In Sermon Illustrations: "gods comfort, persecution, suffering"

Christians Still Persecuted

Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2011

CHRISTIANS STILL PERSECUTED * Last year (July 2009), Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City was told that she would help a doctor perform an abortion or be fired. Even though the hospital knew it was against her Christian values. * In September of 2009 at Pace ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 6:9-11

Tags: Persecution

Real Comfort  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

REAL COMFORT “When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- ...read more

Tags: Lordship Of Christ, Humanity Of Christ

A Comfortable Emptiness!

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 2, 2005

A Comfortable Emptiness! On a faded scroll framed in mahogany and hung in the hallway of an old farmhouse I chanced many years ago to read what then, in my youth, seemed important but now many years later is ingrained in my heart as one of the most profound and impacting statements I have ever ...read more

Scripture: Deuteronomy 12:12-18

Tags: Children, Parenting

Denomination: Lutheran

Comfort Comes As A Guest, Lingers To Become A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Comfort comes as a guest, lingers to become a host and ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Comfort And Convenience Possess A Magical Power; ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Creature Comforts Are Like The Soft Morning ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Creature comforts are like the soft morning dews which, while they water the branches of ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Suffering

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Suffering One of the most powerful prayers in the midst of suffering was uncovered from the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp. Ravensbruck was a concentration camp built in 1939 for women. Over 90,000 women and children perished in Ravensbruck, murdered by the Nazis. Corrie Ten Boom, who ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:44

Tags: Cross Agony

Discipleship Is A Call To Suffer

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 4, 2021

John R. Scott gives a modern example of one who suffered for the gospel observing that… "Few men of this century have understood better the inevitability of suffering than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He seems never to have wavered in his Christian antagonism to the Nazi regime, although it meant for ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:12, Philippians 3:1-20, Romans 1:16

Tags: Will Of God, Suffering, Commitment, Church, Bonhoeffer, Discipleship  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Persecution Of Baptists In The Colonies

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011

PERSECUTION OF BAPTISTS IN THE COLONIES Throughout their long history as a people of faith, Baptists have consistently opposed any diminution of the rights of the individual to seek and to pursue their own faith, or for each person to decide to be without faith if that is the choice. Though ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:13-17

Tags: Persecution

God Will Bless All Of You Who Choose To Follow ...

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 19, 2010

God will bless all of you who choose to follow Jesus; and that blessing, for some, will come in the form of insults. Many years ago I was outside Glasgow station and when a Hare Krishna devotee discovered I was a Christian he whacked me on the head with his ...read more

Tags: Persecution

Denomination: Anglican

Persecution Means Hope

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011

PERSECUTION MEANS HOPE Genuinely persecuted Christians see judgment on their persecutors as a sign of hope. There is a story of Polish slave laborers working in munitions factories for Germany toward the end of WWII being bombed by allied planes. Some were killed, more were wounded. And yet ...read more

Tags: Judgment

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Preaching, Power And Persecution

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jul 20, 2022

John Hus: 1369-1415 John Hus of Prague was burned at the stake at age 46. His crime was an uncompromising preaching of the gospel and calling for church reform in pre-reformation Europe. His Sunday pulpit was the Bethlehem Chapel adjacent to the University of Prague. Czech nobles had built the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, 2 Timothy 4:1-4, Romans 1:16-17, Galatians 1:1-10

Tags: Culture, Gospel, Persecution, Power, Preaching, Renewal  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Pentecostal

Persecution Under Nero

Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Aug 27, 2023

The Coliseum was not the first Roman Arena designed for the glorification of gore during the persecution of Christians and the bloodthirsty desires of Nero. Within walking distance of the Coliseum is the site where Nero’s circus once stood. It was here, just a few years before the construction of ...read more

Scripture: John 15:18-27

Tags: Persecution, Coliseum

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Suffering & The Riches Of His Glory

Contributed by Michael Grant on Sep 3, 2016

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,  even us whom He called, not ...read more

Scripture: Romans 9:22-24

Tags: God's Glory

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Any Rest That You Receive, Any Comfort That You ...  PRO

Contributed by David Taylor on Apr 18, 2003

Any rest that you receive, any comfort that you find, any hope that you have, and any encouragement you get during the time of suffering is a direct provision from God. When we begin to realize that, then even ...read more

Tags: Emotions, God's Provision, Promises Of God

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

If You Suffer, Thank God It Is A Sure Sign That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Where Is Your Scar?

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Aug 12, 2019

PHILIPPIANS 1:29 "For it has been granted unto you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him." No wound? No scar? Yet, as the Master shall the servant be, And piercèd are the feet that follow Me. ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 1:29

Tags: Wounds, Persecution, Suffering

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Comfort From Where?

Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Sep 26, 2011

COMFORT FROM WHERE? When Jerry’s mother died, the loss was almost unbearable. But Jerry was determined to be strong for the sake of her family. John, in fact, asked her how she could be holding up so well. It was the God on whom she relied that stabilized her in the midst of that ...read more

Tags: Funerals Christian

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Ally Of Sufferers

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on May 31, 2012

THE ALLY OF SUFFERERS The author and church minister Ray Ortlund says this: "Sometimes there is no way to get out of suffering; but there is a way to get through suffering, because God is the ally of sufferers." He also says that ...read more

Tags: Trials And Difficulties

Denomination: Anglican

The Suffering Christ

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jan 1, 2023

I could never believe in God if it were not for the Cross. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I turn to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross—nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 4:14-16, Hebrews 2:14-18

Tags: Suffering, The Cross, Atonement, Incarnation

Denomination: Pentecostal