In Sermon Illustrations: "His Church"

The Priority Of God

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 1, 2008

THE PRIORITY OF GOD Priorities are an issue in the church today, and David Wilkerson addresses this issue with the following thought from his most recent newslatter: "A priority is the importance you place on something. And Christians who neglect prayer have perverted their priorities! Many ...read more

Tags: Principles

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

60% Of Unchurched Adults Worship God During A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

60% of unchurched adults worship God during a typical month, but not via a church service. (Foster ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Christian Education There Are Approximately ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007

Christian Education There are approximately 308,000 Evangelical Christian churches in the U.S. 65% use the classroom ...read more

Most Of Us Spend The First Six Days Of The Week ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002

"Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray ...read more

Tags: Sin General, Temptation Resisting

George Barna  PRO

Contributed by Jerry Falwell on May 15, 2002

George Barna: 96% believe in God. 92% believe the Bible is God’s Word. 42% belong to a local ...read more

Tags: Basics Of Christianity

Denomination: Baptist

According To A Little Boy Who Had Been Looking ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

According to a little boy who had been looking at some beautiful stained glass windows in a church in England, ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

If The Holy Spirit Were Taken Away From Us, 95 ...

Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Nov 3, 2007

“If the Holy Spirit were taken away from us, 95 percent of what we do in our churches ...read more

Denomination: Salvation Army

Grandbabies Are Better Than Babies. You Can ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Grandbabies are better than babies. You can tote them around the church, collecting compliments, whereas it would be ...read more

Tags: Family

St Augustine: "A Whole Christ For My Salvation, ...

Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Feb 22, 2010

St Augustine: "A whole Christ for my salvation, a whole Bible for my staff, a whole church for my ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Sin Is Never A Purely Individual Affair, "It ...

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 31, 2009

Sin is never a purely individual affair, “it always damages the [communion with the Church] that we have entered ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Denomination: Catholic

Filled To The Brim! (07.05.05--Joy Every ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 3, 2005

Filled To The Brim! (07.05.05--Joy Every Day--Ecclesiastes 5:1-9) When I was younger I remember being moved on more than one occasion, either by laziness or a predisposition to want to do something more “rewarding” on a Sunday morning, to prompt my dad with this question: “Why do we have to go to ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-9

Tags: Worship Benefits, Worship Purpose

Denomination: Lutheran

God Held My Hand  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2003

GOD HELD MY HAND As a child my parents took me to church You see for me they didn’t have to search. And when at my grandparents house we all went together. In rain, snow, heat and all kinds of weather. Growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, work was all we knew Of the outside world we had no ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus, God's Love

William Booth Our First General Was A Remarkable Man.

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Nov 12, 2012

William Booth our first General was a remarkable man; I have recently been reading a book that was published last year on his visions, with strangely enough the name “William Booth’s Amazing Visions”. In it the editor David Ravenhill mentions that “For far too long the Body of Christ [for the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 21:31-46

Tags: Judgement, Grace, Sin, Heaven

Denomination: Salvation Army

Leveling The Ground! (10.21.05--That ...

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 19, 2005

Leveling the Ground! (10.21.05--That Person!--Genesis 5:3-5) As I paid for my fuel purchase in he came. Everyone in town knew him as just plain Frank. He was dirty, loud and smelly. Most people avoided him because he was just different from most other folks. He didn’t bath or shower but once in a ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 5:3-5

Tags: Racism

Denomination: Lutheran

Fred Craddock Was A Seminary Professor. Once, ...  PRO

Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Dec 10, 2003

Fred Craddock was a seminary professor. Once, while he was lecturing at Yale University, he told of going back one summer to Gatlinburg, TN, to take a short vacation with his wife. One night they found a quiet little restaurant where they looked forward to a private meal—just the two of ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:11-23

Tags: What Is Evangelism?, Evangelism Urgency, Evangelism How To

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Blessed Are The Merciful

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008

Blessed Are The Merciful In the Sermon on the Mount, we notice that Jesus' subject was not on how people are to be saved, but on the fruit of those who allow the Holy Spirit to work in their lives. One of the signs or evidences that a person has been converted is that he is now merciful. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:7

Tags: Character

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What Happens When We Learn About A Really Bad ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

What happens when we learn about a really bad guy repenting? It happens all the time in prison ministry, yet many of us think those people aren’t worth saving. They had more chances than most of us are willing to give them, yet God hasn’t given up on them. Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted murderer ...read more

Tags: Commitment To Christ

A Single Battle  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 11, 2001

Great introduction to sermon: A single battle can determine the outcome of an entire war. Like Gettysburg and the Invasion at Normandy, a telling battle of the future of England had came. General Wellington of the British Army represented the last formidable opposition to the French army under ...read more

Tags: Easter Resurrection, Apologetics Jesus

Too Far 78% Of Protestant Clergy Believe "The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Too Far 78% of Protestant clergy believe “the separation of church and state has gone too far, or in ways it was never intended to go,” according to a new Ellison Research study in the 7-8/04 edition of Facts & Trends magazine. Just 8% of all Protestant clergy agree with the statement, “the ...read more

Tags: Faith

No Magnet Draws Christians From Around The World ...

Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 26, 2003

No magnet draws Christians from around the world with more frequency and satisfaction than the Church of The Holy Sepulcher. Located in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, no trip to the Holy City is complete without a visit to the traditional sight of the place of our Savior’s ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Forgiveness General

Denomination: Pentecostal