Sermon: The sin of adultery Hebrews 13:4

Introduction

A recent survey indicated that 66% of the American men and 50% of the American women had been unfaithful to their spouses. C.M. Ward once told me that if there a 100 people in a congregation, the chances are that someone in that congregation is sleeping with someone else's spouse. I hope that makes you uncomfortable. It does me! I am certain that there are those here today who need this message. Though it may sound like a message of doom…it is actually a message of hope. Stay tuned! Click here to read the rest of, Sermon: The sin of adultery Hebrews 13:4

Yohan Perera 2 July 2010 Sermon outlines adultery, Sermon 2 Comments

Why preparation is important for a Preacher? – Part 2

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Why preparation is important for a Preacher?

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5. Myths that promote poor preparation

I. Preparation indicates ministerial immaturity and inexperience

This is a popular myth promoted by lazy Preachers so that they can defend their ground. Frankly speaking as long as you have memorized the Bible it’s very easy to pick up a scripture verse, find correlating verses, put them together then call it a sermon and claim yourself matured and experienced. But as I told you before, such messages sound like a prematurely born baby.

II. Messages prepared in advanced are not from God

This is just another nonsense lazy Preachers use to defend their ground, or they accuse that Preachers who seek prior preparation lacks anointing. This is not true. Click here to read the rest of, Why preparation is important for a Preacher? – Part 2

Yohan Perera 27 June 2010 Articles preaching No Comments

How to install ChurchInfo in a Windows based Computer?

Introduction

This is how I found out about ChurchInfo. Recently we decided that our church membership information must be computerized and as usual I was asked to do the job. However none of the commercial Church Management Software I came across could fit into our budget. Then I googled to see whether any free and open-source applications are available. ChurchInfo is a free church management software designed to help churches track members, families, ministerial groups, pledges and payments and perform many other useful tasks. It meets most of the features offered by commercial ChMs though it falls short of a fancy user interface. It’s originally designed to run in Linux based servers and I will host this in one of those very soon. However most of you will be comfortable with running it in a Church Computer powered by a Windows Operating system. In my situation I wanted to do a test run in my PC before paying for a web hosting service. I used a Windows XP machine for this job – but this method should work on Vista and 7 as well. This is how I did it? Click here to read the rest of, How to install ChurchInfo in a Windows based Computer?

Yohan Perera 22 June 2010 Church software and technology churchinfo 17 Comments

Sermon: The woman who touched Jesus’ Garment Mark 2:25-34

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Text: Mark 5:25-34

Introduction

Surely every person desires to possess inner peace and security. There are many factors in life which may rob us of such peace. One of these is sickness. It is difficult to maintain inner peace when one is plagued by serious illness. The mind is filled with uncertainty and despair.

Here is a story of just such a person. She has been sick for twelve years. Though she had visited many doctors, none had been able to help her. In fact she even became worse.

Then one glorious day, she met Jesus Christ. Through this wonderful encounter, she was instantly healed of her long-standing sickness. She was also blessed with a deep sense of inner peace.

This same Jesus can also bless your life today. Let us look into this story and discover how she received her healing and how you too can be healed!

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