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Inspirational Sermon Illustrations on Surrender
Explore powerful illustrations on surrender. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you bring your sermon to life.
sermon-illustrations
Explore powerful illustrations on surrender. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you bring your sermon to life.
Kate Bowler is a gifted scholar and writer who, as a young wife and mom, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer—kept going six months at a time thanks to immunotherapy. She writes honestly about how she’s always tried to stay in control, ever since she was a kid—and how hard it is to stop.
Control is a drug, and we are all hooked. . . . When I was little, my dad would read stories from Greek mythology, and I loved one most of all—that prideful King Sisyphus, who was doomed to roll a boulder up an impossibly steep hill only to have it roll down again. He would discover for all eternity that not every burden can be shouldered. Yes, I would think, learning nothing. But at least he kept trying.
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