In Sermon Illustrations:

Frog Prince

Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009

FROG PRINCE An 80 year-old woman was walking down the main street in her hometown one evening when she heard a low voice say, "Hey lady." She looked around to see who was talking but upon seeing nobody there she shrugged it all off and continued walking. Before she got another five feet, she ...read more

Tags: Aging

Denomination: Baptist

7-Eleven Time  PRO

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 10, 2009

7-ELEVEN TIME Essayist Noelle Oxenhandler writes, "But increasingly we live in the twenty-four-hour time of commerce, of convenience. It is 7-Eleven time, the fluorescent time of unmodulated, shadowless light, where coffee and doughnuts are available at all hours, where the rhythm of breakfast, ...read more

Tags: Culture

Denomination: Church Of God

Take One Of Us Home

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 6, 2009

"TAKE ONE OF US HOME" I heard about the couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. When the festivities were over, the woman turned to her husband and said, "We’ve been miserable for 50 years. We’ve fought every day. We’ve disagreed on nearly everything, and I am convinced that we can’t ...read more

Tags: Marriage Struggle

Denomination: Pentecostal

No Good Reason, Just An Excuse  PRO

Contributed by Larry Moyer on Aug 5, 2009

NO GOOD REASON, JUST AN EXCUSE Some time ago I spoke to a man in the Air Force. He admitted to me that he did not know if he was going to heaven. So I pulled a 3x5 card from my pocket and said, "I would like you to list on that card whatever is keeping you from trusting Christ right now." He ...read more

Scripture: John 17:13-18

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Economy: Good News And Bad News

Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Aug 4, 2009

ECONOMY: GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS A farmer went to his banker and announced that he had bad news and good news. "First, the bad news..." "Well," said the farmer, "I can't make my mortgage payments. And that crop loan I've taken out for the past 10 years--I can't pay that off, either. Not only that, ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Sir Walter Scott Had Difficulty With The Idea Of ...

Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 3, 2009

Sir Walter Scott had difficulty with the idea of “turning the other cheek.” But Jesus’ words took on special meaning one day when Scott threw a rock at a stray dog to chase it away. His aim was like a baseball pitchers and he hit the animal and broke its leg. Instead of running off, the dog ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:39

Tags: Sermon On The Mount

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Idea That Baptism Is Involved In The ...

Contributed by Brian B on Jul 29, 2009

The idea that Baptism is involved in the salvation process was universally taught for the first 1500 years…. And it was only 500 years ago … when Zwingli came along in the middle 1500s that it began to be taught as a sign and a seal only. Zwingli said, “in this matter of baptism--- if I may ...read more

Tags: Baptism

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Not Happy With The View

Contributed by Bill Love on Jul 29, 2009

NOT HAPPY WITH THE VIEW A young salesman lands a job selling new windows door to door. On his first day of the job he comes across this sweet older lady who agrees to purchase a beautiful new window in her living room. A few days after the job was completed the salesmen gets a call from the lady ...read more

Tags: Gratitude

Denomination: Baptist

When Michigan Played Wisconsin In Basketball ...

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 28, 2009

When Michigan played Wisconsin in basketball early in the season in 1989, Michigan’s Rumeal Robinson stepped to the foul line for two shots late in the fourth quarter. His team trailed by one point, so Rumeal could regain the lead for Michigan. He missed both shots, allowing Wisconsin to upset ...read more

Tags: Repentance, National Repentance

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Bible Challenge

Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Jul 25, 2009

THE BIBLE CHALLENGE During a question and answer session at a recent speaking engagement, a university student asked, "Why do you believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God?" What is so special, so unique about the Bible that Christians believe it is literally the inspired word of God? ...read more

Tags: Apologetics The Bible

Denomination: Wesleyan

Jewish People Stats

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009

JEWISH PEOPLE STATS Of the 6 billion inhabitants of the earth, only 13 million are Jewish. That is less than 1% of the world’s population, and yet, Jewish people have received more than 22% of the Noble prizes awarded. Roughly, 41% of the 13 million reside within the land of Israel and 40% live in ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 8:7-12

Tags: Israel

Liberty = Vigilance  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009

LIBERTY = VIGILANCE In 1790 John Philpot Curran said, "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." Thomas Jefferson condensed Curran’s advice with the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:13

Tags: America

Why We Celebrate The 4th  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009

WHY WE CELEBRATE THE 4TH But there is a reason why we celebrate on the 4th and we can’t forget that! It was the day the day the colonies declared their independence from England. Freedom was declared in some famous words of the Declaration of Independence, which starts: We hold these truths to be ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-40

Tags: 4th Of July, Independence Day

God With Us

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 24, 2009

GOD WITH US Count Zinzendorf, the founder of the Moravians, was converted in an art gallery in Dusseldorf while contemplating a painting of Christ on the cross which had the inscription, "I did this for thee. What hast thou done for me?" This picture had been painted by an artist three hundred ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:23

Tags: Christmas Advent

Humility And Experience

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009

HUMILITY AND EXPERIENCE Listen to this true story: "My father began teaching business classes at the local prison through a community college. On his first night of class, he started a chapter on banking. During the course of his lecture, the subject of ATMs came up, and he mentioned that, on ...read more

Tags: Humility

Denomination: Independent/Bible

David: Brokenness Leads To Loyalty

Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 19, 2009

DAVID: BROKENNESS LEADS TO LOYALTY Psalm 51 Our text was written by King David about a year after he had an adulterous affair. While his men were off to war he was home relaxing. The story results in a series of events that went from adultery to deception and finally murder to cover his tracks and ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 28:13

Tags: Humility

Denomination: Salvation Army

God's Love Is Everything

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 18, 2009

GOD'S LOVE IS EVERYTHING The Pope tells us that "For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, 'God is love'...: everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it, ...read more

Tags: God's Love

Denomination: Catholic

Go Back And Tell Them Again  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009

GO BACK AND TELL THEM AGAIN Jesus said "Follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men." In a book entitled "Jungle Harvest," written by a missionary named Ruby Scott, she describes some of her experiences in reaching a people group known as the Tila Indians who lived in a remote village in the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 4:19

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

The Power In Touching The Untouchable  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2009

THE POWER IN TOUCHING THE UNTOUCHABLE Jesus, the Christ, is still in the business of touching the untouchable! You may feel like you are too dirty or too wicked for Jesus, the Christ, to touch you with His forgiveness today! As an illustration, you may remember the move enitled "The Elephant ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:8

Tags: Grace

Three Stages Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009

THREE STAGES OF LIFE John Claypool, at one time pastor of the Crescent Hill Baptist Church, had a little daughter who suffered with leukemia. When she went into remission, everybody thought that maybe God had healed her. But on an Easter Sunday morning, she went into a terrible relapse. In his ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:31

Tags: Trials And Difficulties