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  • Jim Cymballa, Pastor Of Brooklyn Tabernacle, Told ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Apr 23, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,642 views

    Jim Cymballa, pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, told his small congregation that “if they called upon the Lord, He had promised in His word to answer, to bring the unsaved to Himself, and to pour out His Spirit among them. If they did not call upon the Lord, He had promised them nothing.” Source: ...read more

  • Statistics On Lying

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,977 views

    Our Daily Bread published an article on lying in the August 28, 1992 edition. In that devotional reading, it stated that lying seems to be a way of life for many people: “We lie at the drop of a hat. The book The Day American Told the Truth says that 91 percent of those surveyed lie routinely ...read more

  • Lately It Seems That Everyone Is Focusing On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,017 views

    Lately it seems that everyone is focusing on the state of marriage. Well, all one needs to do is study the scriptures and discover what Jesus has to say about marriage. Which reminds me of the story of a small boy who was being given a quiz on the New Testament and one of the questions he was asked ...read more

  • Guests At Weddings Are Seated By Taking The Right ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 14, 2008
     | 1,174 views

    Guests at weddings are seated by taking the right arm of the usher. However, the bride comes down the aisle on her father’s left arm. He stands between his daughter and the groom to protect her, until she finally says she does indeed want to go away with Big & Ugly. We begin the ceremony on the ...read more

  • Relationship Sins Cost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,898 views

    RELATIONSHIP SINS COST Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, finds a study funded by the New York-based Institute for American Values, the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Families Northwest of Redmond, WA, and the Georgia Family ...read more

  • When I Have Learnt To Love God Better Than My ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,872 views

    "When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly ...read more

  • What Americans Believe

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
     | 1,106 views

    WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE In the Barna Report: What Americans Believe, 1991, George Barna, the church statistician, states that there is "a great deal of ambivalence among Americans with regard to their beliefs. For instance, while 62 percent of the respondents said they have made a personal ...read more

  • Materialism Buys

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 26, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,767 views

    MATERIALISM BUYS One highly successful advertiser stated "I am a success because I can convince people that the longing they have in their lives can be fulfilled with the stuff I have for them to buy. I know that they will buy into my item and in turn buy my product only to discover that after a ...read more

  • Godly Vision

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
     | 3,880 views

    GODLY VISION The capacity to create a compelling picture of the desired; state of affairs that inspires people to respond; that which is desirable, which could be, should be; that which is attainable. A godly vision is right for the times, right for the church, and right for the people. A godly ...read more

  • Weird Laws In California

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jun 5, 2011
     | 2,141 views

    WEIRD LAWS IN CALIFORNIA 1. It is illegal for anyone to try to stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water. 2. A California law makes it illegal to set up a mousetrap without a hunting license. 3. In Berkeley, California, it's against the law to whistle for your lost canary before 7 ...read more

  • What Not To Believe

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,433 views

    WHAT NOT TO BELIEVE Ben Patterson, campus pastor of Westmont College, tells the story of a retired pastor who began noticing that his former congregation was sliding away from orthodoxy. The pastor saw this as his fault and stated, in two sentences, his great failure as a pastor: "I always told ...read more

  • U.s. Divorce Statistics  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 7, 2001
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,774 views

    U.S. Divorce Statistics (1997 except where noted) Total divorces granted: 1,163,000 Rate per 1,000 population (1999): (excluding CA, CO, IN and LA) 4.1 State with the lowest divorce rate: Massachusetts. Rate per 1,000 population: 2.4 State with the higest divorce rate: Nevada. Rate per ...read more

  • The Chance Of Fulfilled Prophechy  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Jan 30, 2003
    based on 12 ratings
     | 2,945 views

    THE CHANCE OF FULFILLED PROPHECHY The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus. What chance did Jesus or any other man have of fulfilling these prophecies? The mathematical laws of probability can give us a clue. In his book Evidence That Demands A ...read more

  • Do Not Become Deceived By The World With The Top ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 20, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,355 views

    Do not become deceived by the world with the Top Down Attitude management style in your leadership instead be servant leaders. a. Use the leadership style that Jesus role modeled. i. Finzel states, “When it comes to servant leadership there is no better model than that of Jesus Christ. On the night ...read more

  • Every Time You Make A Choice  PRO

    Contributed by Philip Harrelson on Feb 10, 2005
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,769 views

    C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are ...read more

  • The Guys We'll Watch Play Today Are Tough, But ...

    Contributed by Ben Randall on Feb 4, 2007
     | 1,636 views

    The guys we’ll watch play today are tough, but let me tell you of some real tough guys, in fact they may well be the toughest football team in American history. - They came from the University of the South, in Sewannee Tennessee. In the last six days of the season, they were scheduled to play five ...read more

  • What Is The Purpose Of Baptism?

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,351 views

    What is the purpose of baptism? Steve Atkerson states: “John the Baptist explicitly stated the purpose of his baptism when he said, "I baptize you with water for repentance" (Mt 3:11). Did John baptize them so that they could repent or because they already had repented? That is, was John’s baptism ...read more

  • There Is A Fascinating Article In The April 2007 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,102 views

    There is a fascinating article in the April 2007 issue of Smithsonian Magazine about French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1947 he was labeled the “photographer of the decisive moment.” The article states that, “since 1952 and the publication of his book of photographs, The Decisive ...read more

  • Best Speeding-Ticket Excuse

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 16, 2009
     | 3,137 views

    BEST SPEEDING-TICKET EXCUSE A convention of Arkansas State troopers was asked to submit the best excuse they’d ever heard for someone trying to get out of a speeding ticket. The winning entry was submitted by a trooper who clocked a semi-tractor truck speeding down the interstate. The trooper ...read more

  • Thoughts On Discipleship By Willard, Stott, And ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
     | 4,682 views

    THOUGHTS ON DISCIPLESHIP by Willard, Stott, and Warren Dallas Willard in his book "Divine Conspiracy" states: "....discipleship is real-life apprenticeship to Jesus." If we are students of Jesus then we must be with him. If I am an apprentice, a disciple, that means I must be with him to learn ...read more

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