Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Let Light Shine"

showing 3,421-3,440 of 6,664
Filter Results
Close Filters

Scripture

Rating

Date

Denominations

  • Show more

Category

  • Try PRO

    Confident Preaching

    Try PRO free and preach with confidence when people need it most.
    Free to start now
  • Enjoying Each Day

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 27, 2010
     | 1,416 views

    ENJOYING EACH DAY When Tamer Lee Owens celebrated her 104th birthday, she credited "laughter, the Lord, and the little things" for keeping her going. She still finds enjoyment each day in talking with people, taking a walk, and reading the Bible as she has done since childhood. "I don’t know how ...read more

  • Beware Of Attachments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,237 views

    BEWARE OF ATTACHMENTS Felipe Massa of Brazil should have won the Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore in September 2008. But as he drove off from a refueling stop while in the lead, the fuel hose was still attached. By the time his team removed the hose, he had lost so much time that he finished ...read more

  • The First Sentence  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 23, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,710 views

    THE FIRST SENTENCE Paul Harvey once told about a group of scientists who were determined to teach a chimpanzee to write. For fourteen years, the scientists labored diligently and patiently with this chimpanzee, providing things in its cage to enable it to form certain syllables. Finally the day ...read more

  • Three Turtles Decided To Go On A Picnic. They ...

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Feb 10, 2012
     | 3,684 views

    Three turtles decided to go on a picnic. They were the best of friends. Before long it started to rain, they decided that one of them should go back and get some umbrellas. One turtle agreed to go but only if the other two promised not to begin eating until he returned. They promised. He headed ...read more

  • Eusebius

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 25, 2015
     | 3,189 views

    Surely they will not put us in prison. I pray not, but even if they do there's a lot of good ministry in jails and prisons. Eusebius in his Church History written in 324 AD tells about the Great Persecution: “An imperial decree ordered that church leaders everywhere be chained and imprisoned, ...read more

  • Pharisees Don't Care

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 8, 2020
     | 1,992 views

    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

  • He Never Went Fishing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 4,416 views

    He never went fishing Let me close with this thought. I was reading on the Internet last week. Once, a man got ready to go fishing. He assembled everything you need to be a good fisherman. He bought poles, and nets, and bait, and a boat. He got very well prepared. And he knew how to fish. But he ...read more

  • Power In Agreement  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,250 views

    How much power can people in agreement have? The answer: the power of life and death. During the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin, who murdered 30 million Russians and bought godless communism to Russia, Stalin, let it be known that he planned to murder the Jews of Russia. When the believers in ...read more

  • What Are You Willing To Do For $10,000,000? In ...  PRO

    Contributed by William Hooper on Jul 12, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,962 views

    What are you willing to do for $10,000,000? In 1991 James Patterson and Peter Kim, in their book The Day America Told the Truth, reported a survey where that question was asked. Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following: Would abandon their entire ...read more

  • Mama Eagles Are Caring Loving Creatures. ...

    Contributed by Sherry Proskine on Jul 23, 2007
     | 2,241 views

    Mama eagles are caring loving creatures. Somewhere along the line the mama eagle decides it’s time the baby eagles learn to fly. She takes the little eagle out of the next and flies up as high as she can go. At this point, she drops the fledgling, and he falls fast. The fledgling has never ...read more

  • Glamour Is Not Greatness

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 16, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,291 views

    Quote: Glamour is not Greatness James R. Sizoo said: Let it never be forgotten that glamour is not greatness; applause is not fame; prominence is not eminence. The man of the hour is not apt to be the man of the ages. A stone may sparkle, but that does not make it a diamond; people may have money, ...read more

  • I Once Had An Appointment With A Certain ...

    Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 24, 2007
     | 1,697 views

    I once had an appointment with a certain director of an international organization in which I wanted to exchange some research materials with. I had no official appointment document except for the formal letters which we have been exchanging in communication. It was not easy for a person to get ...read more

  • A Six-Year-Old Boy Came Home With A Note From ...

    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 8, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,551 views

    • A six-year-old boy came home with a note from his teacher in which it was suggested that he be taken out of school, as he was “too stupid to learn.” That boy was Thomas A. Edison. • Alfred Tennyson’s grandfather gave him 10 shillings for writing a eulogy for his grandmother. Handing it to the ...read more

  • Why Did The Philistines Allow Samson's Hair Go ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Steffens on Dec 11, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,912 views

    Why did the Philistines allow Samson’s hair go grow back when they knew it was the key to his great strength? Was it because they blinded his eyes? No, for even a blind but strong Samson could cause severe havoc. Why then did they allow his hair to grown back? Because the ...read more

  • What Can You Do When God Seems Invisible And You ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 2, 2008
     | 1,900 views

    What can you do when God seems invisible and you can’t find him it seems or feel him? Ruth Graham can tell us how. Broken marriage & family. Wrote of trusting God in “In every pew sits a broken heart”: “I came to a point where I saw the need to let go even of my questions. I would not have all the ...read more

  • The Arrest

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Apr 29, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,093 views

    THE ARREST A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street. "But officer," the man began, "I can explain..." "Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you cool your heels in jail until the chief gets back." "But, officer, I just wanted to ...read more

  • Sinners Pour Out Love For Their Savior

    Contributed by Ryan Reed on May 30, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,566 views

    SINNERS POUR OUT LOVE FOR THEIR SAVIOR Leonard Ravenhill tells of going to a worship service at David Wilkerson’s skid-row mission in New York City. There he stood with former prostitutes and drunks and drug addicts and he said a short little man stood up and said, "Let's sing our national ...read more

  • Where Are You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
     | 2,457 views

    WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING? A young second lieutenant at Fort Bragg discovered that he had no change when he was about to buy a soft drink from a vending machine. He flagged down a passing private and asked him, "Do you have change for a dollar?" The private said cheerfully, "I think so, let me take a ...read more

  • Lay Down The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 2,630 views

    LAY DOWN THE LOAD The army of Alexander the Great was advancing on Persia. At one critical point, it appeared that his troops might be defeated. The soldiers had taken so much plunder from their previous campaigns that they had become weighted down and were losing their effectiveness in ...read more

  • Noah's Message From The Steps Going Up To The Ark ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
     | 2,986 views

    Noah’s message from the steps going up to the Ark was not, “Something good is going to happen to you!” Amos was not confronted by the high priest of Israel for proclaiming, “Confession is possession!” Jeremiah was not put into the pit for preaching, “I’m O.K.; you’re O.K.!” Daniel was not put ...read more