by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jun 25, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
In her book The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp shares a beautiful exchange between her and her husband (The farmer). His encouragement is for all of us: that God uses the broken things in this world for good. “You know—everything all across this farm says the same thing, you...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jun 18, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
In his extremely helpful book, The Economics of Neighborly Love, Tom Nelson argues that the church has an important part to play in helping Christians understand the value and place of economics in our everyday lives. In this illustration, he points out how some...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jun 12, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
Ernest Hemingway grasped some of the difficulty that characterizes relationships between fathers and sons in his short story, The Capital of the World. The story revolves around a father and his teenage son Paco, set in Spain. Paco was an extremely common name in the...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jun 5, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
A few weeks ago, when I was out surfing, there was no one else in the water. In fact, there was no one around at all, except a guy the size of Goliath doing tae kwon do on the beach. After I’d been out a little while, a tiny wisp of a kid came paddling up out of...
