Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "Start Right"

showing 1,521-1,540 of 7,583
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
  • A Preacher's Little Girl Went To Bed Sick One ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 2,171 views

    A preacher's little girl went to bed sick one evening. A few minutes later she got up and said to her mother, "Mama, I must see daddy right now." Her mama replied, "Honey, you can't talk to daddy right now. He's working on his sermon." She said, "Mother! I'm a sick woman and I must see my ...read more

  • Parents, You Are Accountable For Disciplining ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
     | 3,279 views

    Parents, you are accountable for disciplining and teaching your children about God, salvation, and how to live and make godly decisions · How important is it? · A Spiritual Clinic, J. Oswald Sanders recorded observations about two Revolutionary War era families from New England, and the differing ...read more

  • I Was Invited To Compete In The Howard Wood ...

    Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Feb 2, 2010
     | 2,774 views

    I was invited to compete in the Howard Wood Relays while running track in high school. It was time for the 110 meter high hurdles. I had set my blocks and the starter called "Runners, come to your marks." I was so nervous and decided to look to my left and right to see that I was lined up like ...read more

  • James And John Talking

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on May 9, 2011
     | 3,417 views

    JAMES AND JOHN TALKING This is how I imagine it was before Salome approached Jesus about one of the boys being at either side of him in his kingdom. Remember these two disciples were the "sons of thunder." James: What do you reckon I’m sure that he'll be King soon and I want to sit on my throne ...read more

  • Edison Couldn't Make Life

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 15, 2012
     | 3,009 views

    EDISON COULDN'T MAKE LIFE Are you extremely proud of your lifetime accomplishments? It was on November 21 of 1877 that Thomas Edison announced to the world that he had invented the phonograph. Edison's accomplishments are often forgotten. In his Menlo Park, New Jersey fix-it shop he designed the ...read more

  • We Are Constantly Bombarded By The Conventional ...  PRO

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 18, 2002
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,894 views

    We are constantly bombarded by the conventional thinking or our world. It often comes to us in pithy sayings If you give him an inch he will take a mile Two wrongs don’t make a right If you lay down with the dogs you will get up with the fleas God helps those who help themselves Cleanliness is ...read more

  • Are You For Real?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 10 ratings
     | 1,633 views

    ARE YOU FOR REAL? The misuse of God’s name for personal profit is easily applied to certain televangelists who use the name of God to make a buck off of overly trusting people, or politicians who mention God’s name in the right places and the right times in order to gain a certain constituency of ...read more

  • Joy Davidman Tells The Story Of An Old Missionary ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,966 views

    Joy Davidman tells the story of an old missionary ministering among a tribe of cannibals. The missionary was hard at work trying to convert the native chief. The chief listened patiently but at last said to the missionary, "I do not understand. You tell me that I must not take my neighbor’s ...read more

  • A Friend Told Me About A Man Who Had Come To Him ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
     | 2,466 views

    A friend told me about a man who had come to him with a prayer request. He had purchased a lottery ticket that would pay him $100,000 if it turned out to be the "lucky" one. He asked my friend, who was a pastor, to pray that his number would be picked so he could give one-tenth of his winnings to ...read more

  • I Recieved A Frantic Phone Call From A Freind At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 7, 2005
     | 2,279 views

    I recieved a frantic phone call from a freind at church wanting to talk to me . I agreed to meet him in the parking lot in 15 minutes.When I arrived he fell on my neck almost in hysterics.He told me that he had been involved in drugs and wanted me to help him pray and get right with GOD.I began to ...read more

  • A Few Weeks Ago, During Our Friday Night ...

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on May 4, 2007
     | 1,220 views

    A few weeks ago, during our Friday night devotional, I asked my teens how many of them had seen "Schindler’s List", Steven Spielberg’s recent movie about the Holocaust. I asked them: was the Holocaust right or was it wrong? They said it was wrong, and so I asked them this question: why was it ...read more

  • Not All Quotations About Life Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,362 views

    Not all quotations about life have been negative, for example: Norman Thomas (1884-1968), “The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.” Oswald Spengler, a German historian and philosopher (1880-1936), “This is our purpose: to make as ...read more

  • Making It Worse

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 21, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,994 views

    MAKING IT WORSE One Sunday morning during announcements, the preacher said, "I need to make a correction to an announcement from last week’s bulletin. It read: The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment, and gracious hostility. It should have read: The church will host ...read more

  • Greedy Monkey

    Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 9, 2009
     | 2,933 views

    GREEDY MONKEY Have you heard of the mischievous monkey? He was running loose and getting into people's houses and stealing food. Try as they may, the town’s people could not capture the monkey. One man had an idea. He got a very large jar with a very narrow neck and put some peanuts in the ...read more

  • What Side Have You ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
     | 1,685 views

    WHAT SIDE HAVE YOU CHOSEN? C.S. Lewis said, "When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right; but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else comes crashing in? ...read more

  • Learn From Others. Learn From Their Mistakes. ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 19, 2009
     | 2,890 views

    Learn from others. Learn from their mistakes. Learn from their advice. Ray was too self-centered to do that. He wasn’t seeking advice as much as wanting people to tell him that what he was thinking was right. He didn’t really want his father’s advisors to help him as much as he wanted them to agree ...read more

  • God Uses People Like Derrick

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
     | 2,671 views

    GOD USES PEOPLE LIKE DERRICK In Dayton, Ohio, attorney Derrick Farmer gave a motivational talk to at-risk teens. Derrick is 48 years old and has been an attorney since 1999. Now, what was unusual about this event was that it was picketed by 30 Dayton police officers. Why? When Derrick was 16 years ...read more

  • Economy Funnies

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Feb 16, 2012
     | 5,343 views

    ECONOMY FUNNIES Even as dark clouds of depression hang somberly above the American economy (is anyone not aware?), we do see some "silver linings" of humour in them. For instance take this self-deprecatory cartoon humour of a bulging, balding entrepreneur quite used to striking big business ...read more

  • Get Up And Do It

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Nov 15, 2020
     | 1,709 views

    Mother Teresa – So many leaders have the idea that to lead greatly you have to focus on everyone. Mother Teresa took a different approach. She saw the poor. The hurt. The dying. And she knew something had to be done. When you know that there’s that many hurting people out there, you might think ...read more

  • The (Unwise) Wisdom Of The World

    Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Mar 24, 2025
     | 324 views

    The world in its wisdom may tell us that there is no such thing as truth. That there is no such thing as that which is right and that which wrong. But our experience, of even the simplest of human experiences, will cause us to question that. If you were to ask a gas station attendant for ...read more