In Sermon Illustrations: "Making Room For God"

The Whole Idea That A God Can Tempt Humans To Do ...  PRO

Contributed by W F on Sep 29, 2004

The whole idea that a god can tempt humans to do evil is not a Christian concept. It comes from the ancient gods of Greece and Rome – like Mars, the god of violence, and Athena the goddess of war. Ancient people believed that these gods interfered with human life in evil ways. But it’s not like ...read more

Tags: God The Father

Denomination: *other

When A Believer Considers How Much God Has ...  PRO

Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 30, 2004

When a believer considers how much God has forgiven him, he is able to extend pardon to others no matter what they have done. A Christian husband found this to be true when his wife, who had become an alcoholic, told him of an affair she had had with his best friend 10 years earlier. She said she ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:23-33, 1 Corinthians 10:23-33

Tags: Forgiveness For Others, Trust

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Checkout This Quote From; Your God Is Too Safe, ...  PRO

Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 5, 2004

Checkout this quote from; Your God Is Too Safe, about studying the word of God, “Curious times, these. There is simultaneously a glut of the word of God and a famine of it, a drought and deluge. We have every translation of the Bible you can imagine – the NIV, the NEVG, the KJV, the NJKV, the ...read more

Scripture: Amos 8:11

Tags: Bible Influence

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

How Different God's Pardon Is From Ours! So ...

Contributed by Shane Rodriguez on Nov 11, 2004

How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the aunt of the little girl who had been good a whole week and asked some favor. "i know that you have been good all this week" said the aunt, "but you know you were bad last week." In a passionate burst of feeling the little one ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Denomination: Baptist

Rick Warren Said, "God Gave Me A Gift, Not For ...  PRO

Contributed by Martin Kim on Nov 22, 2004

Rick Warren said, “God gave me a gift, not for me but for you, and God gave you a gift, not for you but for me. If you don’t use your gift, you’re ...read more

Tags: Gifts General

Denomination: Adventist

Grace Means That God Is On Our Side And Thus We ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 14, 2004

“Grace means that God is on our side and thus we are victors regardless of how well we have ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:8

Ortberg States It This Way, "God Doesn't Just ...  PRO

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 18, 2000

Ortberg states it this way, “God doesn’t just love you because he has to, he loves you because he wants to. God delights in you. Of course, that doesn’t mean God delights in everything you do. Your own mother doesn’t do that, if she’s at all healthy. But the fact that you ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

If Our Greatest Need Had Been Information, God ...  PRO

Contributed by Martin Kim on Dec 28, 2004

“If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent an economist. But, our ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 1:7

Tags: Christmas Advent

Denomination: Adventist

Why Does God Hate Divorce? Listen To Some ...  PRO

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 18, 2005

Why does God hate divorce? Listen to some ramifications of divorce, taken from Biblical Counseling for Today - Watson Pages 187-188 -- Watson notes: Dobson commissioned his Focus on the Family staff to conduct a broad based survey of existing research concerning marital status. “From a social ...read more

Tags: Divorce

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Luther Felt That Our Love For God Should Be So ...

Contributed by Eric Vertein on May 10, 2005

Luther felt that our love for God should be so compelling, that when it comes to the commandment to honor our mothers, even if we didn’t have mothers, we ought to ask God to give us mothers erected out of stone or wood, so we would have an avenue by which to keep this commandment. Yet Luther ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Denomination: Lutheran

James Dobson Observed, 'most Children See God ...  PRO

Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 16, 2005

James Dobson observed, 'Most children see God the way they perceive ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Denomination: Lutheran

R T Kendall Has Said: "God Is Not Obligated To ...  PRO

Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 10, 2005

R T Kendall has said: “God is not obligated to any man and, in so far as Jonah is concerned, God did not even have to send wind! But He did. He did not have to prepare the fish. But He did. He did not have to eject Jonah from the fish. But He ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 1:1-4

Tags: God's Provision, God's Omniscience

Denomination: Independent/Bible

God Can Have Our Money And Not Our Hearts, But ...  PRO

Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 24, 2005

“God can have our money and not our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.” (Disciplines of a Godly Man, R. Kent ...read more

Tags: Gifts Giving

Denomination: Baptist

A. W. Tozer Said, "God Dwells In A State Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Bud Rose on Nov 26, 2005

A. W. Tozer said, “God dwells in a state of perpetual enthusiasm. He is delighted with all that is good and lovingly concerned about all that is wrong. He pursues His labors always in a fullness of holy zeal. No wonder the Spirit came at Pentecost as a sound of a rushing mighty wind and sat in ...read more

Tags: Holy Spirit In Believers

Denomination: Pentecostal

Nobody Talks So Constantly About God As Those ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. - Heywood Broun, Gaily ...read more

Tags: Apologetics God

God Is Everywhere. However, He Does Not Want You ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005

God is everywhere. However, He does not want you to reach out for Him everywhere but only in the Word. Reach out for it and you will grasp Him aright. Otherwise you are tempting God and setting up idolatry. That is why He has established a certain method for us. This ...read more

Tags: Bible Influence

God Is More Concerned About Our Character Than ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005

God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. His goal is not to pamper us physically but to ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Never Doubt In The Darkness What God Has Shown ...

Contributed by John Harvey on Dec 15, 2005

Never doubt in the darkness what God has shown you in ...read more

Tags: Doubt

Denomination: Baptist

God Came On 9/12, A Column In The Wall Street ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

God Came On 9/12, a column in the Wall Street Journal began with these words, “In the week since terrorists struck America, the most surprising public appearance hasn’t been made by a political leader, or a grieving celebrity or a foreign dignitary. The most striking ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Max Lucado: "If God Had A Refrigerator, Your ...  PRO

Contributed by David Ward on Jan 23, 2006

Max Lucado: "If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise ...read more

Tags: God's Love

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational