by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 3, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations, Work
In this modern day parable, Alan Fadling describes a king and his two servants. Each of the servants desires to do the will of the king, but they approach their work very differently: One of the servants, for fear of not pleasing his master, rose early each day to...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Aug 25, 2020 | Forgiveness, Sermon Illustrations
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Aug 11, 2020 | Hope, Sermon Illustrations
Major Harold Kushner was a prisoner of the Viet Cong for more than five years. Kushner describes one of his fellow American prisoners, a tough twenty-four-year-old Marine who had made a deal with their captors. The Marine agreed to cooperate with the enemy, and in...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 30, 2020 | Death, Life, Sermon Illustrations
An ending can be either good or bad. There are excellent novels that held my attention and moved me for hundreds of pages only to end in a way that made me regret reading the story. Sadly, the same can be said of many “good” lives. It is not enough to live well and...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 21, 2020 | Forgiveness, Friendship, Kindness, Sermon Illustrations
Sometimes moments of forgiveness and friendship come from unexpected places. In 2018, the comedian Pete Davidson appeared on the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live (SNL). Davidson made a crude joke about a former Navy Seal turned Congressman-elect Dan...
