In Sermon Illustrations: "Come Thou Fount"

Our Love So Faint, Thine So Great

Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jul 28, 2011

OUR LOVE SO FAINT, THINE SO GREAT The great hymn writer, Isaac Watts, once asked in a hymn: "Dear Lord, and shall we ever live at this poor dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold to Thee, and Thine to us so great?" Likely so, unless God himself startles us and shakes us free from our complacency. ...read more

Tags: Love For God

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

If You Haven't Got Anything Nice To Say About ...  PRO

Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 1, 2001

"If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by ...read more

Tags: Communication General, Unity

Denomination: Baptist

Gordon Hugenberger (Of Park St Church, Boston) ...  PRO

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 6, 2002

Gordon Hugenberger (of Park St Church, Boston) calls this petition ("Thy Kingdom come") a "request for ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Denomination: Congregational

George Macdonald Wrote, "Half The Misery In The ...

Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 11, 2002

George Macdonald wrote, “Half the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of ...read more

Tags: Leadership General, Faith, Giving Yourself

Denomination: Congregational

The Constitution Is Not An Instrument For The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government ...read more

Tags: America

A Library, To Modify The Famous Metaphor Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

We Have To Be So Faithful To God That Through Us ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

We have to be so faithful to God that through us may come the awakening of those who have not ...read more

Tags: Faith

I Never Did Anything Worth Doing By Accident, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Foundations Of Morality Are Like All Other ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Foundations of morality are like all other foundations; if you dig too much about them the ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

If We Have Been Pleased With Life, We Should ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes ...read more

Tags: Death

Dreams Never Hurt Anybody If He Keeps Working ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dream to make as ...read more

Tags: Dreams

Only The Soul That Knows The Mighty Grief Can ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch ...read more

Tags: Disappointment

In A Big Family] The First Child Is Kind Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"[In a big family] the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If its not perfect, thats ...read more

Tags: Family

As You Get Older, You Find That Often The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

There Was No Respect For Youth When I Was ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I'm old, there is no respect for ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

The Place That The Shepherds Found Was Not An ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic; it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or ...read more

Tags: Christmas

You Become About As Exciting As Your Food ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the ...read more

Tags: Family

Jumping At Several Small Opportunities May Get ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting ...read more

Tags: Opportunity

The Brand Craze Of A Few Years Ago Signaled The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The brand craze of a few years ago signaled the beginning of a marketing communications revolution now ...read more

Tags: Animals

Each Generation Imagines Itself To Be More ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent that the one that went before it, and wiser ...read more

Tags: Aging