In Sermon Illustrations: "Long Sermon"

Teenagers Are Like People Who Express A Burning ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Teenagers are like people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike. Anonymous. The Last ...read more

Tags: Children

Spare Me Through Your Mercy, Do Not Punish Me ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), British philosopher, ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Therefore Lord God, You Are More Truly ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you. Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), British ...read more

Tags: God's Omnipotence

For I Do Not Seek To Understand In Order To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. Anselm of Canterbury ...read more

Tags: God Brings Purpose

The Drama Of Life Begins With A Wail And Ends ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. Minna Antrim ...read more

Tags: Death

To Slip Upon A Pavement Is Better Than To Slip ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Great Is Truth

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Great is Truth, and mighty above all things. ...read more

Scripture: Ezra 4:1-20

Tags: Truth Absolute

The Knowledge Of God Is The Cause Of Things. For ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), Italian philosopher, theologian. trans. by Anton C. Pegis, The Basic ...read more

Tags: Apologetics God

Love Is A Binding Force, By Which Another Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), Italian philosopher, theologian. trans. by Thomas Gilby, St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts, Oxford University ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Virtues Are Not Emotions. Emotions Are Movements ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Virtues are not emotions. Emotions are movements of appetite, virtues dispositions of appetite towards movement. Moreover emotions can be good or bad, reasonable or unreasonable; whereas virtues dispose us only to good. Emotions arise in the appetite and are brought into conformity with reason; ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Love Must Precede Hatred, And Nothing Is Hated ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), Italian ...read more

Tags: Love For God

Nothing In Vain

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

God and nature do nothing in vain. Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics, bk. 1, ...read more

Tags: God The Father

One Hundred Religious Persons Knit Into A Unity ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. ...read more

Tags: Church General

Wise Leaders Should Have Known That The Human ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our ...read more

Tags: Cross Agony

We Need A Baptism Of Clear Seeing. We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no ...read more

Tags: Baptism

Have You Noticed How Much Praying For Revival ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in ...read more

Tags: Prayer, Prayer How To, Revival

It Is Because Of The Hasty And Superficial ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to ...read more

Tags: Prayer Adoration

Christians Don't Tell Lies They Just Go To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Faith, As Paul Saw It, Was A Living, Flaming ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the ...read more

Tags: Faith General

A Pharisee Is Hard On Others And Easy On ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and ...read more

Tags: Christian Love