In Sermon Illustrations: "Hell Is Real"

While 88% In A Recent Barna Poll Believe Jesus ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005

While 88% in a recent Barna poll believe Jesus Christ was a real person, what they believe about him differs sharply from scriptural teaching. 42% (even 1/4th of the “born again” Christians) believe that while on earth Jesus sinned just like other people. 61% believe the devil is just a symbol of ...read more

Tags: Divinity Of Christ

Personal Surfing: The 5th Annual Web@work Survey ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Personal Surfing: The 5th annual Web@Work survey reports workers say they spend an hour or two each week surfing for their own interests. IT workers estimate the real number at slightly more than 6 hours weekly. Over 20% of workers say they use streaming software to listen to music or they store ...read more

Tags: Workplace

A Classic Type, Common To Many Renaissance ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Kennicott on May 31, 2006

"A classic type, common to many Renaissance paintings is the ’student.’ A favored follower, a protege or disciple, is always portrayed as very youthful, long-haired and clean-shaven...Throughout the Renaissance, artists portray St. John in this fashion. He is the ’disciple Jesus loved’ ....Only a ...read more

Tags: False Teaching

Denomination: Pentecostal

If The Blind Put Their Hand In God's  PRO

Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 11, 2009

If the Blind Put Their Hand in God’s Helen Keller, shortly before her sixtieth birthday, expressed pity for the real unseeing, for those who have eyes yet do not see. Her long years of physical blindness have given her a spiritual insight which enables her to enjoy life in all its fullness. She ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:22-26, Mark 8:27-29

Tags: Faith

Denomination: Christian Church

Delight Yourselves In The Lord

Contributed by Kent Mishleau on Apr 5, 2010

DELIGHT YOURSELVES IN THE LORD "Delight" is to be happy or at peace with something. I wish I was an artist and could paint a picture of true wonderful delight. I wish I had awesome oratory skills that would set a picture in your minds that you could see a beauty that you would hold forever. I wish ...read more

Tags: God's Love

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Freedom "For"  PRO

Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 28, 2011

FREEDOM "FOR" From Robert Youngs: I have on my table a violin string... it is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do--produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten it until it is taut. Only then ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:13

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Distortions

Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012

DISTORTIONS I know you have heard the story of the man that was on the ocean on a huge yacht. They had cruised for days and somehow had gotten lost. The captain noticed the owner’s little son had placed his toy magnet next to the casing around the compass. The magnetic force had distorted the ...read more

Tags: Bible Truth

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Leonardo Da Vinci Painted The Last Supper Scene ...

Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2012

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Last Supper scene on a dining room wall in Milan. As a visitor stood viewing the finished work, he commented on the realism of several goblets on the table, exclaiming that they were so real he felt as though he could reach out and pick them up. Upon hearing those ...read more

Tags: Lord's Supper

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Weak Prayer, Weak Faith  PRO

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 7, 2013

WEAK PRAYER, WEAK FAITH Bill Hybels, "I used to make excuses for my faint-hearted prayer life. I don’t have any good models of persevering prayer, I told myself. I have too many responsibilities to fulfill, so I don’t have the time to pray properly. But God convinced me that I was not being honest ...read more

Scripture: James 4:2

Tags: Prayer Persistence

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The New Guy  PRO

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 29, 2013

THE NEW GUY We all need real hope. There were four ladies in a nursing home one time that were sitting there talking, and the nurse brings in a new man to the facility. He was quite dapper for an older man, and one of the ladies asked him where he had been for so long. He responded by saying he ...read more

Tags: Faith General

Denomination: *other

Singing In A Storm

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 3, 2021

LET US STUDY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SINGING SONG BIRD: THE THRUSH SPARROW. The THRUSH SPARROW SINGS MANY BEAUTIFUL SONGS. There is one song the Thrush sings that is amazing. THE ONLY TIME THE THRUSH SPARROW IS KNOWN TO SING HER MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG IS WHEN IT IS IN A TERRIBLE, DANGEROUS STORM OR WHEN IT ...read more

Scripture: Acts 27:10-31, Hebrews 12:12-15

Tags: Singing, Storms

Denomination: Assembly Of God

A.w. Tozer (The Pursuit Of God) Writes, "Like ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

A.W. Tozer (The Pursuit of God) writes, “Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves—blessed riddance. The man who has ...read more

Tags: Patriarchs Abraham

Richard Halverson, The Chaplain Of The U. S. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Richard Halverson, the chaplain of the U. S. Senate, pointed out something that bothers a lot of people and excites a few. He said, “Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man’s real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact ...read more

Tags: Giving General

This Week I Saw An Ad In The Arizona Republic ...

Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Nov 21, 2007

This week I saw an ad in the Arizona Republic newspaper. It was an ad placed on behalf of someone’s grandmother, which said: “Lost: one pearl ring. Lost near 35th Avenue and Cactus. Setting is chipped from many years’ wear, has one diamond on each side of pearl. Great sentimental value. Large ...read more

Tags: Bible Truth

Denomination: Baptist

I'll Never Forget The Episode Of "Home ...  PRO

Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 26, 2007

I’ll never forget the episode of “Home Improvement” in which one the Taylor children had a part with three others in the Christmas pageant at church holding up cardboard letters that were supposed to spell “NOEL.” They got backwards and spelled “LEON.” Al Borlan, Tim’s sidekick, leaned over to ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Just Before The Passover Feast" (V1) Is An ...

Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 14, 2008

“Just before the Passover feast” (v1) is an interesting phrase that John placed strategically in this passage. Before we can have any true “Passover” experience there must be the transplanting of the human heart – not the fist-sized organ in our bodies pumping blood through our veins but the deeper ...read more

Denomination: Salvation Army

Commenting On Recent Findings, Lifeway ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008

Commenting on recent findings, LifeWay Research's Ed Stetzer said, "We found a real openness to hearing about matters of faith, but the study also clearly documents what I call the Oprah-ization of American Christianity. It's very much a generic 'big guy in the sky' view of God and a 'you believe ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

He Didn't Lift Us Up To Let Us Down  PRO

Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 23, 2002

HE DIDN'T LIFT US UP TO LET US DOWN The Christian group the Imperials recorded one of my favorite songs over 20 years ago. It is called, “He Didn’t Lift Us Up To Let Us Down.” “He didn’t bring us this far to leave us. He didn’t teach us to swim to let us drown. He didn’t build His home in us ...read more

Tags: God's Provision, Faith

Denomination: Church Of God

God's Favor Toward Us, Citation: Max Lucado, A ...  PRO

Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002

[God’s Favor toward Us, Citation: Max Lucado, A Gentle Thunder (Word, 1995)] There are many reasons God saves you: to bring glory to himself, to appease his justice, to demonstrate his sovereignty. But one of the sweetest reasons God saved you is because he is fond of you. He likes having you ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, Christmas, Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Three Wiseguys  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2003

THE THREE WISEGUYS Police in Hamilton, N.J., are investigating a kidnapping. Or, rather, a theft: the figure of baby Jesus was taken from its manger in a Nativity display in front of a private home. "Whoever did it must’ve really planned this out, you know like a bank robbery," said homeowner ...read more