Reality – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Fear in Parenting

Parenting, raising a child, Reality, Struggles

Parenting is hard. This is a reality. Even with an abundance of literature on how to raise a human, not one of us has…

Perceived Calling

God given, Perception, Pleasing to God, Reality

The TV series Outer Range (created by Brian Watkins, Amazon Studios, 2022) tells the story of a Wyoming rancher, Royal Abbott, who fights for his land…

Trying to be God

Destruction, Godlike, Pride, Reality

In Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (directed by Ram Raimi, Was Disney Studios, 2022), the Scarlet Witch is consumed with grief. Instead…

A Realistic View

Life, Perspective, Reality, View, Worldview

The 2016 animated film Zootopia (directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush [Walt Disney Pictures, 2016]) describes the adventures of Judy Hopps,…

A Stage Behind The Stage

Life, Reality, Seen, Spiritual Life, Unseen

Artist and writer Makoto Fujimura, in a commencement address at Belhaven University, described the experience of seeing Our Town by Thornton Wilder in New York City….

Living In 3D

Faith, Perspective, Reality, Worldview

Have you ever tried watching a 3D movie without a set of 3D glasses? The movie is flat and unimpressive; that is, until you…

Missing Pieces

Christianity, Perception, Reality, Theology, Worldview

Puzzles are a great way to view worldviews, especially because they’re made up of many individual pieces. When all the pieces fit together, you’re…

Our Objective Reality

Attitude, Feelings, Gratitude, Joy, Knowing God, Knowledge, Praise, Reality, Thanksgiving, Trusting God, Worship

Our attitude of joy is a result of our thanksgiving to God. We should not base our attitude on our circumstances, because those always…

Filtered

Filter, Lens, New Testament, Perception, Reality, The Bible, Truth, View, Worldview

Think of how different pictures look when we add different filters and or lenses to our iPhone or cameras. Depending on which filter or…

Rattling Confessions

Confession, Eternity, Forgiveness, Grace, Offense, Reality, Salvation

In our world today, we have this aversion to any kind message that strikes us as judgmental: that maybe the way we want to…

Hidden Realities

Colossians 2:1-3, Deuteronomy 29:29, Ephesians 1:9, God's Plan, God's Will, God's Wisdom, Hidden Things, Isaiah 40:28, Jeremiah 33:3, Job 11:7-9, Knowledge, Mystery, Proverbs 25:2, Reality, Secret

There’s an old magic trick that involves making a woman disappear after she’s entered a life-sized box. The audience is led to believe she…

Shadows

1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 John 2:2, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Christ's Sacrifice, Ephesians 2:15, Foreshadowing, Fulfillment, Galatians 2:15-16, Hebrews 8:6-7, Isaiah 53:4-6, New Testament, Old Testament, Prophecy, Reality, Revelation, Romans 8:1-3, Shadows, The Gospel, The Law

In Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave, the philosopher describes a world where people live in a cave, viewing the entire world by the…