by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 12, 2019 | Encouragement, Gratitude, Sermon Illustrations, Thanksgiving
Tracy Autler’s life changed in a very unexpected way on Thanksgiving Day, 1993. Tracy was a single mother, living in an apartment in a rough neighborhood, she was doing her best to raise a three-year old while preparing for the birth of her second child, at that...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 5, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
An American woman visiting the Philippines, observed an elderly woman on the outskirts of Manila. She looked poverty-stricken and walked with the help of a cane down into a ditch alongside a  main road. The American observed the woman struggling and assumed she needed...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 29, 2019 | Mystery, Sermon Illustrations
In 1884, an English schoolmaster named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a story about a two-dimensional world called Flatland, inhabited by various shapes (circles, squares, etc.). In Flatland, there is height and width but no depth—the shapes are stuck in two dimensions....
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 15, 2019 | Church, Sermon Illustrations
In her excellent book, Liturgy of the Ordinary, author Tish Harrison Warren deals with an issue on many people’s minds: why is it that so many people, especially younger generations, don’t consider church an essential part of their life and faith? Warren...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 8, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
The value of a US hundred-dollar bill is not based on where it has been or how it has been used. Its value is not determined by its shape, size, or color. A one-dollar bill in American currency has the same shape, size, and color as a hundred-dollar bill. If you want...
