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  • God's Greatness

    Contributed by Ed Lu on Nov 26, 2011
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     | 8,180 views

    GOD'S GREATNESS Today it doesn’t take wars or persecutions to challenge our Christian faith or religious practices. No spears, no swords, no fiery torches or saddled horses to combat our religiosity. Sadly, these so called wars and battles among Christians are domesticated within the surrounding ...read more

  • Ten Word Sermon

    Contributed by Kevin Barron on Aug 31, 2018
     | 5,195 views

    The shortest sermon I know is only ten words. It was preached by my grandfather to a small, country congregation on the story of the Good Samaritan (Mark 10:35-45). He read the account of an outsider who demonstrates true neighbor love by stopping on the road to care for a bleeding and badly ...read more

  • Questions About The Mysteries Of Life And Its ...

    Contributed by Bruce Montgomery on Apr 21, 2008
     | 1,464 views

    Questions about the mysteries of life and its origins have always fascinated thinking people. Where shall we go for answers? Leave such inquiries to science, some would say. That is not the domain of faith and religious inquiry. There was a most interesting article in March 1998 National ...read more

  • Playing At Religion

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on May 2, 2008
     | 3,120 views

    PLAYING AT RELIGION An elderly man visited a church during a business meeting. After a number of reports were presented, the chairman of the evangelism committee stood and solemnly stated that there were 200 homes in their county without a Bible. There was a moment of silence, and then the ...read more

  • A Man Called A Pastor's Office At A Church One ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008
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    A man called a pastor’s office at a church one day to inquire into membership in the church. He stated that he would not be able to get involved or anything, but he felt it was important to have some religious affiliation. The pastor advised this man that the church he pastored might not be the ...read more

  • My Family Is Different Than Many Of Yours. My ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
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     | 1,368 views

    My family is different than many of yours. My parents hate my work and hate my relationship with Christ. As long as I never say anything, they will tolerate it but I can’t keep quiet about Christ. Since I became a Christian back around 2000, I have had to live with the fact that I was no longer ...read more

  • Fewer Protestants: A University Of Chicago Survey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
     | 1,051 views

    Fewer Protestants: A University of Chicago survey shows U.S. Protestants are now 52% of the population, down from 62% in ‘93, and may no longer be the nation’s largest religious group by year’s end. The 52% included about 2% of respondents who said they were Church ...read more

  • It Is Time We Put A Stop To The Coercive And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,622 views

    "It is time we put a stop to the coercive and compulsory bans on religious expression in our public schools. Those who oppose such expression constantly point to their desire to protect constitutional rights and intents. However, they seem oblivious to the fact that those who wrote and adopted the ...read more

  • A.w. Tozer

    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
     | 2,604 views

    A.W.Tozer also said “Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of ...read more

  • According To Wikipedia,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
     | 1,546 views

    According to Wikipedia, "The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million ...read more

  • Carl Rogers, A Psychologist, Was 22 Years Old ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 10, 2004
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     | 2,574 views

    Carl Rogers, a psychologist, was 22 years old when he entered Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1924. While there, he participated in a seminar organized to explore religious doubts. Rogers later said of the group, “The majority of members...in thinking their way through questions they had ...read more

  • Teens Admire...?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 10, 2010
     | 2,814 views

    TEENS ADMIRE...? Have you thought lately about who teenagers admire? World Almanac and Book of Facts surveyed eight graders a few years ago and discovered that the top thirty names were movie stars and athletes. Not one admired adult was a religious leader, statesman, author, painter, doctor, ...read more

  • Up To 10 Percent Of The World's Population That ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 28, 2008
     | 1,028 views

    Up to 10 percent of the world’s population that does not attend church on a regular basis describes itself as “spiritual, but not religious.” The term actually seems to come out of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1970’s as AA was trying to explain that although a belief in a higher power was required, ...read more

  • Seeing But Not Eating

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 8, 2009
     | 1,941 views

    SEEING BUT NOT EATING The Jewish Rabbi known as Rav held a similar viewpoint. Brad Young summarizes his view, "One will be judged not only for sins committed against Torah but also for pleasures in life that were neglected because of a false religious abstinence. The sense of joy in living comes ...read more

  • Child Care: The Nation's Largest Childcare ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,178 views

    Child Care: The nation’s largest childcare providers are the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention with nearly 10,000 childcare centers between them. Since ’97, the number of church-based childcare centers has risen by 26% versus a 19% increase in all U.S childcare centers. ...read more

  • For Several Years, Controversy Had Centered On A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joey Nelson on Aug 6, 2001
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     | 2,848 views

    For several years, controversy had centered on a strange monk from Wittenberg. Political and religious leaders felt that his teachings, which included salvation by grace through faith alone in Christ alone, might spark a rebellion. Accused of heresy, he stood trial on April 17, 1521. He never ...read more

  • President John Adams Stated, "The Law Given From ...

    Contributed by Tim Gresham on Jan 21, 2004
     | 1,495 views

    President John Adams stated, “The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal code as well as a moral and religious code. These laws essential to the existence of men in society and most of which have been enacted by every Nation which ever professed any code of laws. Vain indeed would be the ...read more

  • Neal Alexander, Publisher And President Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
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    Neal Alexander, Publisher and President of United Methodist Publishing House/Abingdon says, "What is clear is that the yearning and need for spiritual resources is growing. Contemporary life doesn’t make religious experience irrelevant, it makes it indispensable. The further segmentation of our ...read more

  • There Really Is A Bible Belt: Barna Research ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,965 views

    There Really Is A Bible Belt: Barna Research Group’s annual religious behavior survey reports Bible reading is 45% more likely in the south than in other U.S regions. Other population segments most likely to read the Bible: earn less than $25K per year; are married adults, African ...read more

  • 8 In 10 Americans Earning More Than $1 Million A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
     | 1,482 views

    8 in 10 Americans earning more than $1 million a year leave nothing to charity in their wills. "Philanthropy is part of the unspoken contract that underpins the American dream. If that contract is broken, a backlash is likely. Every American, rich and poor, would lose." This same issue lists ...read more