In Sermon Illustrations: "Making A Difference"

Gives Us Sight

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

GIVES US SIGHT An obstetrician approached an anxious father in the waiting room of a New York City hospital and said, "I am sorry to inform you, but your baby lived but two hours after his birth. We did everything we could to save his life." As the sympathetic doctor was about to leave, the quick ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Bearing The Mark

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

BEARING THE MARK Joseph Damien was a nineteenth-century missionary who ministered to people with leprosy on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. Those suffering grew to love him and revered the sacrificial life he lived out before them. One morning before Damien was to lead daily worship, he was ...read more

Tags: Christmas

How A Pastor Loved His Enemy

Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 2, 2023

In The Grace of Giving, Stephen Olford tells of a Baptist pastor during the American Revolution, Peter Miller, who lived in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and enjoyed the friendship of George Washington. In Ephrata also lived Michael Wittman, an evil-minded sort who did all he could to oppose and ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:19-23

Tags: Love, Forgiveness, Hate, Pastors, Churches, Enemies, Division  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

He Made His Worst Enemy His Best Friend!

Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jun 12, 2023

In the days of the American Revolution there lived at Ephrata, Pennsylvania, a Baptist pastor by the name of Peter Miller who enjoyed the friendship of General Washington. There also dwelt in that town a man named Michael Wittman who was an evil-minded man who did all in his power to oppose this ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 18:24

Tags: Love, Forgiveness, Agape Love, Friends, Enemies  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Civil Disobedience For The Christian

Contributed by Garris Hudson on Aug 28, 2023

The Hebrew midwives disobeyed Pharaoh’s orders and refused to kill the Jewish babies (Ex. 1:15–22). Daniel and his three friends refused to eat the king’s food (Dan. 1), and the three friends also refused to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar’s image (Dan. 3). The apostles refused to stop witnessing in ...read more

Tags: Esther, Law, Persecution, Government, Authority, Civil Disobedience  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Worship Is Showing Up

Contributed by Rob Roy on May 22, 2024

How does Jesus know we love him, what is the proof? By your witness, your gifts, your tithes, your prayers or presence. Did you know I joined twitter? I think the day I did I read several tweets, but never tweeted, and that was long before the 2020 election, and long before I came to Mt. ...read more

Scripture: John 21:15-19

Tags: Worship, Showing Love

Struggling With God?

Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 17, 2024

Here is a wee question, is struggling with God a bad thing? Where is a person's character developed? Did the saints of God become saints before or without struggling with God, without responding to those things in the scriptures or the words of Jesus that offended them, before they repented of ...read more

Tags: Faith, Fear, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Abraham, Disciples, Becoming The Church, Journey, Jacob, Isaac, Struggling, The Upper Room, Character Development  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Salvation Army

Apples And The Things We Usually Miss

Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Feb 20, 2026

I brought something with me today. (Bring out the apples.) These are apples. Nothing fancy. Not miraculous. Not smuggled out of the Garden of Eden. Just apples. But here’s what I want you to notice. An apple is sweet. An apple is useful. An apple is good. But the apple is not the point. The point ...read more

Scripture: John 15:1-8

Tags: Faithfulness, The Church, Remain, Abide, Fruitfullness, Discipleship  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

A Famous Missionary By The Name Of C. T. Studd ...  PRO

Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 8, 2002

A famous missionary by the name of C. T. Studd said; “If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Denomination: Baptist

The Right Choice

Contributed by Mark Wood on Feb 18, 2006

A.W. Tozier said: The man or woman who is wholly and joyously surrendered to Christ can’t make a wrong choice ...read more

Tags: Character

Denomination: Baptist

Hell, About Which Our Fathers Spoke So ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Hell, about which our fathers spoke so fervently, seems to have cooled off so much that it would ...read more

Tags: Hell

For Unflagging Interest And Enjoyment, A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and ...read more

Tags: Children

The Most Valuable Of All Education Is The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to ...read more

Tags: Character

The Most Valuable Of All Education Is The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines

It Is Not Enough To Begin; Continuance Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar....Success depends upon staying power. The reason ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Justice Without Strength Is Powerless, Strength ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Justice without strength is powerless, strength without justice is tyrannical....Therefore, unable to make what is just ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Education Is Not To Reform Students Or Amuse ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their ...read more

Tags: Culture

In The Council, There Were Men Possessed Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"In the council, there were men possessed of much more eloquence than I was; I always defeated them by this ...read more

Posterity You Will Never Know How Much It Has ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Posterity you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I ...read more

Tags: Political Freedom

We Cannot Afford To Let Gods Requirements ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"We cannot afford to let Gods requirements become our options, any more than we can afford to ...read more

Tags: God The Father