Consequences – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Learn From Others Mistakes

Consequences, enforcing, judah, Lesson, Rules, sins

At the beginning of every school year, teachers face a critical challenge. It can affect their experience for that year and their control of…

Bad Habits Catch Up

accumulation, catch up with you, Consequences, delayed, Sin

Some consequences take a long time to happen. The delay between our actions and their consequences can convince us that nothing will happen. Over…

What Rules?

away from God, breaking the rules, Consequences, no rules

If you have small children, you know that disciplining them can be exasperating. You explain the rules to them. When they violate one of…

Lack of Power

Consequences, Failure, ineptitude, lack of power, Power, schemes

Following those who don’t know what they’re doing can have frustrating consequences. In the Austin Powers movies, Dr. Evil is built up as the big…

Using Truth For Political Agenda

Consequences, Political, Power, Trusting God, Truth

Don’t Look Up (directed by Adam McKay [Netflix, 2021]) tells the story of two astronomers who discover a deadly comet approaching earth. The president…

Choose Your Own Adventure

Actions, Choices, Consequences, Direction, Risk, Wise choices

Maybe as a kid you enjoyed reading the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The basic concept was that you as the reader were presented…

Judgment And Redemption

Christmas, Consequences, Greed, Judgment, Redemption, Sin

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol offers a familiar and seasonal illustration of the arc of judgment and redemption through the eyes of Ebenezer Scrooge….

Hand in the Cookie Jar

Consequence, Consequences, Fear, Guilt, Mistakes, regret, Repentance, Wrong

Have you ever been caught in wrongdoing? Maybe it was something small like the age-old stealing a cookie from the cookie jar, or maybe…

Pointing Fingers

Behavior, Blame, Consequences, Reconciliation, Responsibility

In the movie Little Miss Sunshine, two characters, Richard and Frank get in argument. When another character, Sheryl, attempts to break it up, Frank…

Unintended Consequences

Actions, Consequences, Decisions, Ephesians 5:15, Exodus 23:22, Galatians 6:7, Isaiah 1:19, Jonah 1:1-16, Obedience, Wisdom

In 1890, Eugene Schieffelin, a devoted reader of William Shakespeare’s works, introduced starling birds into Central Park, inspired by their mention in Shakespeare’s Henry VI. What he…

The Toxic Nature of Sin

2 Corinthians 11:3, Consequences, Creation, Destruction, Genesis 3:1-24, James 1:15, Pollution, Relationships, Romans 5:12, Romans 6:23, Romans 8:20-21, Sin, The Fall

Things like natural disasters and disease are evidence of the fallenness of all of creation. Sin did not just affect human relationships but the…