by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 16, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
The political cartoonist and Op-Ed writer Tim Kreider has provided us with some insight into the “world of outrage” we currently inhabit. A world that has been amplified by the dawn of the Internet and its dark recesses, better known as “the comments section”: So many...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 9, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
Brennan Manning uses this insightful story to illustrate why it is that modern, busy people find themselves so disconnected from both themselves and the lives they wish to enjoy. It is much like the story of the harried executive who went to the desert father and...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 2, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
I love the following story because it illustrates both our natural defensiveness when we are attacked and the potential for transformation. This only becomes possible when we take into consideration the story of brokenness of the one who has attacked us. Chuck...
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...
