In Sermon Illustrations: "Poems For Sermons"

Disaster Relief Is The Most Common Type Of Cause ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Disaster relief is the most common type of cause (outside the local church) financially supported by ...read more

Tags: Giving General

During The Past Decade The Mormon Church Grew The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

During the past decade the Mormon church grew the fastest in the U.S.—by 19% to 4.2 million ...read more

Tags: World Religions

35.5% Or $88.3 Billion Of All '04 U.s. Charitable ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

35.5% or $88.3 billion of all ’04 U.S. charitable giving went to Religion and was the #1 donor ...read more

Tags: Giving General

68% Of Americans Believe The Entertainment ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

68% of Americans believe the entertainment industry has lost touch with viewer’s moral ...read more

Tags: Television And Movies

The Current Median Age For Marriage In The U.s. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

The current median age for marriage in the U.S. has risen to 25 for women and 27 for ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

43% Of Workers Who Don't Currently Have The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

43% of workers who don’t currently have the flexibility to work from home some days would like to have ...read more

Tags: Workplace

An Estimated 11 Million Undocumented Migrants ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

An estimated 11 million undocumented migrants currently live in the U.S.; up to 750,000 yearly enter ...read more

57% Of Teens Aged 13-17 Have Cell Phones. (Foster ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

57% of teens aged 13-17 have cell ...read more

Tags: Children

There Are 33 Million Students In The U.s. Alone, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

There are 33 million students in the U.S. alone, and that number grows every ...read more

Tags: Children

3 Year Old Myspace.com Is The 2nd Most Popular ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

3 year old MySpace.com is the 2nd most popular Internet site after Yahoo, ahead of MSN, AOL, ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

1 In Every 3 American Babies Has Unwed ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

1 in every 3 American babies has unwed ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Wizard Appeal 84% Of U.s. Teens Have Read Or ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Wizard Appeal 84% of U.S. teens have read or watched Harry Potter. So have 77% of all church-going and born again Christian teens. Just 4% say they’ve encountered any teaching or discussions in a church about the spiritual themes embedded in the wizardry legend. Among born again teens it’s 13%. ...read more

Tags: Television And Movies

Astronomers Now Believe There Are As Many As 140 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Astronomers now believe there are as many as 140 billion galaxies in the known universe, some more than 11 billion light years away, each containing ...read more

Tags: Creation

Plump Preachers 76% Of Christian Clergy Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Plump Preachers 76% of Christian clergy are overweight versus 61% of the public, according to a ’04 a Duke ...read more

Tags: Church General

Older Churches, Especially Those 40 To 80 Years ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Older Churches, especially those 40 to 80 years old, on average declined 1.5% to 1.6% between ’03 and ’04. At the same time younger churches ...read more

Tags: Church General

Rampant Relativism Only 9% Of Evangelicals Have A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Rampant Relativism Only 9% of Evangelicals have a biblical worldview reports the Barna Group This stunning statistic reveals an estimated 91% of professing Christians are far more influenced by the ...read more

Tags: Truth

No Wall Of Separation "This Extra-Constitutional ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

No Wall Of Separation “This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome,” reads the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 4/24/06 decision to uphold a lower court’s opinion that “The First Amendment does not ...read more

Tags: Church Body Of Christ

Grandparents Give To Their Grandchildren As A Way ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Grandparents give to their grandchildren as a way to make restitution for not being the parents they thought they should have been. It’s a universal impulse rooted in feelings of inadequacy they feel about their performance when they ...read more

Tags: Family

The Number Of Baptisms Is Declining Throughout ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

The Number Of Baptisms is declining throughout the Christian community according to USA Today. Southern Baptists baptisms fell about 35% from ‘72 to ‘85 and has remained flat since. SBC membership increased from 13.6 million in ‘80 to 16.2 million in ‘04, while baptisms dropped from 430,000 in ‘80 ...read more

Tags: Becoming A Christian

Depression 1 In 4 People Are Affected By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Depression 1 in 4 people are affected by depression of family, friends, and coworkers, while 1 in 10 experience a major depressive episode yearly. The World Health Organization estimates depression will be the 2nd leading cause of health impairment worldwide by 2020. Unfortunate-ly the ...read more

Tags: Emotions