Sermon Illustrations

Writing in The Sunday School Times many years ago, Newman Hall told about a Christian friend who was invited to debate publicly with some men who had no use for the Lord or the church. The believer said, "When you can find me twelve families who were once Christians but by embracing your views h

No Time to Brag From Mongolian folklore comes this helpful little fable of the boastful frog. Two geese were about to start southward on their annual autumn migration, when they were entreated by a frog to take him with them. On the geese expressing their willingness to do so if a means of conveya

J. Wilbur Chapman often told of the testimony given by a certain man in one of his meetings: I got off at the Pennsylvania depot as a tramp, and for a year I begged on the streets for a living. One day I touched a man on the shoulder and said, "Hey, mister, can you give me a dime?" As soon as I

Someone asked a pastor who had a rather sizable pulpit blister, how he got that fat. He said, "I don't know, it just snacked up on me."

Blood is central to Scripture. A quick search of the New International Version of the Bible finds the word blood in more that 350 verses. Why is blood such an important part of the message of the Bible? What should this blood mean to us today? For believers, the blood sacrifice of the Old Testament

"We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; more medicine, but less wellness. We read too little, watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. These

It's time to diet when… * You can see the pot at the end of the rainbow - and it's yours. * You take a shower, and nothing below your waist gets wet. * You get your shoes shines, and you have to take the guy's word for it. * The couch gets up when you do. * A Peeping Tom begs you to pull your

When C.H. Spurgeon was under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, he had a clear sense of the justice of God, and sin became an intolerable burden. He didn't fear hell as much as he despised the reality of his own wrong doing. He said, "All the while I had upon my mind a deep concern for the honor of

The Value Of A Smile It cost nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash, and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It cre

When George Whitefield, the eighteenth century British evangelist, first sailed to America, he wrote in his journal that the ship's cook had a drinking problem. When he was reproved about his sins, the cook boasted that he planned to reform his life two years before he died, but not before. Whitefie