Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Spiritual Progress"

showing 1,061-1,080 of 2,643
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
  • Running While Weighed Down

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
     | 1,759 views

    RUNNING WHILE WEIGHED DOWN David Posman was arrested in Providence, Rhode Island, after allegedly knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest 4 bags of money. It turned out they contained $800 in pennies, weighing 30 pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his getaway so ...read more

  • How Have You Been Feeling Lately? Does It Seem ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Otterstatter on Feb 4, 2002
    based on 49 ratings
     | 2,258 views

    How have you been feeling lately? Does it seem like you have a decreased amount of energy? Do you feel fatigued? Have you been craving sugar and eating more than usual? In the last two months have you had difficulty getting out of bed in the morning? Are you sleeping more than usual, been less ...read more

  • God's Hmo's

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 6, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,350 views

    GOD'S HMO'S In Christian Counseling Today Magazine I discovered another article talking about "Spirituality Theology and Health." It highlighted the center for the study of Religion/Spirituality and Health at Duke University. After twenty years of study and 25 research studies they discovered the ...read more

  • Eyes And Toes

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,397 views

    EYES AND TOES There is a terrific story I once heard in a taped message from a marvelous Baptist pastor named Ron Dunn. Dunn's parable suggested that once upon a time there was a body where the eyes convinced all of the other parts of the body that the gift of SIGHT was the only important gift. ...read more

  • Families Are Wonderful. Families Are Challenging. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 6, 2002
    based on 5 ratings
     | 12,172 views

    Families are wonderful. Families are challenging. I am reminded of this every time I see my favorite Cosby Show episode in which Cliff, the father played by Bill Cosby, and Theo, the son played by Malcolm Jamal-Warner, have a chat about Theo’s desire to live like a “regular” person rather than ...read more

  • Thanks For The Helmet  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 9 ratings
     | 6,318 views

    THANKS FOR THE HELMET Cecil Conrad was a farm boy, tired of waking up at the crack of dawn to clean up after cows. He lied about his age, joined the Army and helped free Asia from the Axis. But it was in the next war, battling Communists in Korea, that Conrad might truly have regretted his ...read more

  • The Love Of My Life  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2004
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,941 views

    THE LOVE OF MY LIFE Rick Warren’s wife Kay has cancer. [He wrote "The Purpose Driven Life] Rick sends out a letter every week through his web site, and this is what a recent one said: “So many of you have asked about Kay’s progress in her treatment for cancer, so we wanted to give you an update. ...read more

  • Men Who Have In The Past Exerted The Greatest ...  PRO

    Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 9, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,895 views

    Men who have in the past exerted the greatest influence for good in the world had, as a rule, pious mothers. The mother of George Washington, the man in whose principles we glory today, made it a practice each morning to spend an hour in prayer, devotion, and Bible study before attempting to ...read more

  • Dr. Charles Henderson Provides A Case In Point. ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2006
     | 1,105 views

    Dr. Charles Henderson provides a case in point. He tells of a woman who “had suffered from acute bouts of depression for 30 years when she saw a newspaper ad looking for subjects for an antidepressant study to be conducted by the Neuropsychiatric Institute of UCLA. She applied to be a participant ...read more

  • The Impact Of Jesus On History Is Eloquently ...

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 10, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,140 views

    The impact of Jesus on history is eloquently captured in a short literary piece entitled One Solitary Life. Perhaps you’ve heard it before. It reads this way: “Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and ...read more

  • Gifts Aren't Fair

    Contributed by Ovidiu Radulescu on Feb 23, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,204 views

    Gifts aren’t fair To receive a gift, really and truly for free, is a rare thing in this world, and may even make the receiver uncomfortable. Even the lotteries and sweepstakes have to go to a great deal of trouble to prove to everybody that it is chance that picks the winner—that the winner is ...read more

  • The Emperor Moth

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,157 views

    THE EMPEROR MOTH A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth and took it home so he could watch the moth come of the cocoon. One day a small opening appeared. The man sat and watched the moth for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making ...read more

  • J. R. Packard Wrote A Short Story Entitled, "The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,283 views

    J. R. Packard wrote a short story entitled, "The Trouble Is." In that story there is one very moving scene. A riot is in progress with blacks & whites fighting each other. The mother of the little black boy who is telling this story has been hurt. Her family has just gone down & picked her up off ...read more

  • The Power Of God's Word In The Philippines

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 17, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,171 views

    Joanne Shetler, a dedicated missionary, spent years living among the Balangao people in the Philippines. Her mission was to translate the Bible into their language and share the good news of the Savior. However, progress was slow. One day, Ama, a man who had adopted Joanne as his Balangao ...read more

  • Jeep Gets Stuck In The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2010
     | 4,455 views

    Jeep Gets Stuck in the Sand There are vast numbers of people - today - who are defeated in their lives! Their conqueror may be some wrong action or some mental evil such as fear or worry! I am convinced that nobody need be defeated by anything - Jesus, the Christ, is the answer! The story is told ...read more

  • Margin Or Messiah?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,633 views

    MARGIN OR MESSIAH? Richard Swenson wrote a book in the 1990's titled, "Margin" in which he describes modern society as so overcommitted and over scheduled that we have no space left for rest. A reviewer writes: Overload is not having time to finish the book you're reading on stress. Margin is ...read more

  • Handicapped But Complete

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,843 views

    Handicapped But Complete About two years ago my wife Kay was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease, mainly characterized by inflammation of the lining of the joints. It can lead to long-term joint damage, resulting in chronic pain, loss of function and ...read more

  • Your Heart Will Have Beat An Average Of 122,400 ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Mar 28, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,120 views

    Your heart will have beat an average of 122,400 times every day. None of us want our heart to ask for a vacation or take a day off; we don’t even want to give it a short “coffee break” to skip a few beats. Doctors understand the heart is critically important to our physical well-being; it is so ...read more

  • David Depra In His Article The Silence Of God ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 24, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,706 views

    David DePra in his article the Silence of God wrote this about the times when God is silent. “If you have walked with God for any length of time, you will experience times when no matter how hard you pray, God is silent. He just doesn’t answer. And there is no indication that He ever will. Why ...read more

  • The Strangle-Hold Of Wealth  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,188 views

    THE STRANGLE-HOLD OF WEALTH There was an article in the Wednesday, June 26, 2002 issue of the Colorado Springs Gazette by Michelle Singletary titled “How Much is Enough in the Pursuit of Money?” She began by writing about Karen Hughes, counselor to President Bush, who decided to leave the White ...read more