In Sermon Illustrations: "Mystery Found"

As A Kid In A Baptist Church, Once A Month After ...  PRO

Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Dec 1, 2003

As a kid in a Baptist church, once a month after the morning service we had a fellowship hour. The congregation would immediately retire to the basement fellowship hall (there’s that word again), a room used for talking and eating for cookies and conversation. When you are twelve, you are most ...read more

Tags: Church Small Groups

Denomination: Pentecostal

Dennis Jernigan Said His Struggle With ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004

Dennis Jernigan said his struggle with homosexuality began with sexual experimentation with other small boys at six years of age. He never told anyone about his struggle, because he saw hatred in the response of the church to homosexuals. As a senior in college he went to a 2nd chapter of Acts ...read more

Tags: Homosexuality

Denomination: Wesleyan

On A Snowy Winter's Day In 1941, Ss Gruppenführer ...

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on May 31, 2005

On a snowy winter’s day in 1941, SS Gruppenführer Hans Wolf received orders that he was to search the house of his own pastor Martin Kirchschläger. Kirchschläger was a Lutheran pastor closely connected to the Confessing Church. Wolf came to Kirchschläger to tell him that he would be ...read more

Tags: Discipleship

Denomination: Anglican

Hudson Taylor, Founder Of The China Inland ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, which in the 1960’s became what is today the missions agency OMF International, knew the secret of strength through weakness. Complimented once by a friend on the impact of the mission, Hudson answered, “It seemed to me that God looked over the ...read more

Tags: Humility

Consider Charles Colson, The Aide To Richard ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Consider Charles Colson, the aide to Richard Nixon who was sent to jail for Watergate. As a result of his experience as a convicted felon, Colson founded Prison Fellowship, now the world’s largest Christian outreach to prisoners and their families. Prison Fellowship has more than 50,000 volunteers ...read more

Tags: Cross Agony

Power In Agreement  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

How much power can people in agreement have? The answer: the power of life and death. During the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin, who murdered 30 million Russians and bought godless communism to Russia, Stalin, let it be known that he planned to murder the Jews of Russia. When the believers in ...read more

Tags: Lord's Prayer

The Coffee Pot At Cana

Contributed by Susan Blader on Aug 18, 2007

The Coffee Pot at Cana Mae Fortson relays the story of her church coffee pot. Whoever drank the last cup would often fail to replenish the pot for the next person. The secretary wanted to motivate her staff to be more responsible, so she taped a neatly-typed plea to the pot. It read: “If ...read more

Denomination: Disciples Of Christ

Bill Faye, Author Of "Sharing Jesus Without ...

Contributed by Daniel Lawson on Sep 2, 2007

Bill Faye, author of "Sharing Jesus without Fear," notes that Americans have found a new way to deny Christ: "It’s by keeping silent about him." Fay asked, "Do we really believe it when Jesus said that unless a person is saved, he’s damned?" And if we do, he asked, "How do we allow our people to ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 10:32-33, Matthew 21:23-27

Denomination: Baptist

There Was A Group Of Scientists In A Mountainous ...

Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007

There was a group of scientists in a mountainous area, and they employed a little boy to be their guide because he knew where an eagle’s nest was. They found the nest at the bottom of a crag on the side of the mountain and saw there were several eggs in it. Those scientists really wanted one of ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

When Christ Came, The Holy Father Teaches, He ...

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 28, 2009

When Christ came, the Holy Father teaches, he came to gather together the scattered people of God and clearly manifested his intention to gather together the community of the covenant. He wanted to bring to fulfillment the promises made by God to Abraham and his descendants. When he called the ...read more

Tags: Lord's Supper

Denomination: Catholic

A Pastor Tells The Story Of Visiting A Refugee ...

Contributed by Rhonda Feurtado on Jun 23, 2009

A pastor tells the story of visiting a refugee camp at Eglin air force base in the 1970s just after the Vietnam war where he found hundreds of refugees huddled under tents. Some were learning English, some were filling out government forms, some being taught to cook. Children were playing games. In ...read more

Tags: Trust, Trust God

Denomination: Methodist

A Little Gift Is On The Way  PRO

Contributed by Ray Swift on Dec 2, 2009

A LITTLE GIFT IS ON THE WAY A lady waited until the last minute to send her Christmas cards. She rushed into a store and bought a package of 50 cards without really looking at them. She rushed home, signed and addressed 49 of them without really looking at them. On Christmas Day when things had ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Denomination: Baptist

Contentment In The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010

Contentment in the Workplace One of the keys to contentment in your work and finding fulfillment in every area of life is learning to be thankful for what you have been given. Wanting to move forward in your career is not a problem unless it means that you take where you are for granted. As one ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 6:5-9

Tags: Workplace

The Word ‘love’ Conjures Up So Man ...

Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010

The word ‘love’ conjures up so man different things today. A modern dictionary lists 28 various uses for the word: tender affection, warm attachment, intimate passion, strong predication, & amorous benevolence. Yet not of these are complete to define / describe what the Bible speaks of as a ...read more

Tags: Love Of The Disciples

Denomination: Baptist

Gallup On Committed Christians

Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 14, 2010

GALLUP ON COMMITTED CHRISTIANS Fewer than 10 percent of Americans are deeply committed Christians, says pollster George Gallup, who adds that these people "are far, far happier than the rest of the population." Committed Christians, Gallup found, are more tolerant than the average American, more ...read more

Tags: Christian Witness

Denomination: *other

Need Or Greed

Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jun 2, 2011

NEED OR GREED Clovis Chappel in his book "Feminine Faces," wrote that when the Roman city of Pompeii was being excavated, the body of a woman was found mummified by the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Her position told a tragic story. Her feet pointed toward the city gate, but her out ...read more

Tags: Greed

Denomination: Baptist

Sin Like A Mushroom

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 8, 2011

SIN LIKE A MUSHROOM In Oregon's Malheur National Forest, a fungus spreads through tree roots across 2,200 acres, making it the largest living organism ever found. Popularly known as the honey mushroom, the Armillaria Ostoyae started from a single microscopic spore. Yet it's been weaving its black ...read more

Tags: Sin Wages Of

Denomination: Baptist

Where's The Baby?

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 24, 2011

WHERE'S THE BABY? Luis Palau tells of a wealthy European family that decided to have their newborn baby baptized in their enormous mansion. Many people were invited, it was an elegant and elaborate affair. They took off their coats and laid them on the bed in a designated room and soon the time ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:21-40, Matthew 2:2

Tags: Christmas

Denomination: Baptist

House Fire And Marshmallows

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2012

HOUSE FIRE AND MARSHMALLOWS As the coals from our barbecue burned down, our hosts passed out marshmallows and long roasting forks. Just then, two fire trucks roared by, sirens blaring, lights flashing. They stopped at a house right down the block. All twelve of us raced out of the back yard, down ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 7:12

Tags: Neighbor

Story: The Legendary Malcolm Muggeridge Was A ...

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Apr 5, 2008

Story: The legendary Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist, author , satirist and media personality He was also a Marxist before he found Christ. During the Cold War he travelled to Russia to write a story about the Communist party and the decline of religion in that atheistic regime. ...read more

Denomination: Anglican