In Sermon Illustrations: "Eternal Hell"

In The Story, A Wart Hog From Hell: Revelation, ...

Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 21, 2009

In the story, A Wart Hog from Hell: Revelation, written by Flannery O’Connor, Mrs. Turpin is a self-righteous woman who turns on God when life takes a bad turn. Out on the farm she screams to God, "Just who do you think you are!?" Momentarily the question returns to her as it echoes off the ...read more

Tags: Pride, Tongue

Denomination: Nazarene

If Billy Goes To Hell, Do You Care?

Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 10, 2019

Billy was born in 1972 into a family of drug abusers. His mother died of an overdose when little Billy was three years old, His father was wanted in Tennessee for selling drugs. Little Billy was slipped into Tennessee to live with relatives. In all reality little Billy spent his life looking for ...read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19-31

Tags: Hell, Compassion

Denomination: Pentecostal

Pierced By The Word Of God - The Hell Fire Club

Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Nov 19, 2025

When God wills it, ... his word can pierce anyone. As a certain Mr. Thorpe in 18th century Bristol ... found out. Thorpe was a part of a band of men who called themselves, ... the "Hell Fire Club." Their reason for existence ... was to mock and ridicule the work of the famed ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 4:12, Isaiah 55:11

Tags: Pierce, Word, Scripture, Sword

Denomination: Anglican

One T-Shirt Asks This Question, "Where Will You ...  PRO

Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 23, 2005

One T-shirt asks this question, "Where will you be sitting in ...read more

Tags: Heaven, Hell

Denomination: Lutheran

Don't Blame The Judge

Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014

God has done everything He possibly can to keep you out of Hell and still leave you as a person with free will. Now some Christians argue otherwise that it is in fact God who sends people to hell. Peculiar Pilgrim blog writes, "No one would choose to go into hell ... Not one person would decide to ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 3:8-13

Tags: Hell, Judgement

Denomination: Methodist

We Shall Have All Eternity In Which To Celebrate ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

"We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Peace, Sweet Peace Is Ever Found In Her Eternal ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Peace, sweet peace is ever found In her eternal ...read more

Tags: Peace

The Eternal Kiss! (06.08.05--Family--Gen. ...

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 6, 2005

The Eternal Kiss! (06.08.05--Family--Gen. 27:33-37) The most powerful institution on earth! No, it’s not the United State Congress or the Supreme Court for that matter. And it isn’t the Presidency, the World Court or the United Nations. Although such institutions are singularly powerful and no one ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 27:33-37

Tags: Parenting, Children

Denomination: Lutheran

Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources. I ...

Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008

Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources. I came across this acronym in a prayer study a few years ago. There is truth in that phrase because we have all experience God’s power revealed through prayer either as we see God miraculously answer that prayer or by seeing Him change us so that we can ...read more

Tags: Prayer General

Denomination: Baptist

We Have All Eternity To Tell Of Victories Won ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"We have all eternity to tell of victories won for Christ, but we have only a few hours ...read more

Tags: Lordship Of Christ

He Who Has No Vision Of Eternity Has No Hold On ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

He who has no vision of eternity has ...read more

Tags: Kingdom Of God

A Teacher Affects Eternity; He Can Never Tell ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where ...read more

Tags: Learning

Wayne A. Lamb In 100 Meditations On Hope, Shares ...  PRO

Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Apr 16, 2007

Wayne A. Lamb in 100 Meditations on Hope, shares this story: “In the midst of a storm, a little bird was clinging to the limb of a tree, seemingly calm and unafraid. As the wind tore at the limbs of the tree, the bird continued to look the storm in the face, as if to say, ‘Shake me off; I sill ...read more

Tags: Eternity, Hope

Denomination: Methodist

A.w. Tozer On ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010

A.W. Tozer on Time A.W. Tozer wrote: “Time is a resource that is nonrenewable and nontransferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day–when it’s lost it’s unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-16

Tags: Eternity, Time

Renewal

Contributed by David Tack on May 31, 2025

WE TRADE OUR CURRENT TODAY AS an outward and perishing status of a sinner condemned to eternal separation from God FOR an inwardly renewed, saved by grace (day by day), redeemed and adopted ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Tags: Eternity, Renewed

Denomination: Baptist

Something Somewhere

Contributed by David Dunn on Nov 2, 2025

I once read a novel about a father and son wandering through a burned, ashen world. Everything alive was gone. They survived on scraps, dodging others who had turned to cannibalism just to stay alive. When they finally reached the sea, the boy looked out over the gray horizon and asked, “What’s ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:11, Hebrews 11:16

Tags: Eternity, Hope

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

A Man Has A Dream, He Dies And Goes To Hell!  PRO

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 28, 2003

A MAN HAS A DREAM, HE DIES AND GOES TO HELL! While in hell the man notices there are many tables and starving people are sitting all around the great tables. There is hot food of all taste on the table. In Hell, they are starving with food tortuuring them right before their eyes. While all this ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Denomination: Assembly Of God

It Was 103°f In Hell Creek, South Dakota, One ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

It was 103°F in Hell Creek, South Dakota, one day in September 1993. Dinosaur hunter Michael Hammer was amazed at what he saw. Sticking out of the ground were the remains of a Thescelosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur. The skeleton was almost complete. Hammer says he knew right away that it was "very ...read more

Tags: Faith General

A. Man Sends Himself To Hell By Rejecting God's ...

Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007

a. Man sends himself to hell by rejecting God’s plan of salvation. b. Receiving Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour is how we accept God’s plan of salvation. a. Hell is prepared for those who prepare for it by rejecting Christ. b. There are good parking places on the road to hell. c. Every ...read more

I Don't Think There Are Enough Devils In Hell To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

I don't think there are enough devils in hell to take a young person from ...read more

Tags: Parenting