Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Reason for the season"

showing 861-880 of 2,476
Filter Results
Close Filters

Scripture

Rating

Date

Denominations

  • Show more

Category

  • Try PRO

    Confident Preaching

    Try PRO free and preach with confidence when people need it most.
    Free to start now
  • In A Recent Conversation, A Friend Reminded Me As ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 3, 2008
     | 1,875 views

    In a recent conversation, a friend reminded me as we talked about forgiveness, that when someone was crucified, the charges against him (or her) were nailed to the cross so that it was made public as to the reason for the crucifixion. In our main text, we read that Pilate, against the objection ...read more

  • Buying A New Chandelier

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,704 views

    Buying A New Chandelier The pastor called a special meeting of the congregation to approve the purchase of a brand new chandelier. After some discussion pro and con, an old farmer stood up and said, "Buying a new chandelier may seem like a good idea to you, but I’m against it for three ...read more

  • There Is Much Misunderstanding About What ...

    Contributed by David Scudder on Jul 19, 2007
     | 2,994 views

    There is much misunderstanding about what forgiveness really means. Like the story about a pastor who visited a man who had been active in the church, but, due to a dispute with a fellow member, he had stopped coming to church. He reasoned with him at length about the need for forgiveness and ...read more

  • The Real Answer  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 12, 2002
    based on 8 ratings
     | 1,883 views

    THE REAL ANSWER PGA Tour professional golfer, Paul Azinger, enjoyed the finest season of his career in 1993. That year he kept the longest active winning streak on Tour (seven years) enjoying three victories. He captured his first major title by defeating Greg Norman on the second hole of ...read more

  • He Dropped The ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 22, 2008
     | 2,020 views

    “He dropped the ball!” I’m sure you’ve heard that expression before. We use it to describe someone who has failed to follow through on an assignment or to reach a certain goal. Some people trace the origin of that phrase to the 4th game of the 1941 Baseball World Series. The series was dubbed ...read more

  • Shouts Of Praise  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,380 views

    Shouts of Praise There is a loud declaration of our Lord's purpose for coming to earth at the triumphal entry. "As Jesus approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives... Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches ...read more

  • A Lady Joined Her Navy Husband On His Tour Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Dec 21, 2000
    based on 214 ratings
     | 3,833 views

    A lady joined her Navy husband on his tour of duty in Japan. To supplement their income, she got a job as a secretary for the Commanding Officer at the base. She was certain her office skills had gotten her the position. A few weeks later, her boss called her into his office and told her she was ...read more

  • Betty Maxfield Survived The 9/11 Tragedy At The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 26, 2002
    based on 35 ratings
     | 2,391 views

    Betty Maxfield survived the 9/11 tragedy at the Pentagon. In the Chicago Tribune, she said, “I should’ve been dead. We were all, for some reason, saved. My question now is, what am I supposed to do with it? I just can’t go waste it. I thought I was living my life well before, but obviously there’s ...read more

  • Sales Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar, In His ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 23, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,164 views

    Sales motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, in his book, Over the Top, points something out that I had never considered before reading it. He says that we work our hardest just before a vacation. We try super hard to get everything done so we can relax when we get on vacation. Ziglar says that if we ...read more

  • Betty Maxfield Survived The 9/11 Tragedy At The ...

    Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
     | 4,925 views

    Betty Maxfield survived the 9/11 tragedy at the Pentagon. In the Chicago Tribune, she said, “I should’ve been dead. We were all, for some reason, saved. My question now is, what am I supposed to do with it? I just can’t go waste it. I thought I was living my life well before, but obviously there’s ...read more

  • John Howard Yoder Talks About The Person Of ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 9, 2005
     | 1,395 views

    John Howard Yoder talks about the person of Christ and his lordship over all our lives when he writes: “Christians begin to deny their Lord when they admit that there are certain realms of life in which it would be inappropriate to bring Christ’s rule to bear. Of course, non-Christians will ...read more

  • For A Long Time I Used To Think This A Silly, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Cheadle on Nov 18, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,205 views

    "For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one [person] to whom I’ve been doing this all my life– namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or ...read more

  • Scaling Back: A Small But Growing Number Of Men ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
     | 1,312 views

    Scaling Back: A small but growing number of men are scaling back their work in spite of the soft job market. 10% of human resource executives say they are seeing a growing number of high-potential men leave their companies or decline a promotion because of work-life demands. 40% of working fathers ...read more

  • Once When President Franklin D. Roosevelt Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 1,551 views

    Once when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was preparing a speech, he needed some economic statistics to back up a point he was trying to make. His advisers said it would take six months to get accurate figures. "In that case, I’ll just use these rough estimates," FDR said, and he wrote down some ...read more

  • Percentage In A 1985 Survey Who Said That, Aside ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
     | 1,318 views

    Percentage in a 1985 survey who said that, aside from earning a living, the reason they work is to keep from getting bored: 54. Percentage in a 1989 survey who said they are sometimes or often bored at work: 41. Percentage in a 1990 survey who said they are generally bored by what goes on in ...read more

  • Song By Scott Krippayne- Sometimes He Calms The ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 30, 2007
     | 1,465 views

    Song by Scott Krippayne- Sometimes He calms the storm with a whispered peace be still He can settle any sea but it doesn’t mean He will Sometimes He holds us close and lets the wind and waves go wild Sometimes He calms the storm and other times He calms His child He has a reason for each trial ...read more

  • Hate

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2009
     | 4,355 views

    HATE One of the worst cases of hatred I have ever come across is found in a will written in 1935 by a Mr. Donohoe. It says, "Unto my two daughters, Frances Marie and Denise Victoria, by reason of their unfilial attitude toward a doting father...I leave the sum of $1.00 to each and a father's ...read more

  • Archelaus, The Son Of Herod The Great, Went ...

    Contributed by William Hooper on Jun 12, 2010
     | 2,191 views

    Archelaus, the son of Herod the Great, went to Rome in 4 BC to have his father’s will confirmed, by which he was to be his successor. But a crowd of Jews followed close on his heels with a protest to the emperor: “We don’t want this man to be our king.” They had good reason for hating him: ...read more

  • The Sufferings Of The Pilgrims

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,747 views

    THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PILGRIMS The sufferings of these pilgrims has been a theme often repeated and yet it remains an amazing story. Within three months of the Mayflower landing in December 1620, only about fifty of the original hundred survived. Their graves had to be unmarked and grassed over to ...read more

  • Athiesm On Campus

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
     | 1,428 views

    ATHIESM ON CAMPUS 70-75% of Christian youth leave the church after high school. Intellectual skepticism is one of the major reasons they walk away. Most Christian students are unequipped to resist rabidly anti-Christian college professors who are intent on converting their students to atheism. ...read more