Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Country Town"

showing 1,121-1,140 of 2,541
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
  • A Newly Appointed Young Preacher Was Contacted By ...

    Contributed by Craig West on Dec 10, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 20,382 views

    A newly appointed young preacher was contacted by the local funeral director to hold a graveside committal service at a small country cemetery in Iowa. There was to be no funeral, just the committal, because sadly, the deceased had no family or friends left in Iowa. The young pastor started ...read more

  • There's A Story Told - And I Take It To Be A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
    based on 141 ratings
     | 7,297 views

    There’s a story told - and I take it to be a parable because I hope it’s not true - of a country church which had a creeper - perhaps an ivy plant - growing up by the porch doorway. Over the doorway was a text carved in stone, "We preach Christ crucified". Over the years the plant grew steadily ...read more

  • Over The Almost Past Half Century My Wife And I ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Oct 23, 2006
     | 950 views

    Over the almost past half century my wife and I have ministered in over 125 countries seeing many thousands of people from every walk of life come to receive Christ. I have yet to meet one person who has been saved by the Grace of God say that they were sorry they became a Christian. That the day ...read more

  • First Thing They Tell You In The Military. As You ...

    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 30, 2006
     | 1,494 views

    First thing they tell you in the military. As you stand at attention and they scream into your face the way they are going go change your life, the first thing they say is, “ It is time to separate the Men from the boys” Why? Because before you were just running around with your little cap gun in ...read more

  • Let Me Read You An E-Mail From A Missionary In ...

    Contributed by David Butcher on Dec 8, 2006
     | 1,809 views

    Let me read you an e-mail from a missionary in Africa. “What an unintentional ’curse’ has been thrust on some parts of the African Church, certainly in our country, by missionaries not only preaching the Gospel but importing with it their own denomination and a Western way of worship. The result ...read more

  • Got Stress?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
     | 3,785 views

    GOT STRESS? "The population of this country is 200 million. 84 million are retired. That leaves 116 million to do the work. There are 75 million in school, which leaves 41 million to do the work. Of this total, there are 22 million employed by the federal government. That leaves 19 million to do ...read more

  • Hunger Is Not So Much Dependent On Lack Of ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 25, 2009
     | 2,563 views

    “Hunger is not so much dependent on lack of material things as on shortage of social resources, the most important of which are institutional. What is missing, in other words, is a network of economic institutions capable of guaranteeing regular access to sufficient food and water for nutritional ...read more

  • Physical Death Will Continue Until The Lord ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 15, 2010
     | 2,482 views

    Physical death will continue until the Lord returns and takes us home to heaven. However, the sting has been taken out of death. A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window. The little boy, who was allergic to bee ...read more

  • Trivial Pursuit Board ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
     | 3,840 views

    Trivial Pursuit Board Game - Created 1979 is a game in which progress is determined by a player’s ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions - The object of the game was to answer a correct question in each of 6 categories such as Geography, Sports and Leisure, History, and ...read more

  • God-Fanatics

    Contributed by David Moore on May 26, 2010
     | 1,448 views

    GOD-FANATICS Did you know that an online survey of 20 000 football fans revealed that 51% said they would starve themselves for a week if that would bring victory in the upcoming World Cup to their national squad. More than 40% offered to give up dating for a year, 7% said they would gladly give ...read more

  • Viticulture In The Near East

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2010
     | 2,058 views

    VITICULTURE IN THE NEAR EAST The vine has been cultivated in Pal. from the earliest times. The climate of Pal. is peculiarly adapted to viticulture with the country's bright sunshine and the heavy dew of the late summer nights (Tenney Pg. 882) Its Cultivation The cultivation of the vine ...read more

  • Why Muslims Convert

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,249 views

    WHY MUSLIMS CONVERT Fuller seminar asked 750 former Muslims to fill out an extensive questionnaire about how they came to decide to become a Christian. The respondents were from 30 countries and 50 ethnic groups, representing every major region of Islam. They were asked to rank the relative ...read more

  • What A Waste...??  PRO

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jul 8, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,830 views

    WHAT A WASTE...?? There was a young man who grew up just down the block from my wife Jan. I never met him; I can’t even remember his name. But I know about him. I think about him every time I’m in the neighborhood. This boy didn’t attract much notice as he was growing up. He studied mostly. He ...read more

  • Where's Your Security  PRO

    Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Aug 11, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,906 views

    WHERE'S YOUR SECURITY (NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Investors lost $1 trillion in the in the stock market Monday as the debt crisis in Europe, lackluster economic news and a downgrade to the U.S. credit rating spark fears of a double-dip recession. Investors placed their wealth in the hands of a man ...read more

  • Get Acquainted With Heaven

    Contributed by Francis Balla on Sep 24, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,336 views

    GET ACQUAINTED WITH HEAVEN "The man who is about to sail for Australia or New Zealand as a settler, is naturally anxious to know something about his future home, its climate, its employments, its inhabitants, its ways, its customs. All these are subjects of deep interest to him. You are leaving ...read more

  • Marcus Young And The Bible

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
     | 1,549 views

    MARCUS YOUNG AND THE BIBLE In the 1890s, Marcus Young moved his family to the country of Burma, which is now called Myanmar. He was digging a well one day when he noticed some mountain tribesmen staring down into the hole he was in. The tribesmen asked him, “Have you brought the book of ...read more

  • World Renowned Evangelist Luis Palau, Shares ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,078 views

    World renowned evangelist Luis Palau, shares this personal testimony in his sermon “Go to the Ends of the Earth.” “My family and team have gone to over sixty countries declaring the glory of God. When I first went to the Muslim-, Hindu-, and Buddhist-majority nations, I trembled to do the right ...read more

  • Pride Seems To Be A Characteristic Of People Who ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
     | 3,040 views

    Pride seems to be a characteristic of people who gain power. Nicolae [nee-kaw-lahy] Ceausescu [chou-shes-koo] came to power in Romania in the early 60s. By 1967 contacts with foreigners were monitored, mail was screened, telephones tapped, and homes and offices broken into. Those suspected of ...read more

  • I Remember Taking A Bike Trip Through The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 1, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,634 views

    I remember taking a bike trip through the country as a small boy. As we traveled back roads we came upon one of those small transformer power plants. You have seen the them, surrounded by chain like fence and barbed wire around the top. And a big red sign with white sign with white letters saying ...read more

  • He Prefers That We Do Not Go Into Debt. Think ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 11, 2008
     | 765 views

    He prefers that we do NOT go into debt. Think about it… Most of us right now have firsthand experience that when financial woes hit us, every other area of our lives (those other six areas that we’ve talked about) are effected. Verse 6 actually said something that I felt was very convicting and ...read more