Change – Sermon Illustration Ideas

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Change, Christ's Return, Evil, Good, Jesus returns, Triumph

In the Disney+ series Andor, Cassian Andor undergoes a transformation from a self-centered person with a dark past to someone willing to put others…

Character Is The Calling

Change, Character, Humbled

Zacchaeus experienced Jesus’s love and then immediately turned to show the same love to his community. His changed character became his calling. He remained…

Life Changing Providence

Change, Circumstances, everyday occurrences, Providence

We’ve all heard stories of perhaps bad circumstances that are one part of a series of events that can change the course of someone’s…

Jesus Changes Us

Change, Encountering God, Jesus Changes Us

Captain America is a superhero story about a scrawny man who undergoes ascientific experiment to become a super soldier. In Captain America: The FirstAvenger…

Change of Perspective

Change, Interruptions, Outlook, Perspective, Timing

Imagine you’re late for an appointment or that something you’d been looking forward to doing has been delayed or canceled. Chances are the immediate…

Changes

Bridegroom, Change, Church is the Bride, Grace, Marriage, Process

When a bride and groom get married, the bride’s name (usually) changes immediately. One or both of their addresses change and often so do…

Small But Impactful

Change, Impact, Kingdom of Heaven, Small, Transform

Do you know how a pearl is created? Often, the center of a pearl is a grain of sand, or something else, that works…

The Cross Has Made You “Flawless”

Change, Following Jesus, God's Saving Grace, New Creation, Sharing the Gospel, The Cross

The music video for MercyMe’s song, “Flawless”, does a good job of showing visually how changed we are by God’s grace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLlLPZderk. God’s good…

Wood Chip Gardening

Change, Impact, Making A Difference, Positivity

The mundane wood chip is a good example of example of an insignificant thing causing a positive ripple effect. Wood-chip gardening is becoming popular…

Confronting Failure

Change, Conformed, Confrontation, Failure

The Holy Spirit guides us and changes us. But we must be willing to be conformed to the image of Christ. Sometimes the Holy…

Radical Change

Change, Character, Loving Others, Path of Life, Sanctification

The best stories have a character arc, in which a character changes throughout the events of the story. The movie Iron Man (directed by…

High-Frequency Hearing

Authenticity, Change, Growth, Learning, Transformation

Authentic believers intently observe God’s Word, move to learn the most they can from it, and are changed. This part of living the life…

Forgotten Reflection

Change, God's Law, Self-Evaluation, Self-Examination, Transformation

James compares the hearer of the Word to someone who looks into a mirror, and when he walks away he forgets his reflection. He…

Visible Changes

Change, Christian Life, Faith, Life, Spiritual Life

When believers commit to being real about their faith, visible changes eventually happen. Their behaviors change, their vocabulary changes, their goals and dreams change,…

Changing Landscapes

Change, Christian Life, Faith, Growth, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life

A stream or river visibly changes the land around it over the course of time. Just as our faith in Jesus requires us to…

Transformed By Love

Change, God's Love, Love, Loving Others, Transformation

A good modern example of a character transformed by love is Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When we first meet Tony in Iron…

Celebrating Change

Celebration, Change, Scrooge, Transformation

We have short memories of poor, wretched Ebenezer Scrooge. Here was a fallen man in desperate need of redemption, with absolutely no desire to…

Empowered

Change, Empowered, habits, The Holy Spirit, The Spirit, Transformation

The Spirit strengthens us and enables our actions. Without him, we cannot do anything good. Think of a blender that needs to be plugged…

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:…

Inside Out

Change, Fruit, Sanctification, The Heart, Transformation

Everyone knows that you don’t eat bananas until they turn yellow. The internal transformation of the fruit inside the peel is what causes the…