sermon-illustrations
Curated Sermon Illustrations on Value
Explore powerful illustrations on value. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you illustrate the timeless truths from scripture.
Featured Illustration
More Value than a Coffee Pot
A missionary in a Muslim-majority country got a call one day from his wife. Their local house-helper (a common practice in that country) had accidentally dropped and broken their carafe from the coffee maker. (Coffee isn’t common in that country – everyone drinks tea. So, the coffee pot was considered precious.)
The missionary’s wife called to tell him in advance, not that the coffee pot was broken, but that the house-helper was terrified to tell him. Because women are not valued highly in that culture, she probably expected to be fired or even struck when the “man of the house” got home.
The husband understood why his wife warned him. When he came home, he made sure his reaction showed the house-helper that she was more important than a coffee pot.
Relationships matter and none more than that relationship Christ has with the Church.
By living the love of Jesus, the missionaries displayed God's love to a woman in a way which simple words could not.
Search by topic, scripture, category etc..
Display
Sorted By