Eternity Archives - Sermon Illustration Ideas

In The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard ends the book by pointing forward. Christians must be future focused, not on ten or twenty years from…

“Death is only the beginning.” This is said in the action movie The Mummy (directed by Stephen Sommers [Universal Pictures, 1999]) to emphasize the…

Addition by subtraction may seem an odd approach to eternity, but there is a parallel to it in our world when you consider Olympic athletes….

In June of 2020, the news broke that buried treasure had been found in the Rocky Mountains. The story as it unfolded was almost impossible…

God’s love is giving in its nature. That’s what John 3:16 tells us: he “so loved the world” that he did what? “He gave.”…

“Donald Grey Barnhouse, who was a pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for many years, lost his wife when his daughter was still…

We can see all sorts of trends come and go. Whether it’s disco, Rubik’s cubes, or the “Baby Shark” song, we have all experienced…

In our world today, we have this aversion to any kind message that strikes us as judgmental: that maybe the way we want to…

Christian communities are a place where we can have a foretaste of heaven here on earth. What’s a foretaste? Have you ever cooked bacon…

The “butterfly effect” is the idea that little things can have big consequences. We must be willing to accept that all of our choices…

“Would you go through all the pain of childbirth again, just to be able to have that beautiful child of yours?” For most mothers,…

“It is not possible, wonderful Lord, to express in human speech the depths of our gratitude to God for the preciousness of the hope…

In a review from Christianity Today on the book They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run from ISIS with Persecuted Christians in the…

Jim Elliot was an evangelical missionary who attempted to reach out to a small Indian settlement in Ecuador with a team. Unfortunately, the entire…

The love of God can never be matched nor perfectly described. Yet we have so many songs that try to illustrate how great and…

“Someone once observed that a wasted life is really nothing more than a collection of wasted days. As God gives us life, each one…