Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "2 Corinthians 4 20 5 20"

showing 6,561-6,580 of 10,271
Filter Results
Close Filters

Scripture

Rating

Date

Denominations

  • Show more

Category

  • Try PRO

    Confident Preaching

    Try PRO free and preach with confidence when people need it most.
    Free to start now
  • Plato Wrote The First Sentence Of His Famous ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
     | 1,135 views

    Plato wrote the first sentence of his famous Republic nine different ways before he was satisfied. Cicero practiced speaking before friends every day for thirty years to perfect his elocution. Noah Webster labored 36 years writing his dictionary, crossing the Atlantic twice to gather material. ...read more

  • Why Disappointing Holiday Sales? Paco Underhill ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 2,150 views

    Why Disappointing Holiday Sales? Paco Underhill says, First, we’re part of an aging culture, and people don’t need stuff. If you’re 35 or younger, you’re still acquiring possessions. If you’re between 35-50, you’re buying ser-vices. If you’re over 60, you’re buying experiences. The problem with ...read more

  • Culture War Invades Corporate America: The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,734 views

    Culture War Invades Corporate America: The culture war over homosexuality has moved into the workplace. Millions of employees are being commanded to not just tolerate homosexual behavior, but to respect and even promote it reports the 1/4 issue of Christianity Today. At least 300 of the Fortune ...read more

  • Charge It: A New Gallup Poll Shows That Just Over ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
     | 1,428 views

    Charge It: A new Gallup Poll shows that just over half of Americans have at least one credit card on which they do not pay off the full amount due each month. 29% say they have at least one card, but always pay the full amount each month. 21% don’t have any credit cards. The average outstanding ...read more

  • Women Prefer Home: A New Gallup Poll Shows That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,184 views

    Women Prefer Home: A new Gallup Poll shows that if free to choose, a majority of women would opt for the traditional female role of staying at home, while a majority of men would prefer their traditional role of working outside the home. Over the past 4 years, younger women (more so than older ...read more

  • Moms Staying Home Of The 41.8 Million Kids Under ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,136 views

    Moms Staying Home Of the 41.8 million kids under 15 who lived with two parents last year, more than 25% had stay-at-home moms according to a recent Census Bureau report. This is up from 23%, or 9.4 million kids in ’94. Full-time stay-at-home dads took care of 189,000 kids in ’02, up 18%. Experts ...read more

  • Why Are Children Aborted? The Alan Guttmacher ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,370 views

    Why are children aborted? The Alan Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood) states: * 1% are victims of incest or rape * 1% had fetal abnormalities * 4% had a doctor who said their health would worsen if they continued the pregnancy * 50% said they didn’t want to be a single ...read more

  • Pentecostal Power From Its Origins In An Ame ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
     | 2,310 views

    Pentecostal Power From its origins in an AME Church on Azusa Street in Los Angeles, Pentecostalism has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing Christian movement. The World Christian Encyclopedia reports more than 500 million followers, comprising 25% of the world’s Christians, up from 6% in 1906. ...read more

  • Pentecostal Power From Its Origins In An Ame ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
     | 2,611 views

    Pentecostal Power From its origins in an AME Church on Azusa Street in Los Angeles, Pentecostalism has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing Christian movement. The World Christian Encyclopedia reports more than 500 million followers, comprising 25% of the world’s Christians, up from 6% in 1906. ...read more

  • Christ Like A River

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2010
     | 4,180 views

    CHRIST LIKE A RIVER Jonathan Edwards: "Christ is like a river...There are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountainhead continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the ...read more

  • Archelaus, The Son Of Herod The Great, Went ...

    Contributed by William Hooper on Jun 12, 2010
     | 2,381 views

    Archelaus, the son of Herod the Great, went to Rome in 4 BC to have his father’s will confirmed, by which he was to be his successor. But a crowd of Jews followed close on his heels with a protest to the emperor: “We don’t want this man to be our king.” They had good reason for hating him: ...read more

  • Is There Any Hope?

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,006 views

    IS THERE ANY HOPE? Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but all ultimately failed. Near the end of the ordeal, a deep sea diver, who ...read more

  • Sin Mars Us

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 19, 2010
     | 2,285 views

    SIN MARS US During an all-night festival in Paris, five young people, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum and left a 4-inch gash in a priceless painting by Claude Monet. Culture Minister Christine Albanel said the painting could be restored, but she was deeply disturbed at the damage ...read more

  • Wayne A. Lamb In 100 Meditations On Hope, Shares ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 15, 2007
     | 1,521 views

    Wayne A. Lamb in 100 Meditations on Hope, shares this story: “In the midst of a storm, a little bird was clinging to the limb of a tree, seemingly calm and unafraid. As the wind tore at the limbs of the tree, the bird continued to look the storm in the face, as if to say, ‘Shake me off; I sill ...read more

  • Wayne A. Lamb In 100 Meditations On Hope, Shares ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 16, 2007
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,719 views

    Wayne A. Lamb in 100 Meditations on Hope, shares this story: “In the midst of a storm, a little bird was clinging to the limb of a tree, seemingly calm and unafraid. As the wind tore at the limbs of the tree, the bird continued to look the storm in the face, as if to say, ‘Shake me off; I sill ...read more

  • A. I Was Reading In Astronomy Magazine, That The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,209 views

    A. I WAS READING IN ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE, THAT THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM, WHICH SOME SCHOLARS BELIEVE WAS THE NORTH STAR, IS 30 LIGHT YEARS AWAY, AND THE LIGHT FROM IT TAKES 30 YEARS TO REACH OUR EYES. 1. THE ARTICLE ALSO SAID THAT IF THE NORTH STAR DIED, IT WOULD BE DEAD 30 YEARS BEFORE WE WOULD KNOW ...read more

  • Looks Can Be Deceiving  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Aug 20, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 3,086 views

    Looks can be deceiving - David was small but became a great King - Most of the Apostles were simple men with little education Years ago a tall truck approached a low railroad overpass. The driver paid no attention to the warning signs and found himself wedged under the bridge. No one on the ...read more

  • Never Surrender

    Contributed by Richard Francis on Nov 5, 2007
     | 3,452 views

    Never Surrender“ "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we ...read more

  • On His Side

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
     | 3,016 views

    On His Side During the US civil war, Abraham Lincoln met with a group of ministers for a prayer breakfast. Lincoln was a man of deep, if at times unorthodox, faith. At one point one of the ministers said, "Mr. President, let us pray that God is on our side". Lincoln's response showed far greater ...read more

  • Gma Dove ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 2,330 views

    GMA DOVE AWARDS The 39th annual GMA Dove Awards were awarded 1/25/08 and televised live on the Gospel Music Channel. The Dove Awards in the overall categories went to: Artist of the Year: Toby Mac Female Vocalist of the Year: Natalie Grant Male Vocalist of the Year: Chris Tomlin Group of the ...read more