In Sermon Illustrations: "Special Needs Children"

Prayer Is The Link That Connects Us With God. It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005

Prayer is the link that connects us with God. It is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over every abyss of danger or of need. How significant is this picture of the New Testament church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod supreme, the arena of martyrdom awaiting the dawning of ...read more

Tags: Prayer How To

In 1835 A Man Visited A Doctor In Florence, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

In 1835 a man visited a doctor in Florence, Italy. He was filled with anxiety and exhausted from lack of sleep. He couldn’t eat, and he avoided his friends. The doctor examined him and found that he was in prime physical condition. Concluding that his patient needed to have a good time, the ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

Christ Has Come To Give His People The Knowledge ...

Contributed by William Huegel on Dec 30, 2005

Christ has come to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins. During the Spanish-American War, Clara Barton was overseeing the work of the Red Cross in Cuba. One day Colonel Theodore Roosevelt came to her, wanted to buy food for his sick and wounded Rough ...read more

Tags: Grace

Denomination: Baptist

Peter Senge, A Pioneer Of Applying Systems ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006

Peter Senge, a pioneer of applying systems thinking to learning, defines learning as “a process that occurs over time and always integrates thinking and doing.” During a recent conference for Chief Learning Officers, he addressed how knowledge is generated and diffused. It is generated by teams, ...read more

Tags: Truth

Charles Swindoll Tells A Story Of When He And His ...  PRO

Contributed by Shane Hart on Jan 13, 2006

Charles Swindoll tells a story of when he and his sister would go fishing with their dad and grandfather. There was a man who sat on the pier with the last name of Kutasch. As the story goes, he was a very unusual man and fished accordingly. With the slightest bobble of his cork, he would jerk ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

Denomination: Pentecostal

Do Not Offend Visitors To Your Website. A New ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Do Not Offend visitors to your website. A new Hostway, Inc survey reports 93% of web users do not like pop-up ads, 59% view moving text as bothersome, and 55% are annoyed by certain colors, type fonts and page formats. Other irksome issues are: 89%-the need to install extra software to use site ...read more

Tags: Communication General

As I Was Out Running This Morning With This Bible ...

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jul 26, 2006

As I was out running this morning with this Bible passage fresh in my thinking and my praying, I was aware that I cannot run and run and run without stopping. There is a limit to my running. After about 4 miles I have to stop. Not only do I have to stop but I also need to wait 2 or 3 days before I ...read more

Denomination: Anglican

I Doubt If Anyone Knows The Name Of The Man In ...

Contributed by Todd Stiles on Oct 26, 2006

I doubt if anyone knows the name of the man in the picture on the screen, but once I tell you his name, you’ll know him, at least in some way. Who is he? Adolf Coors IV! (show picture) And yes, his father was killed in the 60’s by a mad gunman. But years later Adolph became a Christian and realized ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Bible Scholar And Author D. A. Carson Tells Of A ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007

Bible scholar and author D. A. Carson tells of a time when he and a friend were going to the beach for some much-needed peace and quiet, but when they got there they found a horde of high school kids celebrating graduation with lots of beer, loud music and, shall we say, public displays of ...read more

One Way To Understand The Difference Between ...

Contributed by Jack Martin on Mar 24, 2007

One way to understand the difference between unsaved, saved but not yet filled with the Holy Spirit, or saved and filled with the Holy Spirit is to think of a dish pan filled with clean water and soap. The clean water likened to the Holy Spirit and the Soap the Word of God that changes our filth. ...read more

Denomination: Assembly Of God

An Industrial Titan Remembered His Farm Boyhood. ...  PRO

Contributed by Lynn Malone on Mar 23, 2006

An industrial titan remembered his farm boyhood. It was his chore to go to the barn in the dark to secure the farm animals before the family bedtime. He dreaded what lurked in the shadows on the way to the distant barn. His father gave him unforgettable advice. The lantern from the farmhouse ...read more

Tags: Faith General

Denomination: Methodist

Time Technicians At The National Institute Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006

Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standards) set a new level of precision in 1949 by inventing the atomic clock. It counted the oscillations of the nitrogen atom in an ammonia molecule--and was reliable to within one second in ...read more

Tags: Truth Absolute

Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006

Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior, Turned away God’s wrath forever; By His better grief and woe He saved us from the evil foe. Christ says: ’Come, all ye that labor, And receive My grace and favor’; They who feel no want nor ill Need no physician’s help nor skill. As His pledge of love ...read more

Tags: Cross Agony

F.e. Marsh Has Enumerated Some Of God's ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006

F.E. Marsh has enumerated some of God’s blessings: An acceptance that can never be questioned. (Ephesians 1:6). An inheritance that can never be lost (I Peter 1:3-5). A deliverance that can never be excelled (2 Corinthians l:10). A grace that can never be limited (2 Corinthians 12:9). A hope ...read more

Tags: God The Father

We Know That Jesus, In Saying "It Is Finished," ...

Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 18, 2006

We know that Jesus, in saying “It is finished,” was announcing the completion of all he came to earth to do. Before he breathed his last, he gave the triumphal cry, which in Greek is “tetelestai” “Paid in full!” All the atoning work of the cross was completed. Jesus did not need to linger for ...read more

Tags: Cross Agony

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

One Way Baptism Becomes A Source Of Division, Is ...  PRO

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 3, 2006

One way baptism becomes a source of division, is when preachers emphasize it so much that they neglect the condition of the heart. It leads to people being baptized for the wrong reasons. {Video Clip: My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Start Chp.10:50:10 - End: Chp.10:52:27 = 2:17} Now being ...read more

Tags: Baptism

Denomination: Christian Church

Billy Sunday Fights Sin

Contributed by James Pless on Jun 6, 2006

11581. Billy Sunday Fights Sin Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist and reformer, never spared himself nor those he wanted to help in the vigor of his attacks on sin. He thundered against evil from the Gay Nineties through the Great Depression. He preached Christ as the only answer to man’s needs ...read more

Tags: Sin General

Denomination: Baptist

John Maxwell In His Book Failing Forward Tells Of ...

Contributed by Alan Tison on May 21, 2007

John Maxwell in his book Failing Forward tells of a story Sergio Zyman, a vice president in fortune 500 company. After 20 years of lagging sales, Sergio believed the company needed a fresh approach. People listen to Sergio, after all in 1982 Sergio introduced the company to a new product and ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Calvin Coolidge

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Calvin Coolidge I was reading the other day. ‘Once, President Calvin Coolidge invited some folks from his hometown to dinner at the White house. Since none of them knew what proper etiquette should be on a state occasion, they thought the best policy would be to do whatever the President did. ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

I Remember As A Boy Going With My Grand Dad To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

. I REMEMBER AS A BOY GOING WITH MY GRAND DAD TO AN OLD GRIST MILL ON THEN SALADO CREEK, WITH A BIG WATERWHEEL THAT TURNED WITH THE WATER FROM THE CREEK. I. GRAND DAD WENT THERE TO HAVE HIS CORN GROUND INTO CORN MEAL AND ONE MORNING WE DROVE TO THE MILL AND THE WATERWHEEL WAS NOT TURNING BECAUSE ...read more

Tags: Church Body Of Christ