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ILLUSTRATIONS
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by Various Authors
B o o k s F o r Th e A g e s
AGES Software • Albany, OR USA
Version 2.0 © 1996, 1997
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SELECTED
SERMON
ILLUSTRATIONS
SAGE Software
Albany, Oregon
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CONTENTS
A
Abiding Of God And His Work
Absence
Acknowledgment Of The Son
Adoption
Aim
Altar-Going
Anguished Utterances
Anxiety
Armor Of God
B
Backbone
Backslidden
Bearing The Burdens Of Others
Beauty Of This World
Beethoven
Benefactors (Christlike)
Bible
Bible
Bible
Bibles For The Poor
Bitterness
Blame
Blood of Christ
Burden Of Prayer Removed
Business As A Christian
C
Carnal Discontent
Children
Children
Children
Christ
Christ Jesus
Coldness
Communion With God
Concern For A Soul
Confiding In Others
Conscience
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Consecration
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Creation
Criticism
Cross Of Christ
Crossing The Deadline
D
Dancing
Dead Spiritually
Death Of Christ
Death Of The Saved/The Unsaved
Death of the Wicked
Decor In The Home
Discernment Of False Professors
Disclosing Personal Matters
Dried Fountains
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
Entire Sanctification
F
Faith Unto Salvation
Faithfulness
False Goodness
Feeling
Fire Of Sin
Flattery
Flow Of The Spirit
Freedom
Fretting
Friends
G
Getting And Regretting
Giving To Missions
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Gospel Truth
Grace And Light
Growth
Guilty Remembrance
H
Handiwork Of God
Harmony
Helpfulness
Heroism
Holiness Fighters
Holy Spirit
Homes Built Spiritually Safe
Hope For A Future Life
Hopeless At Death
Hoping
Humbling
I
Impatience
Increase
Instruments Used By God
Intercessory Prayer
J
Joy
Joy Of The Lord Restored
Judgment Of Others
Judgment Of Others
Judgment To Come
K
Kind Words
Kindness
Kindness
Kneeling To Christ
L
Lack of Grace
Lacking From One’s Life
Law Of The Lord
Learning
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Life In This World
Light
Loneliness
Loquacity Or Silence In Testimony
Lost In Darkness
Lying
M
Marks of the Lord Jesus
Meet Again
Memory
Mental Freshness
Mixed Metaphors
Money-Raising
N
Now Is The Accepted Time
Now Is The Accepted Time
O
Opportunities
Opportunity
P
Peace With God
Perseverance
Pillars For Holiness
Pillars Who Truly Support
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Pleasing God
Poor
Power From On High
Prayer
Prayer Challenge
Prayer
Preparation To Die
Pride
Prodigal Son Parable
Protected
Q
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Quietness
R
Regulation
Repentance
Rest In The Holy Ghost
Restitution
Revival
Revival Meetings
Rule Or Ruin Spirit
S
Satisfaction
Saved
Saviour’s Sacrificial Death
Scientific Errors
Scripture
Sealed
Seasoning Of Young Preachers
Second Coming Of Christ
Self-Sacrifice
Self-Will
Service
Shaking
Shallow Professors
Shattered Minds
Shouting Mistakenly
Silence
Sin Business
Singers For Revival Meetings
Singing
Singing Of Christian Songs
Sky Piercers
Social Gospel
Soldiers In The Lord’s Army
Soul Of Man
Soul-Winning
Standing Up For Jesus
Stature Thought To Be Great
Straying From The Path Of Duty
Swayed Without Substance
T
Talk About You
Testimony
Testimony
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Treatment of a Faithful Preacher
U
Unconditional Surrender
Union With Christ
Unpardonable Sin
Used Of God
V
Vacillation
Vision Of Faith
W
Will Perfectly Surrendered
Word Of God
Word Of God
Word Of God
Workers
Works
Worldly Reformers
Worry
Worry
Worry
Write-Ups For Church Publications
Write-Ups For Church Publications
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A-TOPICS
TOPIC: Abiding Of God And His Work
SUBTOPIC: Contrasted With Transitory Humanity
TITLE: The Absent Singer
I am penning these lines from Omaha, on my way to my next camp
meeting in South Dakota. I stopped off a couple of days here to rest
before beginning the next battle.
A few years ago I held a meeting in this city. Each night after leaving the
big tent, I would come back to my room at the hotel and sit down
exhausted in a chair by the window at 11 oclock, and remain buried in
thought looking out at a star-sprinkled sky until midnight.
Just below me was a kind of summer garden, where men gathered, smoked
and chatted, while a young man, accompanied by several musical
instruments, sang a number of touching songs and ballads.
From the same lofty room window of the hotel I have looked down two
nights. But the garden has been displaced by a large brick building. The
audience that used to sit over there is departed. And the young man who
sang is gone. I catch myself wondering where he is. The only things that
have not changed and still abide are the solemn stars and the silent but
eloquent sky. Men come and go; but God and his work abide forever.
Living Illustrations By B. Carradine
TOPIC: Absence
SUBTOPIC: Realization of and Reasons for
TITLE: The Vacant Chair
Here is a piece of household furniture that is beheld everywhere. Other
articles of the home furnishing may come or go, may be present or absent,
according to the taste or caprice of the owners of the dwelling, but this
strangely pathetic and all but ubiquitous thing called the vacant chair is to
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be found in palace and hovel, in club room and hotel, in legislative
chamber and in business exchange. Wherever we go we notice the empty
seat. The chair is left, but a face and form is gone that once being beheld
there gives a meaning, interest and value to the piece of furniture that
could never be expressed in dollars by the thousand or the million.
Whether the chair is made vacant by death, or by an absence of months
and years, still its peculiar power is exercised. Its very emptiness has a
voice and language; its silence pleads; its pathetic loneliness seems in a
strange sense to atone for the mistakes and failures of the past, while at
the same time it recalls the kind and beautiful things which the absent
occupant once performed. So that we turn away with a swelling heart and
filling eyes, all but overpowered with the feeling that some how the big,
busy world has become wonderfully empty and that life is hardly worth
the living and all because of a single vacant chair.
When the absent one has been the soul of kindness, lived to make others
happy and comfortable, the empty seat then becomes so powerful in its
mute eloquence that it has to be moved out of sight to the garret or lumber
room. Truly a person needs no better lawyer to argue in his behalf in the
ecclesiastical, social, and home circle than his or her own vacated chair.
Those that have been emptied by unkindness injustice and wrong cannot
be numbered. They are to be found in the church, both in pulpit and pew.
Faithful men and women for no other reason than that they have been true
to the Bible, to the Blood of Christ, and to the doctrines of Methodism
have been invited out, frozen out, and legislated from their places. Other
forms are thrust quickly into the forsaken seat to keep memory and
conscience quiet; but the fact remains that Davids place is empty, a piece
of history that is remembered on earth, and never forgotten in heaven.
The vacant chair is to be found also in the household. There are women
today driven forth into a lonely, desperate struggle for bread, through the
drunkenness, unkindness and unfaithfulness of their husbands. And there
are not only women forced from home, but sons, husbands, and fathers.
We are not sure that Wesley deserved all the credit he obtained for his
intense activity and multiplied labors. He had no home life.
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