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Giving Americans Donate $295 Billion A Year To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009

Giving Americans donate $295 billion a year to charity, with just under a third of it ($97 bn.) to religious organizations. On average, Christians are giving ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 3:10

Tags: Giving General

A Cartoon Of A Lady Singing, "He Touched Me"  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2002

A cartoon of a lady singing, "He Touched Me". One lady in congregation says to another, "I don’t know who she’s singing about, but he’s gonna be ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Value Values: "If Values And Principles Are To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Value Values: “If values and principles are to set the tone for organizations and guide their decisions, they must become part of every task, plan, discussion, and operation,” ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

The Enormous Interest In Negotiation Today Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The enormous interest in negotiation today is no accident. The structure of power today means you cant just tell people what to do, even within an organization. The ...read more

Tags: Divisions

Monogamy Trade-Offs?

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 28, 2011

MONOGAMY TRADE-OFFS? The Utah Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) is promoting polygamy as a solution to the problems of working mothers. Elizabeth Joseph said, "I've maximized my ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Fatherhood

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

FATHERHOOD The National Organization for Women has filed a complaint with the Health and Human Services Dept., saying a program intended to promote responsible fatherhood is ...read more

Tags: Women

The Latest Statistics Clearly Show That ...  PRO

Contributed by Chris Santasiere on Aug 29, 2001

The latest statistics clearly show that Christians in America are not doing a good job of resisting the devil. In fact, it appears that we are embracing the devil, or discounting that the devil even exists. The truly sad fact as we will see is that Christians in America think and behave no ...read more

Tags: Love Of The Disciples, Faith, Apologetics General

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Leadership Confidence Levels ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009

LEADERSHIP CONFIDENCE LEVELS FALLING The 2008 Harris Poll of American leadership confidence has measured the confidence finds 15 of the 16 items listed show a fall in confidence from 2007. They are leadership in medicine down from 35% to 28%, the White House down 22% to 15% and small business ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:8

Tags: Leadership General

Sociological Community

Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 5, 2009

SOCIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY I would like to begin this morning with the definition of the word community. A community is "a local grouping within which people carry out a full round of life activities." A community includes: (1) a grouping of people (2) within a geographical area (3) with a ...read more

Tags: Church Body Of Christ

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Donations To Charities Have Increased 2.3% Over ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Donations To Charities have increased 2.3% over last year according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s recent poll of the 400 largest nonprofit organizations in the U.S. (The ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Whom Do You Trust? A New Ponemon Institute Study ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Whom Do You Trust? A new Ponemon Institute study finds that consumers believe banks and health organizations respect privacy, have less confidence in the hospitality, retail, and food-service ...read more

Tags: Faith

American Confidence: According To A Recent Gallup ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

American Confidence: According to a recent Gallup poll the top 5 institutions that earned the confidence of the American public are the military (82%), the police (61%), the presidency (55%), the ...read more

Tags: Character

Howard Books Has Taken Top Honors As The Best ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Howard Books has taken top honors as the Best Christian Place to Work in America for the 4th year. The Best Christian Workplaces Institute survey canvassed more than ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

Planned Parenthood Reports It Generated $882 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Planned Parenthood reports it generated $882 million in FY ’04-‘05, one-third of which ($275 million) came from American taxpayers. During that same time period the ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Revival Requires ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008

REVIVAL REQUIRES PRAYER! Thom Rainer tells us in his book Giant Awakenings that "71% of breakout churches report an increased emphasis on prayer over the past several years as compared to only 40% of churches which continued on the plateau." Rainer also tells us that "Earle Cairns notes with ...read more

Tags: Prayer General

Volunteerism: About 59 Million People, Or 27.6% ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Volunteerism: About 59 million people, or 27.6% of the civilian non-institutional population, volunteered through or for an organization at some point from September ‘01 to September ’02 (The most recent ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:8-11

Tags: Giving General

Planned Parenthood Performed 244,628 Abortions ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Planned Parenthood performed 244,628 abortions last year, up 6.1% from ’03. Their FY 2004 annual report reveals the organization relied on abortion for 34% of its clinic ...read more

Tags: Abortion

During Wwii, When Italy Invaded Ethiopia, All ...  PRO

Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 17, 2002

During WWII, when Italy invaded Ethiopia, all Protestant missionaries were forced to leave the country. In one district there was a church of about 70. Some 5 years later when the missionaries returned, they found 60,000 Christians ...read more

Tags: Holy Spirit In Believers, Church Purpose Of, God's Omnipotence

Denomination: Wesleyan

Good Fishing: The Dot Com Upheaval Has Made It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

Good Fishing: The dot com upheaval has made it easier for Christian organizations to find and recruit some very talented high tech talent. Many new economy refugees are ready for a change and like the Christian and ...read more

Tags: Character

Ministry Watch.com, Part Of Nc Based Wall ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Ministry Watch.com, part of NC based Wall Watchers, has launched a non-profit rating system of more than 400 faith-based organizations. The ratings are designed to help donors make better-informed ...read more

Tags: Giving General