In Sermon Illustrations: "Love Life"

Negative Thoughts Breed Doubts And Despair. ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Negative thoughts breed doubts and despair. Such thinking enslaves life and keeps it from reaching out for the best. Such thinking makes life a stranger to possibilityNegative thoughts poison the mind. What a mind poisoned ...read more

Tags: Thought

Shakespeare's Macbeth Reveals His Philosophy Of ...

Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 8, 2009

Shakespeare’s Macbeth reveals his philosophy of life when he said, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard of no more. It is a ...read more

Tags: Stress

Denomination: Baptist

Memorial Day In The Military, Medal Of Honor ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010

Memorial Day in the Military, Medal of Honor Recipient It’s 3am on a cold winter day. Patchy snow covers the landscape as Loudspeakers overhead blare telling everyone to get to their places. Surrounded by sandbags, concrete barriers and roughly 10,000 soldier, sailors, airman and marines, Bagram ...read more

Scripture: John 15:13

Tags: Sacrifice, Holidays Civic

Grandma's Hands

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 23, 2016

Grandma’s Hands When I stand at the graveside for an elderly person, I think about the life they have lived, that dash between the birth date and date of death. I think about all they have seen, all they have experienced. And I think about this story that is told: Grandma, some 90+ years, sat ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:8

Tags: Hands, Graveside

Denomination: Baptist

[050]. A Message From A Poem – Come Aside And Rest Awhile

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 7, 2025

[050]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – COME ASIDE AND REST AWHILE Burnout is just as real among some Christian workers as it is in the working world. Those who are faithful and go the extra mile in service for their Lord can feel the strain and stress of ministry. Don’t forget either, that the evil ...read more

Scripture: Mark 6:30-32, Mark 6:33-34, Mark 6:43-46

Tags: Burnout, Retreat, Rest, Come Aside

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Christianity Is Not A Theory Or Speculation, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of ...read more

Tags: Basics Of Christianity

Trapping The Ball!" Psalm 25: 16-21 Key ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 4, 2004

“Trapping the Ball!” Psalm 25: 16-21 Key verse(s): 21 “May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.” Integrity! Perhaps it is one of the loneliest words in the English language. For many it creates the image of one standing alone, apart from the others, because just the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 25:16-21

Tags: Character

Denomination: Lutheran

Free!

Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012

J Vernon McGee told the story of the days before the Civil War in a city in the south. At the center of town, there is a commotion as a crowd gathers for a public auction to watch the proceedings. In the crowd is an uncouth, foulmouthed, loud, boisterous man who is the meanest, cruelest, most ...read more

Tags: Grace, Slaves To Sin

Denomination: Methodist

[165]. A Message From A Poem – Kindness In The Christian’s Pain

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 15, 2025

[165]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – KINDNESS IN THE CHRISTIAN’S PAIN We all need kindness, but not everyone can give kindness. Some find it too hard because of their backgrounds, and some are just so selfish they are incapable of it. Kindness is a special gift when it is given in a sacrificial way, ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:12, Ephesians 2:7, Galatians 5:22

Tags: Pain, Compassion, Kindness, Great High Priest, Christian Poems, God Is Kind  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. ...

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only learned ...read more

Tags: Doubt

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. ...

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only learned ...read more

Tags: Faith General, Examples Of Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only learned ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Endurance, Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

People Want To Work. People Are Telling Me ...

Contributed by Fred Mueller on Sep 7, 2005

People WANT to work. People are telling me they’d LOVE to go down to New Orleans to help the people in misery there. People woul dgladly enter the smell and danger to do ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only ...read more

Tags: Daniel

If Your Souls Were Not Immortal, And You In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

A.w. Tozer Said "Let (The Average Man) Be Forced ...

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 30, 2007

A.W. Tozer said “Let (the average man) be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, between God and ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

In Italy For Thirty Years Under The Borgias ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred ...read more

Tags: Peace

In An Age Which Is Given Over To Cynicism, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"In an age which is given over to cynicism, coldness and doubt, and in which the fire and warmth of God is conspicuous for its absence in the world, my heart cry is: Let ...read more

Tags: Creation

It Needs Courage To Let Our Children Go, But We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to lifeto God. As the old saying puts it: What ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Success Is Never An Accident. It Typically ...

Contributed by Billy Nale on May 13, 2007

“Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action – which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don’t get ...read more

Denomination: Baptist