Burdens – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Heavy Burdens

Burdens, Pressure

Disney’s Encanto (directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, 2021) includes a song about called “Surface…

Shame Into Grace

Brokenness, Burdens, Grace, Relationship with God, Shame

The Avett Brothers sing, “Shame, boatloads of shame … Please make it stop.” What is the remedy to this heavy burden? God’s movement toward…

The Pursuit of Holiness

Burdens, Holiness, Living for God, Spiritual Life

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series, Frodo is tasked with destroying a ring in its place of origin—a volcano….

Soothing Jealousy’s Sting

Burdens, Jealousy, Material Things, Selfishness

Jealousy can be experienced in any stage of life—certainly in childhood. Can you remember which lunch box you wanted in elementary school? Everyone had…

Traveling Fears

Anxiety, Burdens, Fear, Trusting God

Sometime traveling means experiencing the unfamiliar, and it can bring up big feelings, such as worries about having a bad experience, and a whole…

Packing Light

Burdens, Emotion, Emotional Pain, Health

Thru-hikers focus on and spend lots of money on packing low-weight items in their packs. The goal weight is twenty pounds of items to…

Carrying Baggage

Bitterness, Burdens, Emotion, Pain

The International Civil Aviation Organization is a group of engineers who determine how much cargo is safe for domestic and international flights. Obviously, this…

Travel Worries

Burdens, Fear, Trusting God, Worry

Because summer traveling means experiencing the unfamiliar, it can bring up big feelings, such as worries about having a bad experience, and a whole…

Invisible Weight

Burdens, Emotion, Emotional Pain, Emotions, Essentials, Life

Thru-hikers focus on and spend lots of money on packing low-weight items in their packs. The goal weight is twenty pounds of items to…

Cargo Weight

Burdens, Challenges in Life, Emotion, Weight

The International Civil Aviation Organization is a group of engineers who determine how much cargo is safe for domestic and international flights. Obviously, this…

The Weight We Carry

Burdens, Christian Life, Journey, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Health, Weight

Thru-hikers focus on and spend lots of money on packing low-weight items in their packs. The goal weight is twenty pounds of items to…