Sinful Nature – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Ditch Your Flesh

Adoption, Flesh, Sinful Nature

“When I was growing up, we used to ‘ditch’ people. If someone got completelyabsorbed in something while we were hiking or hanging out in…

Crisis at the Confessional

Confessing Sin, Confession, Sin, Sinful Nature

Studio C, a sketch comedy team, provides a lighthearted video that could serve as an intro to a sermon on confession. The concept? What…

Christians Fail

Failure, Leaders, Sin, Sinful Nature

Christians fail! The news is littered with the checkered track record. From the 1988 PTL (Praise the Lord) downfall of Jim Bakker to 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,…

The “Anxious Bench”

Anxiety, Anxious, Conviction, Guilt, Repentance, Sin, Sinful Nature, Sorrow

Imagine being in a church service. Everyone is praying or singing songs of praise as the pastor loudly proclaims that people need to get…

Broken Watch

Conviction, Guilt, Mistakes, Shame, Sin, Sinful Nature, Sorrow, Trouble

A boy was told by his father not to play with his father’s watch. While his father was away, the five-year-old initially decided he…

The Secret History

Commandments, Disobedience, Evil, Following God, Hate, Obedience, Sinful Nature, Ten Commandments

In the novel The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a group of affluent college students decide to murder a close friend of theirs. As…

The Pervasiveness of Sin

Death, Sin, Sinful Nature, Temptation, The Heart, The mind

The power of sin shapes and colors everything. Author James B. Nelson links his alcoholism with the pervasiveness of sin. How he describes addiction and…

Changing What You Crave

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Desires, Discipline, Flesh, Hebrews 2:18, James 4:7, Lust, Psalm 119:11, Psalm 37:4-5, Removing, Resisting Temptation, Romans 12:1-2, Sinful Nature, Temptation

In his article, “Want to Be Healthier? Change Your Taste Buds,” Michael Greger shares that our taste buds can change once we remove certain…

Battles We Continue To Fight

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 John 4:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Battle, Galatians 2:20, Identity, New Life, Now And Not Yet, Philippians 2:13, Romans 7, Romans 8:1, Salvation, Sanctification, Sinful Nature, Struggles With Sin

Romans 6:8-14 captures the central tension of the Christian life on earth: we have died to sin, but we still sin. Why do we…