In Sermon Illustrations: "Believing"

To Believe In Evolution Is To Believe That The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

To believe in evolution is to believe that the frog really ...read more

Tags: Evolution

I Believe In Christianity As I Believe That The ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see ...read more

Tags: God's Omniscience, Faith General

I Believe In Christianity As I Believe That The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it ...read more

Tags: Commitment To Christ

Believe You Are Defeated, Believe It Long ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is ...read more

Tags: Competition

To Believe Your Own Thought, To Believe That ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your own heart is true for all men that is genius.A man should learn to detect and watch that ...read more

Tags: Thought

To Believe In Gods Love Is To Believe That Hes ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

To believe in Gods love is to believe that Hes passionately interested in each of ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Believing The Impossible  PRO

Contributed by Alan Perkins on Nov 25, 2001

BELIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE Alice laughed. "There’s no use trying," she said: "one can’t believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven’t had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as ...read more

Tags: Faith, Faith General

Denomination: Baptist

Believe Or Reject  PRO

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 27, 2002

Believe or Reject I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not to believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in the deeps of ...read more

Tags: Growth In Christ

Denomination: Baptist

Refusal To Believe  PRO

Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 27, 2009

REFUSAL TO BELIEVE I once served a very wealthy congregation. Over the years the different members had donated various items to the church, many of which were quite valuable. The stained glass windows were valued and tens of thousands of dollars each; The communion table was an intricately carved ...read more

Tags: Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Believing In God Not ...

Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010

Believing in God not Enough I hear people say, “He believes in God.” If he has not confessed Christ as his Lord and Savior, he will spend eternity in the place the Bible calls Hell. It was not meant for ...read more

Tags: Misconceptions, Eternal Hell

Denomination: Baptist

The Authority Of The Believer  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2010

THE AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER In Santa Cruz there's a strip called Pacific Avenue, and there's a number of bars. And I remember walking down Pacific Avenue, and it was getting a little rowdy. And there was two or three very burly guys in kinda tight T-shirts that looked like they could kill you, ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-14, Luke 4:31-38

Tags: Authority

What Not To Believe

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 22, 2011

WHAT NOT TO BELIEVE Ben Patterson, campus pastor of Westmont College, tells the story of a retired pastor who began noticing that his former congregation was sliding away from orthodoxy. The pastor saw this as his fault and stated, in two sentences, his great failure as a pastor: "I always told ...read more

Scripture: Romans 16:17-19

Tags: Doctrine

Believing In Anything  PRO

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 8, 2011

BELIEVING IN ANYTHING G.K. Chesterton once said, "It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything." Without God the only standard of TRUST - of right and wrong - is what ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 11:2-11

Tags: Trust

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Believer's Gps

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 22, 2011

THE BELIEVER'S GPS Last week we introduced a device known as a GPS or Global Positioning Systems. This device allows the user to know where they are and where they want to go. It works through a process known as triangulation. There are 24 Dept. of Defense satellites constantly circling our earth ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:27

Tags: Jesus Christ

If I Believed...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2011

IF I BELIEVED... An atheist once told William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, "If I believed what you Christians say you believe about a coming judgment and that impenitent rejecters of Christ will be lost, I would crawl on my bare knees on crushed glass all over London, warning men, night ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 3:3-13

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

A Few Believed…  PRO

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 26, 2007

3. A FEW BELIEVED… One of the great films of 1999 was The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves. It’s a futuristic sci-fi movie, where the world has been taken over by computers. The computers need the energy that comes from human bodies, so they keep a supply of genetically engineered humans in a ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

True Believer  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008

TRUE BELIEVER There was a young seminarian who was taking an oral examination for his ordination process. During the questioning, one of the examiners asked him if he believed in a personal devil. "No," he replied, "I do not believe in the devil." Hearing this, the examiners began to discuss the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:24-43

Tags: Church General

Believers Happier

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009

BELIEVERS HAPPIER People who believe in God are happier than agnostics or atheists, claim British researchers. They become even happier the more they pray and go to church. The report found religious people were better able to cope with disappointments such as unemployment or divorce than ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:16

Tags: Happiness

I Believe In Christianity As I Believe The Sun ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but ...read more

Tags: Basics Of Christianity

Shallow Men Believe In Luck. Strong Men Believe ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in ...read more

Tags: Supernatural