In Sermon Illustrations: "Than Ksgiving"

While The National Right To Life Study Says, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Nov 30, 2002

While the National Right to Life study says, “In the U.S, over 32 million unborn babies have been killed in the twenty-one years since abortion was ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Denomination: Methodist

Tolstoy Wrote, "Don't Judge God's Holy Ideals By ...  PRO

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jan 23, 2003

Tolstoy wrote, “Don’t judge God’s holy ideals by my inability to meet them. Don’t judge Christ by those of us who imperfectly bear His ...read more

Tags: Misconceptions, Faith Vs. Works

Denomination: Congregational

One Of The Adversary's Most Useful Schemes Is ...  PRO

Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 1, 2003

“One of the adversary’s most useful schemes is to keep Christians focusing on their problems rather than on God’s provision” (John R. Cionca, The Victors: Overcoming Toxins That Poison the ...read more

Scripture: John 16:33

Tags: Temptation General

Denomination: Baptist

Worry Or Worship  PRO

Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 7, 2004

Christian author and speaker Jill Briscoe said: We can worry or we can worship. Strangely enough, busy people find it a whole lot easier to worry than to worship. ...read more

Tags: Guilt, Worship Benefits

Denomination: Baptist

Islam Is Growing In The Us, And Has Made Its ...

Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 13, 2005

Islam is growing in the US, and has made its strongest inroads into the African -American community. More than 90% of the converts to Islam in the US are African-American males. They seen Christianity is ...read more

Tags: Church General, Unity

Denomination: Wesleyan

Brennan Manning, , Writes This: "The Whole ...

Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Nov 22, 2005

Brennan Manning, , writes this: “The whole universe is too small to contain his immensity. We can no more catch a hurricane in a shrimp net or Niagara Falls in a ...read more

Tags: God's Holiness, God's Omnipotence

Denomination: Methodist

People Who Attend Church, Synagogue Or Other ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

People who attend church, synagogue or other religious services once a week live 7 years longer than those who never go, according to a study that appears in this month’s ...read more

Tags: Nehemiah, Church General

Campus Crusade Raised $2.5 Million Of Its $350 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Campus Crusade raised $2.5 million of its $350 million private support budget online in fiscal ’00, more than any other charity poled by The Chronicle of ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Education Pays: The Unemployment Rate For All ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Education Pays: The unemployment rate for all people with a bachelor’s degree or better was just 2.9% in February, vs. 8.5% for people with less than a high school ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Divine Lottery: Born-Again Christians And Adults ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Divine Lottery: Born-again Christians and adults who attend Christian churches are more likely than atheists, agnostics, and adherents of non-Christian faiths to buy lottery ...read more

Tags: Money

Those Who Embrace Christ Before Age 13 Are More ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Those who embrace Christ before age 13 are more likely to remain absolutely committed to Christ in their adult years than those who accept Christ in their teen or ...read more

Tags: Commitment To Christ

Muslims Turn To Christ: Baptist Missiologist And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Muslims Turn To Christ: Baptist missiologist and author David Garrison says, “More Muslims have come to Christ in the past two decades than at any other point in ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Fear Of

Wealth Woes: A Recent Study By Columbia ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Wealth Woes: A recent study by Columbia University found that rich kids suffer higher incidences of substance abuse, anxiety, and depression than their middle-class and even ...read more

Tags: Addiction

The Word Of God Well Understood And Religiously ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing ...read more

Tags: Bible Influence

Amazon Walked Away From Q3 With $80 Million In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Amazon walked away from Q3 with $80 million in profit, more than four times as in '06. The company expects Q4 sales to be $5.1 billion ...read more

Tags: Money

Gordan Dahl: "Most Middle Class Americans Tend ...

Contributed by Dave Browning on Dec 22, 2008

Gordan Dahl: "Most middle class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted. Their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

In Ordinary Life We Hardly Realize That We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. It is very easy to overestimate the ...read more

Tags: Joy

At Each New Year It Is Common To Make New ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"At each New Year it is common to make new resolutions, but in the life of the individual, each day is the beginning of a New Year, if he will only make it so. A mere date on the calendar is no more a ...read more

Tags: New Year's Day

How Frequently The Anticipation Of Some Special ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"How frequently the anticipation of some special enjoyment, or the possession of some coveted boon, proves to be more blessed than the actualization itself. But while this is the common experience on earth, it shall not be so in ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Research Teaches A Man To Admit He Is Wrong And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Research teaches a man to admit he is wrong and to be proud of the fact that he does so, rather than try with all his energy to defend an unsound plan because he is afraid that admission of error ...read more

Tags: Truth