Sermon illustrations: President

Love and Peaceful Living

Abraham Lincoln won the presidency of a divided country. There were four major candidates in 1860,...

Choose Your Words Carefully

President Calvin Coolidge was famously known as a man of few words. His nickname was “Silent Cal.”...

A Godly Government

After decades of service to his country in both war and peace, George Washington completed his...

Heeding Wise Counsel

George Washington’s father died when he was just eleven, and for a time the young Washington had...

President Lincoln’s Promise

Abraham Lincoln was well known for total abstinence from alcohol. According to one well known story...

Quotes on Prayer

“I’d rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught His disciples how...

Don't Mail It

One day Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, came to him with a wrathful letter...

Morality and Liberty

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a...

Get Up Again

The story is told that Andrew Jackson’s boyhood friends just couldn’t understand how he became a...

Quotes about Mothers

“Praying mothers are America’s greatest assets.”—Theodore Roosevelt “A mother’s lap is the best...

Why the Stone Was Rolled Away

Abraham Lincoln’s casket was opened in 1901 because it was feared that his body was not there....

Are You Seeking God or Gold?

Roger Babson, an American historian, was visiting the president of Argentina about one hundred...

How Do You Explain Jesus Christ?

“A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father’s shop. He has no formal...

Respect for a Foe

During the Civil War someone reported to Abraham Lincoln that Edwin Stanton, one of the President’s...

The Makings of a President

Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to which Calvin...

Death Accepts No Substitutes

President Wilson once received a call in the middle of the night from a civil servant who informed...

The Best Man for the Job

President Lincoln had an early political rival named Edwin Stanton. He called Lincoln the original...

George Washington on Salvation

“Let my heart gracious God, be so effected with Your glory and majesty, that I may fulfill these...

Quotes on Success

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”—Abraham...

Thanksgiving Proclamations

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many...

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