COMPASSIONATE PRAYERS A group of fanatical Muslims burned several churches in Zaire one night. The next morning a young Muslim who had been one of the torch-carriers passed one of the churches. As the Christians…
Sermon Illustrations
GOSPEL IS LOVE Several years ago a study was made of some Princeton Divinity students in order to determine how closely they followed the teachings of the Good Samaritan. The group of students were told…
TRANSFERRING TRANSFORMATION "Christianity is not a matter of transferring information but of transferring transformation." From Net Results, Feb. 1991
REFLECTED LIGHT Rising straight and tall some 350 feet above the sea, the beam from Gibbs Lighthouse in Bermuda can be seen 40 miles out in the Atlantic. Ships rely on the light from Gibbs…
MISSIONS After the missions had been established a paper of instructions was printed in France for the fathers who were to go to the Hurons. It is very revealing. "You should love the Indians like…
REPENT OF PRIDE Repent of the arrogant assumption that you alone are favored, that you are exempt from the moral demands put on others, that being better than your worst neighbors is your salvation, as…
CHANGE THE WORLD BY CHANGING ME The Sufi Bayazid says this about himself: "I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was 'Lord, give me the energy to change…
HEART STRANGELY WARMED Writing in his journal on May 24th, 1738, John Wesley describes his Emmaus road or Damascus Road experience in an eloquent way: "In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society…
ROMANIAN RECEPTION Harry Dent was once a leader in government in Washington, DC, but now he has what he considers a more important mission. He is a lay evangelist who preaches in various places. He…
CHURCH'S PURPOSE The church is God's hospital for sinners and exercise room for Christians in training. It is not a clubhouse for saints. From The Baptist Bulletin: "Where Does Your Church Fit In?," by Joseph…
MIKE HORAN'S SUCCESS On one level, it's as simple as practice, practice, practice. But also involved is the man's spiritual identity. For Denver Bronco kicker Mike Horan, the importance of his Christian faith cannot be…
THE NUMBER ONE PRINCIPLE Calvin and Hobbes are walking in the woods talking one day and Calvin says: "A lot of people don't have principles, but I do. I'm a highly principled person! I live…
VICTORY OVER SIN Walking through a park, I passed a massive oak tree. A vine had grown up along its trunk. The vine started small and was nothing to bother about. But over the years…
TELL WHAT YOU KNOW A monastery at which several hundred young monks were receiving their training had a rule that each Wednesday evening's sermon must be preached by one of the novitiates as part of…
GOSPEL THWARTS MURDER PLOT Cinema Leo, a mobile outdoor film ministry, visits 26 villages each month to teach audiences about Christ. Director Arnie Mayer recalls one evening when a woman's life was spared because her…
MELT THE WORLD If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
GOSPEL SUBSTITUTES Most people think of prison as a place where inmates simply kill time. Ironically, it was in prison, last Easter, that I learned a powerful lesson about redeeming time. Before preaching at Mississippi's…
GIVE JESUS YOUR WORLD Bruce Larson, in Believe and Belong, tells how he helped people struggling to surrender their lives to Christ: "For many years I worked in New York City and counseled at my…
FROM TOWN HALL TO HEAVEN Scheduled to speak in Philadelphia at the Town Hall, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen decided to walk from his hotel even though he was unfamiliar with the city. Sure enough, he…
TIME TO REPENT A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think that the next election…
