New 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…

Rejoice In All Seasons And Circumstances

Circumstances, Making All Things New, New Life, Seasons, Spiritual Health

Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Thanksgiving—and other harvest festivals around the world—take place during the end of autumn. As the vibrant days…

Restoring Soil

Destruction, New Life, Reconciliation, Restoration

When we’ve made a mistake and wonder if God can forgive and repair us, we can look to the soil for another illustration of…

Miraculous Conversion

Conversion, Forgiveness, New Life, Relationship with Christ, Relationship with God

Despite growing up in a churchgoing home and being baptized as a kid, Thomas Tarrants became a white supremacist. He was an unlikely convert….

A New Chapter

Baptism, Christian Life, Community, Faith, Growth, New Life, Witness

Just as the commencement ceremony marks the beginning of a new chapter in life, so does baptism. It testifies that we have heard and…

Our Need For Grace

Forgiveness, God's Love, Grace, Love, New Creation, New Life, Salvation, Sanctification, Sin, Struggles

Brennan Manning was a Franciscan priest who struggled with alcoholism. Eventually, his alcoholism led him out of the priesthood. It may come as a…

Making & Making New

Jesus, New, New Life, Redemption, Salvation

Have you ever observed someone making something from scratch? Maybe it was bread. Perhaps you’ve seen someone make a sculpture out of ice or…

Before & After

Death, Destruction, Fixer UPper, God's Love, Grace, Life, Mercy, New Life, Repentance, Restoration, Salvation, Sin

This before-and-after photo comparison from the TV show Fixer Upper shows the incredible restoration of an old, dilapidated house (https://www.hgtv.com/shows/fixer-upper/fixer-upper-takes-on-a-vintage-tiny-house-pictures). This isn’t just an…

Get Out of Jail Free

1 Thessalonians 5:23, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Change, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 5:16, Heaven, Hell, Life, New Life, Philippians 1:6, Relationship with God, Romans 12:1-2, Romans 6:1-23, Romans 6:6, Salvation, Sanctification, The Gospel, Transformation

One of the best cards you can draw in the game Monopoly is the “get out of jail free” card. It completely lets you…

God’s Masterpiece

2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 4:24, God's Masterpiece, New Creation, New Life, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 2:13, Restoration, Salvation, Sanctification

There was a sad but true incident that took place in an old Spanish church not too long ago. A parishioner took it upon…

Battles We Continue To Fight

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 John 4:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Battle, Galatians 2:20, Identity, New Life, Now And Not Yet, Philippians 2:13, Romans 7, Romans 8:1, Salvation, Sanctification, Sinful Nature, Struggles With Sin

Romans 6:8-14 captures the central tension of the Christian life on earth: we have died to sin, but we still sin. Why do we…

God Restores

God's Work, Hope, New Life, Restoration, Salvation, Sanctification, Transformation

In Ephesians 1, Paul emphasizes God’s sovereignty and his work as a master planner who can restore a lost world back to right relationship (vv….

Miraculous Intervention

Belief, Change, Closer to God, Diagnosis, Fate, Hope, Intervention, Luke 18:27, Luke 9:16-17, Mark 10:27, Mark 6:49-50, Miracles, New Life, Psalm 139:13-14, Solitude

Though films about miracles and the miraculous abound, one example is Henry Poole Is Here. Henry, played by Luke Wilson, is diagnosed with a…

Paradigm Shift

2 Corinthians 5:17, Colossians 1:21-22, Ephesians 4:22-24, Ezekiel 18:31, Ezekiel 36:26, Grace, Influence, Mercy, New Life, Outlook on Life, Perception, Psalm 51:10, Redemption, Romans 12:2, Salvation, Titus 3:5

“Christianity isn’t something you add. It is an explosion that changes everything you had” (Timothy Keller [@timkellernyc], Twitter, November 10, 2017, 1:30 p.m.)To follow…

Uncomfortable Miracles

Acts 3:16, Comfort, Discomfort, Faith, Healing, Jeremiah 32:27, Job 5:8-9, Luke 18:27, Matthew 19:26, Miracle, Mystery, New Life, Order, Rules, Transformation

“Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It’s true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort…

Gracious Engagement

1 John 4:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Anxiety, Depression, Engagement, Ephesians 2:19, Freedom, Grace, Hebrews 10:24-25, Mental Illness, New Life, Romans 12:10-13, Shame, Struggle, Support

Adam4d is a popular Christian webcomic that is often shared on social media. One comic specifically addresses the shame Christians who struggle with depression…

Wounding To Save

Broken, Conversion, Evidence, Ezekiel 36:26-27, Grace, Growth, John 3:5-8, New Life, Regeneration, Restoration, Romans 7:6, Romans 8:2, Salvation, Titus 3:5-6, Wounding

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think… It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding…

True Nobility

2 Corinthians 5:17, Change, Character, Death, Ephesians 4:24, Galatians 6:15, Growth, New Creation, New Life, Nobility, Renewal, Romans 6:4, Romans 7:6, Sin, Transformation

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway This…