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  • God's Greatness

    Contributed by Ed Lu on Nov 26, 2011
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     | 8,269 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
     | 5,295 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

  • A Dialog From The Once-Popular Sitcom, Seinfield. ...

    Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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     | 2,281 views

    A dialog from the once-popular sitcom, Seinfield. The dialog takes place between Elaine and her boyfriend. Elaine asks, “Do you believe in God?? “Yes,?her boyfriend replies. Elaine asks, “Is it a problem that I’m not religious?? “Not for me,?her ...read more

  • Parachurch Donor Revenue Growth Has Outstripped ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
     | 1,199 views

    Parachurch Donor Revenue growth has outstripped churches for the past 20 or more years. In 1900, parachurches received about 12.5% of religious donations. By 1970, that had increased to 28.5% and it’s estimated that in 1996 parachurches received 51.5% ($100 billion) , ...read more

  • Evangelicals Most Active Although They Only ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
     | 1,437 views

    Evangelicals Most Active Although they only account for about 8% of he U.S. adult population evangelicals are the most religiously active segment. In a typical week 80% attend church, 92% read their Bible, 60% attend Sunday school and 48% volunteer at church. Also a ...read more

  • Abc Cuts Religion: Disney-Owned Abc News Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
     | 1,727 views

    ABC Cuts Religion: Disney-owned ABC News is releasing its long-time religion correspondent, Peggy Wehmeyer, and doing away with her beat in October. The award-winning For 7 years she has been covering religious issues for the network and her departure means that none of the ...read more

  • Canadian Revival: Three Polls Conducted Since '00 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,326 views

    Canadian Revival: Three polls conducted since ’00 by Focus on the Family, Time Canada and the Vanier Institute of the Family show weekly church attendance going up in Canada for the first time in a generation. 25% of Canadians are now attending a weekly religious service vs. 20% a few years ago. ...read more

  • Nfl Ok's Superbowl Parties At Churches

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,896 views

    NFL OK’S SUPERBOWL PARTIES AT CHURCHES Churches can now host Super Bowl parties without opposition from the National Football League. The League will not object to live showings of the Super Bowl by a religious organization on a routine and customary basis. The League will implement this policy ...read more

  • Heroic Virtue

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 10, 2009
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    HEROIC VIRTUE St. Maximilian Kolbe, languishing in a Nazi prison camp, offered his life for a man who was condemned to death. Even the religious world would counsel against this act as rash. After all, a priest is more valuable to the kingdom of God than any layperson, right? But God’s ...read more

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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    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
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    "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
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    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
     | 1,577 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

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

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,201 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

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

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 10, 2004
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    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

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

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 28, 2008
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    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
     | 1,981 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

  • Teens Admire...?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 10, 2010
     | 2,855 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

  • I Will Close With A Record Of Something God Did ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Belcher on Nov 26, 2001
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,680 views

    I will close with a record of something God did 130 years go in New York City. It illustrates how God has started every harvest time in history, through the concerted prayer of his people. Toward the middle of the last century the glow of earlier religious awakenings had faded. America was ...read more

  • Barna On Parenting

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
     | 3,203 views

    BARNA ON PARENTING George Barna in his book "Revolutionary Parenting" gives us the bad news about the family today -- especially many Christian families: What does God measure? In other words how does God evaluate what is a healthy family and an unhealthy family? Barna states: What does God ...read more