In Sermon Illustrations: "Until I Come"

Several Years Ago As I Was Coming Home From ...

Contributed by Elizabeth Stutler on Jul 14, 2007

Several years ago as I was coming home from Wesley Seminary at the end of four very long weeks, I felt a bubbling of energy within myself. I felt like I was waiting on a precipice about to jump into a new life. Energy was being sparked within me. I was ready to follow Christ wherever I was led ...read more

Denomination: Methodist

I Heard A Comedian Complain: "How Come The Jews ...

Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Dec 16, 2008

I heard a comedian complain: "How come the Jews get to have SEVEN celebrations? As far as I can see the Christians only get to have three: Christmas, ...read more

Tags: Holidays

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

I Come From A Family Where Gravy Is Considered A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

I come from a family where gravy is ...read more

Tags: Food

If Fame Is Only To Come After Death, I Am In No ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"If fame is only to come after death, I am in ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

God Washes The Eyes By Tears Until They Can ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Come And Die  PRO

Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 29, 2004

COME AND DIE In The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “The cross is laid on every Christian. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death–we give over our lives to death. The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:34-38

Tags: Discipleship

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Come Home

Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 27, 2012

COME HOME Longing to leave her poor Brazilian neighborhood, Christina wanted to see the world. Discontent with a home having only a pallet on the floor, a washbasin, and a wood-burning stove, she dreamed of a better life in the city. One morning she slipped away breaking her mother’s ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:12-14

Tags: Salvation, Lost, Home, Seek, Found, Wander  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Coming Quietly

Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Jan 1, 2023

The Lord of all comes as a slave amidst poverty. Choosing for his birthplace an unknown village in a remote province, he is born of a poor maiden and accepts all that poverty implies. He chose surroundings that were poor and simple, so ordinary as to be almost unnoticed, so that people would know ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11

Tags: Humility, Incarnation, Christmas, Poverty

Denomination: Pentecostal

Coming For His Crown  PRO

Contributed by Chuck Hill on Dec 8, 2004

COMING FOR HIS CROWN When the Archbishop of Canterbury crowned Queen Elizabeth II, he laid the crown on her head with this pronouncement, “I give thee, O sovereign lady, this crown to wear until he who reserves the right to wear it shall return.” The Archbishop ...read more

Tags: Second Coming, Christmas Advent, Divinity Of Christ

Denomination: Assembly Of God

They Who Come To Christ, Do Not Only Come To A ...

Contributed by Dylan Potter on Jul 18, 2003

“They who come to Christ, do not only come to a resting-place after they have been wandering in a wilderness, but they come to a banqueting-house where they may rest, and where they may feast. They may cease from their former troubles and toils, ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?, God's Provision, Evangelism Urgency

Denomination: Methodist

When Sorrows Come, They Come Not Single Spies, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, ...read more

Tags: Disappointment

An Optimist Stays Up Until Midnight To See The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. I pessimist stays up to ...read more

Tags: Endurance

Sometimes A Thing Has To Be Repeated Until We ...

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008

Sometimes a thing has to be repeated until we hear and understand.A man asked his physician what to do about his wife’s hearing, which he felt was deteriorating. The doctor suggested a little test, which the man applied. He went home and found his wife working at the kitchen sink. Just inside the ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

Coming Out Of The Sewer

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 27, 2008

COMING OUT OF THE SEWER I remember a documentary, it was about a Christian agency that worked with children who lived in sewers - somewhere in eastern Europe - the work of the agency is to re-house these kids - a chance for a new life away from the darkness and filth of the sewers into foster ...read more

Tags: Sin Exposed

Denomination: Baptist

You Are Not A Christian Until You Receive A New ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2005

You are not a Christian until you receive a new nature and if you receive a new nature there will be evidence. You can educate a pig to stay out of the mud and eat differently but on a hot day with fellow pigs he will resort to his normal nature and dive happily into the mud. If you could give ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17, Proverbs 26:11, 2 Peter 2:22, 1 John 3:7-8

Tags: New Creation, New Life, Nature, Salvation, Repentance  (view more)  (view less)

Second Coming Of Jesus

Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017

In the 19th century, there was a wave of enthusiasm for prophecies predicting the actual date for the Second Coming of Christ. One such prophecy was an Adventist leader name William Miller. After studying Daniel 8, Miller predicted that Christ would return on March 21, 1842, but then revised the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 2:1

Tags: Second Coming, Jesus Return

Denomination: Methodist

Until Tuesdayseptember 11th, The Bloodiest Day In ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Hensley on Sep 14, 2001

Until TuesdaySeptember 11th, the bloodiest day in U.S. history was Sept. 17, 1862, when about 4,700 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War battle of Antietam. Pearl Harbor killed 2,388 Americans, and ...read more

Tags: Independence Day, Holidays Civic

Denomination: Baptist

A Man Is Not Old Until Regrets Take The Place Of ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” ...read more

Tags: Faith, Emotions, Leadership General

Did You Know That It Was Not Until 1850 That Our ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006

Did you know that it was not until 1850 that our world reached the one billion mark? By 1930 we reached two billion. It took only thirty more years for the world’s population to reach three billion. We have now arrived at five billion. Statisticians tell us that by the end of the twentieth century ...read more

Tags: Character

The Wheel Was Mans Greatest Invention Until He ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

The wheel was mans greatest invention until ...read more

Tags: Addiction