by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 31, 2020 | Glory, Palm Sunday, Sermon Illustrations
Just about 80 years ago, a crowd gathered on a humid August day to commence what was to be an unparalleled event for its time. Hundreds of thousands of spectators, police officers, and soldiers gathered for an event so spectacular, so colossal, it almost seemed to...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 24, 2020 | Crisis, Fear, Peace, Sermon Illustrations
In his book, Running Scared, Pychologist Edward Welch illustrates how the fear of an event is often worse than the event itself. To demonstrate this, he provides two examples of people whose lives are seemingly about to end, and the peace that they experience in the...
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. | Mar 10, 2020 | Book Reviews
In this time that we live in, filled with “friends” both real and virtual, the impulse to compare ourselves to others is both irresistible and soul-sucking. We need a thoughtful, measured approach to the problem of comparison that many of us face on a daily basis....
