In Sermon Illustrations: "Broken Promises" showing 381-400 of 2,517

God Will Not Be Absent When His People Are On ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their ...read more

Tags: Descriptions Of God, God's Forgiveness, Promises Of God

Be Assured, If You Walk With Him And Look To Him, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never ...read more

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

Any Concern Too Small To Be A Prayer Is Too Small ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Any concern too small to be a prayer is too small to be a burden. ...read more

Tags: People In Acts, Promises Of God, Prayer Supplication

Faith Enables Us To Move Through The Storms ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Faith enables us to move through the storms carrying our calm with ...read more

Tags: God Brings Hope, Promises Of God, Peace

I Am Always Content With What Happens; For I Know ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what ...read more

Tags: Knowing God's Will, Promises Of God, People In Acts

Through Hardship  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

THROUGH HARDSHIP God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, God's Omniscience, God In The Hardships

Nothing Under God's Control Is Ever Out Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Nothing under God’s control is ever out of control. ...read more

Tags: God's Provision, Promises Of God, Lordship Of Christ

You Will Never Find Jesus So Precious As When The ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock ...read more

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

As Sure As God Puts His Children In The Furnace ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them. ...read more

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

The Learning Channel (You Know, The Other Tlc), ...  PRO

Contributed by Jim Luthy on Jan 29, 2002

The Learning Channel (you know, the other TLC), has a show that airs on Wednesday nights called "Junkyard Wars." Have you seen it? This is how they describe their show on their web site: "If you locked Tim Allen, Mad Max and Monty Python in a garage, you’d end up with Junkyard Wars — the ...read more

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

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

In The Presence Of Mine Enemies  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002

IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES Richard Wurmbrand tells the story of a church leader he met while imprisoned in Romania. He was sentenced to 22 years for his goodness. The man, his wife, and six small children were eating breakfast when the police burst into his home. They had just read Psalm ...read more

Tags: God's Provision, People In Acts, Promises Of God

Sent By God  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2002

SENT BY GOD Bill Bright, the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, in a recent interview told of his most memorable occasion to share the gospel. "I remember as a young believer I felt impressed to call on a man who was a CEO of one of the great fortune 500 companies. As presumptuous as it ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To, Great Commission, Promises Of God

Faithful To Return—communion Meditation  PRO

Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 23, 2002

FAITHFUL TO RETURN--Communion Meditation W. Paul Jones tells the story of women who shared this story from her childhood as a polio victim: “When my mother left me in Sunday School, I always asked to wear her locket. She thought I like the locket. That wasn’t it at all. I knew I wasn’t worth ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:8

Tags: Fear And Worry, God's Provision, Promises Of God

Denomination: Church Of God

The Cross At Ground Zero  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 10, 2002

THE CROSS AT GROUND ZERO I’m an excavation laborer, and a member of union local 731. Pick-and-shovel work is my trade. I live in New Jersey, but I’m a New York City native, Brooklyn born and bred. After the Towers collapsed, my city was hurting. When I heard they needed guys like me for ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships, Promises Of God, Lord's Supper

Ruth Axsom Is A Dear Friend Of Ours And She ...  PRO

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 12, 2002

Ruth Axsom is a dear friend of ours and she relates this true story of her father that I think it illustrates so well what we’ve been discussing this morning. Ruth’s father, Robert Eason was 8 years old when he lost his father, John Eason. It is hard to lose your father at any time but Robert ...read more

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

Denomination: Christian Church

You Say You Will Never Forget Where You Were When ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002

You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news On September 11, 2001. Neither will I. I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room with a man who called his wife to say "Good-Bye." I held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the peace to say, "Honey, I am not ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, God's Provision, Hardship Of Life

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Winner And Author Is A ...  PRO

Contributed by William Norman on Nov 4, 2002

Elie Wiesel, Nobel prize winner and author is a Holocaust survivor. He tells the story of two men and a youth who were hung at a Nazi concentration camp. All of the prisoners, including Wiesel, were paraded to the gallows to witness this horror. The older men died quickly, but the death throes of ...read more

Scripture: Mark 3:1-35, Mark 3:20-35

Tags: Promises Of God, Evangelism The Lost, God In The Hardships

Denomination: Baptist

With Me  PRO

Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Nov 25, 2002

WITH ME "I find it a comfort that God not only walks with me through tough times, but he hurts ...read more

Tags: Descriptions Of God, God In The Hardships, Promises Of God

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Sooner Or Later Everyone Reads Or Hears About ...  PRO

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 5, 2003

Sooner or later everyone reads or hears about Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote. Cervantes is thrown in prison in Seville. Finding himself in the middle of a band of cutthroats he tries to divert them by telling them his story of Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha. In the story, Quixote pictures ...read more

Tags: Call, God's Provision, Missions, Promises Of God

Denomination: Methodist

Art Thou Sunk In Depths Of Sorrow Where No Arm ...  PRO

Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 7, 2003

Art thou sunk in depths of sorrow where no arm can reach so low? There is One whose arms almighty reach beyond thy deepest woe. God th’Eternal is thy refuge, let it still thy wild alarms; Underneath thy deepest sorrow are the everlasting arms. Underneath us—Oh, how easy! We have not to mount on ...read more

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

Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance