by admin | 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...
by admin | Jan 21, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations
Peter Storey, the former Methodist bishop and president of the South African Council of Churches, a white man who opposed apartheid, tells a story about a party at which he and Archbishop Desmond Tutu were the honored guests. It was hosted by black South Africans who...
by admin | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Most of us in the United States know the famous “I have a Dream” speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the 1963 March on Washington. On a sweltering, humid day in the nation’s capital, some 250,000 people came to hear King speak on the...
by admin | Jan 14, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations
Is it possible to read a story and not enter into it; to write a story and not become part of the script? When I was writing my first book, my family and I were living in Cambridge, England. Our young son, who was just nine years old at the time, decided to write a...
by admin | Jan 7, 2020 | Sermon Illustrations
Editor’s Note: The following illustration came from one of my own sermons, as I was trying to help a congregation see itself not as a building, but the body of Christ. It has been adapted for TPW: Now, one of things I’ve realized, even in my own perspective on the...
