Redemption – Page 2 – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Keeping Promises

Faithful, God's Promises, Promises, Redemption

Sometimes, being faithful to a promise doesn’t necessarily end up looking the way you think it will look. That’s what happened that first Sunday…

At Just The Right Time

Debt, Redemption, Repaid, Salvation, The Cross

Salvation in Jesus arrives at just the right time, but it was ready from the earliest days. In Mary Poppins Returns (directed by Rob Marshall [Walt…

One Plan

God's Plan, Plan of Salvation, Redemption, Salvation

Thomas Edison finally constructed the first electric lightbulb in January 1879. One of the biggest hurdles was finding the right filament to burn within the…

The Hound Of Heaven

Gods Love, Love, Pursuit, Redemption, Salvation, The Gospel

The poem “The Hound of Heaven” by Francis Thompson brilliantly portrays God in relentless pursuit of a human soul: I fled Him, down the…

Inside Out

God's Saving Grace, Grace, Peace, Redeem, Redeemed, Redemption, Salvation, Transformation

Sometimes good news comes from the most unlikely source. In the movie Inside Out, Riley decides to run away from home but is stopped…

Reasons My Son Is Crying

Anger, Rebellion, Redemption, Restoration

Greg Pembroke’s Tumblr Reasons My Son Is Crying became a viral sensation, and then a hilarious book. BuzzFeed featured a few excerpts from the…

Washing Hands

Choosing Christ, Confessing Sin, Forgiveness, Redemption, Sin, Sinful Nature

Every restaurant in America has a sign in the bathroom that says, “Employees must wash hands before returning to work.” If someone is unclean,…

White As Snow

Forgiveness, Grace, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Sin

Charles Spurgeon described his experience of forgiveness this way: “My life was full of sorrow and wretchedness, believing that I was lost. But, oh,…

Breathing Again

Breathing, David, Forgiveness, Redemption, Restoration, Sin

Have you ever almost drowned or known someone who has been in that position? It’s a pretty frightening scenario to be in. In that situation,…

The Infinite Gap

Redemption, Salvation, The Bridge

It is thinking that salvation is a human action that causes all our problems. In every decade and every century of history, humans have…

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…

Becoming Human

Beauty & The Beast, Church, Community, Human, Humanity, Individualism, Love, Movies, Redemption

In the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, we see the challenges that isolation and an unhealthy community can cause. “Initially, the most…

Gospel View

Creation, God's Plan, Human History, Jesus, Narrative, Redeemed, Redemption, Salvation, Sin, The Bible, The Gospel, The World

The gospel goes beyond individuals being saved from their sins and going to heaven after they die. The gospel involves the full scope of…

We Can Fix It

Bicycle, Broken, Brokenness, Clock, Culture, God's Faithfulness, God's Healing, God's Wisdom, God's Work, Healing, Redemption, Salvation, Society, The Cross, Tools, We Can Fix It, World

A grandfather was working in his workshop on a warm spring afternoon. He watched out the window as his grandson rode his bike in…

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…

Compelling Conversions

2 Peter 3:9, Acts 3:19, Conversion, Ephesians 1:7, Evangelism, Faith, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 3:13, Grace, Hebrews 9:15, Isaiah 44:22, John 10:10, John 3:16, Love, Redemption, Salvation, Stories, Witnessing

God’s grace, redemption, and abounding love is offered to all of us no matter our backgrounds, past mistakes or the struggles we face. Christianity…

Multifaceted

1 Corinthians 1:30, Colossians 2:1-3, Ephesians 3:10, God's Plan, God's Wisdom, Isaiah 28:29, Isaiah 40:28, James 1:5, James 3:17, Mystery, Proverbs 2:6, Redemption, Romans 11:33, Salvation, The Gospel, Wisdom

In the Bible (Ephesians 3:10), Paul describes the wisdom of God as “manifold,” a word that can be understood to mean “multifaceted,” like a…

Reckless Mercy

2 Corinthians 12:8-9, 2 Peter 1:2, Comforter, Ephesians 2:8-9, Ephesians 4:7, Forgiveness, Grace, John 1:14, Love, Mercy, Redemption, Romans 3:20-24

My Refuge House is a home for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in the Philippines. This organization provides incredible support to girls who have…