NO NEED -- JUST GREED In Milford, Connecticut a man carrying more than $13,000 was charged with shoplifting $28 worth of film, razors and batteries from a department store. Engelo Grener, 27, was arrested after…
Sermon Illustrations
TRUTH AND REPOSE God offers every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. By Ralph Waldo Emerson
GOSPEL A-B-C 's Acknowledge that you are a sinner and that you don't deserve heaven. (Romans 3:22 & 6:23) Believe that Jesus died for your sin and that He alone can save your soul. (Romans…
EVALUATING THE ENEMY It is never safe to assume that our enemy is as strong as we are. Our enemy may be much stronger.
LOVE DOESN'T ALWAYS FIX IT One of the ladies in my church tells of helping her son with some school work. Sean proudly handed his mother an essay he had written and asked her to…
A GATE NEEDS A FENCE "Look at that gate," Allan called from the back seat off the car as we drove down a gravel road in eastern Montana. I looked at the perfectly ordinary gate…
ROAD OF REPENTANCE Wabush, a town in a remote portion of Labrador, Canada, was completely isolated for some time. But recently a road was cut through the wilderness to reach it. Wabush now has one…
SEEING SIN When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own evilness less and less.…
WHEN WE REPENT When we repent, our thoughts concerning sin, God, and self reverse themselves completely. There is a radical change of conduct and direction. When the Prodigal repented, he went back home to the…
PRIORITIZED OBLIGATIONS Whenever a person tries to straighten out his or her life, one of the most fundamental things that must be done is to clarify just what is going on -- to sketch out…
REPENTANT PRAISE Jesus Christ died to take our sins upon himself. Having made such a great sacrifice, He would only be disappointed, If repentance is not the only way of salvation.
BACKSLIDDEN SHEPHERD The old shepherd who offered prayer in a Welsh revival put it exactly right when he lamented on his backsliding in these words: "Lord, I got among the thorns and briars and was…
TIME CANCELS NO SIN We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no…
REPENTANT ALTERATION Repentance is not merely being ashamed or sorry over sin, although genuine repentance always involves an element of remorse. It is a redirection of the human will, a purposeful decision to forsake all…
REPENTANT SURRENDER Now what was the sort of "hole" man had got himself into? He had tried to set up on his own, to behave as if he belonged to himself. In other words, fallen…
GOSPEL NEWS The Gospel must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the good news of redemption. From Loving God, by Charles Colson, page 95
MIXED MESSAGE A preacher was out for a walk one day when he saw an old man bent over a cat. But what was so strange was that instead of purring and mewing like cats…
FORGET THE EYE EXAM It had been many years since my last eye exam, and my wife was pestering me to make an appointment. The more she nagged, the more I procrastinated. Finally, she made…
LEADERS AND MANAGERS Managers produce order. Leaders create change. Managers make plans and budgets. Leaders establish direction and get a vision across. There's nothing mystical about vision. It's specific: What job must this company (church)…
OPPORTUNITY OR PROBLEM Barb and her husband Chuck were youth leaders who had just arrived at a campground for a weekend retreat with a youth group. While Chuck unloaded the van, Barb handed out room…
