In Sermon Illustrations: "Romans 12 9 16b"

What's Wrong With This Picture? At The 100 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

What’s Wrong With This Picture? At the 100 worst-performing companies in the Standard & Poor 500-stock index, 47 executives and directors took home at least $5 million each by selling stock through early December, while the average share price of ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Singles Ignored: Generally Churches Ignore ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Singles Ignored: Generally churches ignore singles or treat them as if they are strange. Given the fact that almost 50% of the U.S. adult population is single, churches need to recognize singles as normal. And churches need to minister to their diverse needs, including those who have ...read more

Tags: Church General

Most Of All, Our God Has This Fire. That Is How ...

Contributed by Tony Abram on Sep 25, 2006

Most of all, our God has this fire. That is how the bush could burn with out being consumed. This is how our lights can burn with our going out. This is how we can have the ‘fire of God’ in our lives and not is consumed. Let us ...read more

A Recent Gallop Poll Found That 47% Of Americans ...  PRO

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004

A recent Gallop poll found that 47% of Americans do, in fact they hold a strict creationist view, that God created man pretty much in his present form within the last 10,000 years. Some 30% believe in some combination of evolution and creationism, where God was involved. Only 9% of Americans ...read more

Tags: Creation, Evolution

Denomination: Christian Church

Remarking On The Breathtaking Wonders Of The ...

Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 6, 2005

Remarking on the breathtaking wonders of the universe being revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope – wonders many people, including some scientists, say can only be attributed to a Creator God – George Will observed: “Soon the American Civil Liberties Union, or People for the American Way, or some ...read more

Tags: Creation

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Return To Roots: Mainline Denominations Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

Return To Roots: Mainline denominations are casting off generic texts and hymns and reasserting sectarian beliefs to stem declining memberships. Methodists, Presbyterians Lutherans and Episcopalians all too often don’t know their denomination’s historic distinctives. Frequently less than 25% of ...read more

Tags: Church Body Of Christ

Love My Job: Gallup's Annual Work And Education ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Love My Job: Gallup’s annual Work and Education Poll finds most employed adults in the U.S. enjoy their jobs, including 59% who “like” and 32% who “love” them. Only 9% dislike or hate them. Non-profit organization, government, or self-employed workers are much more likely than those ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Greeting Card Market Data • 86% Of The U.s. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Greeting Card Market Data • 86% of the U.S. population buys greeting cards. 80% of shoppers will need a card in the next two weeks. • 91 million U.S. households buy greeting cards. • The average Christian consumer has purchased more than 4 cards in the last 3 months. • Every card ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Want Better Kids? Buy A House! A New Ohio State ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Want Better Kids? Buy a house! A new Ohio State University study finds that compared to kids living in rented premises; those in owner-occupied houses have 9% higher math scores, 7% higher reading scores, and 1% to 3% fewer behavioral problems. The difference is credited to an improved ...read more

Tags: Children

When Oscar Wilde Arrived For A Visit To The U.s. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006

When Oscar Wilde arrived for a visit to the U.S. in 1882, he was asked by customs officials if he had anything to declare. He replied: "Only my genius." Fifteen years later, alone and broken in prison, he reflected on his life of waste and excess. "I have been a spendthrift of my genius...I forgot ...read more

Tags: Character

Half-Hearted Happiness

Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 1, 2007

Half-Hearted Happiness To love God wholeheartedly, we must be convinced that our only happiness is in Him alone. We cannot believe this until we renounce all other efforts at happiness. If we look to God to supply half our happiness, we can only love him with half our hearts. (William Law in ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Americans Waste More Than 2 Hours A Day At Work, ...

Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009

AMERICANS WASTE MORE THAN 2 HOURS A DAY AT WORK, COSTING COMPANIES $759 BILLION A YEAR, ACCORDING TO SALARY.COM AND AMERICA ONLINE SURVEY Top Time-Wasting Activities 1. Surfing Internet (personal use) 44.7% 2. Socializing with co-workers 23.4% 3. ...read more

Tags: Integrity, Time

Denomination: Baptist

The Pond Of The Soul

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 15, 2012

THE POND OF THE SOUL Thomas Fuller (English preacher of 1600’s) wrote: "Almost 20 years ago I heard a profane jest and still I remember it. How many pious passages of a far later date have I utterly forgotten? It seems my soul is like a filthy pond where fish die soon ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:22-24

Tags: Holiness

How Urgent Do We Approach The Harvest

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jun 13, 2017

In Matthew 9:38 Jesus describes driving workers into the field with the urgency of a harvest that cannot wait. Yet, so often our churches have become ho-hum about God's harvest. How can revival come to our land when our churches are so Laodicean in attitude? How can our dying western ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 9:38

Tags: Harvest, Urgency

Denomination: Baptist

Little Boy Sees The Parade But Misses The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2009

Little Boy Sees the Parade but Misses the Circus Lowell Ogden tells the story of a little boy who lived out in the country around the turn of the century. He had never seen a traveling circus, and one was coming to his town on Saturday. The lad asked his father for permission to go and his dad said ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:46-55

Tags: Worship Definition

I Was Waiting For You  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2011

I WAS WAITING FOR YOU A family was out vacationing at the lake one summer. Dad had been puttering out by the boat house. Two of his sons, a 12 year old and a 3 year old were down playing along the dock. The 12 year old was suppose to be watching his little brother, but he got distracted. The 3 ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:45

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Unsung Heroes At The 'battle Of The Ditches'!

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Aug 30, 2024

Introduction: Ask any veteran or anyone who served in the military for the strangest duty they ever performed and you may get some interesting replies! The soldiers in this story were asked (!) to put down their swords and take up some shovels in order to dig a lot of ditches! This story also has ...read more

Tags: Jehoshaphat, Elisha, Unsung Heroes, Ditches

Denomination: Baptist

[108]. A Message From A Poem – Grace Is The Key To Holiness

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 18, 2025

[108]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GRACE IS THE KEY TO HOLINESS This is a poem that has to be read carefully for understanding because of the construct of the poem. The subject is certainly GRACE, but grace can never be in isolation. There is a strong but harmonising relationship with LOVE, ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9, Revelation 22:21, Ezra 9:8, Ephesians 2:8

Tags: Peace, Holiness, Christian Poetry, Christian Poems, Grace, Love  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

I Recently Heard About A Doctor Who Seemed To ...  PRO

Contributed by Cameron Horsburgh on Feb 1, 2002

I recently heard about a doctor who seemed to have had a huge amount of success as a GP. Whilst he only had a small number of patients on his books, they all stayed in remarkable health. A journalist heard about this doctor, and decided to pay him a visit. Now this journalist, a man by the name of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 5:29-32, 2 Chronicles 7:14

Tags: God Brings Hope

Denomination: Holiness

The Cross Has Been Saved—communion Meditation  PRO

Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 24, 2002

THE CROSS HAS BEEN SAVED--Communion Meditation Art Toalston in The Baptist Press - Nov. 15, 2001 reported from New York and he wrote: “The cross has been saved. That’s the cross of steel beams uncovered as workers in New York cleared away debris at the World Trade Center. Recovery worker Frank ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature, Memorial, Police, Sacrifice, Veterans  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ