Adoption – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Safe Havens

Adoption, baby, safe haven, unwanted

Care for the youngest among us continues, even amidst a difficult culture, to the present day. Every American state has “Safe Haven” locations, where…

Adoption into the Kingdom

Adoption, Kingdom of God, Paul

Adoption is one of the most beautiful ideas in the world. A child who hasexperienced trauma and is left without parents is adopted and…

Ditch Your Flesh

Adoption, Flesh, Sinful Nature

“When I was growing up, we used to ‘ditch’ people. If someone got completelyabsorbed in something while we were hiking or hanging out in…

God Our Father

Adoption, Chosen, Foster Care, God Our Father, God's Love, Love, Orphan, Salvation

After moving through a dozen different foster and group homes during her childhood, Tori Hope Peterson found God to be the Father she could…

A New Name

Adoption, Change, Family, Love, Names

Kurt Strassner states,“A new name is almost always the symbol of a new beginning” (Kurt Strassner, Opening up Genesis, Opening up the Bible [Leominster:…

The Blind Side

Adoption, Forgiveness, Justification, Peace, Salvation, Transformation

This real-life story is the basis of the movie The Blind Side, in which a young troubled teen (Michael Oher) is adopted into a…

Total Adoption

Adoption, Children of God, God Our Father, Identity, Love, Salvation

God chose you—he knew what you’d be like, warts and all, and he chose you out of love to be his child. 4. But…

Visible Gospel

Adoption, Child of God, Christianity, God's Love, Love, The Gospel

Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman has adopted three daughters from China. He calls adoption “visible gospel” and says, “Until we adopted Shaohannah, I…

The Spirit of Adoption

Abba, Adoption, Heavenly Father, Holy Spirit, Salvation

The Holy Spirit is called “the Spirit of adoption” in the Bible. Steve Weaver talks about the nature of adoption in the first century as…

Becoming Who You Are

1 John 3:1, 1 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 3:18, Adoption, Children of God, Christlikeness, Ephesians 4:13-16, Galatians 3:26, Growth, John 1:12, Maturity, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 2:13, Philippians 3:12, Sanctification

This video from Oprah Winfrey shows those first moments when a baby bird is nudged out of the nest by its mother and takes…

The Beauty of Adoption

2 Corinthians 6:18, Adoption, Christ's Love, Commitment, Demonstration, Difference, Family, Future, Hope, Hosea 14:3, James 1:27, Love, Psalm 146: 9, Psalm 82:3, Unique

“It has been said that adoption is more like a marriage than a birth: two (or more) individuals, each with their own unique mix…