Challenges – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Alone

Afraid, ALone, Challenges, Community, Home, Loneliness

In a game show called Alone, contestants are dropped in the middle of nowhere with only a handful of survival items. As the show…

Our Secure Anchor

Anchor, Challenges, Jesus, Storms, Trials

We must admit that we need Christ in every way at all times. He is our sure anchor in life’s stormy world. If we…

Embracing Resistance

Challenges, Growth, Resistance, Strength, Tests, Weakness

According to medical research, “muscle size increases when a person continually challenges the muscles to deal with higher levels of resistance or weight. This…

Gaining Strength

Challenges, Faith, Solid Foundation, Storms, Strength, Strong, Trials, Trust, Trusting God

“I read one time about how shipbuilders back in the days of sailboats would prepare the masts for their ships. They would go to…

Waiting On God

Challenges, God's Timing, Growth, Hope, James 5:11, Micah 7:7, Overcoming, Proverb 3:5-6, Romans 12:12, Romans 5:3-4, Romans 8:25, Romans 8:28, Spiritual Growth, Testimony, Trials, Waiting, Waiting on God, Waiting on the Lord

Waiting is part of our ongoing walk with Jesus. We aren’t comfortable with waiting, because we feel like it’s pointless—or worse, that we are…

Tested And Proven

1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 5:10, Attitude, Challenges, Endurance, Faith, Fire, genuine, Hope, James 1:12, James 1:2-3, James 5:10, Job 23:10, Persecution, Purity, Refinement, Refining, Romans 5:3-5, Romans 8:18, Suffering, Tests, Trial

Our faith is not only tested, but it is tested to the point of being proven genuine. Persecution and suffering may feel like they…

Getting Ready

2 Timothy 1:7, Challenges, Confidence, Deuteronomy 31:6, Fear of God, Fear of Man, Isaiah 41:10, Jeremiah 1:17, Joshua 1:9, Perspective, Philippians 4:6-7, Preparation, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 19:23, Psalm 27:1, Psalm 34:4, Readiniess, Strength, Victory

Some athletes have bizarre pre-game rituals that get them ready for a game. During the 1998 World Cup, the French team believed that their…

Sourdough Origins

1 Peter 5:10, Bacteria, Challenges, Difficulty, Hardship, James 1:12, Origin, Produce, Purpose, Romans 12:12, Romans 5:3-4, Romans 8:18, Safe, Trials, Useful

“A lot of foods we eat have interesting origins. For example, the bacteria responsible for sourdough bread originally came from rodent feces. Any sourdough…