by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 23, 2018 | Church, Sermon Illustrations
It is a phone call no parent wants to receive. “Jerry,” Bethany said, “Catherine’s had a little accident.” “Accident! How bad?” “She’s going to be okay. You want to talk to her? We’re in a kind of ambulance crossing the Andes, headed down to Quito. Here she...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 2, 2018 | Creation, Sermon Illustrations
You may feel as if you are sitting still right now, but it’s an illusion of miraculous proportions. Planet Earth is spinning around its axis at a speed of 1,000 miles per hour. Every 24 hours, planet Earth pulls off a celestial 360. We’re also hurtling through space...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Sep 4, 2018 | Sermon Illustrations, Worship
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 31, 2018 | Sermon Illustrations
(S.I.T.) for the week of 7/29 Tara Storch experiences a heart transplant In the spring of 2010 a skiing accident took the life of her (Tara Storch) thirteen-year-old daughter, Taylor. What followed for Tara and her husband, Todd, was every parent’s worst nightmare: a...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | May 15, 2018 | Creation, Sermon Illustrations
Norman MacLean’s Father on Creation In A River Runs Through it, Norman MacLean’s Father, a Presbyterian Minister, is sitting on the bank of the river, reading the Gospel of John while his sons are fishing. When Norman comes over to where he is sitting, the father...
