In Sermon Illustrations: "Honey From The Rock"

What Is The Value Of A Life? Business Week ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

What Is The Value Of A Life? Business Week magazine reports that economists estimate how many lives are saved by a particular government regulation, and then compare that with the cost of implementing the new rule. Here are some results: It costs $3,000 to save one life (with the regulation of ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Judge Not, Even In Worship - This Piece Came ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

JUDGE NOT, EVEN IN WORSHIP - This piece came from Dr. Paul Brand, veteran missionary surgeon: During my life as a missionary surgeon in India and now as a member of the tiny chapel on the grounds of the Carville leprosy hospital, I have seen my share of unlikely seekers after God. And I must ...read more

Tags: Doing God's Will

The Church Is The Rope

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009

THE CHURCH IS THE ROPE Years ago at Niagara Falls two men were in a boat and found themselves caught in the current. The men jumped from their boat and swam for the shore. At last minute ropes from the shore were thrown out to them. The one man grabbed the rope and was pulled to shore. The other ...read more

Tags: Church Purpose Of

George Whitfield's Sense Of Urgency In Preaching ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009

George Whitfield’s Sense of Urgency in Preaching the Gospel "It should bless our hearts to see people turn to Christ, but it should also break our hearts when they turn away. George Whitfield often had to stop preaching because he broke into tears. When someone suggested that he should control ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 10:1-11

Tags: Evangelism, Evangelism Urgency

Who Would You Quote In Outer ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009

Who Would You Quote in Outer Space? On Christmas Day 1968, the three astronauts of Apollo 8 circled the dark side of the moon and headed for home. Suddenly, over the horizon of the moon rose the blue and white earth, garlanded by the glistening light of the sun against the black void of space. ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5

Tags: Creation

God's Word And Daniel Webster

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2010

GOD'S WORD AND DANIEL WEBSTER Daniel Webster testified: "If there be anything in my style or thoughts to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents for instilling into my mind an early love for the Scriptures. From the time that, at my mother's feet or on my father's knee, I learned to ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:14-17

Tags: Bible Influence

About The Tongue

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2011

ABOUT THE TONGUE There's an old story that the Jewish rabbis tell. As the story goes, one day a rabbi asked his servant to go and buy some good food for him in the market. When the servant returned home, he presented the rabbi with a tongue. The next day, the rabbi told the servant to go the ...read more

Scripture: James 3:1-12

Tags: Tongue

Cirrhosis Of The Giver  PRO

Contributed by Jonathan Campbell on Jun 23, 2011

CIRRHOSIS OF THE GIVER Many in our day seem to be afflicted with that terrible disease known as Cirrhosis of the Giver. This terrible malady renders the afflicted person’s hand incapable of moving from the wallet to the offering plate. The only known cure is to remove the sufferer from the Lord’s ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:41-44

Tags: Tithes

Consequences For Karla Faye Tucker

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011

CONSEQUENCES FOR KARLA FAYE TUCKER Karla Faye Tucker was convicted in 1983 for the murders of two people. While on death row in 1985, she picked up a Bible from the prison ministry program and prayed to receive Christ after reading it. On June 22, 1992, Tucker requested that her life be spared on ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:23

Tags: Sin Punishment Of

On September 27, 1991, As Was His Custom, Gerald ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2001

On September 27, 1991, as was his custom, Gerald Sittser, a professor of religion and philosophy at Whitworth College, prayed, asking God to protect and bless his family. Something went terribly wrong. Later that afternoon, returning from a family outing, a drunk driver lost control of his car ...read more

An Overwhelming Thirst  PRO

Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jan 28, 2002

AN OVERWHELMING THIRST During the liberation of Palestine in WWI, a combined force of British, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers was closely pursuing the Turks as they retreated from the desert. As the allied troops moved northward past Beersheba they began to outdistance their water-carrying ...read more

Scripture: John 7:37-38

Tags: Discipleship, Lordship Of Christ, Sermon On The Mount

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

James Hudson Taylor In Challenging English ...  PRO

Contributed by Romualdo Macam on Sep 24, 2003

James Hudson Taylor in challenging English students during his time to be involved in China mission work, used to tell of the story about Peter, his Chinese convert and disciple. On one of their sea journeys, Peter (who do not know how to swim) fell from the side of the boat. Fortunately, there ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:14-15

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

Denomination: Baptist

This Is Just A Commercial Brake: I Remember The ...

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Apr 3, 2007

This is just a commercial brake: I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll ...read more

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

10 Sobering Workplace Facts

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

10 Sobering Workplace Facts (1) Half of all Americans today say they are satisfied with their jobs, down from nearly 60% in ’95. But among the 50% who are content, only 14% are “very satisfied.” (2) Job satisfaction has declined across all income brackets in the last 9 years. While 55% of workers ...read more

Tags: Workplace

I Remember The Church Where I Was Youth Leader. ...

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Aug 23, 2007

I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll go there with young people from ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Fear Of

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

The Heart Of A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010

The Heart of a Mouse There was a story; it happened in a fantasy world. A mouse was playing under the bushes when a cat spotted it, and chased it all the way to the fields. The mouse was scared to death that it called out for its fairy godmother and asked that it be transformed to a cat. So, the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:4-7

Tags: Fear And Worry

"living Life With Purpose"

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jul 2, 2021

Jewish novelist Chaim Potok (his novel "The Chosen" sold over 3 million copies) gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University. He had wanted to be a writer from an early age. But when he was ready to go off to college his mother took him aside and said; “I know you want to be a writer but I ...read more

Scripture: John 10:10, Philippians 1:21

Tags: Death, Life, Purpose, Meaning

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

At The End Of World War I, Herbert Hoover, ...  PRO

Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 14, 2002

ILLUS:At the end of World War I, Herbert Hoover, later to become President of the United States, led the allied relief efforts in Europe. He kept hundreds of thousands from starving, and a new word entered the Finnish language. In Finland, to "hoover" ...read more

Tags: Christian Love, Character

Humanism Is Mans Rebellion Against And ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Humanism is mans rebellion against and alienation from God. This is mans slavery. How can that which produced mans slavery set him free from it? All mans efforts to possess a self-contained freedom, to find the meaning of life by his own wisdom, to build a worthy ...read more

Tags: Human Life

Short And Long Term Survival

Contributed by Wilson Mcmahon on Feb 28, 2007

Short and Long Term Survival (from E-Sword) Here is a spiritual insight from Charles A. Lindbergh: "Short term survival may depend on the knowledge of nuclear physicists and the performance of supersonic aircraft, but long term survival depends alone on the character of man. We must ...read more

Denomination: Church Of God