In Sermon Illustrations: "Do What It Says"

The Secret Of Success Of Every Man Who Has Ever ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The secret of success of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

Forgiveness And Reconciliation In South ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010

Forgiveness and Reconciliation in South Africe Phillip Yancey stated in his book “Finding God In Unexpected Places”, “The job of a journalist is, simply, to see. We are professional eyes. As a Christian journalist, I have learned to look for traces of God. I have found those traces in unexpected ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

Tags: Forgiveness For Others

Let Go! Let Go!

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 6, 2023

LET US STUDY THE EAGLE! I read about this boy that grew up in the city of New York. The boy fell in love with “EAGLES.” He checked every book out of the school library and the public library about “EAGLES.” As he got older he watched every movie, video and documentary he could find about ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:31

Tags: Sin, Roots

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Shattered Pool Liner – A Story Of Forgiveness And Grace

Contributed by Todd Catteau on Aug 5, 2025

What started out as a boy's reckless defiance became a lesson in the power of forgiveness and grace. Like many young boys, I dreamed of being a professional athlete. I thought my best chance was Major League Baseball, so day after day I would take my wiffle ball and bat to the backyard, throw ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:8

Tags: Grace, Mercy, Father, Forgiveness, Restoration  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

In The Movie Pearl Harbor, There Is A Scene In ...  PRO

Contributed by Michael Simone on May 29, 2001

In the movie Pearl Harbor, there is a scene in which Rafe (played by Ben Affeck) says to an English officer: "I’m not anxious to die sir, just anxious to matter." His attitude shows a depth of understanding related to living to make a ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment, Love Of The Disciples

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Lying Is Becoming Easier And Easier For People ...  PRO

Contributed by Mike Leiter on Nov 11, 2001

Lying is becoming easier and easier for people these days. According to polls reported by USA Today American’s lie – and are lied to – much more than we realize. The book The Day America Told The Truth says that 91 percent of ...read more

Tags: Sin Exposed, Faith, Truth

Denomination: Vineyard

In Dante's Inferno The Residents Of Hell Are ...  PRO

Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 10, 2001

In Dante’s Inferno the residents of Hell are being punished for the deadly sins that characterized their runaway lives. The picture drawn for greed is an image of a person in Hell with his head pushed down in the dirt with a caption ...read more

Tags: Money

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

In His Dictionary Of The New Testament, Xavier ...  PRO

Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 24, 2003

In his Dictionary of the New Testament, Xavier Leon-Dufour, says this about the biblical meaning of disciple, ‘In the [New Testament], the word does not appear except in the gospels and in Acts. It is never a case of the “pupil” who receives instruction from a ...read more

Tags: Discipleship

Denomination: Church Of God

Citation: N.t. Wright In For All God's Worth. ...

Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 27, 2004

Citation: N.T. Wright in For All God’s Worth. Christianity Today, Vol. 41, no. 12.] We live in a world full of people struggling to be, or at least to appear, strong in order not to be weak; and we ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Tags: Faith, Humility

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

St. Augustine Said, "I Have Read In Plato And ...

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Dec 4, 2004

St. Augustine said, “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful, but I never read in either of them: ‘Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.’” ...read more

Tags: Becoming A Christian

Denomination: Methodist

When John Owen, The Great Puritan, Lay On His ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005

When John Owen, the great Puritan, lay on his deathbed his secretary wrote (in his name) to a friend, “I am still in the land of the living.” “Stop,” said Owen. “Change that and say, I am yet in the land of the ...read more

Tags: Death

Violent Music Makes Violent Kids. While Music ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Violent Music makes violent kids. While music doesn’t put the gun in the hands of the kids who attack school-mates and teachers, it does put the gun in their minds, says author and publisher, ...read more

Tags: Children

Churches May Support The Federal Marriage ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Churches may support the Federal Marriage Amendment without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status, according to Liberty Counsel. Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council, says, as long as a church stops short of endorsing a specific party or ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Quote By John D. Rockefeller, Sr. "I Have Tithed ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2007

Quote by John D. Rockefeller, SR. “I have tithed every dollar God has entrusted to me. And I want to say, if I had not tithed the first dollar I made I would not have tithed the first ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

One Woman Who Went To Church All The Time Would ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

One woman who went to church all the time would always say, “I was ALWAYS a Christian. There was never a time that I was not a Christian. I didn’t NEED to get saved.” This is not scriptural because Romans ...read more

Tags: Salvation

Customer/Donor Loyalty

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

CUSTOMER/DONOR LOYALTY According to the 2006 One to One Customer Loyalty Survey, 87% of corporate executives say their companies understand loyalty is driven by the overall customer experience created, yet only 38% have a system in place to identify ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

It Was Also Said Of The French Pietist Francois ...  PRO

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 3, 2008

It was also said of the French pietist Francois Fenelon that his communion with God was such that his face shined with divine radiance. A religious skeptic who was compelled to spend the night in an inn with Fenelon hurried away the next morning, ...read more

Tags: Character

Denomination: Other

The Dreamer They Said: He Is Only A Dreamer Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The Dreamer They said: He is only a dreamer of dreams, And passed him by with a smile; But, out of his dreams he fashioned a song That made life more worthwhile. And who shall say he was less a part Of the universal ...read more

Tags: Dreams

A Great Many People Are Trying To Make Peace, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

There Are So Many Wonderful Things In Your ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"There are so many wonderful things in your everyday experience, lucrative opportunities, glorious occasions, that do not exist for you because ...read more

Tags: Leadership General