In Sermon Illustrations: "Great"

Trust Men, And They Will Be True To You; Treat ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they ...read more

Tags: Faith

Snatching The Eternal Out Of The Desperately ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic ...read more

Tags: Kingdom Of God

Absence Is To Love What Wind Is To A Fire; It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

I Have Decided To Stick With Love. Hate Is Too ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

From A Worldly Point Of View There Is No Mistake ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that ...read more

Tags: Mistakes

Journalism Justifies Its Own Existence By The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of ...read more

Tags: News

The Repetition Of Small Efforts Will Accomplish ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the ...read more

Tags: Action

If Virtue And Knowledge Are Diffused Among The ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This ...read more

Tags: Security

With Toes Curled Tightly Over The Edge Of The ...  PRO

Contributed by James Faillace on Jul 17, 2001

With toes curled tightly over the edge of the diving board and the refreshing blue water 12 feet below, I found myself at 7 years old for the very first time standing on the high diving board. With friends cheering below, which seemed more like a mile away rather than just 12 feet, I was faced ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Playing With Beethoven  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001

PLAYING WITH BEETHOVEN A college girl visited the home of Beethoven. She slipped under the rope and began playing Beethoven’s piano. She said to the one in charge, "I suppose every musician who comes here wants to play this piano." He explained to her that recently the great Paderewski was ...read more

Scripture: Song of Songs 3:1, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Luke 7:36-50, Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 1:1  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Humility, Emotions

John N. Oswalt, Professor Of Old Testament And ...

Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 24, 2006

John N. Oswalt, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Kentucky): “Isaiah calls to mind historic events which would give credence to the eschatological [last times, end times, judgement] hope. Gideon and his people, faced by an oppressive horde, ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Denomination: Salvation Army

Right After The 9/11 Attacks, The President ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Right after the 9/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, “A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of America” In other words, “even though we just ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

In The Days Of The Roman Emperor Nero, There ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

In the days of the Roman Emperor Nero, there lived and served him a band of soldiers known as the "Emperor’s Wrestlers." Fine, stalwart men they were, picked from the best and the bravest of the land, recruited from the great athletes of the Roman amphitheater. In the great amphitheater they ...read more

Tags: God's Omnipotence

Old Fat Bald Hero

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 3, 2009

OLD FAT BALD HERO One of the great sports stories of the decade of the 1990’s was of George Foreman regaining the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. At age 45, George Foreman, more than a decade past the prime of most fighters, knocked out his opponent, Michael Moore, and regained the ...read more

Tags: Aging

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Rust Frets Even Men Of Iron!" Judges 15: 11-20 ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 22, 2004

“Rust Frets Even Men of Iron!” Judges 15: 11-20 Key verse(s): 18 “Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, ‘You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?’” Though writing more than a hundred years ago, ...read more

Scripture: Judges 15:11-20

Tags: Disappointment, Emotions

Denomination: Lutheran

[011] A Message From A Poem - A Very Present Help In Times Of Trouble

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 14, 2024

[011] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TIMES OF TROUBLE Stanza 1 - Psalm 54:1-4 Stanza 2 - Psalm 56:3-4 Stanza 3 - Psalm 50:15,23 Stanza 4 - Psalm 55:22 This poem of four stanzas has a stanza dedicated to each of four verses in the Psalms. I love the Psalms and at times of ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 54:1-4, Psalm 56:3-4, Psalm 50:15, Psalm 55:22, Psalm 50:23  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Help, Burden, Deliverer, A Present Help, Save Me, The Day Of Trouble  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Listen To This News Clipping. "Gambling, ...  PRO

Contributed by Douglas Vincent on May 28, 2004

Listen to this news clipping. “Gambling, robbery, sexual immorality, and violence is prevalent. Half of all children are born out of wedlock; purity and fidelity to the marriage vow are sneered out of fashion. Corruption in politics is rampant. The world is broken.” This clipping is from 1694. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:13

Tags: Brokenness, Church Small Groups

Denomination: Methodist

An Interesting Incident Happened During The ...  PRO

Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Feb 8, 2007

An interesting incident happened during the victorious march of Alexander the Great to conquer the known world for the Grecian empire. A young soldier became greatly frightened in the heat of battle, dropped his sword and shield and fled. An officer dispatched several soldiers to apprehend the ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

C S Lewis - The Choice

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Sep 19, 2022

I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Jesus. “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things ...read more

Scripture: John 14:1-6, Philippians 2:5-11, Colossians 1:15

Tags: Jesus, Jesus Divinity, Nature Of Jesus, Moral Teacher

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Tongue Is A Rudder To Give Us Direction

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 6, 2024

Two warships with the largest full-load displacement in the world are the US Navy aircraft carriers. The USS Nimitz and Dwight D. Eisenhower weigh about 91,400 tons. They are 1,092 feet in length overall and have a speed well in excess of 30 knots with their nuclear-powered 280,000 horsepower ...read more

Tags: Ships, Rudders, Vision, Mouth, Words, Tongue, Small Things, Gossip, Direction  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational