In Sermon Illustrations: "Lake Of Fire"

Street Clothes

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

STREET CLOTHES On March 5, 1994, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Prescott was teaching a class for police officers in the Salt Lake City Library. As he stepped into the hallway he noticed a gunman herding 18 hostages into the next room. With a flash of insight, Prescott (dressed in street clothes) joined the ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Present Suffering Is Not Enjoyable, But Life ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

It Is With Many Enterprises As With Striking ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

What Can Little Things Do?  PRO

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 11, 2002

What can little things do? In 1871 in Chicago a big city, there developed a big tragedy. But it all happened from a bunch of little things. One little lady was out milking one little cow early in the morning. There was one little lamp of oil burning. One little flickering flame in the little ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Servanthood

Denomination: Assembly Of God

The Reason We Come Away So Cold From Reading The ...  PRO

Contributed by Lindy Axon on Jul 7, 2003

“The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the ...read more

Tags: Disciplines Scripture

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Reason We Come Away So Cold From Reading The ...

Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 5, 2006

"The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the ...read more

Tags: Bible Influence

Prayer Is The Most Important Thing In My Life. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Prayer is the most important thing in my life. If I should neglect prayer for a single day, I should ...read more

Tags: Prayer How To

A True Christians Enthusiasm For The Lord Jesus ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

A true Christians enthusiasm for the Lord Jesus Christ should be so exuberant that it would be far more likely to set others on fire ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Get Some Determination And Ask God To Put Some ...

Contributed by Michael West on Dec 20, 2008

Get some determination and ask God to put some fire in your spirit. Speak in terms of victory because ...read more

Tags: Words

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Christian Author Max Lucado Says, "We Aren't ...  PRO

Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Oct 7, 2002

Christian author Max Lucado says, “We aren’t good enough to judge. Can the hungry accuse the beggar? Can the sick mock the ill? Can the blind judge the deaf?” In the same way, can the sinner condemn the sinner? Absolutely not! He goes on to say, “Be careful! The Peter who denies Jesus at ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 13:24-43

Tags: God's Judgment, Friendship New Friends, Christian Love

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Pharisees Don't Care

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 8, 2020

The corrupt heart of the zealous devotion of the Pharisees is illustrated by a group of modern day Orthodox Jews (early, 1992), who let three apartments in an Orthodox neighborhood in Israel burn to the ground while they asked a rabbi whether a telephone call to the fire department on the Sabbath ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:1-3

Tags: Pride, Selfishness, Last Days, Pharisees, False Religion, Lovers Of Themselves  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Time Has No Divisions To Mark Its Passage; There ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Time has no divisions to mark its passage; there is never a thunderstorm to announce the beginning of a new year. It is only we ...read more

Tags: New Year's Day

There Is In Every True Womans Heart A Spark Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"There is in every true womans heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which ...read more

Tags: Women

Ewen Huffman Tells Of A Story In Reference To ...

Contributed by James Kirkland on Aug 29, 2006

Ewen Huffman tells of a story in reference to Malachi 3:2-3a; There was group of women in a Bible study group studying the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three, which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." This verse puzzled the ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Denomination: Nazarene

But It Doesn't Always Go According To Plan; In ...

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Oct 5, 2009

But it doesn’t always go according to plan; in fact some days do anything but go according to plan. I can remember a day when I was on faults (I was for years a faults-man in the power distribution industry) I was called out in the wee small hours, to a Ute that had hit a pole and the lines had ...read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11

Tags: Suffering Joy In, Planning, Plans, Making Plans

Denomination: Salvation Army

I Read Recently About A Group Of Women Who Were ...  PRO

Contributed by Andy Grossman on Aug 26, 2007

I read recently about a group of women who were studying the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." (Malachi 3:3) This verse kind of puzzled the women and they wondered what this statement ...read more

Denomination: Holiness

We Are Told To Let Our Light Shine, And If It ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we wont need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses dont fire cannons to call ...read more

Tags: Love Of The Disciples

Marital Advice: 1) Keep Your Eyes Wide Open ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Marital advice: 1) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards. 2) Never speak loudly to ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Let Us Joyfully Stand In The Midst Of The Fiery ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Let us joyfully stand in the midst of the fiery furnace, knowing that we shall lose nothing in the fire but our bonds, and that ever in the ...read more

Tags: Creation

Six Humans Trapped By Happenstance In Bleak And ...  PRO

Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001

Six humans trapped by happenstance in bleak and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story goes. Their dying fire in need of logs, The first man held his back, For on the faces around the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way Saw one not of his ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ