Paul – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Putting Others First

Choices, choosing others, Paul

In the movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Paramount Pictures, 2023), a clever crook (Edgin)…

Turn a Bad Thing Good

bad, Good, human spirit, optimism, outdoorsman, Paul, Resilience, trapped

The movie 127 Hours (directed by Danny Boyle, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2010) tells the true story of Aron Ralston, an adventurous outdoorsman who was…

Finding the Beauty

Beauty, holocaust, jewish, optimism, Paul, real life, Suffering

In the Italian film Life Is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni, Miramax, 1997), an optimistic, charismatic, charming Jewish Italian father, Guido, must shield his…

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…

Adoption into the Kingdom

Adoption, Kingdom of God, Paul

Adoption is one of the most beautiful ideas in the world. A child who hasexperienced trauma and is left without parents is adopted and…

Do Not Live According to Flesh

Death, Flesh, Paul, Sacrifice, Spiritual Life

Junior high is an especially difficult time in life. Teenagers are trying to figure outwho they are. During these years, they will often try…

Focus Our Minds

Condemnation, Paul, Spirit, The Law

It may seem like science fiction, but Neuralink is a company that is buildingtechnology that will allow the human brain to interface with technology….

Mixtape of Your Mind

Dwelling, Paul, Philippians

Paul’s playlist, the list of things upon which we are to allow our minds to dwell, includes things that are “true … honorable ……

Same Message, Different Method

Acts 17, Evangelism, Paul, Preaching, The Gospel

In Acts 17, Paul quotes and references the philosophers and thinkers that his audience knew and trusted. He did so while being respectful, and…

Step Up to the Plate

1 Timothy 4:7, Baseball, Coach, Coaching, God's Word, God's Work, Godly, Godly Life, Paul, Step Up to the Plate, Timothy, Training

If you have ever played baseball, you had a coach that taught you how to hold a bat. Each swing was a chance to…

The End In Mind

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, Daily Devotion, Death, Eulogy, God's Kingdom, interactive, Legacy, Paul, Self-Evaluation, Self-Examination, Stephen Covey, The End In Mind, Timothy, Values

What will be said of you when you die? We must live our daily life curating the legacy we leave behind, that it may…

Son Of Hope

Criminal, David Berkowitz, God's Saving Grace, Grace, Love, Lover Our Enemies, Paul, Persecuter, Persecution, Prison, Prisoner, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Saul, Shooter, Shooting, Son of Hope, Son of Sam

The grace and love of Christ can still change a persecutor of Christians, as with Saul who became Paul, to the vilest of sinners,…

Impossible Survival

Bomb, Colombia, Explosion, Impossible Survival, Paul, Persecution, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Saul, True Repentance

The true story of a modern-day persecutor that found salvation. “Everybody thought he was dead. He simply had to be dead. Nobody could have…

Running The Race

1 Corinthians 9:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Acts 9:1-19, Colossians 1:11, Endurance, Growing, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 12:1-3, Matthew 24:13, Paul, Philippians 3:12, Philippians 3:13-14, Salvation, Sanctification, Strength

Olympic runner Dave Wottle can teach us something about running a race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=120Bi0vhRPg. In the Bible, the Apostle Paul describes the process of sanctification (growing…