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  • If 99% Were Good Enough

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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    What you’d get if 99% were good enough: No phone service for 15 minutes each day. 1.7 million pieces of first class mail lost each day. 35,000 newborn babies dropped by doctors or nurses each year 200,000 people getting the wrong drug prescriptions each year Unsafe drinking water three days a ...read more

  • The Most Common Reasons Donors Discontinue ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    The most common reasons donors discontinue giving: · 53% Don’t have the money · 30% Don’t know how the money is used · 27% Don’t know the ministry accomplishments · 23% Ministry spends too much on fund raising · 22% Don’t understand the ministry’s purpose Of course every reason has a reason behind ...read more

  • The Median Ages For Men And Women Marrying Are 28 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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    The median ages for men and women marrying are 28 and 26 respectively. This compares to 23 and 20 in the early ‘60’s. Also, today only 1 out of 5 bride’s parents pays for the wedding. A trend that is influencing bridal gift choices and the amount spent on wedding gifts. On a sadder note, living ...read more

  • Bible Market Shifts: Devotional Bible Sales Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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    Bible Market Shifts: Devotional Bible sales are declining and study Bible’s are increasing says Tom Mockabee, Zon-dervan Sr. VP. People buy 9 or more Bibles because of life’s tensions, uncertainties and crises. They are searching for something they can rely on. Bibles for children are one of the ...read more

  • Market Shift: Zondervan General-Market Revenues ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    Market Shift: Zondervan General-Market revenues grew from 1.5% for the company to 17.7% between ‘93 and ’03, while the CBA channel’s share fell from 72.9% to 52.1% over the same period. ABA sales grew from 4.5% to 9.1% during the same decade. One national chain told Zondervan it has conducted a ...read more

  • Word-Of-Mouth: A Uk Survey Conducted In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Word-of-Mouth: A UK survey conducted in conjunction with World Book Day reaffirms that word-of-mouth is the strongest force in book sales alongside recognizing and wanting to read another book by a favorite author. 25% of people responding said the last book they read was based on a personal ...read more

  • Evangelism?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009
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     | 6,703 views

    EVANGELISM? A 4-year study funded by the Lily Endowment designed to identify and analyze highly effective examples of evangelism by congregations in 7 mainline denominations reached two primary findings: (1) Of the 30,000 churches that qualified for the Mainline Evangelism Project, only 1/2 of 1% ...read more

  • You Do Not Pull The Shore To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009
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    YOU DO NOT PULL THE SHORE TO YOU Prayer is surrender--surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but ...read more

  • D.

    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Oct 6, 2009
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    “A human being has to work to live but has an insatiable appetite for more. This is common to both wise and foolish. Today the business world contains many clever people who work hard because they are obsessed with piling up money, while on the other side there are those who are ever alert for a ...read more

  • From The Texas Heart Institute's Website, We ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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    From the Texas Heart Institute’s website, we learn the following about our human heart. It weighs between 7 and 15 ounces (16 ounces is one pound.)It is the size of our fist (Make a fist.) For a person who lives a long life it will beat up to 3.5 billion times. It pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood ...read more

  • Today It A Wonderful Day For Many Of Us Here In ...

    Contributed by Vonnie E James on Mar 21, 2010
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    Today is a wonderful day for many of us here in Grenada and elsewhere in the world, while many over are suffering and are going through trials and time of testing. We look at the Haiti situation where just a some time ago, that 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the Capital, city Port-Aux-Prince, ...read more

  • The Colonel Who Served As Inspector General In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 21, 2011
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    The colonel who served as inspector general in a particular base paid close attention to how personnel wore their uniforms. On one occasion he spotted a junior airman with a violation. "Airman," he bellowed, "what do you do when a shirt pocket is unbuttoned?" The startled airman replied, "Button ...read more

  • A 2006 Survey Of State Adult Protective Agencies ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    A 2006 survey of state adult protective agencies found 565,747 reports of abuse of vulnerable adults in one year. With 89% of reports occurring in domestic settings, it's a disturbing snapshot of mistreatment of people in their own homes, mostly by their own kin, who are also likely to be their ...read more

  • G ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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    GERANIUMS A man walked into a flower shop and asked for some potted red geraniums. "I’m sorry," said the clerk in flower shop, "we are completely sold out of all of our potted geraniums. But I’d be more than happy to give you a deal on something else. Could you use African violets ...read more

  • Sparky Anderson The Great Baseball Manager Wh...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Sparky Anderson the great baseball manager who won many pennants and a world championship, said,” I’m not lying when I say that this religion is so important to me. If I had one great wish, it would be that I could honestly say that I was one of God’s children. That is the one emptiness I have. I ...read more

  • Before The Review Board  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 29, 2004
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    BEFORE THE REVIEW BOARD John the Baptist was a truly strange fellow. I can imagine his performance review from the board of clergy examiners. - - - - - - - - - Dear John ben Zechariah: The board of examiners completed their visit and frankly were concerned about several matters pertaining to ...read more

  • Revolution By Preachers

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 19, 2011
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    REVOLUTION BY PREACHERS Resistance to England during the Revolution became a sacred duty to a people who were, on the whole, highly a religious people. And they were led--in their resistance to the tyranny of England--by their preachers. * It was a preacher named Jonathan Mayhew who observed that ...read more

  • Asking God Questions

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 29, 2010
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    I get the privilege and opportunity to speak to many old people in the course of my day. Being a chaplain and Pastor in an aged care facility (fancy name for old people’s nursing home) I am fascinated by the amazing lives that they have led. Last week I spoke to a woman in her 90’s who said she ...read more

  • Sent By God  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2002
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    SENT BY GOD Bill Bright, the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, in a recent interview told of his most memorable occasion to share the gospel. "I remember as a young believer I felt impressed to call on a man who was a CEO of one of the great fortune 500 companies. As presumptuous as it ...read more

  • Leadership And Prayer

    Contributed by Tim White on May 8, 2011
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    LEADERSHIP AND PRAYER Henry and Richard Blackaby in Spiritual Leadership in chapter seven "The Leader's Influence" stress that leaders influence others through prayer. They give six reasons why leaders should pray. The fourth reason is "God is all-powerful. . . .God can do far more than even the ...read more