Sermon Illustrations
Free Sermon Illustrations for Preaching :

In Sermon Illustrations: "True Repentance" showing 1,121-1,140 of 3,211

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
  • Franklin Clark Fry Once Said, "A Person Who Says ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 1,117 views

    Franklin Clark Fry once said, "A person who says he believes in God but never goes to church is like a person who says he believes in education but never goes to school." So, if you call yourself a Christian, commit yourself to a local, ...read more

  • Franklin Clark Fry Once Said, "A Person Who Says ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 1,196 views

    Franklin Clark Fry once said, "A person who says he believes in God but never goes to church is like a person who says he believes in education but never goes to school." So, if you call yourself a Christian, commit yourself to a local, ...read more

  • When G. K. Chesterton, A Delightful British ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
     | 1,109 views

    When G. K. Chesterton, a delightful British writer, as answered the same question – “What’s wrong with the world?” – he answered, “I am.” Can we, will we say that – The problem is sin! My sin. The biblical account is true. The evils we do – ...read more

  • Nobody Who Is Afraid Of Laughing, And Heartily ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,789 views

    "Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him; and, on the other hand, it would betray a sorry want of faith to distrust a friend because he laughs at you. Few men, I ...read more

  • A. W. Tozer: "Before We Can Be Filled With The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 8, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,513 views

    A. W. Tozer: "Before we can be filled with the Spirit, the desire to be filled must be all-consuming. It must be for the time the biggest thing in the life, so acute, so intrusive as to crowd out everything else. The degree of fullness in any life accords ...read more

  • The Attitude Of The Average Christian Today Is ...

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
     | 2,226 views

    The attitude of the average Christian today is … “JUST RELAX AND ONE DAY BE RAPTURED.” But He is coming with flaming vengeance on this world...with flaming vengeance!!! And to you who think... “Some time ago I bought my ticket to Jordan” be warned...true Christians ...read more

  • Courage And Heroism

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
     | 3,751 views

    COURAGE AND HEROISM "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." — Mark Twain — ("Signs of the Times," December 1996, p. 2) "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to ...read more

  • Trusting The History

    Contributed by Michael Dean on Jan 26, 2013
     | 2,883 views

    TRUSTING THE HISTORY "..in this era of history, the most attacked part of the Bible's history is Genesis 1-11.  When people understand they can trust the history of the early chapters of Genesis, they can better understand and be more responsive to the gospel--the gospel that is based ...read more

  • Blessed Are The Meek  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,619 views

    Blessed Are The Meek As you study the character traits described in the Beatitudes, you can't help but realize one thing; these qualities are by no means natural to the human spirit. They are very foreign. Poverty of spirit, true mourning over personal sins against God and meekness does ...read more

  • The Prominent Evolutionist William Provine Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2002
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,578 views

    The prominent evolutionist William Provine of Cornell University candidly conceded that if Darwinism is true, then there are five inescapable implications: there’s no evidence for God; there’s no life after death; there’s no absolute foundation for right and wrong; there’s no ultimate ...read more

  • There Is A Difference Between Reconciliation And ...  PRO

    Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
    based on 41 ratings
     | 6,506 views

    There is a difference between reconciliation and forgiveness. In the cross, Jesus provided for the forgiveness of everyone. But not everyone will be reconciled with Him–because they won’t seek to be reconciled with Him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer forgave his Nazi guards, but he was never reconciled with ...read more

  • It Is Distinctly Stated That The Son Of Man Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Gresham on Jan 19, 2004
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,273 views

    “It is distinctly stated that the Son of Man is come to seek…Seeking the lost is more than a mere attempt to locate unsaved men, for they are present on every hand. The term ‘seeking the lost,’ therefore, suggests a divine preparation of the unsaved that will bring them into adjustment with the ...read more

  • The Odds Of Just Eight Old Testament Prophecies ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2007
     | 1,374 views

    The odds of just eight Old Testament prophecies of Jesus coming true is one in 100 million billion. That’s millions more than the total number of people who have ever lived. If you had this many silver dollars, it would cover the state of ...read more

  • George Bernard Shaw, In One Of His Better ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2009
     | 992 views

    George Bernard Shaw, in one of his better statements, said: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, and being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little ...read more

  • The Sponge

    Contributed by Timothy Brown on Feb 28, 2010
     | 3,280 views

    THE SPONGE Think a moment about a water-saturated sponge. If we push down with our finger even slightly, water runs out onto the table. We immediately know what fills the interior pockets of the sponge. The same is true of ourselves. We can tell ...read more

  • Identity Crisis

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 19, 2011
     | 7,215 views

    IDENTITY CRISIS Theorist Erik Erikson coined the term "identity crisis" and believed that it was one of the most important conflicts people face in development. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself. Those ...read more

  • We Are ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 29, 2008
     | 1,162 views

    We Are Accountable Three men who, police say, stole a car in San Jose, California, and drove it to Chico, California, were arrested in Chico when police caught them trying to break into the same car because they had locked the keys inside, or at least thought they had. Chico officer Jose Lara said ...read more

  • Our Topic Today Is Worship And Service. I'd Like ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 29, 2009
     | 2,276 views

    Our topic today is worship and service. I’d like to begin by telling a true story that happened to Reverend Forrest I. Sears. He writes: Wilma had been a member of our church for many, many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking ...read more

  • Believing Isn't Just Seeing

    Contributed by Dennis Marquardt on Oct 18, 2000
     | 4,206 views

    BELIEVING ISN'T JUST SEEING A student wrote on a physics exam that he did not believe in the atom, so he did not write a paper on it like instructed. The professor called him up and asked him why he didn’t believe in atoms. The student’s response was, "I have never seen one, and no one else has ...read more

  • When My Hat Is Here...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 21, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,703 views

    WHEN MY HAT IS HERE... So, it’s not true that you can be just as good a Christian without going to church. You can’t simply say "Well, I’m there in Spirit… but I don’t have to be there in body." It’s kind of like the true story of an incident that took place at a University. This university had a ...read more

  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 160
  • 161
  • Next