Weakness – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Peer Pressure

ALone, ostracized, peer pressure, Success, uncool, Weakness

Peer pressure is hard—not just for adolescents, but for everyone. We don’t want to be ostracized and alone. Always surrounded by groups of people,…

In My Weakness He is Strong

Achilles Heel, Christ's Strength, Culture, Weakness

Weakness is not something our culture celebrates. Even our favorite characters from films would excel if it weren’t for their “Achilles heel,” that phrase…

Strong Roots

Roots, Storms, Strength, Weakness

Mighty storms can wreak havoc on plants. But some trees have such strong roots that even though they look very weak as the wind…

Beating Foreman

Being Used By God, Faith, Small, Weakness

We like underdog stories—stories where the smallest person stands up to a bully, or when the odds are stacked against a group of people…

Freedom In Surrender

Freedom, Grace, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life, Surrender, Weakness

We can learn an important lesson about the spiritual life through the Chinese Finger Trap. It is constructed simply of woven paper, but when…

Embracing Resistance

Challenges, Growth, Resistance, Strength, Tests, Weakness

According to medical research, “muscle size increases when a person continually challenges the muscles to deal with higher levels of resistance or weight. This…

Embracing Weakness

Christian Life, Dependence, Dependence On God, Trusting God, Weakness

“The ‘Achilles’ heel,’ as it’s called today, has become one of the most popular idioms in Western culture. It refers to a person’s point…

Derek Redman

Dependence On God, Faithfulness, God's Faithfulness, Struggle, Struggles, Trials, Trusting God, Weakness, Weaknesses

During the 1992 Olympic Games, runner Derek Redman was injured as he rounded the final turn and was unable to complete his race, until…

Always a Bigger Fish

God's power, Perception, Power, Power of Jesus, Strength, Weakness

In a scene in The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn escape the clutches of a giant fish when it is suddenly eaten…

Imposter Syndrome

2 Corinthians 12:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Calling, Dependence, Exodus 3:1-17, Fear, God's Strength, Inadequacy, Insecurity, Jeremiah 1:4-19, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 147:10-11, Romans 8:26, Sufficiency, Weakness

Have you ever heard of “imposter syndrome”? It’s the persistent fear of being secretly incompetent or inadequate for your job. A lot of us…

God’s Suffering

1 Corinthians 15:3, Acts 3:18, Hebrews 13:11-12, Isaiah 53:3-12, Love, Luke 17:25, Omnipotence, Power, Powerlessness, Sovereignty, Strength, Suffering, Support, Sympathy, Weakness

One of the 20th century heroes of our faith is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a German pastor who led several efforts to condemn, resist,…