In Sermon Illustrations: "Practical Theology" showing 481-500 of 1,524

More Than 9 Out Of 10 American Adults Engage In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More than 9 out of 10 American adults engage in some type of faith-related practice during a typical week. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Disciplines General

If This Country Had A National Psychologist, Im ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If this country had a national psychologist, Im afraid the Democratic Party would be diagnosed with terminal projection. They have done nothing except accuse their opponents ...read more

Tags: Government

Prayer Does Not Need Proof Outside Itself Because ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001

Prayer does not need proof outside itself because its proofs are within. It is in the nature and function of man, like breathing, eating and drinking, and he ...read more

Tags: Prayer General, Prayer Adoration

If We Americans Do Not Start To Think, If We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If we Americans do not start to think, if we let slip the old practice of self-exile in a silent place, we shall presently become a nation of ...read more

Tags: Thought

In The Spring Of 1883 Two Young Men Graduated ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 22, 2001

In the spring of 1883 two young men graduated from medical school. The two differed from one another in both appearance and ambition. Ben was short and stocky. Will was tall and thin. Ben dreamed of practicing medicine on the East Coast. Will wanted to work in a rural community. Ben begged his ...read more

Tags: Giving Yourself

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Old-School Church Discipline

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010

OLD-SCHOOL CHURCH DISCIPLINE The Amish practice shunning – ignoring, turning away from, avoiding. When a person is disciplined by the community, relationships are severed between parents and children, or brother and sister, or even husbands and wives. Because the Amish are so isolated from those ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:15-17

Tags: Church Discipline

The Sinner's Prayer

Contributed by James Chandler on Mar 19, 2007

I once visited the practice of a College basketball coach who coached for Bobby Knight, Coach K from Duke. At the end of his practice he “shared” Christ. He led them in the Sinners prayer. The problem that I have with the Sinner’s ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Trapped

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 15, 2024

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. When my son was practicing with his little league baseball team there was a practice field. The practice field was ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 15:18, Galatians 5:7

Tags: Trapped, Change

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, In His Classic Work The Cost ...  PRO

Contributed by Jim Luthy on Mar 15, 2002

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in his classic work The Cost of Discipleship, rightly observed, "We have to practice strictest daily discipline; only so can the flesh learn ...read more

Tags: Disciplines General, Christian Disciplines

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

76% Of American Doctors Say They Believe In God; ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

76% of American doctors say they believe in God; 59% believe in some kind of afterlife and 55% say their beliefs influence how they practice ...read more

Tags: Faith General

The Strong Man Meets His Crisis With The Most ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The strong man meets his crisis with the most practical tools at hand. They may not be the best tools but they are available, which is all-important. He ...read more

Tags: Dealing With Conflicts

I Dont Think The United States Needs ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I dont think the United States needs super-patriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we dont need these people ...read more

Tags: Patriotism

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, In His Classic Work The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in his classic work The Cost of Discipleship, rightly observed, "We have to practice strictest daily discipline; only so can the flesh ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Humor Simultaneously Wounds And Heals, Indicts ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it ...read more

Tags: Humor

Jas 3:15 Such "Wisdom" Does Not Come Down From ...

Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jul 27, 2007

Jas 3:15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. Jas 3:16 For where you have envy and selfish ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Jerry Vines Said, "An Unread Bible Is Like Food ...  PRO

Contributed by Steve Hereford on Oct 30, 2001

Jerry Vines said, "An unread Bible is like food uneaten, a love letter never read, a buried sword, a road map unstudied, gold never mined" ...read more

Tags: Bible Study, Bible Influence

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How Little Chance The Holy Ghost Has Nowadays. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a ...read more

Tags: Holy Spirit General

I Had An Immense Advantage Over Many ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"I had an immense advantage over many othersinasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practices to control and bias my mind, and did not ...read more

Tags: Thought

Integrity Is The First Step To True Greatness. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, ...read more

Tags: Leadership General

One Sunday After Church A Pastor Noticed That One ...  PRO

Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 11, 2001

One Sunday after church a pastor noticed that one of the men was wearing a lapel pin that had a bulldog on it. He was wearing it because he worked for Mack Truck and the bulldog is their logo, but the pastor didn’t know that. So when he asked, "Frank, why are you wearing a pin of a bulldog?" Frank ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God, God's Provision

Denomination: Baptist