Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Getting Up Early"

showing 1,841-1,860 of 17,286
Filter Results
Close Filters

Scripture

Rating

Date

Denominations

  • Show more

Category

  • Try PRO

    Confident Preaching

    Try PRO free and preach with confidence when people need it most.
    Free to start now
  • If You Ask Anyone In My Family If They Have Ever ...

    Contributed by Doris Sparks on Apr 5, 2007
     | 1,435 views

    If you ask anyone in my family if they have ever seen an angel; they would tell you the story that occurred on winter Sunday. We were driving up a very steep hill in town in a van. This was before mini-vans and this big 9-passenger van was not good on slippery roads. The road was snow packed and ...read more

  • Dwight Moody Was Once Addressing A Crowded ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,913 views

    Dwight Moody was once addressing a crowded meeting of children in Scotland. To get their attention, he asked, “what is prayer?” He really wasn’t expecting the children to answer. To his amazement, hands shot up all over the auditorium. One lad quoted his textbook answer, “Prayer is an offering up ...read more

  • Dwight Moody Was Once Addressing A Crowded ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,516 views

    Dwight Moody was once addressing a crowded meeting of children in Scotland. To get their attention, he asked, “what is prayer?” He really wasn’t expecting the children to answer. To his amazement, hands shot up all over the auditorium. One lad quoted his textbook answer, “Prayer is an offering up ...read more

  • John Stott, A Humble Man

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 7, 2011
     | 4,565 views

    JOHN STOTT, A HUMBLE MAN I like the way Thomas Carlyle put it some time ago. He said, "One example is worth a thousand arguments." (Thomas Carlyle, quoted in Men of Integrity, July/August 2000; www.Preaching Today.com) In difficult times, we don't need dictators and arguments. We need leaders ...read more

  • Ken Wales: Christian Integrity

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
     | 4,486 views

    KEN WALES: CHRISTIAN INTEGRITY Ken Wales is a TV and film producer, who has produced several, award-winning TV series and films, including Christy, East of Eden and the highly-acclaimed movie Amazing Grace. Wales has enjoyed tremendous success as a producer, but he started his Hollywood career ...read more

  • When A Person Is Arrested For Some Misdemeanor, ...

    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 19, 2006
     | 1,528 views

    When a person is arrested for some misdemeanor, they have the chance to "make bail," to get out of jail until their case is decided. Usually the bail bond is something like 10% of the total bail. The total has to be posted, but it works like a loan. If the miscreatant cannot get 10% together, ...read more

  • Greed Of The Monkey

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Sep 27, 2010
     | 4,814 views

    GREED OF THE MONKEY When I was in Africa, a delicacy was Monkey. Monkeys are very fast, too smart to get in a trap but there is a unique way to catch them. They take a gourd and tie it to a stake. In the gourd they cut a small hole and drop some nuts inside. The monkeys come to get the nut but ...read more

  • Of Thirty Roman Emperors, Governors Of Provinces ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Fox on Nov 13, 2001
    based on 40 ratings
     | 2,390 views

    “Of thirty Roman emperors, governors of provinces and others in high office, who distinguished themselves by their zeal and bitterness in persecuting the early Christians, one became speedily deranged after some atrocious cruelty, one was slain by his own son, one became blind, the eyes of one ...read more

  • Beauty And The Beast

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 19, 2005
     | 3,706 views

    INTRODUCTION... Beauty and the Beast One of my wife’s favorite movies of all time is Disney’s ’Beauty and the Beast’ which came out in the early 90s. The story centers around a young woman named Belle and her experiences with the Beast. The story begins with her father becoming lost in the woods ...read more

  • John Jay Was A Delegate At That First Continental ...  PRO

    Contributed by George Rennau on Aug 25, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,461 views

    John Jay was a delegate at that first continental congress. At a very young age JAY was one of the smartest and most respected lawyers in the colonies. You may have never heard of John Jay before, but in the early history of U.S. government, Jay was responsible for single handedly averting a war ...read more

  • During The Vietnam Area In Boot Camp You Could ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,696 views

    During the Vietnam area in Boot Camp you could have 25 or 30 companies eating during a two-hour period. That’s about 2000 Sailors. All theses companies are in formation and waiting their turn to eat. Company after company lined up about 3 or 4 feet apart. We had been in Boot Camp a little over a ...read more

  • Lieghton Ford Tells This Story Of A Crusade With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,244 views

    Lieghton Ford tells this story of a crusade with Billy Gtraham. I was speaking at an open-air crusade in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Billy Graham was to speak the next night and had arrived a day early. He came incognito and sat on the grass at the rear of the crowd. Because he was wearing a hat and dark ...read more

  • Henry Blackaby, The Author Of Experiencing God, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,201 views

    Henry Blackaby, the author of Experiencing God, tells this heart wrenching story about a situation he encountered early in his ministry. He writes, “The first funeral I ever conducted was for a beautiful three-year-old. She was the first child born to a couple in our church, and the first ...read more

  • Goodbye Kkk ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 16, 2008
     | 1,783 views

    GOODBYE KKK -- Years ago I had the great privilege of performing a funeral for a man named Jim in northern Oklahoma. Jim was just your average man with a modest house, married with a dog and a couple of kids and was known as a very hard worker. He worked for the railroad on a crew laying and ...read more

  • Hymn Story: Precious Lord, Take My Hand By Thomas ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2009
     | 5,734 views

    Hymn Story: Precious Lord, Take My Hand by Thomas Dorsey Thomas Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta who was known in the early 1920’s for the suggestive lyrics he combined with original music. Then God touched his life and in 1926 he gave up the suggestive music and began to write ...read more

  • Whose Boy Are You?  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 29, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,114 views

    WHOSE BOY ARE YOU? "I was about 12 years old when a new preacher came to my church. I would always go in late and slip out early. But one day the preacher said the benediction so fast I got caught and had to walk out with the crowd. I could feel every eye in church on me. "Just about the time I ...read more

  • The Golden Calf

    Contributed by John Bright on Apr 6, 2025
     | 303 views

    In Exodus 32, the people are complaining that Moses has been gone for too long. They go to Aaron and say, “Make us a god.” To this, Aaron replies, “NO WAY!” Not really, that’s what he should have told them. What really happened: Exodus 32:2 “ And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden ...read more

  • Forgiveness

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2025
    based on 1 rating
     | 116 views

    One of my heroes of the faith is the late Richard Wurmbrand who died in February 2001. Wurmbrand was born in Rumania in 1920 as a Jew and became a Christian when he encountered Christ at an early age. He shared his faith with the occupying troops in the 1940’s and the Germans threw him in prison ...read more

  • Have You Ever Hurt Anybody?  PRO

    Contributed by Ken Ritz on Dec 30, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,899 views

    Brennan Manning tells a story in his book The Ragamuffin Gospel. 25 years ago, he had a drinking problem. He voluntarily entered a 28-day treatment program. Early on in the treatment program they had to sit in a circle with a leader and tell the other people in the group, about the extent of their ...read more

  • The Clock Of Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Dec 2, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 2,690 views

    The clock of life is wound but once, And no man has the power To tell just when the hands will stop. At late or early hour. To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed. To lose one’s health is more, To lose one’s soul is such a loss That no man can restore. Thirty-nine people died while you read this ...read more