In Sermon Illustrations: "Success In Life"

Success Has Nothing To Do With What You Gain In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

Success Has Nothing To Do With What You Gain In ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001

"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you ...read more

Tags: Servanthood, Giving General, Christian Disciplines

The Truth Is That All Of Us Attain The Greatest ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

The Art Of Dealing With People Is The Foremost ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A mans success in handling people is the very yardstick by which ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

If The Day And The Night Are Such That You ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

The Line You Succeed In Will Be Of Your Own ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The line you succeed in will be of your own finding. The Davids in life do not slay the Goliaths of difficulty and temptation in anothers armor, even though it be the kings, but with their own self-made ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

Battles In Life Are Never Wonlifes A Continuous ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Battles in life are never wonLifes a continuous business, and so is success, and ...read more

Tags: Learning

To Laugh Often And Much; To Win The Respect Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligence people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

A New Heart, A New Life  PRO

Contributed by Guy Caley on Jan 19, 2003

A NEW HEART, A NEW LIFE It was March 18. Leanne tried not to think about the fact that Melvin would have been 39 today. The face of the man driving the van flashed in her mind. She tried not to feel the anger. Once more the scream of brakes, the crash and then the silence replayed itself in her ...read more

Tags: Repentance, Salvation

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Living The Full Christian Life

Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 24, 2008

Living the Full Christian Life As believers, we have received a great inheritance and legacy. In Acts 17:11, Luke writes, "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Fear Of

Denomination: Christian Church

A Record Was Set In The Summer Of 1995 That ...

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009

A record was set in the summer of 1995 that literally brought the sports world to its feet. Strangely, it was not some incredible record-setting blazing speed or absolute accuracy or some great display of muscular power. As a matter of fact, it was simply an honor given to someone who showed up ...read more

Tags: Workplace Success

Denomination: Pentecostal

Life Affords No Higher Pleasure Than That Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Keeping Up With Next Door  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2011

KEEPING UP WITH NEXT DOOR I heard about a chicken yard with a big hen house, where a rooster had all of his hens laying eggs. One day, two little boys were next door playing football, with a brand new white football. One of them accidentally kicked the football over the fence, and it rolled into ...read more

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 4:4

Tags: Envy, Successful

Worldliness Is Horizontal Life. Worldliness Has ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Worldliness is horizontal life. Worldliness has nothing of the vertical in it. It has ambition; it has no aspirations. Its motto is success, not holiness. It is always saying, Onward, never Upward. A worldly man or woman ...read more

Tags: Worldliness

[064]. A Message From A Poem – Dull The Sight - Life’s Not Right

Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 22, 2025

[064]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DULL THE SIGHT - LIFE’S NOT RIGHT This short poem is a bit like a person trying to read with glasses that are smeared and hazy. What is read will be distorted and the wrong message will be gained. If he/she tries to walk around then an accident is a ...read more

Scripture: James 5:19-20, Hebrews 10:25, 1 John 1:7

Tags: Poem, Dull, The Bible, Light, Vision, Prayer, Sight, Poetry  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

About 10 Years Ago, A Young & Very Successful ...  PRO

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 21, 2001

About 10 years ago, a young & very successful executive named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his sleek, black, 12-cylinder Jaguar XKE, which was only 2 months old. He was watching carefully for kids darting out from between parked cars & ...read more

Tags: Compassion, Christian Love, Christian Disciplines

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

People Neglect Their Opportunities In Life. I ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

People neglect their opportunities in life. I received a pastor’s letter in the mail last week. In the 1940s, IBM considered commercializing the new computer operation they had with the US Government. But after due consideration, Thomas J Watson, chairman of IBM, issued this statement, ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Theodore Roosevelt's Thoughts On Family

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009

Theodore Roosevelt’s Thoughts on Family Theodore Roosevelt said in 1917, "No other success in life--not being president, or being wealthy, or going to college, or writing a book, or anything else--comes up to the success of the man or woman who can feel that they have done their duty and that ...read more

Tags: Family

How Do You Maintain Humility? Success Can ...

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007

How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that: Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

How Do You Maintain Humility? Success Can ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that: Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to ...read more

Tags: Doing God's Will