In Sermon Illustrations: "Mission To Family"

I Remember A Young Man By The Name Mathew Who ...

Contributed by Paul Kallan on Feb 15, 2003

I remember a young man by the name Mathew who was infected with Aids. He came back home, because he needed understanding, care and concern from the only ones who would dare to do so in such an extremely hopeless situation. To his horror, he found that his family was afraid and felt threatened by ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: Catholic

Vision Killers  PRO

Contributed by Ian Johnson on Oct 23, 2003

This church is about people reaching people. If a young person gets saved then they will reach 19% of their family If a woman gets saved she will reach 32% of her family If a man gets saved He will reach 82% of his family. We Must Be Mindful of Vision Killers. Last time I spoke we talked about ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:9-10

Tags: Parenting, Leadership General

Denomination: Pentecostal

Charlie Browns Christmas--The Clip Is When Linus ...  PRO

Contributed by Brice Early on Nov 30, 2005

Charlie Browns Christmas--The clip is when Linus and Charlie brown are standing by the cement wall and Charlie Brown talks about how Christmas causes him to be depressed and how he doesn’t look forward to it. The draw is that not everyone looks forward to Christmas and the holidays. When the ...read more

Scripture: Daniel 3:14-25

Tags: God In The Hardships

Denomination: Methodist

Yours, Mine And Ours: Crock-Pot Stepfamilies

Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 3, 2008

YOURS, MINE AND OURS: CROCK-POT STEPFAMILIES Video Clip - Yours, Mine and Ours (2005 version) = 3:23 Clip shows husband and wife announcing they were married without telling the children beforehand and shows the children fighting and Dad reacting badly. But the hammer is no answer and no better a ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Denomination: Christian Church

The Star Of Bethlehem  PRO

Contributed by Mitchell Skelton on Dec 2, 2003

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM Bill Keane’s comic strip, Family Circus, has communicated a beautiful truth about Christmas. As the children were setting up their nativity set, little Dolly held up the baby Jesus and declared, “Here’s the ...read more

Tags: Christmas, Christmas Advent

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

A Father's Role  PRO

Contributed by Jerry Fenter on May 23, 2002

A FATHER'S ROLE “The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.” “A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives ...read more

Tags: Father's Day, Parenting

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Anybody Can Quit. As A Matter Of Fact, Quitting ...

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004

Anybody can quit. As a matter of fact, quitting seems to be the rule of thumb for a lot of people, especially when it comes to marriage and family. Ten years ago for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for ...read more

Tags: Divorce

Denomination: Baptist

Bankruptcy: A Study At Harvard University ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Bankruptcy: A study at Harvard University revealed these primary reasons for filing bankruptcy: Illness or Injury—28.3%, Uncovered medical bills—27%, Lost income because of illness—21.3%, Birth of a new family member—3%, Death ...read more

Tags: Money

Misfired Twice!

Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 19, 2024

Story from Bob Hostetler in Red Letter Prayer Life: Two of my dearest friends in the world, Dave and Becky, told me the amazing story of their mission trip some years ago to the mountain town of San Luis, Honduras. They traveled as part of a combined medical and evangelistic team that served the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:13

Tags: Protection, Deliverance

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

When Friends And Strangers See Amy And Me Out ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2004

… when friends and strangers see Amy and me out with our six kids – hers, mine, ours, and “all ours” – they love to describe us as a ‘90s version if the [Brady Bunch]. We definitely meet all the criteria of a blended family. Somehow in the blending process we haven’t gotten too mixed up. ...read more

Recently Reviewing The New Book By Dr. Tim Kimmel ...

Contributed by Rodney Bowen on Feb 7, 2013

Recently reviewing the new book by Dr. Tim Kimmel title, CONNECTING CHURCH & HOME, I found my mind and hear really pierced with the current state of our in-church parenting. Churches and families need each other. And no, I am not referring to our family’s use of the free child care that the ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Denomination: Baptist

Becoming All Things To All People Entails A ...

Contributed by Tony Klinedinst on Aug 29, 2002

"Becoming all things to all people entails a giving of oneself which falls just short of compromising our Christian faith. We need to ask ourselves what is nessecary and what is sacrificable. Imagine walking into the home of a Chinese family. If you step to the door and they ask you to remove ...read more

Tags: Sharing My Testimony

Denomination: Baptist

An Elderly Man Had Serious Hearing Problems For A ...  PRO

Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004

An elderly man had serious hearing problems for a number of years. His family tired again and agins to convince him to get a hearing aid. Finally, he relented. he went to the doctor and was fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed him to hear 100 percent. A month later he went back to the ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Adoption Explained

Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jul 7, 2009

ADOPTION EXPLAINED During the time that the New Testament was written, when a family adopted a child, there was no immediate big celebration of that adoption. But, when that child reached the proper age, there was a celebration, and at that time, the child was given every single legal standing as ...read more

Tags: Adoption

Denomination: *other

Separation Anxiety

Contributed by R. Wayne Hagerman on May 3, 2007

Separation Anxiety There is an African tribe whom I read about some time ago, whose family customs are rather unique. In many ways they are the typical group of people we Westerners have come to imagine about Africans, especially for those of us who have read national Geographic. Father is the ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

A Brief Biography Of Karl ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010

A Brief Biography of Karl Marx Back in the 1800’s there was a young man who had a profound sense of admiration for his father. His father saw to it that the life of the family revolved around the religious practices of their faith. In his teen years, however, the boy’s family was forced to move to ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 14:1

Tags: Atheism

A Recent Gallup Poll Revealed That A Nationwide ...  PRO

Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that a nationwide survey of parents of children ages 7-12 that family time has decreased since 1976. The percentage of respondents who engaged frequently in attending religious services together decreased from 38 percent in 1976 to 29 percent in 1997. The percentage ...read more

Tags: Children, Parenting

Denomination: Baptist

Identify With The Lost

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008

IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Grace Is For Everyone: 3:10 To Yuma

Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 28, 2009

GRACE IS FOR EVERYONE: 3:10 TO YUMA One of the main themes that we find in a lot (although not all) of Jesus’ parables is God’s grace. Specifically, they often point towards God’s limitless grace. That was a central part of last week’s parable: Grace demands our response. I want to start with a ...read more

Tags: Grace

Denomination: Church Of God

Overwhelming Forgiveness

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022

A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this was, the greater story was the ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 65:3

Tags: Grace, Forgiveness