Salvation – Page 2 – Sermon Illustration Ideas

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…

John Harper’s Last Convert

Evangelism, Sacrifice, Salvation

Sometimes trusting in our spiritual flotation device means ridding ourselves of a physical one. Scottish evangelist John Harper boarded the Titanic in April 1912. Those…

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…

Getting Well

Healer, Healing, Medicine, Salvation, Sanctification, Sickness, Sin

There are times when we are ill or injured and the cure or treatment is unpleasant or just plain awful. Kids have to take…

A Divine Solution

Salvation, The Gospel, The Incarnation

Sometimes, searching for the answer to the same old problem requires an absolutely different method. In Red (directed by Robert Schwentke [Summit Entertainment, 2010]),…

A Gift For All

Gift, Grace, Invitation, Salvation

Public gifts that are seemingly just for some can turn out to be for all. On the season premiere episode of The Oprah Winfrey…

Learning to Be Children of God

Children of God, Guidance, Salvation, Sanctification, The Holy Spirit, Transformation

A feral child is someone who, usually at a very young age and for various reasons (most of them bad), ends up isolated and…

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…

Grace Empowers

Empowering, Empowerment, Grace, Obedience, Power, Salvation, Sanctification, Strength

Imagine children in a home being told to pick up. They’ll fight the parent over it. They don’t want to do it. But the…

Now I See

Amazing Grace, Blind, Salvation, Sight, The Gospel

This ABC News video captures the magical moment when someone who is blind gains the ability to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctXSpfEDK8. In clips such as these,…

The Blind Side

Adoption, Forgiveness, Justification, Peace, Salvation, Transformation

This real-life story is the basis of the movie The Blind Side, in which a young troubled teen (Michael Oher) is adopted into a…

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…

Les Miserables

Freedom, God's Covenant, God's Saving Grace, Grace, Salvation, Sin

In this video clip from Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is shown incredible grace that not only frees him from the penalty of his sin…

The Lord of the Rings

Covenant, God's Covenant, God's Saving Grace, Salvation, Saving, Savior

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the armies of man are at the brink of ruin,…

A Different Approach

Grace, Jesus's Death, Salvation, Sin, The Law

Sometimes, searching for the answer to the same old problem requires an absolutely different method. In Red (directed by Robert Schwentke [Summit Entertainment, 2010]),…

Total Adoption

Adoption, Children of God, God Our Father, Identity, Love, Salvation

God chose you—he knew what you’d be like, warts and all, and he chose you out of love to be his child. 4. But…

Forgiven

Forgiven, Forgiveness, Repentance, Salvation

Bernie Siegel tells of Edward, a nurse at a nursing home, who took special care of a woman who hadn’t walked for six years….

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…

Our “Stand-In”

Atonement, Forgiveness, Jesus, Propitiation, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin

Glenn Duhigg, a stand-in actor for Tom Cruise on the set of the movie Mission Impossible 2, explains, “It sounds very glamorous saying you’re…

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,…