Sermon Illustrations

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  • God looks on the heart

    God looks on the heart

    David is God’s choice to be the next king of Israel. It is a choice made to demonstrate one central truth: When God gets ready to pick a man, he isn’t bound by purely human considerations. Man’s checklist and God’s are two different things. To put it in the words of Holy Scripture, man looks…

  • Making good decisions

    When I was in seminary, I learned that “the heart” refers to the mission-control center of our bodies. It is the seat of decision-making. This is why you and I make wiser decisions after our hearts spend time in the house of mourning. I tend to make good decisions at funerals and poor ones in…

  • Attitude to money

    As Billy Graham put it, ‘If a person gets their attitude towards money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in their life.’ Nicky Gumbel – UK Vicar, Alpha Course (1955- )Click to Tweet

  • Revealer of my heart

    That’s because gratitude is a revealer of the heart, not just a reporter of details. And among the things it reveals about us most is our level of humility. Nancy Leigh DeMossClick to Tweet

  • Good and evil

    The Nobel Prize winner and most important Russian literary artist of the second half of the twentieth century, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), who was imprisoned for eight years for criticising Stalin, wrote, ‘The line separating good and evil passes, not through states, nor through classes, nor between political parties… but right through every human heart –…

  • We notice also that Paul

    We notice also that Paul finds a basic unity, even identity between the love of God as it is shown in the objective, factual event of Christ’s death on the cross and as it is experienced “in the heart” by teh believer (v5b). An emotional feeling of God’s love in itself, is little comfort to…