Life – Sermon Illustration Ideas

A New Chapter

born, Life, new chapter, New Life, new responsibilities, stages of life

Wright explains life change with this illustration: “When a new world is born, a new way of living goes with it. This is true…

Handling Death Differently

age appropriate, Death, Grief, Life, Understanding

Loss impacts everyone, and we each manage it a little differently. The children’s show Bluey (season 1, episode 8, “Copycat,” directed by Joe Brumm, aired April…

Human Yoke

burden, Life, Wisdom, yoke

How do we take up this easy yoke? Oftentimes, we imagine the yoke used in farming, where it is shared between two animals to…

Life Distractions

Control, Distractions, fast-forward, Life, reality of loss, remote, rewind, successful, what really matters

We all have difficulty seeing what really matters in life. With so many distractions, the things that should be our greatest treasures get overlooked…

Resources of Life

breathe, drinking, Life, oxygen, resource of life, Water

One of the most important resources on the earth is water. “But water is also key to life. The water in our oceans is…

Music of Love

1 Corinthians, Destiny, Future, Life, Love, Paul

“When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a young man, living with his father Leopold (himself a fine musician) in Vienna, he is said to have…

Life Continues After Death

Afterlife, Death, Eternal Life, Eternity, Life

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

Your Thoughts, Your Playlist

Character, Decisions, Focus, Life, Thoughts

Jon Acuff explains the importance of how our mind shapes what we focus on in our actions. He equates this to a type of…

We Choose

Choices, Death, Following Jesus, Life, The World

In the Middle-Earth stories The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we encounter the story of Gollum. Gollum started out looking and acting…

Living Water

Fruitful Discipleship, Jesus, Life, Living Water, Needs, Water

Is water really living? Yes! In addition to the Bible using “living water” as a metaphor for the life brought about by remaining near…

Consistent Practice

Disciplines, Life, Practice, Routines

If you want to be good at something, you have to practice consistently and frequently. Take someone like Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, for example….

Time

Future, Life, Time, Time With God

In the Netflix documentary The Movies that Made Us, in theepisode about Back to the Future, screenwriter Bob Gale has this to say as…

Biscotti

God's Plan, God's Timing, Life, Perfect Timing, Trusting God

Biscotti, an Italian cookie frequently enjoyed by plunging it into hot coffee or tea, is harder to make than one might think. It requires…

Oven Testing

Christian Life, God's Plan, Life, Life Path

According to an article in Insider about The Great British Baking Show, each oven is tested every day to ensure fairness for each contestant….

Cicely Saunders

Calling, Life, Mission, Theme

Cicely Saunders, medical director of St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, “founded the first modern hospice and, more than anybody else, was responsible for establishing…

Ticket to Ride

Distraction, Distractions, Focus, Goals, Life

In the board game Ticket to Ride, each player selects a path from one city to another and works to build the railroad connecting…

Costly Cleaning

Care, Life, Material Things, Possessions

In addition to the time required caring for our extra things, we also spend quite a bit on money on the process of keeping…

Living in the Present

Contentment, Happiness, Joy, Life, Perspective, Time

The film About Time starts as a science-fiction story about a time traveler. In the end, the main character has learned how to live…

Empty Promises

Fulfillment, Happiness, Life, Meaning, Pleasure, Pursuit

Did you ever get what you always wanted just to be let down? Ecclesiastes wants to stress the limitations that pursuing good pleasures will…

Searching for Meaning

Life, Material Things, Meaning, Possessions, Purpose

What is the meaning of Christmas? The 2000 film How the Grinch Stole Christmas shows the existential crisis of the character Cindy Lou Who,…