Easter, date
Illustrations, Christ, date, Easter, illustration, meaning, preaching, Sermon, traditionWhat matters when talking about the date of celebrating Easter....
Talents
Illustrations, illustrations, TalentsHaddon Robinson tells of a concert violinist whose brother was a bricklayer. One day a woman began gushing to the bricklayer about how wonderful it was to be in the family of that violinist. But not wanting to insult the bricklayer, she ...
Anger
Illustrations, Anger, illustrationIn his book The 7 Sins of Highly Defective People, Rick Ezell writes: When my wife and I were in London one spring, we discovered that some of the bombs dropped on England are still killing people. Sometimes they are discovered and some...
Thankfulness | Providence
Illustrations, illustration, Providence, thankfulnessIn his Church & Culture blog, James Emery White shared this story: The barracks where Corrie Ten Boom and her sister Betsy were kept in the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruck were terribly overcrowded and flea-infested. They had been ab...
Thanksgiving as Service
Illustrations, illustration, Service, thanksgivingThe church had gathered to pray for a needy family around Thanksgiving. The family needed food, so folks from the church got together to pray for them. While the prayer meeting was going on, a young boy came and knocked on the door of th...
Forgiveness
Illustrations, Forgiveness, illustrationIn his Turning Point devotional, David Jeremiah tells the story of poet Edwin Markham, who – as he approached retirement – discovered that the man to whom he had entrusted his financial portfolio had spent every single penny. Markh...
Christmas
Illustrations, Christmas, illustrationIn the book Christmas Spoken Here, John Killinger wrote: “One day I was staring through the window of a beautiful little Christmas shop. It was packed with Christmas items, even though Christmas was still six months away. There were e...
Marriage, Vision
Illustrations, illustration, Marriage, VisionBill Bouknight tells the story of a certain isolated Pacific island where it was the custom that when a young man proposed marriage, he would announce his intention to the entire village. Then he and the whole community would go to th...
Heaven, Death
Illustrations, death, heaven, illustrationA father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand,and led him to the shore where a sea gull lay dead in the sand. “Daddy, what happened to him?” the son asked. “He died and went to Hea...