sacrifice on the alter of God. That’s what a ...read more

  • During The 1980’s, More Than 17,000 ...

    Contributed by Rj Davis on Jul 6, 2010
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    During the 1980’s, more than 17,000 members of a major evangelical denomination were surveyed about their prayer habits while attending seminars on prayer for spiritual awakening. Because they attended this kind of seminar, we can assume these people are above average in their interest in prayer. ...read more

  • John Henry Jowett Was Born In Halifax, England In ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 6, 2011
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    John Henry Jowett was born in Halifax, England in 1864. He became Congregational pastor. He said on one occasion he saw seventy Salvation Army officers receive their commission for foreign service. That is seventy men being assigned to serve God in a foreign country. John Henry Jowett said not ...read more

  • This Too Shall Pass

    Contributed by Chuck Gohn on Jun 10, 2011
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    THIS TOO SHALL PASS "Walking on Water" Sermonspice video about Bethany Hamilton (Soul Surfer), also quote from Pastor TL Lewis Bethel Baptist Missionary Church, Pratt City Alabama who quoted the following after his church was destroyed from Tornado: "I can't tell you that I don't hurt over this, ...read more

  • Hot Air

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 7, 2012
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    HOT AIR When we were building this sanctuary we were discussing whether to put paper towel dispensers in the new rest rooms or those hot-air hand dryers. I strongly recommended the paper towel dispensers because of a story I heard about at another church. They installed the hot-air hand dryers. ...read more

  • After A Very Long And Boring Sermon The Church ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    After a very long and boring sermon the church members filed out of the church saying nothing to the preacher. Towards the end of the line was a thoughtful person who always commented on the sermons. “Preacher, today your sermon reminded me of the peace and love of God" The pastor was thrilled. ...read more

  • The Church Household

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2007
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    (1 Timothy 3:1-13) Chrytsostom writes, "The church leader must be ’one that governs well his own house.’... For the church is, as it were, a small household. In a house there are children and wife and domestic duties, and some person has to provide order for them all. So in the church there are ...read more

  • From Time To Time We Hear Statistics About How ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
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    From time to time we hear statistics about how people first came into church membership. These figures trace back to the Institute of American Church Growth, which asked 10,000 people about their pilgrimage. What led them in? The answers were: special need, 2%; walk-in, 3%; Pastor, 6%; ...read more

  • I Want To Stay With You  PRO

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,138 views

    I Want to Stay With You That reminds me of what happened one Sunday after a Child Dedication service. As a young family was driving away from church after the dedication of their baby, little Johnny, the older brother, cried all the way home in the back seat of the car. His mother asked him three ...read more

  • A Small Congregation In The Foothills Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Crow on Sep 2, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
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    A small congregation in the foothills of the Great Smokies built a new sanctuary on a piece of land willed to them by a church member. Ten days before the new church was to open, the local building inspector informed the pastor that the parking lot was inadequate for the size of the building. Until ...read more

  • The Call Of Bishop Cowther

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Call of Bishop Cowther That day, as the slaves were packed into the Portuguese slave ship, they probably did not know that they would be free within a few hours. Even as they were freed by the captain of the British frigate, I don’t think anyone knew the incredible long range results. One of ...read more

  • We Get A Whole Bunch

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    We Get a Whole Bunch Pastor John R Ramsey once wrote, "For some time I have had a person provide me with a rose boutonniere to pin on the lapel of my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that I appreciated, but ...read more

  • Andy Stanley Tells The Story Of When He Was 13 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    Andy Stanley tells the story of when he was 13 and learning the meaning of the phrase, “Actions speak louder than words.” His dad was the Associate pastor of First Baptist in Atlanta when the senior pastor was asked to resign. Charles Stanley was asked to preach on Sundays until a suitable ...read more

  • Today I Am A Horse, Dear God, Did You Have To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 12, 2000
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    "Today I am a horse, Dear God, did you have to make my poor old horse lose his shoe just before the Sabbath? That wasn't nice. It's enough you pick on me, Tevye, bless me with 5 daughters, a life of poverty. What have You got against my horse? Sometimes I think when things are too quiet up there, ...read more

  • Maybe You Heard The Story About A Little ...  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
    based on 85 ratings
     | 1,850 views

    ILL. Maybe you heard the story about a little girl named Sandra who was raised in an adobe house in a rural area of New Mexico, without electricity & running water. In fact, her mother & father had to drive to El Paso, 200 miles away, so that her mother could be in the hospital when Sandra was ...read more