In Sermon Illustrations: "Putting God First"

Marijuana: The Average Age Of First-Time ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Marijuana: The average age of first-time marijuana users in the U.S has dropped from 19 to 13. A recent Gallup poll indicates 34% of Americans favor legalization, the greatest support since ‘69. In ‘01, 50,000 people were sentenced to prison for marijuana violations. In some states with ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Plastic Prevails For The First Time, Americans' ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Plastic Prevails For the first time, Americans’ use of credit cards, debit cards and other electronic bill paying has eclipsed paper checks. Last year there were 44.5 billion electronic transactions vs. 36.7 billion ...read more

Tags: Money

Prayer Is The First Thing Wherewith A Righteous ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

"Prayer is the first thing wherewith a righteous life beginneth, and the last wherewith ...read more

Tags: Prayer Adoration

Proverbs According To Kids: A First Grade ...

Contributed by Chris Jordan on Apr 5, 2006

Proverbs According To Kids: A first grade teacher collected old, well known proverbs. She gave each kid in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest. As You Shall Make Your Bed So Shall You... Mess It Up. Better Be Safe Than... Punch A 5th Grader. Strike While ...read more

Tags: Children

Denomination: *other

Attending A Wedding For The First Time, A Little ...  PRO

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006

Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?" ? "Because white is the color of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life." The child thought about this for ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:18-24

Tags: Marriage, Relationships, Marriage General, Men And Women

Denomination: Independent/Bible

First Of All, The Gospel Of Phillip Is A Gnostic ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006

First of all, the Gospel of Phillip is a Gnostic text that is widely considered by scholars to have been written at least a century after the canonical gospels. So it’s not authoritative. Second, even that debunked book does not refer to Jesus having married Mary Magdalene, but simply states that ...read more

Scripture: 2 Peter 2:1-21

Tags: False Teaching

Denomination: Wesleyan

The Soldier's First Article Of Faith Is Summed ...

Contributed by Don Jones on Apr 1, 2007

The soldier’s first article of faith is summed up nowhere more eloquently than in an 1865 letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to U.S. Grant: "I knew wherever I was that you thought of ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Blessings On The Manwho First Invented The Loud ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Blessings on the manwho first invented the loud ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

First A New Theory Is Attacked As Absurd; Then ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"First a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally, it is seen to be so important that its ...read more

Tags: Apologetics General

The First Thing An Unpublished Author Should ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him ...read more

Tags: Art

Be Not The First By Whom The New Is Tried. Nor ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Be not the first by whom the new is tried. Nor yet the last ...read more

Tags: Change

To Be Able To Endure Is The First Lesson Which ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"To be able to endure is the first lesson which a child ought to learn, and the one which it ...read more

Tags: Children

Courage Is The First Of All The Virtues Because ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Courage is the first of all the virtues because if you havent courage, you may not have the ...read more

Tags: Endurance

To Endure Is The First Thing That A Child Ought ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Adam And Eve Were The First Bookkeepers. They ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Adam and Eve were the first bookkeepers. They invented ...read more

Tags: Sin Fall Of Man

Science Presented Us First With Normative ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Science presented us first with normative ethics, then with relativistic ethics, and ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

In A Big Family] The First Child Is Kind Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"[In a big family] the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If its not perfect, thats ...read more

Tags: Family

Columbus] Was The Worlds First Democrat. He ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"[Columbus] was the worlds first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where ...read more

Tags: Government

Actually, There Is Only One First Question Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or (this is the same question) What ...read more

Tags: Government

Why Is It That The First Gray Hairs Stick ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Why is it that the first gray hairs ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life