Illustrations About Loving Others

Cup of Tea

Have you ever gotten to know someone, only to realize they weren’t your cup of tea? Maybe they rubbed you the wrong way or you

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New Car Smell

Newness is attractive. People talk about “new car smell.” Companies even sell the scent so you can put it in your old car and still

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Boy-Helping-Girl

Pay It Forward

The film Pay It Forward (directed by Mimi Leder, Warner Bros, 2000) follows a seventh-grade boy who is given an assignment to develop a plan

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Wood-Fire

Walk In Love

Here is a story that exemplifies what it means to walk in love, regardless of whatever else happens: “A man saw a snake being burned

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Good News

When a weary world receives good news, it rejoices. It pays attention and wants more. During the height of the global shutdown from the COVID-19

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God Calls Us To Care

In her song, “I Forgot That You Existed,” Taylor Swift takes the listener through getting over someone who did them wrong: “It isn’t love, it

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Love Overcomes

NPR interviewed Koko Kondo, a woman who was just eight months old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on her city, Hiroshima. She

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Caring For Strangers

Folk tales throughout the ages have been told to express the sacred human duty of caring sacrificially for strangers. In these tales, a god, goddess,

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Radical Change

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

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Practicing Hospitality

In an episode of the television show Gilmore Girls, Lorelai Gilmore is having her home remodeled. Consider showing clips from this episode (season 6, episode 3,

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Invitations

Jesus says, “But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind” (14:13). Invite people, then, who normally are not

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Being a Light

Like salt, light is something that can have a dramatic effect on everything it touches. Light makes it possible to see. A lighthouse warns ships

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Messy Sermon Illustration

Messy

Pulling someone from a raging river requires us to get muddy too. If we simply toss a rope, the current pulls the rope downstream and

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