Sermons & Devotionals by Ernest O'Neill

Do you ever feel at times that you're just a consumer statistic, a head to be counted or taxed, another bundle of learned responses and programmed behaviour? More of us than ever before feel we're becoming objects to be manipulated rather than free human personalities with our own individual wills. ... Read More

We think of our modern era as the scientific age. Science, we say, is based on the careful observation of facts on the basis of which we formulate scientific principles. We then modify these principles periodically as observed facts increase our knowledge of the world in which we live. So, we believ... Read More

The Person who made us humans explained very clearly down through history that we operated on three levels of life-not two! Even in the simple outline of our creation which He presented to mankind in its childhood at the beginning of the world, he showed Moses that He made man out of the dust of the... Read More

It is good for every one of us to give our testimony from time to time, and though you have suffered mine before, I think that I should give it today. I was born in Belfast about 46 years ago into a working-class home. My dad worked in the shipyards in Belfast and we had enough money, but not much m... Read More

Most of us wonder what life is really about. We don't, of course, express this to other people because they all seem to know. So, we keep on living day after day and do the things we're supposed to. Eventually, we avoid this basic question altogether and get lost in the details of sheer subsistence.... Read More

What was it like to be the first person on the earth? The account given in the first book of the collection of history books called "The Bible" helps you to imagine it. Seemingly, the Maker of the world was able to give directions via mental or verbal communications. So, you would have known that a ... Read More

Where is the Blessedness? "Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul refreshing view Of Jesus and His Word?" Do these words express the cry in your own heart? In private as you read this, what is your reaction to this verse? Here between you and this article, where... Read More

Many of us think of religion as morality. We think that "being religious" just means "being good" or "being a moral person". We slip into this error because we read a Biblical statement like "God whom I serve with a clear conscience" (2 Timothy 1:3), and we identify "conscience" as the faculty that ... Read More

What lies behind all this life that we see around us? Plant life, human life, animal life, emotional life--is there any kind of super life that brought all this into being? We've answered "yes." Not only have we the circumstantial evidence of order and design in nature and human nature that some int... Read More

Imagine a math teacher placing calculators on her desk and telling the class she wanted them to begin using them. After a few days she finds half the class use them but half do not. So the next day, she gives them thirty square roots to work out in 15 minutes, reckoning that this will force them to ... Read More

If you are not just a collection of atoms thrown up by some mindless explosion millions of years ago but were in fact created by an intelligent and loving Being as part of his own Son, how then would you live ? Obviously very differently from the strategy you use if you have to depend simply on your... Read More

Do you remember the scene that took place about 2000 years ago in that park outside the city of Jerusalem? Darkness had fallen and in one corner of the park there were a few peasants lying on the ground, sleeping and then a little way off from them, there was another youngish man on his knees, prayi... Read More

I'd like to try to speak on how to get a clean heart this morning. There are Christians and then there are Christians and then there are Christians. That's right. Then at different stages of my life I was each of those. This morning you are one or other of them. It's important to know which you are.... Read More

Human life consists of the exercise of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual powers. We were all born with these abilities and our lives are limited by them. However, our Maker never intended that--He always meant us to share His own superhuman life. We were made for that. That's why we want... Read More

This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship wit... Read More

It's such a new thought -- the thought that you are actually part of someone else. In a way it's the first thought that is real for you -- beacuse you entered this world as part of your mother. But somehow once we've been born we begin to regard ourselves as absolutely "our own" and on our own". Muc... Read More

Has your mother ever said to you, "It's just a woman's intuition!", when you asked her how she knew what you were going to do? Often women seem to have a sixth sense that is more developed in them than in men. They seem to have an insight into people's characters that appears to be deeper than just ... Read More

Present Dissatisfaction Today more of us than ever are able to choose what school we attend, what jobs we want, what clothes we wear, what vacations we take, and what we do with our leisure time. But, despite all the mental and emotional satisfaction that results from such improved participation in ... Read More

Most of us feel deep within us that we know what we ought to do. Even if we have lived amoral lives for many years, we still feel stirrings within us that urge us to do what we know is right. Although we try to dismiss these feelings as childish inhibitions or a throwback to Victoriana, we find they... Read More

What is life about? Why are you here? Why does the earth exist? All of us humans can give our best answers to these questions, but even to Einstein we have to say, "What do you know about these cosmic questions?" We have to say this because all of us humans suffer the same limitation--we're trying t... Read More