In Sermon Illustrations: "Source Of True Love"

A Safe Place  PRO

Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 25, 2002

A SAFE PLACE Henri Nouwen, the widely read Christian author, was a professor at Yale University Divinity School and later at Harvard. He had a prestigious life filled with honor. But in 1986 he resigned from his job of teaching to become pastor for the Daybreak community of people with ...read more

Tags: Compassion, Church Body Of Christ, Friendship General

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Prayer Doesn't Change God, It Changes Me  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002

PRAYER DOESN'T CHANGE GOD, IT CHANGES ME In a scene from Shadowlands, a film based on the life of C.S. Lewis, Lewis has returned to Oxford from London, where he has just been married to Joy Gresham, an American woman, in a private Episcopal ceremony performed at her hospital bedside. She is dying ...read more

Tags: Submission, Petition, Prayer Persistence, Prayer Answered, Prayer General, Humility  (view more)  (view less)

How Easy It Is To Give Credit And Thanks To ...

Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 24, 2008

How easy it is to give credit and thanks to everything and everyone but the real source of al our blessings! God deserves our thanks. For some of us there may be many reasons to be thankful this coming Thursday. Perhaps we may even see it as the best year we have ever had. For others of us, it ...read more

Tags: Thanksgiving Holiday

Denomination: Methodist

Hormone ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009

HORMONE HURRICANES Josh McDowell is one of christianity’s foremost experts on teenagers. His research shows that in evangelical church circles, 65% of teens have had some kind of sexual experience before the age of 18. 43% say they have actually gone all the way. He asked them where they learned ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:13

Tags: Temptation, Temptation Sex

Thanksgiving Poem: We Plow The Fields By Matthias ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009

Thanksgiving Poem: We Plow The Fields by Matthias Claudius The poem entitled "We Plow The Fields," by Matthias Claudius, says things well: We plow the fields, and scatter The good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered By God’s Almighty hand; He sends the snow in winter, The warmth to swell ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:11-19

Tags: Thanksgiving Holiday

Fathering Is Hard Work: According To The 6/10/03 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Fathering Is Hard Work: According to the 6/10/03 issue of Family Circle magazine in its national poll of fathers finds: · 94% feel building a family is the hardest and most important thing a man can do. · 71% say fatherhood is more demanding than they expected, while 88% say fatherhood is more ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Walking In The Confidence Of God  PRO

Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008

Walking in the Confidence of God Christians walk in confidence because they serve a "Providential God:" Christians serve a Lord whose plans and purposes come about. Psalms 33:4-11 says, "For the word of the LORD is right and true; He is faithful in all He does. The LORD loves righteousness ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 33:4-11

Tags: Confidence

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

[304]. A Message From A Poem - They Have Gone To Be With Jesus

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 4, 2026

[304]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - THEY HAVE GONE TO BE WITH JESUS Right at the outset I want to say I LOVE THIS POEM. IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. I love it because the Lord gave it freely to me and the truth of it now for 27 years has been part of the way I address the loss of a Christian loved one. ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 9:27, 2 Corinthians 5:6-8

Tags: Present With The Lord, Absent From The Body, Christian Poems, Christian, Jesus, Heaven, Home, Gone, In Christ, Death  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

After Attending Church One Sunday Morning, A ...  PRO

Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 24, 2002

After attending church one Sunday morning, a little boy knelt at his bedside that night and prayed, "Dear God, we had a good time at church ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:27-28

Tags: Church Practices, Worship Definition

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Reach Of God's Grace  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

THE REACH OF GOD'S GRACE Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are ...read more

Tags: God's Forgiveness, Grace, Emotions

Income Decline

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008

INCOME DECLINE 42% to 44% of retirees are expected to experience a drop in income between ages 67 and 80, with a medium decrease in income of $16,000 for today’s retirees and $23,000 ...read more

Tags: Money

The Church Is Not A Place Where The Perfect ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008

"The church is not a place where the perfect dwell, but rather a hospital where sick sinners get well." (SOURCE: St. Augustine. From a sermon by Monty Newton, ...read more

Tags: Church Purpose Of

To Restore Morality We Must First Recognize The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we were declared to be the United States of ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Max Lucado States, "God Is Holy. Every Decision, ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 28, 2009

Max Lucado states, "God is holy. Every decision, exact. Each word, appropriate. Never out-of-bounds or out of place. Not even tempted to make a ...read more

Tags: God's Holiness

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

According To The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform, ...

Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 10, 2010

According to The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform, there were 1.37 million abortions a year (1996), which computes to approximately 3,700 abortions per day in the United ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Denomination: Baptist

As Very Rough Weather Destroys The Buds Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"As very rough weather destroys the buds of spring, so does too early an experience of lifes hard toil blight the young promise of a childs ...read more

Tags: Children

A Famous Philosopher Once Said "Envy Leads To ...  PRO

Contributed by Ray Munro-Crump on Sep 23, 2003

A famous philosopher once said “Envy leads to jealousy, jealousy leads to hate, hate leads to anger, anger leads to the dark side” The philosopher ...read more

Tags: Anger, Emotions

Denomination: Methodist

Albeit Failure In Any Cause Produces A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

You Are Writing A Gospel, A Chapter Each Day, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"You are writing a Gospel, A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithless or ...read more

Tags: Leadership General

Karole Shirley Demonstrates Compassion Of Christ ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 2, 2009

Karole Shirley Demonstrates Compassion of Christ for Welfare Recipients Who Want to Work Almighty God - Our Creator - is an expert at taking ordinary people and making them extraordinary individuals - all one has to do is accept His free Plan of Salvation - it’s just that simple! It is really nice ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Tags: Workplace Unemployment, Unemployment