Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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Evangelist Billy Walked told a story about the city fathers of New York as they contemplated the future growth of the city. They laid out the streets and numbered them from the center outward. When they began, there were only six or seven streets. In their planning maps, they projected how large
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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Involvement in small Bible study or prayer group has reached a new high in ‘06, today 23% vs. 17% a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Involvement in small Bible study or prayer group has reached a new high in ‘06, today 23% vs. 17% a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 20, 2007
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Wendell Holmes once said.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we
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Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
Like riding an elevator that takes you up one floor at a time, a breakthrough takes you up one level at a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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"Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it
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Contributed by Edwin Amundson on Jul 26, 2002
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A little boy was in a relative’s wedding. As he was coming down the aisle he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd alternating between the bride’s side and the groom’s side. While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar...so it went, step, step, ROAR, step,
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Baptist
Contributed by Dan Brown on Nov 27, 2006
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Select Stats on Change:
In the 1950’s:
-a car cost $1,220
-gas $0.23
-College Tuition- $525
-round of golf @ Pebble Beach $2
-Coke, Hershey bar, coffe- $0.05
-stamp $.03
-Annual Salary for a teacher $2,640
-computer $500,000
It took the radio 40 years to reach 50 million domestic users. It took
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
Sales Of Religious-Themed Products grew 28% from 02 to 05 and are expected to reach $9.5 billion by ’10, reports The Religious Products Market in the U.S. from Packaged Facts. Books, inspirational gifts/merchandise, and audio/video /software sales reached $7.5 billion in ‘05, up 9% over ‘04. Books
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2003
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In Valladolid (Val-la-de-lid), Spain, where Christopher Columbus died in 1506, stands a monument commemorating the great discoverer.
-Perhaps the most interesting feature of the memorial is a statue of a lion at the base of it where the Spanish National Motto is engraved.
-The lion is reaching
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Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Oct 14, 2003
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A little boy was in a relative’s wedding. As he was coming down the aisle he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd (alternating between bride’s side and groom’s side). While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and growl. So it went, step, step, GROWL, step, step,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
There was a Jewish man who became a Christian missionary. He became a pastor. But his family disowned him for becoming a Christian and refused to see him for fifteen years. Then his father became ill with cancer and asked him to visit him on his death bed. But his father refused to talk about
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Lutheran
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on May 11, 2008
GROWTH TYPES
George G. Hunter III has a shrewd mind after God's heart, and he has identified several areas of growth that must all occur in a working church:
- Internal Growth: this kind of growth takes place
in the lives of people who are already coming to
the church. When
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Free Methodist