by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 17, 2020 | Comfort, Sermon Illustrations
We’re afraid when we’re suddenly caught off our guard and don’t know what to do. We’re afraid when our presuppositions and assumptions no longer account for what we’re up against, and we don’t know what will happen to us....
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 10, 2020 | Encouragement, Sermon Illustrations
As a youngster I developed a thoroughly annoying and humiliating problem of stuttering…In the ninth grade, I was elected president of our junior high student body. During an assembly of the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades — several hundred students — I was beckoned...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Feb 25, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always enjoyed the public nature of Ash Wednesday. That is to say, what happens when we leave an Ash Wednesday service and there is the sign of the cross, for all who cross our paths to see. Recently I began to ask why is it that I...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Feb 11, 2020 | Creation, Sermon Illustrations
This seven-day week is not something that can, or should, be tinkered with, although some have tried to. In 1793, France, in an effort to increase human productivity, de-Christianized the calendar by modifying the seven-day week to a ten-day week. New clocks were even...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Feb 5, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations, The Wilderness
In the wilderness, life is stripped of distractions. It is quiet. The topography demands discipline, simplicity, and fierce attention. Solitude in the wilderness makes irrelevant all the people-pleasing habits that have become interwoven into your personality. “What...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 28, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations
Tennis superstar Andre Agassi was only nineteen years old when he starred in a television commercial for Canon cameras. The spot featured him in all sorts of eye-grabbing poses, a spectacle on display before the viewer’s clicking shutter. As the ad closes, he steps...
