In Sermon Illustrations: "Gold"

Every Year The Movie Industry Comes Together For ...  PRO

Contributed by Bill Huffhine on May 27, 2004

Every year the movie industry comes together for a massive celebration and awards ceremony. All of Hollywood looks forward to the night early in the year where they can come together and honor one another for the work that had been done during the previous year. It’s a really a fascinating thing ...read more

Tags: Discipleship, Call Of The Disciples

Denomination: Free Methodist

A Railroad Fireman's Jump  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2003

A RAILROAD FIREMAN’S JUMP On September 29, 1907, the three older children of the Dixon family, living about one mile from Seward, started for school. Baby Gladys Dixon, who was only nineteen months old, went with them a little distance. Away the children ran, and Gladys was soon left behind. Still ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Holidays Civic

Enormously Gorgeous  PRO

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 22, 2007

ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS My dad says I am ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS. I wonder if I really am. To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Sarah says you need to have beautiful, long, curly hair like she has. I don’t. To be ENORMOUSLY GORGEOUS... Justin says you must have perfectly straight white teeth like he has. I ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Flame In The Marathon Tower In Each Olympic ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

The flame in the Marathon Tower in each Olympic stadium is the most recognized symbol of the Olympics, dating back to the Games of ancient Greece, when athletes competed in a relay race, passing a torch from one to another until the last runner, in a long procession of runners, would sprint to the ...read more

Tags: Faith

Cross (S)  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Cross (S) Imagine with me for a moment… Pretend that a man from South America is speaking here. His name is Jose Samblanco, and having just arrived, he proclaims the good news to us that a Peruvian peasant by the name of Carlos Hernandez was electrocuted on the electric chair for your sins. He ...read more

Tags: Easter Resurrection

Roy Campanella Was One Of The First African ...

Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009

Roy Campanella was one of the first African Americans to play in the US Baseball major leagues. In a distinguished career he won the Brooklyn Dodgers Most Valued Player award many times, and in 1955 was on the team that won the World Series. But in January 1958 his career was cut short after a car ...read more

Tags: Trials And Difficulties

Denomination: Baptist

On Crowns

Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009

ON CROWNS Crowns have always been the sign of authority and Kingship. Charlemagne, whom historians say should deserve to be called "great" above all others, wore an octagonal crown. Each of the eight sides was a plaque of gold, and each plaque was studded with emeralds, sapphires, and pearls. The ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 27:28-29

Tags: Jesus Christ

Life Eternal

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 18, 2009

LIFE ETERNAL Someone named, James Langdon Hill, once said, "Life Eternal! How shall I express my thought of it? It is not mere existence, however prolonged and free from annoyance. It is not the pleasures of the senses, however vivid. It is not peace. It is not happiness. It is not joy. But it is ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:11

Tags: Immortality

Intending To Grow

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2011

INTENDING TO GROW In the 1920s there was a young African American child who was growing up in Cleveland. One day a famous athlete named Charlie Paddock, came to his school to speak to the students. At the time Paddock was considered "the fastest human being alive." He told the children, "Listen! ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:6-10

Tags: Growth In Christ

God's Rich Grace

Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 10, 2011

GOD'S RICH GRACE NPR Radio reported this week (July 5, 2011) that a well known Hindu temple in southern India has revealed vast treasures and hidden secrets. The temple itself was well known and previously unguarded. It had been there for hundreds of years (since 1566) and open to the public. ...read more

Tags: God's Love

Denomination: Nazarene

Thank You For Your Time  PRO

Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 18, 2009

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME A young man learns what’s most important in life from the guy next door. It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush ...read more

Scripture: John 15:14-15, Psalm 126:1-6

Tags: Faith, Proverbs, Parents, Wisdom, Valuable, God's Creation, Letter, Unopened Letter, Friendship General, Jesus' Healing, Happy, God Cares, Integrity, Goals, Dreams, Fight, Belief, Trust, Happiness, Joy, Shepherd, Treasure  (view more)  (view less)

Maya Angelou, A Great Contemporary American Poet, ...

Contributed by James Westmoreland on Aug 27, 2005

Maya Angelou, a great contemporary American poet, writes about how she dealt with slavery and prejudice in her moving poem entitled, "Still I Rise." Her words could well have been written by Joseph, who had been made a slave in Egypt. Can we face our own difficulties with this kind of confidence ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Denomination: Disciples Of Christ

When The United States Women's Softball Team Won ...  PRO

Contributed by Mitchell Skelton on Oct 21, 2003

When the United States Women’s Softball team won the gold medal in Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic games, they lost only one game, but from that loss came a remarkable story about perseverance. In the fifth inning against Australia, Danielle Tyler hit a home run over the center-field fence. The American ...read more

Tags: Growth In Christ, Basics Of Christianity

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

In Texas Last Week, An 18 Year Old Man Was ...

Contributed by Art Good on Jun 7, 2007

In Texas last week, an 18 year old man was arrested for wearing a noose in public. As Jewelry. Seems kind of morbid doesn’t it? A noose is an instrument of an agonizing death. It represents vigilante law, I would never be proud to wear a noose. What about an electric chair? Did you know you ...read more

Denomination: Wesleyan

While Reading Last Month About The 1936 Olympic ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

While reading last month about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany, there is a story about a friendship that was birthed between Jesse Owens a Black man and Luz Long a German. Both men were competing in the long jump, Jesse Owens was the early pick to win the event. You see the year before he ...read more

Tags: People In Acts

Did You Know That The United States Once Had A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Did you know that the United States once had a king? Actually, he wasn’t a king—he was an emperor. During the gold-rush days of the 1800s in San Francisco, a man named Joshua A. Norton lost everything he had in market speculation. When that happened, something happened to his mind. He declared ...read more

Tags: Descriptions Of God

The Old Rugged Cross

Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008

THE OLD RUGGED CROSS In 1913 George Bennard was struggling with a problem that caused him much suffering. His mind went back again and again to Christ’s anguish on the cross. This was the heart of the Gospel! The cross he pictured was no gold-covered icon. It was a rough, splintery thing, stained ...read more

Tags: Cross

Denomination: Baptist

Andrée Seu (Pronounced, Ahn'-Dray Soo) Wrote ...

Contributed by Glenn Durham on Sep 17, 2008

Andrée Seu (pronounced, Ahn’-dray Soo) wrote about it in an article in World Magazine a couple of weeks ago: “I was accustomed to thinking of discouragement as something that happens to a person. But on closer examination…I have been taken aback by how volitional or ‘active’ it is. To go around ...read more

Tags: Dead To Sin

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Joy Of Her Silence

Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Dec 27, 2008

THE JOY OF HER SILENCE Listen to this case history that appears in Dr. Paul Tournier's book, "The Strong and the Weak." It is the story of a family in which there were father, mother and several children. The father had a problem with one of his daughters, a little girl who was very quiet, very ...read more

Denomination: *other

In The Movie Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood Plays ...

Contributed by Bret Toman on May 20, 2010

In the movie Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood plays the part of an aging gunfighter who lost his taste for killing many years before. He and his old partner, played by Morgan Freeman, are lured by the rumor of a bounty of gold being offered for the arrest of some cowboys who had disfigured a young ...read more

Tags: Depravity, Sin General

Denomination: Baptist