by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Dec 3, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
Sometimes it is helpful to see what life looks like on the other side of faith, that is, for those who believe that God does not exist. Bertrand Russell, the renowned philosopher and avowed atheist, had this to say about humanity from the perspective of an atheist:...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 26, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
While it might seem obvious in retrospect, one of the latest breakthroughs in the psychology of happiness has to do with gratitude. Multiple studies have shown a positive correlation between gratitude and happiness. One study, performed by Dr. Dr. Robert A. Emmons of...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 19, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations
Psychologists tell us that one of the most difficult conditions a person can be forced to bear is light deprivation. Darkness, in fact, is often used in military captivity or penal institutions to break down an individual’s sense of self. Once a person becomes...
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....
