Illustrations About Desires

Distracted

People go to Target or Walmart to shop for a specific item, but as they come to the checkout, impulse items call out to them.

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Greed Over Grace

The docuseries The Way Down (directed by Marina Zenovich, HBO Max, 2021) chronicles the rise and fall of Gwen Shambling Lara, the controversial founder of Weigh Down Ministries and

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Material Jealousy

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 the

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A Dangerous Appetite

The bubble gum scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (directed by Mel Stuart [Paramount Pictures, 1971]) provides a great analogy for Philippians 3:12–21 where Paul

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It Comes From Within Sermon Illustration

It Comes From Within

M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 movie, The Village, described the struggle to create a “perfect” community in a fallen world (The Village, directed by M. Night Shyamalan

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Spending Wisely

Oftentimes, parents will guide their little children with their purchase decisions. A child may have $1.50 to spend at the dollar store

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Room In The Jar

We cannot pursue both God’s will and our own independent will. We have to empty ourselves of one in order to fully embrace the other.

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