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The Best Estimates Say As Few As 100 Or 200 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The best estimates say as few as 100 or 200 people worldwide are responsible for the preponderance of pornographic spam. ...read more

Tags: Addiction

There Are 86,641 Book Publishers With At Least 10 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007

There are 86,641 book publishers with at least 10 books in print. Of these 1,804 have more than ...read more

The National Center For Missing And Exploited ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says 1 in 5 kids online has been sexually solicited ...read more

Tags: Children

Idaho Senator Mike Crapo Claims The Statistics ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Idaho Senator Mike Crapo claims the statistics show that 1 in 5 U.S. teens faces violence in ...read more

Tags: Dating

China, The World Leader In Cell Phone Use, Has ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009

China, the world leader in cell phone use, has surpassed the U.S. as the #1 nation in Internet ...read more

Tags: Technology

On The Clearest Night With A Full Sky In View, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009

On the clearest night with a full sky in view, about 1,030 bodies of light can be counted with the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 15:5

Tags: Creation

Lancaster, Pa. -- Days After Being Shot In The ...

Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 9, 2005

LANCASTER, Pa. -- Days after being shot in the leg, a 2-year-old Lancaster boy is home again after being released from the hospital Tuesday morning June 4th. Pedro Melendez was shot last week in what police call a case of road rage. Police said Jon Eichelman shot the boy ...read more

Tags: Anger

Denomination: Salvation Army

Greeting Card Market Data • 86% Of The U.s. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Greeting Card Market Data • 86% of the U.S. population buys greeting cards. 80% of shoppers will need a card in the next two weeks. • 91 million U.S. households buy greeting cards. • The average Christian consumer has purchased more than 4 cards in the last 3 months. • Every card ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Fewer Marriages: The Proportion Of Women In The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Fewer Marriages: The proportion of women in the U.S. between ages 15 and 44 who are married declined from 73% in ’60 to only 55% in ’00. This reflects a decline in marriage rates and more than a million divorces annually. The number of cohabiting women has grown from only 439,000 in ’60 ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

I Spent Many Years As A Teacher In Further ...

Contributed by Joanna Beveridge on Feb 2, 2007

I spent many years as a teacher in Further Education. My subject was business studies and one of the topics that I taught was marketing. It is said that to market any product or service successfully you have to pay attention to the 4 ps. These stand for Product, Price, Place and Promotion. In ...read more

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Roe V. Wade Support Waning Harris Poll Has Been ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Roe v. Wade Support Waning Harris poll has been measuring Roe v. Wade support for 33 years and reports just 49% of U.S. adults support the decision today vs. 57% in ’98. 40% favor laws to make it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion, while another 40% ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Christian Book Publishers Receive A Combined ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The average first printing of a book for a ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

Luxury Consumers' Feeling Of Confidence Tanked ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Luxury consumers’ feeling of confidence tanked in Q3, as measured by Unity Marketing’s Luxury Consumption Index. The index plummeted to 87.3 points, its lowest level since '04, following a 4-point drop in Q2. The index is based upon a survey of luxury consumers (average income $150,000 and ...read more

Tags: Materialism

Bob And Pam Tebow Were Advised To Abort Their ...

Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 5, 2009

Bob and Pam Tebow were advised to abort their baby, Timmy. That "baby" won the Heisman Trophy in 2007 and will play quarterback for the Florida Gators in the College National Championship game. On his face, Tim wears eye black stickers with "Phil 4:13" - "I can do all things through Christ who ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Denomination: Pentecostal

P ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009

PRISONERS The U.S. has less than 5% of the world’s population, yet nearly 25% of its prisoners. It has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 people. The only other major industrialized nation that even comes close is Russia, with 627 prisoners for every ...read more

Tags: Sin General

First-Born

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 8, 2010

FIRST-BORN The ancient Rabbis called Yahweh Himself "Firstborn of the World" (Rabbi Bechai cited in Lightfoot’s commentary on Colossians). Rabbis also used firstborn as a Messianic title. "God said, ’As I made Jacob a first-born (Exodus 4:22), so also will I make king Messiah a first-born’ (Psalm ...read more

Tags: Jesus Christ

Denomination: Independent/Bible

C.s. Lewis On A Right Understanding Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010

C.S. Lewis on a Right Understanding of Self C. S. Lewis put it this way: When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. (Leadership, Vol. ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:3

Tags: Humility

Risk Your Life To Save It

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 20, 2011

RISK YOUR LIFE TO SAVE IT Tyrtaeus, an old Greek poet who lived before the time of Christ, wrote, "The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance in saving it; the one who flees to save it is most likely to lose it." (Walter Bauer, A Greek-English ...read more

Scripture: John 12:23-26

Tags: Easter Palm Sunday

Misunderstanding

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 23, 2021

A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter Amanda to answer the phone. And kids view the world differently sometimes. Literally. She answered the phone obediently, "Hello, this is Amanda. Mommy can't ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 29:12-17

Tags: Children, Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Misunderstanding, Amusing, Wording  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Pioneers Are In A Class All Their Own. They Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Pioneers are in a class all their own. They are people who swim upstream against the ethical current of the day (like Noah). They are individuals who take on the Goliath of the day with no fear of defeat (such as David). As servants of God living grace filled values they accept injustice in a ...read more

Tags: Doing God's Will