COLSON ON HOLINESS Holiness then, is... conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God. From Loving God, by Charles Colson, pg. 127
Sermon Illustrations
MEEKEST INHERITANCE In a recent Frank and Ernest by Thaves, you see two of the placard prophets walking down the street. The first is displaying a sign that says, "The meek shall inherit the earth."…
IS THAT ALL WE ARE? John MacArthur quotes a leading publisher of pornographic magazines as saying, "Sex is a function of the body, a drive which man shares with animals, like eating, drinking and sleeping.…
PRAY FOR THE SICK After Sunday School class members had noted the numerous members of the church that were ill, the teacher bowed his head and began, "Lord, we pray for all those who are…
WHEN IT ALL DRIES UP Tim Stafford describes the frustration and anguish that causes doubt in the hearts and minds of all Christians from time to time: "Each doubt is different. Prayers aren't answered. Some…
SOLDIERS MUST WALK The first skill a soldier learns in the US Army is how to walk! That's right! Before he ever learns to fire a weapon, dig a fox hole, or survive in combat,…
WASTE OR WORSHIP Unless we are all drawn toward something larger than ourselves - toward the One who calls us toward praise, love, community and justice - we will be preoccupied by petty battles... From…
WORSHIP BEYOND OURSELVES At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves. By Philip Gibbs, quoted in Light From Many Lamps, by Lillian Watson
ORWELL ON WORSHIP When men stop worshipping God, they promptly start worshipping man, with disastrous results. By George Orwell
WHAT WORSHIP IS NOT Worship is not just personal introspection, or we would worship our feelings. Worship is not even a warm glow, or we would worship that. We worship One outside ourselves. We concentrate…
COUNTERCURRENT WORSHIP Worship is a countercurrent to the drift into materialism, narcissistic self- indulgence, and the relentless bombardment of the media. Worship opens up to the transcendent and enables us to see through the make-believe…
THE CREATOR IS GREATER The poet is always greater than his rhyme. The artist is always greater than the work on the canvas. The singer is always greater than his or her music. The sculptor…
CREATED FOR HOLINESS Oswald Chambers has observed: "God has one destined end for mankind, that being holiness. His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing machine for men; He…
GHANDI ON SIN Mahatma Ghandi's list of deadly sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
BABIES WITH WHISKERS I want to make one thing perfectly clear. There must not be the slightest misunderstanding of this point. I don't mind pushing the spiritual baby buggy. I don't mind giving the new…
FIVE TYPES OF PHARISEES Let me share with you an example of some so-called good sinners -- the Pharisees of Jesus' day. These people were the conventional respected "good" men of their time. Their name…
FIND SOMEONE TO WORSHIP So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. By Feodor Dostoevski in The Brothers Karamazov
THE INSIGHTS OF ATHEISTS Charnock writing about atheists: "It is questioned whether any of them (atheists), noted in history with that infamous name, were downright deniers of the existence of God, but rather because they…
SPEEDY CHURCH The Rapid City Journal recently carried an article about a church in Greenwich, New Jersey. The piece notes that "The church's minister is trying a new way to draw people into the fold:…
WORSHIP GOD ON THE GREEN A few years back a newspaper advertisement for a golf course in Wisconsin offered Sunday morning golfers combined worship on the green at the Nine Springs Golf Course at 8:00…
