Read our curated selection of sermon illustration for your next sermon. Preaching with an illustration will make your sermon memorable and help drive the point home.
To Illustrate: Humility, Compassion
Did you see the television reports of the extraordinary act of sportsmanship at the college women's softball game between Central Washington and Western Oregon?
To Illustrate: Greed
The second-largest building in the world is the palace that President Ceacescieu of Romania built for himself. It is devoted to greed and vanity.
To Illustrate: Gossip
In a particular church they had a lady who was known to be the town gossip.
To Illustrate: Empathy/Sympathy
Harold and Don Reid, two of the legendary Statler Brothers, tell a wonderful story in their book Random Memories.
To Illustrate: Communion
People use a lot of big words when they speak of Communion.
To Illustrate: Atonement
Recently China announced the opening of what they call the "world's longest sea bridge."
To Illustrate: Atonement
According to a Ripley's column, there is a Shinto ceremony where people feed the alcohol drink sake to carps and then release the fish, believing they will swim away, carrying the troubles of the person who released them.
Marriage
Missionary Dr. Albert L. Shelton said that the first wedding he performed in Tibet was a memorable one. The bride and groom had never seen each other until they arrived for the ceremony. The groom, a Chinese man, was a little over five feet tall. The bride a Tibetan, was nearly six feet tall. But that was not the important...
To Illustrate: Worship
In a recent "Dennis the Menace" comic, Dennis is seated in church beside his father. He looks up and says, "Is it OK if we leave at half time?"