In Sermon Illustrations: "Living As Light"

Satan's Best Strategy

Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Oct 14, 2008

Satan's Best Strategy Satan called in some of his lieutenants to help him develop a strategy for keeping God’s people living in defeat. One strategy after another was suggested. To keep God’s people living in defeat, it was decided that they could try to keep them from prayer, the Bible, and ...read more

Tags: Doing God's Will

Denomination: Baptist

Guard Your ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009

GUARD YOUR CORE After a violent storm one night, a large tree, which over the years had become a stately giant, was found lying across the pathway in a park. Nothing but a splintered stump was left. Closer examination showed that it was rotten at the core, because thousands of tiny insects had ...read more

Tags: Purity

Jesus To Them

Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009

JESUS TO THEM A missionary, lost at sea, washed up on edge of a remote native village. Half-dead from exposure, starvation, and sea water, the natives nursed him back to health. He lived with them 20 years; never made a confession of faith, no songs, no sermons, no Scripture; but attended the sick ...read more

Tags: Christian Witness

Denomination: Baptist

Tweeners!

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Aug 12, 2019

"Too many Christians are “’tweeners”: they live between Egypt and Canaan, saved but never satisfied; they live between Good Friday and Easter, believing in the Cross but not entering into the power and glory of the Resurrection. It is clear, then, that the believer cannot deliberately be ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:1-8

Tags: Canaan, Crucified Life, Identification With Christ, Sin, Egypt  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Dennis Said, "I Don't Think I've Ever ...  PRO

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Dec 22, 2000

ILL. Dennis said, "I don’t think I’ve ever experienced greater culture shock than what I experienced at the very first Thai village we visited. This was a village which the missionaries had not yet reached with the good news of Jesus. The people were still living with all their superstitions & ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:20-26

Tags: God Brings Hope

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

There Is Nothing But Gods Grace. We Walk Upon ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

There is nothing but Gods grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes ...read more

Tags: Grace

Being Born From Above Is A Perennial, Perpetual ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Being born from above is a perennial, perpetual and eternal beginning; a freshness all the time in thinking and in talking and in ...read more

Tags: Salvation

If We Paid No More Attention To Our Plants Than ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"If we paid no more attention to our plants than we do to our children, we would now ...read more

Tags: Children

Children Want Some Honest Direction. They Want A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Children want some honest direction. They want a set of sensible rules to live by. The time ...read more

Tags: Children

If Men And Women Of Capacity Refuse To Take ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If men and women of capacity refuse to take part in politics and government, they condemn themselves, as well as the people, to ...read more

Tags: Government

If We Dont Change, We Dont Grow. If We Dont ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a ...read more

Tags: Growth In Christ

No Matter Under What Circumstances You Leave ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how ...read more

Tags: Home

Wear A Smile And Have Friends; Wear A Scowl And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the ...read more

Tags: Compassion

Friends My Soul With Joy Remember How Like ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Friends my soul with joy remember How like quivering flames they start When I fan the living ...read more

Tags: Compassion

Sometimes I Wonder If Men And Women Really Suit ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next ...read more

Tags: Men And Women

Being Divorced Is Like Being Hit By A Mack ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very ...read more

Tags: Divorce

France Has Neither Winter, Nor Summer, Nor ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen ...read more

Tags: Government

Every Generation Has One Big Impulse In Its ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Every generation has one big impulse in its heartto exceed all generations of the past in all the ...read more

Tags: Aging

Cease Trying To Work Everything Out With Your ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration ...read more

Tags: Thought

You Have An Ego A Consciousness Of Being An ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"You have an ego a consciousness of being an individual. But that doesn't mean that you are to worship yourself, to think ...read more

Tags: Self