by Bill Rowley | May 26, 2023 | Essentials-Sermons, Sermon Illustrations By Topic
Sermon Illustrations on Arguments/Disagreement Background Stories Humor More Resources Background Anxiety in Disagreements Anxiety sparks when a perspective we value bumps into another perspective that challenges it in some way. If we find this new perspective...
by Bill Rowley | May 26, 2023 | Essentials-Sermons, Sermon Illustrations By Topic
Sermon Illustrations on Blame Background Stories Analogies Humor More Resources Stories Donne, Undone While movies and novels often present stories of a budding love interest willing to give up everything for “true love” (Romeo and Juliet , for example), the...
by Bill Rowley | May 25, 2023 | Essentials-Sermons, Sermon Illustrations By Topic, Sermon Quotes By Topic
Sermon Illustrations on Spiritual formation Background Stories Analogies More Resources Background Being Formed in Christ’s Image In their excellent book Invitation to a Journey, M. Robert Mulholland and Ruth Haley Barton describe the Biblical understanding of...
by Bill Rowley | May 25, 2023 | Essentials-Sermons, Sermon Illustrations By Topic
Sermon Illustrations on Risk Background Stories Analogies More Resources Background The Brain Perceiving a Threat Regardless of how real the stress may or may not be, when our brain perceives a situation as being threatening, the process it engages is the...
by Bill Rowley | May 24, 2023 | Essentials-Sermons, Sermon Illustrations By Topic
Sermon Illustrations on Regret Background Stories Studies Humor More Resources Background Grace & Regrets It is a simple fact of nature that once the leaves are off the tree, you cannot put them back again. Once you have uttered words, you cannot rip...
by Bill Rowley | May 24, 2023 | Essentials-Sermons, Sermon Illustrations By Topic
Sermon Illustrations on Anonymity Background Stories Analogies Humor More Resources Background Hanging out in the Dark A few years ago, a journalist named Joseph Blackman wrote an Op Ed on an interesting subject, “Why Clubs are Dark.” That is, why is it when...
