Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Single"

showing 701-720 of 972
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
  • Redefining Sin

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
     | 4,347 views

    REDEFINING SIN "In recent years, and especially since the 1960s, the democratic societies of the West have been enlarging the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, in effect redefining sin. The sexual revolution of my youth dismantled barriers against premarital sex and encouraged open marriages. ...read more

  • Just Follow Directions  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,109 views

    JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS Robert Kupferschmid was an 81-year old man who had no flying experience. However, due to a tragic emergency, he was forced to fly an airplane. On June 17, 1998, he and his 52-year-old pilot friend, Wesley Sickle, were flying from Indianapolis to Muncie, Indiana. During the ...read more

  • I Wish I Could Live Life Over Again

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,373 views

    I WISH I COULD LIVE LIFE OVER AGAIN I remember when I was an assistant pastor in TN visiting a man who had lived his whole life in sin and selfishness. He finally came to the Lord in his sixties. When he was diagnosed with cancer, I went to visit him at his home shortly before his death. The day ...read more

  • A Confession Of Stealing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
     | 4,757 views

    A CONFESSION OF STEALING Jack removes the envelope from the small pile of mail and draws in a deep breath. It is from his former employer. He has lost sleep waiting for it. What he is about to read could lead to his exoneration or to imprisonment. He had written to this man two weeks ago, ...read more

  • Frankl And The Meaning Of Life  PRO

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 15, 2012
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,838 views

    FRANKL AND THE MEANING OF LIFE When Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl was arrested by the Nazis in World War II and put in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp, he was stripped of everything: property, family, possessions, and a manuscript he had spent years researching and writing on finding ...read more

  • A Worry Satire  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on May 31, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,321 views

    A WORRY SATIRE Luke 12:22-34 (New Revised Updated Modernization Version for the E-Pad with notes) (NRUMVEPwN) Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, about evil people hurting you your family, or random biological terrorist attacks, or how the stock ...read more

  • Basic Training

    Contributed by John Telgren on Feb 11, 2017
     | 6,506 views

    I hated shining shoes in Basic Training. There were other things I would rather be doing instead of sitting on the floor with a brush and mounds of cotton balls stained with black Kiwi shoe polish! If our boots and dress shoes were not perfect we paid for it dearly! During one of our trips to the ...read more

  • In 1989 The Sf Bay Area Suffered A Great ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 18, 2007
     | 1,008 views

    In 1989 the SF Bay Area suffered a great earthquake. Katie and I were living there at the time. Growing up there, I had experienced many, many earthquakes – this was the first earthquake where I was truly frightened. After the earthquake I heard many stories about different people’s experiences. ...read more

  • A Christian Steamship Captain, A Contemporary Of ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 17, 2007
     | 1,687 views

    A Christian steamship captain, a contemporary of George Mueller, once told of an experience involving Mueller’s great faith. While sailing off the coast of Newfoundland in extremely heavy fog, Mueller came to him and said, “Captain, I need to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday ...read more

  • This Past Christmas, The Dallas Family From Our ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 2, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,560 views

    This past Christmas, the Dallas family from our church gave us a wonderful gift of Noah’s Ark complete with hand-carved animals. The problem is that it is especially fascinating to children. We have had to glue poor Noah back together more than once. After one visit from our grandchildren, we ...read more

  • Ben Hooper Was Born In Newport, Tennessee In 1870 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Sharp on Jan 10, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,203 views

    Ben Hooper was born in Newport, Tennessee in 1870 He was born out of wedlock , to Sarah Wade. As a result, He had a tough childhood, being taunted by others. In his early school years , his Grandfather died, and his mother was forced to place Ben in an Orphanage in Knoxville Tenn. At Age Nine, ...read more

  • In Addition To Being Wanderers, It Is Nearly ...

    Contributed by Matthew Mobley on Mar 28, 2008
     | 1,727 views

    In addition to being wanderers, it is nearly impossible to get sheep to “lie down.” The only way a sheep will lie down in green pastures is if it is FREE FROM ALL ANXIETIES – including a freedom from fear, freedom from friction with the other sheep, free from pests, and freedom from hunger. Sheep ...read more

  • Rules. The World, Our Culture, Our Families... ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,276 views

    Rules. The world, our culture, our families... all have rules. Without rules, our world would be in anarchy, chaos. Some rules are called laws. We have civil laws and criminal laws. Break a civil law and it can cost you a lot of money or other material wealth. Break a criminal law, and you could ...read more

  • Medicine For ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
     | 1,936 views

    “Medicine for America” “God Rules Over Nations” Psalms 22:28 says, “for dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.” The King James Bibles says, “…He is the governor among nations.” God can restore our Supreme Court system to making decisions like the one made in 1892, ...read more

  • There's A Great One Inside You  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,810 views

    There's a Great One Inside You During a practice session for the Green Bay Packers, things were not going well for Vince Lombardi’s team. Lombardi singled out one big guard for his failure to "put out." It was a hot, muggy day when the coach called his guard aside and leveled his awesome vocal ...read more

  • A Study Released This January From The Barna ...

    Contributed by Dillon Burroughs on Mar 9, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,288 views

    A study released this January from the Barna organization revealed that 73% of today’s youth have been involved in some form of psychic or witchcraft related activity. The most popular of these activities includes playing with Ouija boards and the reading of witchcraft and Wicca related books. In ...read more

  • Pray The Book Of Psalms

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 4, 2024
     | 659 views

    Wesley and Stacey Campbell describe in their book Praying the Bible: The Pathway to Spirituality: A few years ago, we were ministering in the mountains of Puebla, which is about a 4 hour drive from Mexico City. The situation was most desperate. The Indians of the area lived in villages built ...read more

  • I Missed The Sunrise

    Contributed by Austin W. Duncan on Apr 17, 2026
    based on 1 rating
     | 33 views

    I recently had the chance to visit Acadia National Park in Maine. There's a place there, Cadillac Mountain, where you can be one of the first people in the entire country to see the sunrise. While the rest of America is still in darkness, light first makes its appearance on that mountaintop. I ...read more

  • Serving Others

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
    based on 2 ratings
     | 20,441 views

    “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost”. - Arthur Ashe In a small, dusty town in western Oklahoma one November there lived a young single mother struggling to make ends meet. ...read more

  • An Inner City Church Had An Annual Student ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 23, 2001
    based on 156 ratings
     | 5,790 views

    An inner city church had an annual student recognition day. Normally, students would share about their educational experiences and then the pastor would get up and offer a few closing words. One year, the pastor’s words were a bit alarming. He stood up in front of all the young graduates and ...read more