Contributed by Troy Borst on May 9, 2001
based on 164 ratings
| 12,106 views
OPENING ILLUSTRATION… Mother’s Day Background, Pulpit Helps 1991
It was a woman named Anna M. Jarvis who first suggested the national observance of an annual day honoring all mothers because she had loved her own mother so dearly. At a memorial service for her mother on May 10, 1908, Miss Jarvis
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2001
based on 41 ratings
| 2,721 views
Like the children of Israel in today’s Bible reading, Hannah Hurnard, author of Hinds’ Feet on High Places, was once paralyzed by fear. Then she heard a sermon on scarecrows that challenged her to turn her fear into faith.
The preacher said, "A wise bird knows that a scarecrow is simply an
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2002
based on 12 ratings
| 6,623 views
A HUMBLE MEMORIAL
In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to establish a memorial to him. With that in mind they met with Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University.
Eliot received the unpretentious couple into his office and asked what he could do.
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by Ryan Johnson on Feb 22, 2002
based on 66 ratings
| 5,908 views
THE PEOPLE WITH THE ROSES
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose.
His interest in her had
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 12, 2002
based on 13 ratings
| 4,725 views
COMMUNION IN YOUR ‘CIVVIES’
Janet Daley writes in the UK Telegraph about a “movement among Church of England clergy in favour of going into civvies.” One of the things that the Church of England Synod is debating is the agitation some are having for dress-down Sundays, which would allow the vicar
...read more
Scripture:
Contributed by James May on Oct 19, 2002
based on 5 ratings
| 4,774 views
There is a movie that was recently produced that was titled “Shallow Hal”. In that movie, Hal was given a gift of seeing a woman, not as she physically looked but as their heart would appear. There were some who were over weight, some who were not so physically appealing to the normal observer,
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 29, 2004
“Up to Our Armpits in Our Own Choosing!” 1 Samuel 14: 37-46 Key verse(s): 39a: “As surely as the Lord lives, even if it lies with my son Jonathan, he must die . . .”
I was fifteen minutes late for my appointment and knew that it would be an embarrassment to admit that I had simply gotten
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 12, 2005
based on 5 ratings
| 4,097 views
“A Bruise Is Better than A Bite!” 1 Samuel 1:1-8 Key verse(s): 8:“Elkanah here husband would say to her, ‘Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?’”
“Constructive criticism is when I criticize you. Destructive criticism is
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Feb 1, 2005
based on 3 ratings
| 3,752 views
“Choosing To Love!” 1 John 2:7-11 Key verse(s): 9-10:“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.”
We live in a choice culture. In fact, we live in a culture
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 5, 2005
based on 10 ratings
| 3,868 views
“The Fundamental idea of Spirit in Hebrew and Greek is breath, air, wind, storm – the intensity depending on the context. It may be a gentle breath (John 20:22), a gale-force wind (Ex 15:8), a cooling breeze (Gen 3:8). Most essentially Spirit is transcendent and divine, not mere flesh; it is the
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 19, 2005
based on 9 ratings
| 3,555 views
Across Nicaragua, graffiti plastered houses, walls, and public buildings. The most prevalent campaign slogan everywhere was: “Daniel 5:25.” Intended to be a simple instruction on how to vote, it literally meant, “Vote for Daniel Ortega, the 5th position on the ballot, on the 25th day of
...read more
Scripture:
based on 2 ratings
| 2,831 views
Perserverance:
In Sydney, Australia you can climb the Sydney Harbor bridge...for a fee of course $145 per person...
This opportunity is available because a gentleman by the name of Paul Cave had the vision to establish the business Bridge Climb... At one stage it looked like the business would
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 28, 2006
based on 2 ratings
| 2,236 views
I remember an experience early in my life when God began teaching me to learn to listen for His voice and to turn to Him for help. I was outside playing on a sunny day. We had a maid, Beulah, who watched over us during the weekdays. Mother of course had 5 children in 6 years and 9 days, so we
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Baptist
Let’s see what good listeners you are. Each time I say the name "Samuel," you are to jump up and say, "Here I am!" and then lie back down again.
To begin, direct children to lie down and pretend they’re sleeping.
Samuel (pause while children jump up and down) was a young person who loved God and
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 21, 2007
based on 5 ratings
| 3,412 views
Have you ever been in front of a camera when the flash went off and you were blinded for a moment? This is the way some problems hit us. We are blinded by the problems that seem overwhelming to such a degree that we don’t know what to do. We can’t see anything. We can’t see past the problem or the
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Methodist
based on 1 rating
| 2,426 views
“One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement… It is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational