I heard a preacher quote Steve Goodier: “Both the hummingbird and the vulture fly over our nation’s deserts. All vultrues see is rotting meat, because that is what they look for. They thrive on that diet. But hummingbirds ignore the smelly flesh of dead animals. Instead, they look for the colorful blossoms of desert plants. [...]
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Sermon Illustration: You find what you are looking for
Posted: April 20, 2010 in Sermon IllustrationsTags: Sermon Illustration, Steve Gookier
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The Crisis of Revival, Part 2
Posted: April 20, 2010 in Sermon IllustrationsTags: Billy Sunday, Charles FInney, D. L. Moody, The Fulton Street Revival
The Charles Finney Revival The connection between crises and revivals continues to be observed when the two revivals, the Frontier and the Second Great Awakening, were followed by another crisis in America, the War of 1812. The War of 1812 was followed by the Charles Finney Revival between 1830 and 1860. This revival was also called the New [...]
The Crisis of Revival: Part 1
Posted: April 18, 2010 in Sermon IllustrationsTags: George Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, The First Great Awakening, The Great Reformation, The Half-Way Covenant, The Second Great Awakening, The War of Independence
Revivals in America have had an uncanny connection to crises. America was born in revival in the 1600′s as a result of those who had come from the crisis/revival that had taken place in Europe in the 1500′s known as the Great Reformation. America remained unpopulated by the providence of God, so the persecuted saints [...]
Sermon Illustration on Approaching The Father through the Son
Posted: November 4, 2009 in Sermon IllustrationsTags: Sermon illustration for Hebrews 10:19-22, Sermon illustration of Tad Lincoln, Sermon illustraton for Matthew 6:9
In preparation for a sermon on the Lord’s Model Prayer I came across an illustration I had filed away many years ago in my folder on Matthew 6. So long ago I did not write down the source of the story, something now I never do. If you happen to know the source please pass [...]
Sermon Illustration: Praise Choruses Or Hymns?
Posted: October 21, 2009 in Music, Pastoral Theology, Sermon IllustrationsTags: Church music controversy, Illustration, Romans 14 illustration
I heard this illustration from two different preachers on the controversy of church music and thought some of you would apprecate it and may want to file it away for preaching on Romans 14 and Christian Liberty. That is what I did. When I heard it the first time, I told the preacher I would [...]
Sermon Illustration: What will your Obituary Read?
Posted: June 22, 2009 in Personal, Sermon IllustrationsTags: A Slice of Infinity, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Jill Carattini, Nobel Prize, Obituary, Ravi Zacharias, Sermon Illustrations
Jill Carattini is managing editor of A Slice of Infinity at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia wrote the following story that really made me think: Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel was once largely known as a maker and inventor of explosives. In 1866 Nobel invented dynamite, which earned him both fame and the [...]
