In Sermon Illustrations: "Spanking Kids"

Often Times We Are Like The Children On The ...

Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 30, 2008

Often times we are like the children on the Candid Camera episode Years ago on Candid Camera, children were used in an experiment about generosity. The children were placed by themselves in a room with a plate of cookies. On the plate were at least two cookies, there may have been more, but one of ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Denomination: Baptist

You Are Free To...

Contributed by Shawn Drake on Mar 20, 2021

I was thinking about my niece who just got her 1st car. While my memory may be deteriorating, I remember how awesome it was to have my 1st car. While I loved that old car, it gave me an attitude that got me in trouble more than once. I began to think that I was grown, and I could do whatever I ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26

Tags: Freedom, Live For Christ

Denomination: Baptist

Fred Craddock, Who Taught At Candler School Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 18, 2005

Fred Craddock, who taught at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, once said: “To give my life for Christ appears glorious. To pour myself out for others ... to pay the ultimate price of martyrdom — I’ll do it. I’m ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory. We think giving our all to ...read more

Scripture: Acts 11:1-18, Acts 9:36

Tags: Love Of The Disciples, Call Of The Disciples, Discipleship

Denomination: Methodist

Marriage And Family Laws

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 25, 2006

On the lighter side of life: From the book: Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions and Strange Statues, Main Street publishers. Marriage and Family laws: a. It’s against the law for children under the age of seven to go to college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. b. Although there are no R and X ratings for ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

I Loved You Enough  PRO

Contributed by Bruce Landry on May 11, 2002

I Loved You Enough “You don’t love me!” How many times have your kids laid that one on you? Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic motivation a mother, I’ll tell them: · I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going and what time you would get home. · I loved ...read more

Tags: Parenting, Unconditional Love

Denomination: Baptist

Children Have A Great Deal To Say About Love, ...

Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009

Children have a great deal to say about love, don’t they? We adults have had the experience of “falling in love” and for most, if not all of us, it was a wonderful and overwhelmingly emotional experience. But, not to 7 year old Glenn. He says, "If falling in love is anything like learning how to ...read more

Tags: Love, Marriage Commitment

Denomination: Church Of God

I Love You ...

Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 10, 2010

I Love You Enough “You don’t love me!” How many times have your kids laid that one on you? Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic motivation [of] a mother, I’ll tell them: ü I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going and what time you would get home. ü I ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Ken Wales: Christian Integrity

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012

KEN WALES: CHRISTIAN INTEGRITY Ken Wales is a TV and film producer, who has produced several, award-winning TV series and films, including Christy, East of Eden and the highly-acclaimed movie Amazing Grace. Wales has enjoyed tremendous success as a producer, but he started his Hollywood career ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16

Tags: Christian Witness

The Word Was Being Made Real In The Back Of His Church

Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017

Pastor Thomas Tewell tells the story of getting ready for their 11 p.m. Christmas Eve service. As the people were gathering, a man named Jim came in. Jim was a recovering alcoholic, sober just 6 months, but his disease had cost him his family, his job, just about everything. He went in to the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10

Tags: Christmas, Grace, Ministry, The Word Made Flesh

Denomination: Methodist

Coming Out Of The Sewer

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 27, 2008

COMING OUT OF THE SEWER I remember a documentary, it was about a Christian agency that worked with children who lived in sewers - somewhere in eastern Europe - the work of the agency is to re-house these kids - a chance for a new life away from the darkness and filth of the sewers into foster ...read more

Tags: Sin Exposed

Denomination: Baptist

You've Probably Noticed; When Two People Get In A ...

Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Oct 14, 2008

You’ve probably noticed; when two people get in a wreck, a drunk and a Christian, who lives? Who walks away from that wreck? It’s the drunk! And what happens to the Christian? Is he instantly killed or languishes in a nursing home for years? Whys is this? Among all other kids in my home town, my ...read more

Tags: Prayer Answered

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

I Spent Some Time This Week Looking On The ...  PRO

Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 3, 2003

I spent some time this week looking on the computer at actual excuses people use, or have used, or might someday use, to miss church. Here are a few: I missed church because the little guy had a cold. The whole family had to stay home to blow his nose! - I missed church last Sunday because there ...read more

Tags: Church General, Faith

Denomination: Baptist

You," Said The Doctor To The Patient, "Are In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005

“You,” said the doctor to the patient, “are in terrible shape. You’ve got to do something about it. First, tell your wife to cook more nutritious meals. Stop working like a dog. Also, inform your wife you’re going to make a budget, and she has to stick to it. And have her keep the kids off your ...read more

Tags: Fear And Worry

They Call It The Marshmallow Test. A Researcher ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

They call it the marshmallow test. A researcher gives this choice to a 4-year-old: “I am leaving for a few minutes to run an errand and you can have this marshmallow while I am gone, but if you wait until I return, you can have two marshmallows.” Researchers at Stanford University ran that test in ...read more

Tags: Peace

Children's Prayers  PRO

Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 25, 2006

CHILDREN’S PRAYERS: Dear God: Please send a new baby for Mommy. The new baby you sent last week cries too much. Debbie, 7 Dear God: Who did you make smarter? Boys or girls? My sister and I want to know. Jimmy, 6 Dear God: How many angels are there in heaven? I would like to be the first kid in my ...read more

Tags: Prayer How To

Denomination: *other

Weekly Requests Poured In By Mail Asking For ...

Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Aug 14, 2006

Weekly requests poured in by mail asking for legal permission to quote and use an author’s writing material. One day a request came, like many previously, asking for permission to use some published work. The sender, from Houston, Texas, was asking if she could use the author’s material as she ...read more

Tags: Leadership General

Denomination: Pentecostal

Bike Chain.

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 25, 2006

Story: Bike Chain. I was about 12 years old. Friend and I and his little brother were riding bikes. Little brother – his bike chain fell off repeatedly – he couldn’t get it back on alone. We were getting upset like little kids do. And when the chain came off came of one last time We rode ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

How Often Have We Prayed Something Like, 'o ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 22, 2001

"How often have we prayed something like, ’O Lord, be with cousin Billy now in a special way’? Have we stopped to consider what it is we’re requesting? Imagine that you are a parent who is preparing to leave your children with a babysitter. Would you dream of saying, ’O Betsy, I ask you now that ...read more

Randy Brantley, Of The Arkansas Baptist State ...  PRO

Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Dec 2, 2002

Randy Brantley, of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention Evangelism Dept, said that a "code blue" needs to be issued for reaching today’s teenagers. Pointing out that "code blue is the hospital term for a life-or-death emergency, Brantley notes: "Suicide has increased 120 percent among kids ages 10 ...read more

Tags: Church Purpose Of

Denomination: Methodist

Season Tickets  PRO

Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 11, 2003

Robert Russell tells this story: There is a huge rivalry in college basketball between the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky. The story is told that at one of the games between the two schools, an elderly woman was sitting alone with an empty seat next to her. Someone ...read more

Tags: Funerals Non-Christian

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational