In Sermon Illustrations: "United Nations"

Your Love Of Liberty Your Respect For The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Your love of liberty your respect for the laws your habits of industry and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the ...read more

Tags: Joy

Broken Hearts Not Broken Glass!" Proverbs 19:1 ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Apr 18, 2005

“Broken Hearts Not Broken Glass!” Proverbs 19:1 Key verse(s) 1:“Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.” It’s time to rise up and take a christian stand! Christians are being persecuted worldwide. There is no doubt of this even in the minds of the ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 19:1

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Peace

Denomination: Lutheran

If You Ever Happen To Listen To Positive 89.3 On ...  PRO

Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Oct 26, 2006

If you ever happen to listen to Positive 89.3 on Saturday nights, you know that Joe Polek and I often enjoy sharing humorous stories from the news between the songs that we play. If you listened last night, you would have heard us talking about a variety of mistranslations with humorous results. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:44-53

Tags: Commission, Communication General

Denomination: Nazarene

Lori Was 14 Years Old When She Was Baptized At ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Lori was 14 years old when she was baptized at Blue Springs Community Church, a one-room country church only a few miles from her house. A few months later, Lori dropped out of the church. The pastor and his wife visited her several times, but failed to persuade Lori to return to church. Everyone ...read more

Tags: Death

Pastors Older: Several Protestant Denominations ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Pastors Older: Several Protestant denominations report that their corps of pastors is not just decreasing but aging, with less than 10% age 35 or younger, compared with rates as high as 24% a generation ago. More than 30% of pastors in several denominations are above 55, higher than a generation ...read more

Tags: Church General, Love, Women, Wife

Morals Sub Par: One Thing That Most Americans Can ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Morals Sub Par: One thing that most Americans can agree on is that moral values in the U.S. are less than good and are getting worse. Older adults are particularly critical of the state of moral values today. Overall, only 19% of Americans describe moral conditions in the country as “excellent” or ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Half Of Americans In A Recent Poll Said They Or ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006

Half of Americans in a recent poll said they or their family members have suffered from depression, 46% considered it a health problem, and 43% saw it as a "sign of personal or emotional weakness," according to the National Mental Health Association. Other topics measured included alcoholism (seen ...read more

Tags: Addiction

About A Third Of America's 8th-Graders And A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

About a third of America’s 8th-graders and a quarter of its high school seniors are proficient writers, according to national writing test results. Although basically unchanged from ’00, the latest test found modest increases in the skills of lower-performing students. 88% can now demonstrate at ...read more

Tags: Children

Sinners Pour Out Love For Their Savior

Contributed by Ryan Reed on May 30, 2008

SINNERS POUR OUT LOVE FOR THEIR SAVIOR Leonard Ravenhill tells of going to a worship service at David Wilkerson’s skid-row mission in New York City. There he stood with former prostitutes and drunks and drug addicts and he said a short little man stood up and said, "Let's sing our national ...read more

Tags: Grace

Denomination: Church Of God

Traditional Family Is Alive

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008

TRADITIONAL FAMILY IS ALIVE Of the nation’s 73 million children, nearly 45 million (62%) live with their biological parents, according to the Census Bureau. Another 19 million live with their unmarried, biological mothers. Based on 2004 surveys, the report also shows cohabiting families are on the ...read more

Tags: Family

Friends: Facebook

Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010

FRIENDS: FACEBOOK Facebook story: 175 million users of Facebook. (Stat correct in 3/2009, as of 5/2010 more like 500 million...) If it were a nation would be the 6th most populous nation. Used to be for college kids, but no more. Greatest growth (24.1 million) age 35 ¡V 49. Facebook has added ...read more

Tags: Friendship General

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

China, The World Leader In Cell Phone Use, Has ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009

China, the world leader in cell phone use, has surpassed the U.S. as the #1 nation in Internet ...read more

Tags: Technology

I Am Concerned For The Security Of Our Great ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of ...read more

Tags: Security

Owne Wister, An Old College Friend Of Theodore ...  PRO

Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 12, 2001

Owne Wister, an old college friend of Theodore Roosevelt, was visiting him at the White House. Roosevelt’s daughter Alice kept running in and out of the room until Wister finally asked if there wasn’t something Roosevelt could do to control her. "Well," said the President, "I can do one of two ...read more

Tags: Parenting, Children, Christian Disciplines

Denomination: Baptist

Neal Alexander, Publisher And President Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006

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

Tags: God Brings Hope

Liberal, Missouri: A Town Of Atheists

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 18, 2011

LIBERAL, MISSOURI: A TOWN OF ATHEISTS There was an experiment in atheism here in the United States. Back in the 1800s, Liberal, Missouri decided to become completely atheistic. Religion was not allowed inside the city limits. No church could exist within the city and religious people were ...read more

Tags: Atheism

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Power Of Mom

Contributed by Davon Huss on May 14, 2014

A commander of an infantry unit in Vietnam was frustrated in his effort to make a soldier out of one particular PFC. The young man lagged behind on patrols, pretended to be ill, and managed to spend most of his time at headquarters. One day he changed his ways. When someone questioned the ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 23:25

Tags: Mother's Day, Motherhood

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Rudyard Kipling Wrote, "Lo, All The Pomp Of ...

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 10, 2002

Rudyard Kipling wrote, “Lo, all the pomp of yesterday, is one with Ninevah and Tyre. Judge of the nations, spare ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General, God's Judgment

Denomination: Congregational

U.s. Adults Average 6.9 Hours Of Sleep A Night ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

U.S. adults average 6.9 hours of sleep a night according to the National Sleep Foundation. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

We Ought To Be No Less Persuaded That The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of ...read more

Tags: Heaven