Restoration Archives - Sermon Illustration Ideas

Hope For Prodigals

Compassionate, God's Love, Merciful, Prodigals, Repentance, Restoration

At the end of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (directed by Dean DeBlois, DreamWorks Animation, 2019), Hiccup and his family set out in search…

Rest To Grow

Growth, Rest, Restoration, Spiritual Growth

Comparison of the rest found when guarding our time, hearts, sleep, and study for the purpose of spiritual growth to how our bodies grow…

Perfectly Built Model

Future, Healing, Hope, Restoration

Imagine a perfectly built model of something (LEGOs, toothpicks, clay) that you have spent so much time designing into the exact idea in your…

Giving Him Time

Devotion, Habit, Hope, Restoration, Salvation, Time With God

In her book In Pursuit of Love, Rebecca Bender shares how she was lured by a boyfriend from the safety of friends and family…

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…

Kintsugi

Beauty, Reconciliation, Redemption, Restoration

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of rejoining broken pieces of pottery with gold, is a fabulous example of God restoring the broken places and making…

Sacrificial Love

Faithfulness, Love, Redemption, Restoration, Sacrifice

A great illustration of sacrificial love for the Trinity and the Son of God is in Avengers: Endgame. At the end of the movie,…

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…

Spiritual Renovation

Renovation, Restoration, Salvation, The Heart, Transformation

“Bruce Campbell lives in an airplane. Yes, an actual jet. The Portland-based aeronautics enthusiast makes his home in a converted Boeing 727 that was…

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,…

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…