In Sermon Illustrations: "welcome home" showing 141-160 of 5,151

The Market For Gifts And Home Decorative Accents ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 14, 2008

The Market for Gifts and home decorative accents hit $65.2 billion in ’07. The gift market grew at a compound annual rate of 14.7% from ’02 to ’07, while home decor rose 9.4%. Change is the norm. Unity Marketing’s Pam Danziger notes, “What was hot 5 years ago has gone frigidly cold. And what is hot ...read more

Tags: Business And Marketplace

A Famous Preacher Visited A Nursing Home That ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 19, 2008

A famous preacher visited a Nursing home that had some patients with Alzheimer's in it. He went around and greeted the people who were very glad to see him. He walked up to one lady and asked, "Do you know who I ...read more

Tags: Self, Identity

The Law Shows Us The Way Home

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008

THE LAW SHOWS US THE WAY HOME During World War II American planes flew from British airbases to missions over Germany. Finding their way home to base was often difficult because of horrible weather conditions. Churches with tall, stately spires dotted the English landscape. On overcast days the ...read more

Tags: Commandments General

The Worst Kind Of Home To Be Brought Up In Is ...

Contributed by Rick George on Jul 29, 2008

"The worst kind of home to be brought up in is the one with many pretensions and low performance, the best kind of home to be brought up in is the one with few ...read more

Tags: Family

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Key Step To Coming Home Is To Take ...

Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008

A key step to coming home is to take responsibilities for one’s life and stop blaming God, others, even the old Devil ...read more

Tags: Restoration

Denomination: Church Of God

Charity Should Begin At Home, But Should Not ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Charity should begin at home, but should ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Home, To The Small Boy, Is Merely A Filling ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Home, to the small boy, is merely a ...read more

Tags: Children

A Bible And A Newspaper In Every Home, A Good ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"A Bible and a newspaper in every home, a good school in every district all studied and appreciated as they merit -- are the principal ...read more

Tags: Political Freedom

John Havlik, With The Southern Baptist Home ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

John Havlik, with the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, declared that two factors were discovered in launching lay evangelism schools One was that the average layperson has a greater desire to be used in evangelism than church leaders realize. The other was that ...read more

Tags: Apologetics General

When Hudson Taylor Was Staying In The Home Of A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

When Hudson Taylor was staying in the home of a friend on one occasion, the host asked him, "But are you always conscious of abiding in Christ?" "While sleeping last night,"replied Mr. Taylor, "did I cease to abide in your Home because I was ...read more

Tags: Worship Benefits

The Ride Home From Coco Beach

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 10, 2009

THE RIDE HOME FROM COCO BEACH We were driving back to the hotel at 70 miles an hour on the interstate when a major rain storm hit, we could hardly see and then it happened. It was like something right out of Nascar - cars going airborne spinning and crashing into each other. I watched cars right ...read more

Tags: God's Provision

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Death Is Nothing Else But Going Home To ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 22, 2009

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for ...read more

Tags: Death

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Homeless Man Comes Home To His ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010

Homeless Man Comes Home to His Mother In 1988 there was a story in the LA Times entitled “A Mother’s Search for Russell Love.” It told of a woman in Houston named Beverly Elliott. She had not seen her son, Russell Love, for four years and had not heard from him in two years; but she knew he was ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:11-32

Tags: Parable Prodigal Son

Leaving Home Without Your Kids

Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 27, 2010

LEAVING HOME WITHOUT YOUR KIDS When we left to Pastor a Church in the Whitsundays we left our children, Ben and Rachel, behind in Sydney. Rachel was still in her late teens, but both of them were already involved in Hillsong Church and did not want to leave. We remember the pain of driving off ...read more

Tags: Divorce

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

At Christmas All Roads Lead Home

Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012

AT CHRISTMAS ALL ROADS LEAD HOME Marjorie Holmes writes, "At Christmas, all roads lead home. The filled planes, the packed trains and overflowing buses all speak eloquently of a single destination: home. Despite the crowding and the crushing, the delays, the confusion, we clutch our bright ...read more

Tags: Christmas Eve

Denomination: Methodist

Don't Come Home?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 26, 2021

We have hope. We walk in blessed assurance that Jesus died for us. The 7 years coming on this world will be THE GREAT TRIBULATION. Current, prayed up and ready Christians have nothing to fear. God is in control. We have hope. As the world goes into a paradigm or pattern change the dead in Christ ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 24:21-22

Tags: Second Coming, Be Ready

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Mrs. Edison Raised A Genius At Home.

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 19, 2022

Ilion Jones writes that "On the great biographer Ida M. Tarbell's 80th birthday, someone asked her to name the greatest persons she had ever met. She responded, 'The greatest persons I have ever met are those nobody knows anything about - women who have raised great ...read more

Tags: Women, Education, Homeschool, Mothers, Mother's Day, Teaching  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

You're Not Home Yet!

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 25, 2023

An old missionary couple had been working in Africa for years, and they were returning to New York City to retire. They had no pension; their health was broken; they were defeated, discouraged, and afraid. They discovered they were booked on the same ship as President Teddy Roosevelt, who was ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-23

Tags: Missionaries, Rewards, Spiritual Fruit, Fruit Of The Spirit, Faithfulness, Heaven  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Holding Confirmed Tickets

Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010

HOLDING CONFIRMED TICKETS Sometime when you're in an airport, observe the difference between passengers who hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. The ones with confirmed tickets read newspapers, chat with their friends or sleep. The ones on standby hang around the ticket ...read more

Tags: Salvation

Denomination: *other

Shaved Heads Reaffirms A Friend!

Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008

SHAVED HEADS REAFFIRMS A FRIEND! A teenage boy was diagnosed with cancer and as a result was in the hospital for several weeks to undergo radiation treatments and chemotherapy. During that time, he lost all of his hair. On the way home from the hospital, he was worried-not about the cancer, but ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational