Sermons & Devotionals by Ernest O'Neill

Eternal Life H.G. Wells -- and others -- dreamed of a "time-machine" that would lift us out of the present century and the limitations of our own time-space life and transfer us into a larger experience. That is what our Creator has done for us in his son Jesus Christ. Jesus himself is above time an... 阅读更多

Can a man live without air? Can you survive without breath? That's what man has done! The man Jesus, who made his physical body visible in the first century, explained what was going to happen to him in these words: "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the... 阅读更多

Is there such a thing as superhuman life? Is there any kind of life that is higher than the creaturely existence you and I have here on earth? Or are we imprisoned here on this planet with no hints of where it came from or how we got here? Have any of us succeeded in getting sufficiently deep into s... 阅读更多

Christ, the infinite Son of our creator, who transcends all time and space and as Jesus of Nazareth and Josh of Birmingham lifts up prostitutes like Magdalene in Galilee or Maggie in England, is living inside you this very morning as you awake! He wishes to be and do certain things this day through ... 阅读更多

"Turn the clock back- Not on your life -- it's been hard enough getting where I am." Besides, turning the clock back usually means losing all the gains that progress has brought about in our lives. But isn't there another meaning for the phrase -- Have you not wished at times that you could erase th... 阅读更多

Why Am I So Confused? One reason is that many of us don't understand the make-up of our own personalities. Many of us take Darwin more literally than he took himself. He never thought that evolution was the explanation of creation -- his "Origin of Species" ends like this: "There is a grandeur in th... 阅读更多

Is there a superhuman life or is this a closed universe limited to what we can see and touch? Right from our beginnings as a human race we and our forefathers have always felt there has to be some power beyond this earth who is ultimately responsible for our existing at all. In other words, there ha... 阅读更多

One of the most satisfying moments in life is when you sit across the room from someone you respect and you know that you both feel exactly the same about something. This is especially restful when you not only feel the same but want the same thing. If you know each other well then you can tell whet... 阅读更多

Last time I tried to share a little of my own life story with you. You remember the change that took place in my life was when God began to deal with the inward problem that I had. I thought it would just be good maybe to spend one more time, giving you a chance to decide about yourself. Now, I woul... 阅读更多

What are you? Not just a little human creature born of two other little human creatures so that you plus another little human creature could bear other little human creatures! But you were created by the Maker of the universe inside his Son; you are part of the Son of the Creator of the world! I Don... 阅读更多

If you are like many of us, you get up in the morning and try to feel how you are! "Do I feel rested? Am I feeling optimistic? Am I looking forward to the day? Am I worried? Is it raining? Will I have a miserable or exhilarating walk to the station?" Most of us find ourselves preoccupied with "us" a... 阅读更多

What are you going to do? What are you going to be? What would you like to do? What would you like to be? We learn to regard these questions as normal soon after we're four years of age. At times we are told to ignore them -- at school, in the army; but most of our adult life is spent answering thes... 阅读更多

It's a life that has greater capabilities than human life. Greater capabilities! Not just human capabilities intensified or quantitatively superior, but capacities that are different and more powerful than the ones we possess. For instance, about 4,000 years ago a relatively small group of Israelite... 阅读更多

Wordsworth wrote a poem in which he said: 'Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.' Have ... 阅读更多

We've been looking at the reality that each of us was originally created inside the son of our Creator long before we were born into this world as our mother's baby. This startling fact is stated in several places in the Bible (the best series of histories we have of the unique human being, Jesus Ch... 阅读更多

Why do we worry? Many of us answer: "Because our father was a worrier." Why do we lose our temper? Most of us have been taught that our present nature is the result of heredity plus environment -- and we attribute our heredity to our earthly parents and their forebears. Indeed, most of us would say ... 阅读更多

In Christ! Now don't go to sleep intellectually and tune out! The religious people have - with the best intentions in the world - turned this statement of reality into a mantra or clich?. But this is what we have been saying to each other all along - that our creator made you and me - in his son - w... 阅读更多

Many of us today feel there is a hollow emptiness in our lives. We watch television, go to movies, attend concerts, and go out with friends, but still feel an emptiness in life that we cannot quite explain. On the other hand, many of us have experienced moments when we seemed to transcend our own li... 阅读更多

Frustration! For two thousand years we human beings lived in frustration. The frustration arose from the fact that we found we could not live lives that were free from anxiety. We had anxiety about our food, our clothes, our homes, our security, our reputations, the earth and even the stars. We didn... 阅读更多

It's obvious that someone or something has gone to a lot of trouble to enable you to get up this morning, walk out into the fresh air, and go to work or school. Something or someone built that house or apartment you live in - and something or someone obviously designed it with great care and foresig... 阅读更多