In Sermon Illustrations: "Fallen World"

Crucified With Christ

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008

Crucified With Christ "The Christian's Passion" Jesus said, "If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me" (Luke 9:23). We have just passed Easter--celebrating what Christ did for us on Calvary and the victory He won over sin and death. The Bible ...read more

Scripture: Luke 9:23

Tags: Easter Good Friday

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

God Whispers To Us In Our Pleasures, Speaks In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to ...read more

Tags: God In The Hardships

Francis Schaeffer Said, "Our Relationship With ...  PRO

Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 29, 2006

Francis Schaeffer said, “Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is ...read more

Tags: Discipleship

Denomination: Baptist

Get The Word Out. You Can Have The Most ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Get the word out. You can have the most wonderful product in the world, but if people dont know about ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

Children Know The Grace Of God Better Than Most ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Children know the grace of God Better than most of us. They see the world The way the morning brings it back to ...read more

Tags: Children

Had The Doctrines Of Jesus Been Preached Always ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilised ...read more

Tags: Jesus Christ

If You Ask Me What I Have Come To Do In This ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

If you ask me what I have come to do in this world I will reply: I am ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Nature Is Neutral. Man Has Wrested From Nature ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There ...read more

Tags: Creation

Marriage Should, I Think, Always Be A Little ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Middle Age Is A Time When People Would Do ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Middle age is a time when people would do anything in the world to cure what ails them -- ...read more

Tags: Aging

The Capitalist System Is The Oldest System In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The capitalist system is the oldest system in the world, and any system that has weathered the gales and chances of thousands of years ...read more

Tags: Government

If God Is Really Preparing Us All To Become ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If God is really preparing us all to become that which is the very highest and best thing possible, there ought never to be a ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Solitude, Though It May Be Silent As Light, Is ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men ...read more

Tags: Suffering Loneliness

We Need More Unreasonable People Who Want To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"We need more unreasonable people who want to change the world, not to adapt to it.I believeit is our responsibility to ...read more

Tags: Worldliness

Thoughts Should Be Tested Before They Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Thoughts should be tested before they are transmitted. If our thoughts taste unkind, critical, or unfair, we should refuse to ...read more

Tags: Thought

All Of Scripture Is Presented To Us As A ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 28, 2010

“All of Scripture is presented to us as a sequential narrative of the God/man relationship from the very beginning to the very ...read more

Tags: Opportunity

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

St Augustine: "A Whole Christ For My Salvation, ...

Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Feb 22, 2010

St Augustine: "A whole Christ for my salvation, a whole Bible for my staff, a whole church for my ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

When French Soccer Star Zinedine Zidane ...  PRO

Contributed by W F on Oct 5, 2006

When French soccer star Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest during the final 10 minutes of the 2006 World Cup he sealed his own fate and the fate of his team. When Zidane was sent off with a red card France lost its best scorer. And this, just as the match ...read more

Scripture: Joshua 7:1-19

Tags: Sin General

Denomination: *other

How Many Of You Know About Billy Sianis' Goat? ...

Contributed by Christopher Roberts on Oct 18, 2003

How many of you know about Billy Sianis’ goat? Sianis, a local tavern owner, tried to bring his goat into Game 4 of the 1945 World Series at Wrigley Field, only to be turned away. And so it was that Sianis, whose tavern remains a must-stop for Chicago Cubs’ fans, put a curse on the Cubs, vowing ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:7

Tags: Doubt, Faith General

Denomination: Methodist

We Talk A Lot About Serving And Worshiping Jesus. ...

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 6, 2009

We talk a lot about serving and worshiping Jesus. But to be able to serve Him, or worship Him, we must know exactly who He is and what He offers. Here is the Jesus I know: ···· Jesus is Christ. He is the living Son of the living God. ···· He is the First and Last, the Beginning and the ...read more

Tags: Jesus Christ

Denomination: *other