Sermon Illustrations

  • Bible

    Centre Of The Bible

    What is the shortest chapter in the Bible? (Answer – Psalms 117)

    What is the longest chapter in the Bible? (Answer – Psalms 119)

    Which chapter is in the center of the Bible (Answer – Psalms 118)

    Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118

    Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118

    Add these numbers up and you get 1188

    What is the center verse in the Bible? (Answer – Psalms 118:8)

    Psalms 118:8 (NKJV) “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
    confidence in man.”

    Quoted from funny(at)net153.com Submitted by Debbie T.

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    Basic Information Before Leaving Earth

    A father was approached by his small son, who told him proudly, “I know what the Bible means!” His father smiled and replied, “What do you mean, you ‘know’ what the Bible means?” The son replied, “I do know!”

    “Okay,” said his father. “So, Son, what does the Bible mean?”

    “That’s easy, Daddy. It stands for ‘Basic Information Before Leaving Earth.’”

    B – BASIC
    I – INSTRUCTIONS
    B – BEFORE
    L – LEAVING
    E- EARTH

    Quoted from net153.com Email list

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    Mahatma Gandhi

    Mahatma Gandhi spoke forcefully to Christians when he said, “You Christians have in your keeping a document with enough dynamite in it to blow the whole of civilization to bits, to turn society upside down, to bring peace to this war-torn world. But you read it as if it were just good literature, and nothing else.”

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    Defend The Bible!

    “Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself!”

    C.H. Spurgeon

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    How To Get To Heaven

    The Bible was given to us to tell us how we can get to heaven, not to tell us how the heavens work.

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    Living Creature

    “The Bible is no mere book, but a living creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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    The Best Book

    “The new Testament is the very best book that ever was or will be known in the world.”

    Charles Dickens

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    God’s Promises

    “O man, I beseech you, do not treat God’s promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but believe them and the use them.”

    C.H. Spurgeon

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    Translating The Bible

    “I felt rather like a electrician re-wiring an ancient house without being able to turn of the mains.”

    J.B. Phillips writing about his experience when translating the new Testament.