In Sermon Illustrations: "found wanting"

Many People Want The Government To Protect The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect ...read more

Tags: Government

Hospitality Is The Art Of Making People Want To ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Hospitality is the art of making people want to stay without ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Christianity Works, And If You Want To See It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Christianity works, and if you want to see it most clearly, you must go to mission lands where the contrast between lives touched by Christianity and ...read more

Tags: Great Commission

If You Want To Work For The Kingdom Of God, And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and to enter it, there is just one condition to be accepted. ...read more

Tags: Kingdom Of God

All That A Husband Or Wife Really Wants Is To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Little Girls Want To Be Princesses, But Little ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Little girls want to be princesses, but little boys dont want to be princes and from these two different starting points come all the confusions, ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

A Conference Is Just An Admission That You Want ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to ...read more

Tags: Church General

If You Want To Become The Perfect Guest, Then ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If you want to become the perfect guest, then try to make ...read more

Tags: Hospitality

If You Want To Become The Greatest In Your ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render ...read more

Tags: Servanthood

It Is Not True That Women Want A Great Deal. A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"It is not true that women want a great deal. A woman is quite content with very little, if that very little is precisely what ...read more

Tags: Women

I Want To Conclude With A Clip. This Movie Is The ...

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 16, 2009

I want to conclude with a clip. This movie is the story of a POW camp that was forced to build an important and strategic bridge. In this scene, one man unexpectedly decides to intervene on behalf of another. He does it out of his convictions and the love of God in him. [Show clip: To End All Wars ...read more

Tags: Sacrifices

Denomination: Church Of God

I Don't Want To Be A Fireman

Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 20, 2011

I DON'T WANT TO BE A FIREMAN I recall a conversation I once had with a precocious little boy we once had in the church I pastored for 10 years in Wiesbaden. I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Well," he replied, "I don't want to be a fireman." I'd never had a kid tell me what ...read more

Tags: Discipleship

Denomination: Baptist

God Wants To Pull The Stickers Out  PRO

Contributed by Tim White on Jun 6, 2011

GOD WANTS TO PULL THE STICKERS OUT The little girl hopped away screaming. Obviously, the fear of living forever with a sticker in her foot was not as terrifying as the thought of me pulling it out. But a five-year-old could not out-run the preacher. Not hopping on one foot, anyway. After I ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 1:6

Tags: Sanctification

Denomination: Baptist

God Wants To Live In Your House

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011

GOD WANTS TO LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity: "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4-5

Tags: Sanctification

What I Don't Want To Be

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011

WHAT I DON'T WANT TO BE I recall a conversation I once had with a precocious little boy we once had in the church I pastored for 10 years in Wiesbaden. I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Well," he replied, "I don't want to be a fireman." I'd never had a kid tell me what he was ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 37:4-5

Tags: Christian Values

Why Would You Want To Be President?

Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? Parker Palmer was offered a job at a university and was wrestling with whether or not to take the job. Parker decided to ask 12 friends to come together to think about whether he should take the job. They began asking him questions. One of them asked, "Parker, ...read more

Tags: Pride

Denomination: Methodist

I Don't Want To Be A Saint...  PRO

Contributed by Scott Bayles on Dec 1, 2011

"I DON'T WANT TO BE A SAINT..." So the Bible clearly teaches that everyone who has been sanctified and set apart by God is a saint. I read a story earlier this week about a Wisconsin mom who was trying to teach her kids how God sees them. She told them that when they receive Jesus as Savior that ...read more

Scripture: Acts 20:32

Tags: Sanctification

Denomination: Christian Church

Jesus Wanted His Followers To Be Different!

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Mar 3, 2012

Jesus wanted His followers to be different! As someone said, "Winners do not do different ...read more

Tags: Christian Witness

Denomination: *other

Sure You Want To Win The Lottery?

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 1, 2012

SURE YOU WANT TO WIN THE LOTTERY? When William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in a 1988 lottery, one of the first things he did was try to please his family. Unfortunately, his kin was of the unfriendly sort. Post's brother hired a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit some money. Other family ...read more

Tags: Money

Denomination: Independent/Bible

I Don't Want To Be One!

Contributed by Christopher Gregas on Sep 8, 2012

I DON'T WANT TO BE ONE! There was a pastor that was giving a "children’s sermon" to all the young children. And as they sate before him, a bright-eyed three-year-old girl listened intently as he explained that God wanted them all to get along and love each other. "God wants us all to be one," he ...read more

Tags: Unity

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational