In Sermon Illustrations: "Hebrews 4 14 16 5 7 9"

Why Should Leaders (Christians) Pray?  PRO

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 1, 2002

“Why Should leaders (Christians) Pray?" Blackaby answers this question with 6 reasons why spiritual leaders need to pray. Spiritual Leadership page 153: 1. Prayer is an essential leadership (Christian) activity. 2. Prayer brings the Spirit’s filling. 3. Prayer brings God’s ...read more

Tags: Prayer General, Prayer Adoration

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Pizza Party?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 21, 2022

I READ A LESSON ABOUT RUNNING OUT, NOT ENOUGH… THERE WAS A PIZZA PARTY THAT DEMONSTRATED TWO ATTITUDES… 1. GROUP ONE SAW THAT IT WAS OBVIOUS THEY WOULD RUN OUT OF PIZZA, SO THEY GRABBED 4 OR 5 PIECES OF THE PIZZA TO MAKE SURE THEY WOULD HAVE ENOUGH. 2. THE SECOND GROUP SAW THERE WAS NOT ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 135:6

Tags: Party, Attitudes

Denomination: Assembly Of God

So You Think Sins Don’t Matter?

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Sep 12, 2022

Introduction: Have you ever heard someone say, “Oh, sin doesn’t matter” or anything like that? There are plenty of times when, in the Bible, when it certainly did. Would you believe that only two major sins cost Israel thousands of their population? Let’s take a look. Text: Numbers 1:44-46, KJV: ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 1:44-46, Numbers 26:51

Tags: Moses, Sin, Balaam, Phinehas

Denomination: Baptist

Unsung Heroes: The Lame Man Of Acts 3

Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Apr 30, 2021

Text: Acts 3:1-10. KJV: 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into ...read more

Scripture: Acts 3:1-10

Tags: John, Peter, Healings

Denomination: Baptist

Do You Believe?

Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 13, 2019

DO YOU BELIEVE? That the bible is the inspired word of God That God created the everything in 6 days That God rested on day 7 That God created man and put him in the garden of Eden (a perfect Place) That God took a rib from Adam and made Eve to be a helper and companion to Adam That Satan entered ...read more

Scripture: John 11:25-26

Tags: Faith, Believe

Denomination: Pentecostal

What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

What Happened To Sunday School? New Barna Group research has identified several significant changes affecting children’s programs: (1) A declining percentage of pastors viewing Sunday School as their top priority. (2) Fewer churches offering Sunday School for children under age 6 or for junior high ...read more

Tags: Church General

Ivy League Revival: As Late As ‘65, A White ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Ivy League Revival: As late as ‘65, a white mainline Protestant was 250% more likely to have a college degree as a white evangelical, according to Calvin College Prof. Corwin Smidt. But by ‘00, a mainline Protestant was only 65% more likely to have the same degree. And since ‘85, the percentage of ...read more

Tags: Church General

Collegiate Online 43% Of College Students Go ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007

Collegiate Online 43% of college students go online at least 10 hours a week, while 31% spend 6 to 10 hours a week online and 19% visit the Web for 3 to 5 hours a week, finds a recent Experience study. By contrast, just 17% watch TV more than 10 hours a week, and a mere 1% spend 10 hours a week ...read more

Ape Rights

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2009

APE RIGHTS The Spanish Parliament’s move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says. An environmental committee in Spain’s legislature approved a resolution on ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27

Tags: Animals

Speak And Spell God

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009

SPEAK AND SPELL GOD Mary Farwell of Green Castle, Missouri, told of the time she was listening to her 5-year-old son, Matthew, as he worked on his Speak and Spell™ computer. He was concentrating intensely, typing in words for the computer to say back to him. Matthew punched in the word "God." To ...read more

Scripture: John 8:19

Tags: Children

Telling Lies

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 19, 2012

TELLING LIES A grandmother was looking after her two little grandchildren, a 7-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy. Both of them had been really naughty. But as the time approached for their mother to pick them up, the little girl said to her grandmother, "Are you going to tell Mummy?" The ...read more

Tags: Lies

Denomination: Brethren

Satanic Duplications

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jul 29, 2020

A cartoon when I was a kid showed a group of aliens called Meeks who came to earth and said they only existed to serve others and wanted to give everyone the desires of their heart. The world voted to allow them to do it and everyone only had to ask and it was done. With no work to do humans ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 17:9, Proverbs 16:25, 1 Peter 5:8

Tags: Lion, Deception, Satan, Lies

Denomination: Baptist

The New Testament Scholar Raymond Brown Wrote ...

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 7, 2009

The New Testament scholar Raymond Brown wrote this: "Using vivid athletic imagery, the author [of Hebrews] tells his readers what they must ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Denomination: Anglican

Community: A Lost Art  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2011

COMMUNITY: A LOST ART I inherited an old trunk that sat in my grandma’s basement. It had belonged to the generation before, who had used it to bring their possessions across the sea from Sweden. It sits in my dining room. It smells a little musty, but I treasure it as a link to my heritage. I was ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47

Tags: Hospitality

[066]. A Message From A Poem – Easter Thoughts 2024

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 27, 2025

This poem focuses on the Easter Story and covers the crucifixion and the resurrection. Of course the story is not complete without the Lord coming again and the last stanza features that. Each stanza deals with a different feature of the Saviour’s life that passion weekend. God’s love could ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:30-31, John 3:16-17, Acts 4:12, Romans 6:10

Tags: Easter, Crucifixion, It Is Finished, Death Of Christ, Crowned With Thorns, Resurrection, Believe, Salvation, Poetry, Golgotha, Poem  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

H ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008

HOMESCHOOL Homeschooler numbers continue to grow. Brian Ray of National Home Education Research Institute estimates 1.9 million to 2.4 million K-12 children were home educated during 2005-06. Research shows homeschoolers on average exceed the national average on standardized achievement test for ...read more

Tags: School

Pornography & Sexual Addiction: The National ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Pornography & Sexual Addiction: The National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families reports Americans invested $220 million at fee-based adult sites in ‘01, and 27.5 million visited a pornography website in January ‘02. 3%-6% of the U.S. public is thought to be sexually addicted. More ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Roe V. Wade Support Waning Harris Poll Has Been ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007

Roe v. Wade Support Waning Harris poll has been measuring Roe v. Wade support for 33 years and reports just 49% of U.S. adults support the decision today vs. 57% in ’98. 40% favor laws to make it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion, while another 40% ...read more

Tags: Abortion

All Men Commanded To Appear 3 Times A Year There, ...

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 3, 2008

All men commanded to appear 3 times a year there, but the Rabbis found a way to reinterpret this; at the time of Jesus, a man was considered especially devout if he went once a year, and some went once in a lifetime or every 4 or 5 years! (see "Pilgrimage at the Time of Jesus" by Shmuel Safrai, ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Christian Book Publishers Receive A Combined ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008

Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The average first printing of a book for a ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature