http://www.e-steeple.com/wp Sermons and Illustrations for Proclaming the Eternal. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:20:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to e-steeple.com!  In addition to over 3,000+ tagged-and-categorized sermon illustrations, you'll also find over 250 full-text sermons, tagged and categorized by occasion and biblical text reference. The sermons are the product of over fifteen years spent proclaiming the Word.  I spent seven years in vocational ministry as pastor of churches ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/565/news/change-is-here/ In 1968 if you had asked the question, “Which country will lead the world in watchmaking for the remainder of this century and into the next?” the answer would have been a no-brainer to you— Switzerland. By 1968 Switzerland claimed 65 percent of the watchmaking market worldwide, and they made ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/549/sermons/i-dare-you/ He was known as the White House “hatchet man,” a man feared by even the most powerful personalities in the nation’s capital. The media once even referred to him as a man who was “incapable of humanitarian thought.” From 1969-1973, Chuck Colson acted as President Richard Nixon's special counsel. In ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/547/sermons/if-god-can-restore-egypt/ Sam Turner saw an opportunity and grabbed it. In 1951, Turner was a young man, 29 years old, serving an 8-year prison term near Atlanta, Georgia, for voluntary manslaughter and burglary. One day, while working on a road gang, a security lapse gave him the opportunity to "just walk ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/543/sermons/are-you-making-your-freedom-matter/ I met Dr. Clyde Smith for the first time when I walked into his freshman physics class at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. As we took our seats, Dr. Smith asked us to take out a sheet of paper, then directed our attention to three questions he had written on ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/541/sermons/is-god-your-everything/ In a recent year, electronics giant Radio Shack popularized the slogan "You’ve got questions ... We’ve got answers." Radio Shack developed that slogan as part of its attempt to maintain its market share of the $16 billion personal computer industry, which had become overcrowded in recent ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/539/sermons/youve-got-questions-hes-got-answers/ Isaiah 60 (NRSV): 1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/537/sermons/your-light-has-come/ "You can’t have it both ways" is a saying that reminds us that, in many life situations, it is necessary to choose. And, there can be unfortunate, ludicrous, or even tragic consequences in store if we refuse to choose. Particularly within the church, history has ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/535/sermons/you-must-have-it-both-ways/ Matthew 25: 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/533/sermons/you-dont-have-to-go-far/ Larry Walters always wanted to fly. When he graduated high school, he joined the service with the distant hope that somehow he might someday end up piloting a military plane. However, his dreams were cut down when an eye exam he took as a new enlistee ... http://www.e-steeple.com/wp/531/sermons/you-cant-just-sit-there/