Sermons & Devotionals by Ernest O'Neill

Playing Catch-Up? Many of us think of Our Creator as playing "catch-up". We imagine his creation of the world and us in terms of our own small minds. We can grasp that He wated children whom He could love and enjoy; we can even understand that they could not be His children unless they had freedom o... 阅读更多

Where do you think life came from? Perhaps you reply that you haven't a clue. But there do seem to be some clues. If summer came one year in January and the next year in July, if some people fell off Australia while others managed to stay on, then one would be tempted to say the whole universe resul... 阅读更多

We all have times when we are carefree and happy. And we all have other times when we sink into depression, fear, and anxiety. In those times everything seems dark and there is no consolation that can lift us out of the pit of despair. Even the universe itself seems a terrifyingly large place in whi... 阅读更多

If you ask a little child who has been at Sunday school what the purpose of life is, every little child will answer, "Well, the purpose of life is to live according to God's will." That appeals to common sense. It is just common sense that the creator of the world who made it and made us knows how b... 阅读更多

How Were You Made? One of the shortest explanations is given in the book that has the best historical and the sublimest spiritual claim to express reality. The Bible explains that our creator "formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a liv... 阅读更多

The Ideal You Plato was an ancient philosopher who has greatly influenced the way men have explained the meaning of life through the centuries. One of the surprising ideas he presented was that somewhere in heaven THERE IS A PERFECT FORM OF EVERYTHING HERE ON EARTH. Every artist or designer therefor... 阅读更多

When we were children, we slept when we felt tired and we ate when we felt hungry. Soon our mothers began to feed us when they reckoned it was good for us. Later, we began to eat at the times most other people eat -- usually three times a day. This is the way we did most things -- play, attend schoo... 阅读更多

"The mature individual-the rounded personality-the fully integrated pscyhe-the socially adjusted person"-we spend hours and hours discussing what a balanced human being is. But the ideal varies year by year according to which psychological theory or social goal dominates the magazines or the media. ... 阅读更多

"The spirit's willing but the flesh is weak" - even non-religious people use this saying at times to express the idea that "I really want to do this, but haven't the strength". The suggestion is that there's something inside me that wants to do what is right, but the rest of me is too weak to do it.... 阅读更多

The dreadful angst or anxiety that many of us feel these days is not simply due to the increasing sense of insecurity that humanity's complex diversity causes. It is due primarily to the vacuum in which so many of us live our lives. This vacuum is called "sin", but we all have made this word mean "i... 阅读更多

The ancient civilizations of the Incas, Egyptians, and Chinese have left us countless examples of mathematical, engineering, and architectural achievements that amaze us. We simply cannot understand how they did this when science and mathematics were at such a primitive stage of development. Of cour... 阅读更多

The mysteries of DNA are being unravelled daily by researchers. What began as a seemingly academic attempt to diagram the structure of the DNA molecule is leading to ways of identifying not only murderers who have ended others' lives but also ancestors who have begun others' lives. So, we are now ab... 阅读更多

Have you ever thought what it would be like to be the creator of the universe ? Obviously you and I have great difficulty imagining that because the creator must be infinitely wise and powerful to make a sun that can contain a million earths and other constellations that are millions of times the si... 阅读更多

The pivotal point in your personality is the relationship between your conscience and your will. This is the meeting-point of your spirit and your soul: If your will is ruled by your conscience, then God is able to infuse your soul with the life that He has imparted to your spirit. But if you consci... 阅读更多

"I can't be a goody-goody. I just have to be myself!" We like that kind of comment because we identify "goody-goodies" with hypocrites who pretend not to feel what the rest of us feel. They study to please the "authorities" by meticulous adherence to moral norms. They irritate us to death! On the ot... 阅读更多

Are You a Nothing? Most of us spend our lives thinking that we are little separate human creatures who appear for a brief moment -- and then go out like a light! Some of us feel we matter to our mothers, but many of us feel we matter to nobody. We feel this isn't somehow right, so we expend a lot of... 阅读更多

This then is the glorious reality in which we live! We are not little insignificant insect-like beings trying to thread our way through this evolutionary puzzle of complexity. We are actually each part of God Himself -- who has "created us in Christ Jesus for good works which He has prepared beforeh... 阅读更多

One of the most reliable facts in our history is that a certain man appeared about thirteen times over a period of a month with open wounds from which he had died. He ate fish and allowed fingers to be thrust into holes that nails had made in his hands during his crucifixion. He possessed material s... 阅读更多

Do you feel that you have experiences and thoughts that no one else has? Do you wonder at times how others live without the sense of uniqueness that you have? Do you feel glad at times that you aren't like others but are in fact as different as you are? Your mind and your emotions and your physical ... 阅读更多

"All Ideas Come From God" Who said this -- "All ideas come from God"? Albert Einstein -- the greatest thinker of our time. He had faced so many impossible problems and his mind had come up with so many ingenious answers that he was convinced that the ideas came from someone outside himself. He could... 阅读更多