Maturity – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Not Barbie World

Journey, Maturity, Status, Struggle, worldly systems

Barbie was a blockbuster movie and caused a lot of commentary on gender roles, patriarchy, and matriarchy. “Rather than offering a blind affirmation of feminism…

Junk Food

Devotion, Growth, Maturity, Spiritual Growth, Theology

You can eat junk food, processed foods, fake food—but not forever without consequences. There is no nutrition to help you grow. The Bible speaks…

Nosing Around

Humility, Judging, Maturity

On the sitcom Blackish, the Johnson family lives in a predominantly white neighborhood and has a nosy neighbor named Janine. The final episode of…

Drum Majors

Discipline, Focus, Following God, God's Plan, Maturity

Drum majors are tasked with keeping an entire marching band in step and on the beat. Drum majors keep themselves visible to limit confusion….

Disciples Making Disciples

Community, Discipleship, Great Commission, Maturity

Remember that part of being a disciple is making disciples—obeying Jesus’s Matthew 28 command (which applies to us, as it endures “to the end…

Our Father

Care, Discipline, Father, God Our Father, Heavenly Father, Love, Maturity, Wisdom

Think of a loving, human father and his young son. There are things the son does not (and cannot) understand at this point in…

Stagnate

Christian Walk, Complacency, Destruction, Faith, Growth, Maturity, Sin, Soul, Stagnate, The Heart

When water stagnates and is not active in any way, there is all kinds of potential for rotten things like diseases and the insects…

Safety First

Accountability, Boundaries, Christian Life, Christian Living, Growth, Guardrails, Maturity, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Maturity

If you’ve ever had a child, babysat, or been in charge of a small group of children, you understand the importance of establishing safety…

Becoming Who You Are

1 John 3:1, 1 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 3:18, Adoption, Children of God, Christlikeness, Ephesians 4:13-16, Galatians 3:26, Growth, John 1:12, Maturity, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 2:13, Philippians 3:12, Sanctification

This video from Oprah Winfrey shows those first moments when a baby bird is nudged out of the nest by its mother and takes…