Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2008
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
At the foot of the gallows, the condemned man recited Psalm 51 and added a word of personal repentance. A shroud was placed over his head, and he climbed the ladder, which the executioner then pulled away, leaving him to “dance upon nothing,” as the vernacular put it.
...read more
Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Mar 11, 2010
Minnesota Crime Commission…
"Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it: his bottle, his mother's attention, his playmate's toys, his uncle's watch, or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage and
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2006
Crime: Gallup’s annual crime poll reports nearly 1 in 3 households experienced some type of crime during the past year, including 18% with one incident and another 14% with two or
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2006
Crime: Gallup’s annual crime poll reports nearly 1 in 3 households experienced some type of crime during the past year, including 18% with one incident and another 14% with two or
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The antidote for crime should be administered in childhood, by the parents. The problem is not fundamentally that of the improper
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2009
CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
It was September 18, 1910 on a Saturday at the Hiller home in Chicago. Clarence Hiller had spent the day painting his house. By early evening everyone was in bed asleep. The Hillers woke up in the early morning and noticed. Clarence went to investigate why a gas light
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is
...read more
Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on Feb 15, 2005
Can there be a crime more diabolical than the murder of a child.
We can not stomach abuse to children. Have you heard the story of Eric Sellers.
Eric shook his 4 pound baby so hard that he snapped the infants thigh bone. The judge told him "Your actions tell me you’re not the father of this
...read more
Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Brandon Sirolli on Jun 22, 2017
The Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to two flight attendants called into the cockpit of a small passenger jet. There the captain of the airliner told them the jet would soon crash and they needed to hand out parachutes but do so in an orderly manner so as not to cause problems. The two talked it
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
Several years ago the Minnesota Crime Commission released a statement that backs up what the Bible teaches about our human nature. In its report it stated that “every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish, and self-centered. He wants what He wants when He wants it – his
...read more
Contributed by Jim Butcher on Oct 15, 2018
C.S. Lewis died in 1963, but a comment in one of his writings speaks directly to the current opioid crisis. Lewis wrote:
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Aug 25, 2003
based on 7 ratings
| 3,444 views
I read of a man who had committed a crime for which he was deeply ashamed. When he’d served his prison sentence and was about to be released he wondered if his family would reject him because of the scandal he’d caused and the shame brought on the family. He wrote his parents saying that he would
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Feb 24, 2002
based on 14 ratings
| 2,209 views
Some years ago the MINNESOTA CRIME COMMISSION released a statement more in line with what the Bible teaches about man’s basic nature.
‘Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish, and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it – his bottle, his mother’s
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are
...read more