In Sermon Illustrations: "What We Send Out Comes Back"

What America's Children Really Think About ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006

What America’s Children Really Think About Working Parents, (William Morrow, $25) by Ellen Galinsky, reports the findings of a study of 1,000 3rd through 12th graders. From their perspective, the thing they desire most is that their parents would bring less stress home from work, and they want ...read more

Tags: Parenting

What Is A Cpo? A Chief Privacy Officer Oversees A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

What Is A CPO? A Chief Privacy Officer oversees a company’s privacy policies and practices, monitoring how the corporation handles confidential information about consumers and employees. Companies are trying to stave off overburdening privacy regulation by ...read more

Tags: Workplace

What Adults Believe Some Of The Key Findings ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

What Adults Believe Some of the key findings tracked by The Barna Group for the last two decades: 87% claim their religious faith is very important in their life today. 75% strongly affirm this idea. 77% are with the Christian faith, 12% are atheist or agnostic, while 11% are with some other faith ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

What Purpose Drives Americans? With Over 20 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

What Purpose Drives Americans? With over 20 million having read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, The Barna Group polled Americans on the question, “What do Americans perceive their purpose in life to be?” Priorities differed according to faith commitments. Evangelicals were the only segment ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

What Is An Altar? A Place Where You "Arrange ...

Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 27, 2006

What is an altar? A place where you “arrange hard things before the Lord.” Build one today. Turn over those hard things to God. As you do, you’ll realize that God is interested in your personal comfort as you surrender to him. How do you know that? What from the text gives that kind of impression? ...read more

Tags: Bible Influence

Denomination: Pentecostal

Fifty Years From Now, It Will Not Matter What ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Fifty years from now, it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like, But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life ...read more

Tags: Children

What Child Has Not Watched With Wonder As Mother ...

Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006

What child has not watched with wonder as Mother wielded a needle and thread? But mothers not only make and mend clothes, they make and mend characters! To do this sometimes requires “needling.” The greatest heritage anyone can receive is the influence of a Christian home. But ...read more

Scripture: Acts 11:27-30

Tags: Parenting

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Never Forget: Compassion Expresses Outwardly What ...

Contributed by John Shearhart on May 19, 2006

Never Forget: Compassion expresses outwardly what goes on ...read more

Tags: Character

If Any Should Ask Me What Is The First, The ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"If any should ask me what is the first, the second, the third part of a ...read more

Tags: Action

What Contemptible Scoundrel Stole The Cork From ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

What contemptible scoundrel stole the ...read more

Tags: Addiction

The Toughest Part Of Dieting Isnt Watching What ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

The toughest part of dieting isnt watching what you eatits ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Remember, Overweight Results Not From What You ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Remember, overweight results not from what you eat between Christmas and New Years, but from what you eat and ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Ninety Percent Of The Battle Is What You Say And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Ninety percent of the battle is what you say and ten percent is ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

The First Essential Is To Know What One Wishes ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

The first essential is to know what one wishes to say; the second is to decide ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

Your Theology Is What You Are When The Talking ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Your theology is what you are when the talking stops ...read more

Tags: Apologetics General

Ability Is What You're Capable Of Doing. ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude ...read more

Tags: Attitude General

What Is Wrong With Most Writing Today Is Its ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"What is wrong with most writing today is its flaccidity, its lack of pleasure in the manipulation of sounds and pauses. The written word is becoming ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

What Is Going To Kill Reading In Our Time Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

What is going to kill reading in our ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

Contrary To What Many Of You Might Imagine, A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks chief among them the unpleasant fact that one ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

If I Were To Be Asked What Single Qualification ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"If I were to be asked what single qualification was necessary for one who has the care of children, I should say patiencepatience with their tempers, with their understandings, with their progress...patience to go over first principles again and again; ...read more

Tags: Children