In Sermon Illustrations: "Long Life"

You Will Find As You Look Back Upon Your Life ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Life Begins At 40but So Do Fallen Arches, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Life begins at 40but so do fallen arches, lumbago, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to ...read more

Tags: Aging

I've Made Mistakes All My Life. And If There's ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I've made mistakes all my life. And if there's one thing that's helped me, it's the fact that when I make a mistake, I never stop to ...read more

Tags: Mistakes

All My Life, Affection Has Been Showered Upon ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

I Have Spent All My Life Under A Communist ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other ...read more

Tags: Government

As I Look Back Over A Misspent Life, I Find ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"As I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more convinced that I had more fun doing news reporting than in any ...read more

Tags: News

O Lord, That Lends Me Life, Lend Me A Heart ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete ...read more

Tags: Prayer How To

If You Succeed In Life, You Must Do So In Spite ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If you succeed in life, you must do so in spite of the efforts of others to pull you down. There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help a man who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

The Men Who I Have Seen Succeed Best In Life ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The men who I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

I Owe My Success In Life To Having Always Been A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

I owe my success in life to having always been a quarter ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

Success Is All It's Cracked Up To Be. Life Gets ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Success is all it's cracked up to be. Life gets better, the work ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

I Would Rather Live In A World Where My Life Is ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so ...read more

Tags: Worldliness

Our Life Is What Our Thoughts Make It. A Man ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, ...read more

Tags: Thought

In All My Life There Had Never Been, Until I ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"In all my life there had never been, until I was near to middle age, either the necessity or the desire to think. Really to think is not a simple thing. It cannot easily be taught, and ...read more

Tags: Thought

During A Very Busy Life I Have Often Been ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is simple: ...read more

Tags: Time

Lord, How The Day Passes Its Like A Life So ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Lord, how the day passes Its like a life so quickly when we dont watch ...read more

Tags: Present

Mark 8:35 For Whoever Wants To Save His Life A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009

Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life a will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. (NIV) Now, Jesus is not talking about the cost of our salvation here, because that is free! Romans 6:23 says, “The FREE gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:34-38

Tags: Discipleship, Risk

Wife Of Pastor E.v. Hill Risks Life To Protect ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009

Wife of Pastor E.V. Hill Risks Life to Protect Husband from Car Bomb Pastor E. V. Hill was talking about the racial violence in downtown Watts, in the Los Angeles area. He is as a Baptist Preacher and was caught up in that kind of tension. There was another of the black pastors who had already been ...read more

Scripture: John 15:13

Tags: Heroism

I Have Tried Fasting A Few Times In My Life And ...

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 23, 2009

I have tried fasting a few times in my life and always found it helpful. Once, after a fast for a week or so, I was so hungry for food that I went out and bought a pizza. I was sick that night. Not a good idea to introduce pizza to a starving stomach too quickly. Are you hungry enough? I was ...read more

Tags: Righteousness

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life To Save Her Lamb ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010

Mother Sheep Sacrifices Her Life to Save Her Lamb from a Tiger William Faulkner tells the story of a mother sheep who had warned her little ones, “Do not go near the river, for a bad tiger lives there, and he will kill and eat you.” One lamb kept toying with the thought that the grass near the ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 53:6

Tags: Sacrifices