In Sermon Illustrations: "Hidden Future"

The Future Is, Of All Things, The Thing Least ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. ... Hence nearly all vices are rooted in the Future. Gratitude looks to the Past and love to ...read more

Tags: Present

Trust No Future, However Pleasant Let The Dead ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, act in the living ...read more

Tags: Present

Wipe Out The Past, Trust The Future, And Live ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Wipe out the past, trust the future, and live ...read more

Tags: Present

Thomas Merton: "The Gospel Looks To A Future ...

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 2, 2011

Thomas Merton: "The Gospel looks to a future event that is still not fulfilled - the full revelation of the Glory and the Reign of Christ. He reigns already, but his reign is not yet manifest as it will be. "Yet this brings with it another temptation: the false news of those who have too much of ...read more

Tags: Apocalypse

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Forgetting What Is Past And Straining Toward The Future

Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Oct 8, 2017

Commentator Gordon Fee recalls the famous “miracle mile,” the first time two milers ran under four minutes in the same race. Roger Bannister and John Landy competed in Vancouver, B.C. in 1954. Landy had led all the way, but coming off the final turn toward the finish line he looked over his ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 3:13-14

Tags: Forgetting The Past, Heavenward Calling, Future Oriented

Denomination: Baptist

Mystery

Contributed by Roy Fowler on Jun 19, 2020

Paul talks about a Mystery hidden in God. Let me tell you about a great mystery story: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, was a doctor. As such he was very interested in the use of ether. In order to know how his patients felt under its influence, he once had a dose administered to himself. As he was ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:26-27

Tags: Mystery Hidden, Mystery Found

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Never Let The Future Disturb You. You Will Meet ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you ...read more

Tags: Endurance, Fear And Worry

Future Declin:e A New Barna Survey Discovered ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Future Declin:e A new Barna survey discovered that adults who attended church as a child are twice as likely to read the Bible during a typical week as are those who avoided churches when young; twice as likely to attend a church worship service in a typical week; and nearly 50% more likely to pray ...read more

Tags: Children

Let Your Life Be So Full Of Your Future, That ...

Contributed by Adlai Naidoo on Dec 29, 2006

Let your life be so full of your future, that its making your ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Men Who Build The Future Are Those Who Know ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come.Their minds are ...read more

Tags: Faith

Never Let The Future Disturb You. You Will Meet ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason, ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

What The Future Holds For Us Depends On What We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

What the future holds for us depends on what we hold for the future. Hard-working ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

I Do Not Pin My Dreams For The Future To My ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country or even to my race. I think it probable that civilization ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

My Interest Is In The Future Because I Am Going ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

What I Would Like To Do Is Chart The Future, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"What I would like to do is chart the future, and help people adjust to it, but when I look ahead all is cloudy and confused. I am an optimist, however. Man ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

I, Not For Future Gain, For What He May Become, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I, not for future gain, For what he may become, would prize my friend; I prize the ...read more

Tags: Compassion

Two Persons Love In One Another The Future Good ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

We Have Staked The Future Of All Our Political ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ...read more

Tags: Commandments General

We Can't Give Our Children The Future, Strive ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But ...read more

Tags: Children

We Know Our Future Includes A Promise. But We Do ...  PRO

Contributed by Ed Lu on Nov 26, 2011

We know our future includes a promise. But we do not know how to transition into that promise. Maybe ’not knowing’ is just an excuse – we just straight out refuse to take that next step. That’s because while we are in the present, we often permit the past to occupy and govern our emotions. We drag ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 32:17-21, 2 Kings 5:1-14

Tags: Christian Disciplines

Denomination: Baptist