Bird By Bird (Sermon Illustration)
Have you ever been paralyzed by how overwhelming something in life can be? You look at the sheer size of the obstacle in front of you, and think, “It’s impossible! There’s no way I can do all of this.” I…
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Set Your Priorities or Someone Else Will (Sermon Illustration)
Most of us know what our priorities should be. If we were to take a test about it, most of us would pass. But the real test is what we do under the pressure of our daily lives. When we…
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Impatient Mother Pulls Gun On Son’s Barber (sermon illustration)
Patience is a virtue… that few people seem to have these days. In our fast-paced lives, we all struggle with patience at times. But if there were a competition for the least patient person of the year, one woman has…
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Children Suffer From Secondhand Stress (Sermon Illustration)
Does our busyness negatively impact our children? In the “Ask the Children” survey, researcher Ellen Galinsky interviewed more than a thousand children in grades three through twelve and asked parents to guess how kids would respond. One key question asked…
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The Secret to Getting Ahead on Sermon Preparation
Pastors, do any of the following describe you? You are constantly worried about what you are going to preach next. You often find yourself pulling out a Saturday night special (finishing your sermon just before you preach it). Nobody in…
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Why Doesn’t God Fix Everything?
Have you ever been angry that God doesn’t just fix all your problems? I definitely have. Lately, my family and I have been going through a rough time. I have prayed and prayed that all the junk would just go…
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Bottle Rocket Runner
“Hilgemann! You’re running the 400!” It was my first and only year running track in high school. We were at a track meet at a rival school and we were short-handed. And these were not the words I ever wanted…
