In Sermon Illustrations: "Memories About Dad"

The World Population Doubled, To 6 Billion, Over ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

The world population doubled, to 6 billion, over the past 40 years, but will increase a much slower rate to about 8.9 billion by 2050. ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Sad Scene A Recent Survey Of Teens In U.s. Drug ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Sad Scene A recent survey of teens in U.S. drug treatment centers found that 20% of teens have shared drugs with their parents and that in about 5% of ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Donors Want To Know: Most Donors Would Like To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Donors Want to Know: Most donors would like to receive more financial information about the ministries they support, plus information on what their past gift ...read more

Tags: Giving General

If Sinners Be Dammed, At Least Let Them Leap To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO ...read more

Tags: Sin Hurtful To God

Writing A Book Is An Adventure. To Begin With, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature

Abraham Lincoln Wrote, "I Have Been Driven Many ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2009

Abraham Lincoln wrote, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and ...read more

Tags: Prayer General

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Giving Americans Donate $295 Billion A Year To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009

Giving Americans donate $295 billion a year to charity, with just under a third of it ($97 bn.) to religious organizations. On average, Christians are giving ...read more

Scripture: Malachi 3:10

Tags: Giving General

Abraham Lincoln Who Said, "I Have Been Driven ...

Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009

Abraham Lincoln who said, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My wisdom and ...read more

Tags: Wisdom

Denomination: Baptist

Electricity Is A Physical Phenomenon That ...

Contributed by Harold Jenkerson on Mar 10, 2009

Electricity is a physical phenomenon that illustration the indwelling of God’s power in the Christian’s life. The world remained in darkness until this physical phenomenon was discovered about 1900. ...read more

Tags: Holy Spirit In Believers

Denomination: Baptist

Adam And Eve Had An Ideal Marriage. He Didnt ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didnt have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didnt have to ...read more

Tags: Sin Fall Of Man

You Cannot Choose Your Calling. Your Calling ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"You cannot choose your calling. Your calling chooses you. You have been blessed with special skills that are yours alone. Use them, whatever ...read more

Tags: Disciplines General

Every Single One Of Us Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Every single one of us is handicappedphysically, mentally, socially and spirituallyto some degree; and although we seldom think about it, the person without faith ...read more

Tags: Disability

Everyone Knows That By Far The Happiest And ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, ...read more

Tags: Baby Dedication

President Lincoln Said,

Contributed by Ricki Lee Brooks on May 4, 2010

President Lincoln said, "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and ...read more

Tags: Prayer General

Dostoevsky And The Firing Squad  PRO

Contributed by David Simmons on Feb 22, 2002

DOSTOEVSKY AND THE FIRING SQUAD The famous Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky told the story of the time he was arrested by the czar and sentenced to die. The czar, though, liked to play cruel psychological tricks on the people who rebelled against him by blindfolding them and standing them in ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:23

Tags: Fulfillment, Death Nearness

Denomination: Baptist

The Manifestations Of An Antichrist  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002

THE MANIFESTATIONS OF AN ANTICHRIST A father told a Senate committee that his son committed suicide after listening to songs about violence, sex, drugs, and death. "He was a good boy," Raymond Kuntz of Burlington, N.D., said of his only child, 15-year-old Richard. "The music wasn’t symptomatic ...read more

Tags: Antichrist, Parenting

Every Once In A While My Daughter Starts ...

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 30, 2004

Every once in a while my daughter starts crying. From then on in, the battle begins. My wife and I have an ignorance contest. Who can lay the stillest for the longest without getting up? The trick to winning this battle is to learn how to tune it out. If I can somehow stay in a sort of ...read more

Scripture: John 10:27

Tags: Christian Disciplines, Faith

Denomination: Lutheran

War Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008

WAR IS HELL War is defined as “a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations,” or more generally, as “a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism.” About 15 years ago a group of academics and historians compiled some startling information. Since 3600 BC, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 13:1-8

Tags: War

Forgiving And Forgetting

Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2010

FORGIVING AND FORGETTING Mr. Peale tells a story about a man who suffered from many health problems: headaches, skin troubles, gastric disturbances, insomnia. It did not take Mr. Peale long to discover that one basic cause was the burning anger that he felt toward his brother. The brother, the ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness For Others

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Would You Say?

Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 16, 2010

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? A number of years ago a couple traveled to the offices of an Adoption Society in England to receive a baby. They had been on the waiting list a long time. They had been interviewed and carefully scrutinized. Now at last their dreams were to be fulfilled. But their day of ...read more

Tags: Adoption

Denomination: Nazarene