In Sermon Illustrations: "Large Number Of Fish"

A Number Of Years Ago Orel Hirschheiser Was ...  PRO

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002

A number of years ago Orel Hirschheiser was pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They had just won the World Series, & Orel had been named “The most valuable player of the series.” One of the TV shows about the series showed him in the dugout just before the 9th inning started. He was leaning ...read more

Tags: Giving Yourself, Sharing My Testimony, Sharing Your Faith

Denomination: Mennonite

A Number Of Years Ago The Douglas Aircraft ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005

A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the DC-8 were close to ...read more

Tags: Faith

Retro Twist: For A Growing Number Of Affluent ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Retro Twist: For a growing number of affluent families, the husband is earning enough for the wife to become a stay-at-home mom. Nearly 50% of households earning between $250,000 and $499,999 have only one bread-winner, up from just 38% 6 years earlier. ...read more

Tags: Parenting

The Number Of Children Living In Homes Headed By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

The number of children living in homes headed by grandparents has increased nearly 33% since ’90. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Family

Hot Numbers: Tweens Are Flocking To Buy ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Hot Numbers: Tweens are flocking to buy number-emblazoned apparel. Why numbers, why now? “Image-savvy youth, it seems, are sick of logos and brands splashed across their chests,” says Janine Lopiano, President of Sputnik , a teen trend tracker. “A fascination with digits comes from the popularity ...read more

Tags: Children

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

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

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

Tags: Church General

File Swapping Decline: The Number Of Online ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

File Swapping Decline: The number of online Americans downloading Internet music files has dropped by 50% and the numbers who are downloading files on any given day have plunged since the RIAA began filing copyright infringement suits in September. Conversely, comScore has observed that in recent ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Buster Pastors: The Number Of Busters (Currently ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Buster Pastors: The number of Busters (currently ages 20 to 38) who serve as senior pastors has doubled in just 2 years from 22,000 to 45,000 (nearly 14% of all 324,000 Protestant senior pastors in the U.S.). Buster pastors are more likely to use drama (32% to 21%); show movies, videos, and DVDs ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

Tags: Church Practices

Choices: The Overall Number Of Products Offered ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Choices: The overall number of products offered in an average-size supermarket stands at around 22,000. Last year, there were over 21,000 new products introduced. An eye-popping 1,500 actually made it into stores, the highest ...read more

Tags: Money

Episcopal Turmoil: A Growing Number Of American ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Episcopal Turmoil: A growing number of American Episcopal churches are leaving the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and aligning themselves with the Anglican Church of Uganda. The rupture occurred over the Church’s decision last year to permit the blessing of same-sex unions and to consecrate an openly gay ...read more

Tags: Unity

Cell Phone Codependency A Growing Number Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Cell Phone Codependency A growing number of experts have identified and begun to study a distinct downside in that: cell phone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own, even when the answers are right in front of us. The ease of obtaining instant advice ...read more

Tags: Communication General

Wealth Vs. Happiness: The Number Of Households ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Wealth Vs. Happiness: The number of households with more than $1 million in net worth (excluding primary residence) has risen to a record high and at a record rate according to recent research by TNS Financial Services. The number of wealthy U.S. households has shot to 8.2 million as of mid-‘04, a ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

More Unchurched: The Number Of Unchurched Adults ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More Unchurched: The number of unchurched adults in the U.S. has doubled since ‘91. That growth has been especially pronounced among men, people under 40, singles, and people ...read more

Tags: Church General

A Federal Survey In ‘02 Put The Number Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

A federal survey in ‘02 put the number of Americans who have tried acupuncture at 8.2 million. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

The Number Of American Gamblers Has Increased By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The number of American gamblers has increased by 20 million in the past 5 years. 73 million will visit a casino this year with the average gambler making 6 such visits ...read more

Tags: Addiction

The Number Of Active Duty Soldiers Getting A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The number of active duty soldiers getting a divorce rose 28% in ’04. Long separations and stress are blamed. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Divorce

Less Flex: The Number Of Employees With Flexible ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Less Flex: The number of employees with flexible work schedules is dropping even as research shows non-traditional hours can enhance productivity. The number of full-time workers on flexible schedules dropped from 29 million in ‘01 to 27.4 million in ‘04, according to a U.S. Department of Labor a ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

The Number Of Billionaires In The World Grew From ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The number of billionaires in the world grew from 587 in ‘04 to a record 691 people from 45 countries this year. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Money

The Number Of College Students Who Think That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The number of college students who think that abortion should be legal has decreased from 67% 10 years ago to just a slight majority today. ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Porn Plague: The Number Of Commercial Pornography ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Porn Plague: The number of commercial pornography Web sites has increased 1,800% in the last 5 years, with an estimated 260 million pages classified as porn. In a single month (July ‘03), N2H2, an Internet filtering company, says more than 28 million new porn web pages appeared. That one-month jump ...read more

Tags: Addiction