In Sermon Illustrations: "Martin Lloyd Jones"

A Wife Remarked To Her Husband After The Church ...  PRO

Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 24, 2001

A wife remarked to her husband after the church service: "Did you see the hat Mrs.Jones was wearing?" "No," said her husband, "I didn’t." "Did you see the new dress Mrs. Smith had on?" she asked. "I’m afraid I didn’t," said her ...read more

Tags: Character, Church General, Christian Values

Denomination: Baptist

Christian Hedonism

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008

Christian Hedonism Charles Hodge argued that true knowledge of Christ includes delight in Christ. He said this knowledge "is not the apprehension of what He is, simply by intellect, but also involves, not merely as a consequence but as one of its elements, the corresponding feeling of adoration, ...read more

Tags: Joy

The Early Latin Writer, Tertullian Of Carthage, ...  PRO

Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 11, 2004

“The early Latin writer, Tertullian of Carthage, declared that the one thing that converted him to Christianity was not the arguments they gave him, because he could find a counterpoint for every argument they would present. “But they demonstrated something I didn’t have. The thing that ...read more

Tags: Love For God, Christian Love

Denomination: United Methodist

Pulled To Shore  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 11, 2004

PULLED TO SHORE "Prayer is surrender-surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boat hook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my ...read more

Scripture: Luke 11:5-13

Tags: Parable General, Prayer General, Prayer Supplication

Forgiveness Is Strength

Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 24, 2007

Illustrations: Forgiveness Is Strength Christian forgiveness should not be a refusal of strength, but rather ought to manifest an alternative power; Christian love, whether of neighbors or of enemies, should be a sign not of repressed anger and hatred but of anger and hatred confronted and, ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Christ Took Our Sins And The Sins Of The Whole ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father’s wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby ...read more

Tags: Cross Agony

Either Sin Is With You, Lying On Your Shoulders, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, ...read more

Tags: Becoming A Christian

The Weapon Of Prayer  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2003

THE WEAPON OF PRAYER It takes more than bullets and bombs to win a war, residents said in Chatsworth, GA. "Prayer is the greatest weapon we’ve got," said Frank Lloyd of Chatsworth at a prayer service at First Baptist Church. "This war’s not going to be won on military might. It’s going to be ...read more

Scripture: James 5:16

Tags: War, Political Freedom, Prayer Adoration

I Must Forgive  PRO

Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jun 10, 2004

I MUST FORGIVE Sister Helen Prejean, in her book Dead Man Walking, tells the story of Lloyd LeBlanc, a Roman Catholic layman, whose son was murdered. When he arrived in the field with the sheriff’s deputies to identify his son, LeBlanc immediately knelt by his boy’s body and prayed the Lord’s ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness For Others, Forgiveness General

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Listen To Part Of The June 2006 Editorial Of ...

Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009

Listen to part of the June 2006 editorial of Christianity Today, written when The Da Vinci Code was being released in theaters: “The tendency to grasp at excuses for not making a commitment to (God) was illustrated by National Public Radio commentator Peter Manseau. He compared the Gospel of Judas ...read more

Tags: Misconceptions

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Forgiveness For Everyone?

Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 11, 2015

Lloyd Prator writes, “Take Adolph Hitler or better Joseph Stalin because he killed more people. What if, at the last minute, as Stalin lay dying, he turned his heart to Jesus and confessed his sins? Suppose he repented at the last minute, repented of the 14 million Russians Stalin killed… Would he ...read more

Scripture: Luke 23:32-43

Tags: Forgiveness, Repentance

Denomination: Methodist

Imperial ...

Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008

ILLUSTRATION: Imperial Hotel Years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the impossible task of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. No comparable construction job ever before had been undertaken. With patience he laid plans for the immense building in this land of earthquakes and terrible ...read more

Tags: Preparation

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Street Clothes

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

STREET CLOTHES On March 5, 1994, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Prescott was teaching a class for police officers in the Salt Lake City Library. As he stepped into the hallway he noticed a gunman herding 18 hostages into the next room. With a flash of insight, Prescott (dressed in street clothes) joined the ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Not Only Are We The Freest Of Kings, We Are Also ...

Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 29, 2009

Not only are we the freest of kings, we are also priests forever, which is far more excellent than being kings, for as priests we are worthy to appear before God to pray for ...read more

Tags: Strength

We Cannot Make Possessions The Object Of Our ...

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004

We cannot make possessions the object of our affections. I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

Denomination: Baptist

Preaching To The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008

PREACHING TO THE HEATHEN Gordon Hall’s selfless motto: "Duty is ours, consequences God’s." When offered an attractive pastorate his reply came, "No... Others will be left whose health or pre-engagement requires them to stay at home, but I can sleep on the ground, can endure hunger and hardship. ...read more

Tags: Missions

If I Profess With The Loudest Voice And Clearest ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the Devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing ...read more

Tags: Sharing Your Faith

As Luther Wrote, "Christ Could Be Born Twenty, A ...

Contributed by Michael Uebergang on Apr 12, 2006

As Luther wrote, “Christ could be born twenty, a hundred, a thousand times and it would not help us, if the sermon of the angel were not added. Without this message the holy birth would be nothing; it would be as though ...read more

Tags: Christmas Advent

Denomination: Lutheran

Fasting On That Day. An Officer In The Turkish ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Fasting On That Day. An officer in the Turkish War told his men that if they died in battle, they would sup with Christ in Paradise. The officer fled. When asked why he did not wish to sup with ...read more

Tags: Disciplines Fasting

Sin ...

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 9, 2009

SIN WILL: 1. TAKE YOU FARTHER THAN YOU PLANNED ON GOING. 2. KEEP YOU LONGER THAN YOU PLANNED ON STAYING 3. COST YOU MORE THAN YOU PLANNED ON ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Denomination: Other