Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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George Gallup says “North America is the only continent where Christianity is not growing.” The American Society of Church Growth reports that in ’98, half of churches in America did not add one new member through “conversion growth.” Fuller Seminary has discovered that “It takes 3 people in a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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Younger Children 800% More Likely To Receive Christ: Barna Research reports teens between ages 14 and 18 have only a 4% likelihood of accepting Christ compared to kids ages 5 through 13 who have a 32% probability. This challenges the widely held notion that the teen-age years are a prime time for
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Never Surrender“
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 4, 2008
A guest preacher was speaking about “seeing Jesus in others” when God used Meghan as a living illustration of someone who had surrendered everything to Jesus as part of her community of faith.
During the worship set, Meghan spontaneously went to the front of the church and began dancing…wildly.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Mark Tonkery on Feb 21, 2009
DON'T FORGET ABOUT MARSHA
The story is about one day when a woman named Louise fell asleep in her bed, and dreamed a very frightful dream. She dreamed that someone in Hell wrote a letter to her, and it was to be delivered to her by a messenger. The messenger passed between the lakes of Hell, and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Sep 19, 2002
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Everything in our culture is fast. We hate to delay. I heard about a furniture store that carried a sign on its window, “Antiques, while you wait.” Max Lucado says, “America, the country of shortcuts and fast lanes. We’re the only nation on earth with a mountain called, ‘Rushmore.’” Our rushing
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
Unacceptable- Only 44% of Americans say homosexuality is morally acceptable while 51% say it is morally wrong. Yet, across society such tolerance ranges from 74% among liberal Americans to 18% among frequent churchgoers. A strong generational split is also evident, as only 32% of seniors say it is
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 5, 2000
One of images which remains with me is the sight of the Nile valley seen from 35,000 feet up when returning from the Middle East. There was a green fertile strip on both sides of the river and then nothing but sand - and that’s where David felt he was. When I was preparing this message television
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Baptist
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A few weeks ago I rented the movie AI. It is set in the future, where a company has created a human robot child with the ability to love unconditionally. In many ways it was a disturbing movie, posing a number of difficult questions about what it means to be human and what the limits of our
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Baptist
Contributed by John Shearhart on May 14, 2006
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“Back in the eighteenth century, a young boy was born into a Christian home. For the first six years of his life, he heard the truths of the gospel and he was loved. Sadly, though, his parents died. The orphaned boy went to live with his relatives. There he was mistreated and abused and ridiculed
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