In Sermon Illustrations: "Doer Of The Word"

Not A Time For Weak-Hearted Preaching

Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 1, 2007

Not A Time For Weak-Hearted Preaching By Fred Jackson and Jody Brown November 22, 2002 (Agape Press) - A well known Bible teacher and author is calling on pastors to confront false beliefs from the pulpit. John MacArthur says no epoch in history has witnessed the rise of as many dangerous belief ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Perhaps Some Of You Know The Story Of Isobel ...

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007

Perhaps some of you know the story of Isobel Kuhn. She was a popular author and missionary to China, was married to John, a man just as strong willed and stubborn as she was. The two had many conflicts. John, for example, had a cook in China to whom he was devoted but whom Isobel couldn’t stand. ...read more

Denomination: Other

The Day Daddy Came ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009

THE DAY DADDY CAME HOME Some time ago, a mother was tucking her little girl into bed when the young daughter asked, "Mother, can you tell me the greatest day of your life?" The mother thought for just a second and then said, "Honey, I can tell you the greatest day in my life. As you know, my ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 19:11-16

Tags: Second Coming

So Often, It Seems Like People And Even Churches ...

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 21, 2009

So often, it seems like people and even churches want grace without responsibility. With forgiveness comes a responsibility to be forgiving. Our response comes through the ability to confess our love to Jesus and confess our shortcomings, our flaws, and our sins. It is the response to grace that ...read more

Tags: Love For God, Forgiveness General

Denomination: Church Of God

Children Have A Great Deal To Say About Love, ...

Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009

Children have a great deal to say about love, don’t they? We adults have had the experience of “falling in love” and for most, if not all of us, it was a wonderful and overwhelmingly emotional experience. But, not to 7 year old Glenn. He says, "If falling in love is anything like learning how to ...read more

Tags: Love, Marriage Commitment

Denomination: Church Of God

Learn To Speak The Language

Contributed by Neil Olcott on Sep 10, 2009

LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE A new missionary recruit went to Venezuela for the first time. He was struggling with the language and didn’t understand a whole lot of what was going on. Intending to visit one of the local churches, he got lost, but he eventually got back on track and found the place. ...read more

Tags: Communication General

Denomination: Baptist

Here Be Dragons. Here Is God.

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2009

"HERE BE DRAGONS. HERE IS GOD." 2 Timothy 3:1-7 Matt. 8:23-26; 16:24-26 John 16:33 Psalm 107:23-30 We all remember Hurricane Katrina and the damage it inflicted on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. It’s only a memory now, but it left terrible devastation and painful memories that still remain. The ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 107:23-30

Tags: Fear And Worry

George Washington Helps Exhausted ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2009

George Washington Helps Exhausted Soldiers He could have others serve Him while he was on earth, but he said, The “Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve” (Mark 10:45) What did the God of the universe who was fully in control of all things do? John 13:4-5 – ‘he got up from the meal, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 10:42-45

Tags: Servanthood

The Role Of Prayer In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2009

The Role of Prayer in Revival A U.S. Lutheran bishop tells of visiting a parish church in California and finding a stirring red and orange banner on the wall. "Come Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!" it declared in words printed under a picture of a fire burning. The bishop was also interested in the sign ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:26-27

Tags: Revival

Army Paratrooper Takes Comfort And Hope Listening ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009

Army Paratrooper Takes Comfort and Hope Listening To Taps During the Vietnam War A story from a Vietnam veteran testifies of God’s transforming work. I served as an airborne Ranger platoon leader (paratrooper) in the First Air Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War. Our company was hacked up ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

Tags: Battle, War

Repentance Of Chuck ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2009

Repentance of Chuck Norris I was reading about a martial arts fighter. He came forward at a Billy Graham crusade and accepted Christ as his Savior when he was 12 years old. But he never really committed his life to serving Christ. He went on to become the karate middleweight champion of the world ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:15

Tags: Repentance, Cup Of Salvation

Demons!  PRO

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 25, 2010

DEMONS! There was a time when I told the Lord that I would do whatever He wanted me to do EXCEPT CAST OUT DEMONS and do weird stuff like that with the occult. I now realise that Jesus' power and authority far exceeds that of demons. Oh yes, I believe that demons exist! You don't want to talk ...read more

Tags: Demons

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Roy Riegels: Don't Give Up

Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 21, 2010

ROY RIEGELS: DON'T GIVE UP On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played the University of California in the Rose Bowl. A UC player named Roy Riegels, who was their center, recovered a fumble for California and in the confusion of evading some of the Georgia Tech tacklers, started running ...read more

Tags: Trials And Difficulties

Denomination: Church Of God

A Good Example Of A Bad Example  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2010

A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A BAD EXAMPLE In 1989 the unthinkable happened. After seventy years of communism and forty years of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain fell and the brutal, sadistic power of the U.S.S.R. began to disintegrate. Russia for seven decades had been repressed, murdered, and brutalized by ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 50:1-23

Tags: America

Who Says So?

Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 29, 2010

WHO SAYS SO? A previous church I served had a lot of acreage and had turned part of it into 3 softball diamonds. Monday - Thursday nights, all summer long, various church leagues played their slow-pitch games there. Three of the leagues ran everything for their evening but one league was run ...read more

Tags: Authority

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Life With Eternal Value

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 30, 2010

LIFE WITH ETERNAL VALUE I was talking with a Jewish friend at work the other day. She said "I don't like evangelicals!" I said that it was unfortunate because I was one, and that she was working for an evangelical organisation. She said "I don't like people trying to convert me!" I said that as I ...read more

Tags: Christian Witness

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Sing Praise

Contributed by Ray Ellis on Nov 22, 2010

SING PRAISE We can get victory over hardships by singing praise to the Lord. "My mouth is filled with Your praise...all day long." Ps. 71:8 NAS Roger Bennett, pianist and songwriter died in 2007. Prior to his death he wrote on his website: Our enemy stalks us exactly the way the Bible ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Denomination: Free Methodist

What Would You Say?

Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 16, 2010

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? A number of years ago a couple traveled to the offices of an Adoption Society in England to receive a baby. They had been on the waiting list a long time. They had been interviewed and carefully scrutinized. Now at last their dreams were to be fulfilled. But their day of ...read more

Tags: Adoption

Denomination: Nazarene

Staying In The Shallow End

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 28, 2011

STAYING IN THE SHALLOW END He stays at the shallow end of the pool for a long time, refusing invitations to come out into the deeper water, even with his dad. But after a long time considering it, my grandson Zion Brave Bennett thrusts himself into the pool, swimming underwater and then ...read more

Tags: Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Eagle And The Mouse  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2011

THE EAGLE AND THE MOUSE There is an old story of an eagle who, on an early morning during the spring thaw, soared high above the forest looking for something to eat. As he followed the course of a river he looked down and spied a small rodent, trapped on a piece of ice that had broken free and was ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Tags: Temptation Power