October 6th, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
These Illustrates Relationship of Our Money With The Joy of Our Salvation
The illustrations below are very useful especially if you will be talking about the relationship of money and our joy of salvation in Christ.
It is true that there are times that in a church, if we start talking about supporting God’s work and all other ministries financially, whole bunch of different issues and conflicts starts to rise. And suddenly we find out that we are no longer enjoying the works of service to our Lord.
Again, the book of Luke made such an example that we cannot be Christ’s disciple unless we learn how to love God more than our needs.
I do hope these illustrations will help us realize on how God works and see the relationship of our finances to the ministry of God.
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October 1st, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
“. . .stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.”
Job 37:14b
When I gaze into the evening sky
And see the stars above,
I see more than lifeless orbs;
I see the Father’s Love.
When I watch a bird winging its way in flight,
Soaring effortlessly on the wind,
I see an expression of the Father’s Grace
Who longs to be my Friend.
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September 30th, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
These illustrations talks about marital relationships and its effects to children. May these illustrations help pastors, preachers and ministers to promote love and Biblical teachings about marriage.
Where Is the Hope?
I recently saw a newspaper cartoon of a mother reading a bedtime story to her little, curly-haired daughter. The book was called Grim Reality Fairy Tales, and the text read, “and the prince kissed her and they fell in love, dated a while and moved in together, broke up, got back together, got married, got a baby, got separated, got back together again, broke up, got divorced, spent time alone rediscovering themselves, met someone new, fell in love and repeated the pattern habitually ever after.”
This worldview is sad, hopeless, and far from what God intended. More than ever, our children wonder what marriage is and what they might hope for in a relationship.
Steve Zeisler, What Did Moses Command?
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September 22nd, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
The collection of illustrations below is all about influencing others as Christians.
It is very important that as Christians, we are to become the salt of the world. We are to influence the world and not us being influenced by the world.
The mere fact that the Bible made an important emphasis in loving our neighbor, it also means that we are to influence them in the way that God loves the world.
The illustrations below can be a good source of good insights about loving our neighbor in the way God wants it to be.
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September 20th, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
The collection of illustrations below is all about God as the provider, the Bread of Life.
God is the Jehovah Jireh, the great provider. But there is nothing more than he can give than what He already gave, the Bread of Life, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
During the time that we are in need, help comes from heaven above and is not from our own. Furthermore, many Christians strive hard to become good Christians. But they find it so difficult to stay “on track” because they haven’t really found the real “bread of life” who sustains our spiritual life where we will not grow weary and exhausted.
May the illustrations below be a good examples in your sermons about God as the real “Bread of Life”
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September 19th, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
Illustrations About Humility is a collection of Sermon Illustrations that talks about being humble.
Humility is one of the things that every Christian should possess as Christ demonstrated.
May you enjoy the illustrations below.
Clothed with Humility
The word “humility” means literally a low estimate of self. But this does not imply self-deprecation. When you hear someone deprecating himself, usually you can put it down as a sort of counterfeit humility. Someone has said, “The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your full height before some higher nature that will show you how small your greatness is.” “Walk humbly with thy God.” Here is where we learn true humility. Walking with God, seeing ourselves by the side of His greatness, we see how little we are. And seeing how little we are is the first step toward becoming what we can and ought to be.
We never become truly great, we never do our best work until we are “clothed with humility”; until, like our Lord and Savior, we are willing to live to serve others.
John R. Gunn, Facing Life
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The Ambitious Disciples
Jesus and his disciples were coming to the town of Capernaum. As they entered the house where they would be staying, he asked his disciples, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet, says the writer of Mark’s Gospel, because on the way they had argued about who was number one among them.
So, the disciples were human just like you and I are human. Who doesn’t want to stand out? Some of the greatest people who have ever lived were also among the most ambitious.
It is said that Michelangelo prayed: “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
Abraham Lincoln often said to himself as a boy studying by the pine log fire at night: “I will study and get ready and perhaps my chance will come.” And, indeed, it did come.
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September 19th, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
The Perfect Pastor (Male and/or female) is a humorous sermon illustration about a Church looking for a perfect pastor.
* The perfect pastor preaches exactly 10 minutes.
* He condemns sin roundly but never hurts anyone’s feelings.
* He works from 8 AM until midnight and is also the church janitor.
* The perfect pastor makes $40 a week, wears good clothes, drives a good car, buys good books, and donates $30 a week to the church.
* He is 29 years old and has 40 years experience.
* Above all, he/she is handsome/pretty.
* The perfect pastor has a burning desire to work with teenagers, and he spends most of his time with the senior citizens.
* He smiles all the time with a straight face because he has a sense of humor that keeps him seriously dedicated to his church.
* He makes 15 home visits a day and is always in his office to be handy when needed.
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September 10th, 2009 by Ptr. Vince
Who Do You Say He Is?
If I told you to pull out a piece of paper and write on it who you say Jesus is what would you write? We all have some answer; we all have some images of Jesus. Some of them are the images we learned as children in Sunday school which have proved troubling and we don’t’ have anything to replace them with. Sometimes we dismiss Jesus on the basis of what we knew about Jesus at age six. Some of us have never examined the evidence for ourselves.
One of my main goals in preaching is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. I’m sorry to tell you this, but you probably don’t. Because what happens sometimes is that presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity. Jesus is sometimes obstructed by clouds of well-intentioned misinformation.
But ultimately, rather than give you my answer to the question I’d rather challenge you to answer the question for yourself because that’s the only answer that matters. Is he Messiah? If that’s what you think, what does that mean? Jesus clearly didn’t’ fit into what a Messiah was expected to be. Messiahs were supposed to have power, were supposed to take charge, were supposed to set things right and free the Jews from political expression. But Jesus refused to stiff arm anybody. He refused to dominate or to take up arms.
Is he Savior? OK. But what is he saving us from and what is he saving us to? Some people clearly had no interest in being saved. When Jesus said the poor are precious and the rich are in big trouble, only those on one side of that equation found it intriguing.
Is he Teacher? Surely, but is that all?
Who do you say he is? Messiah, Savior, Lord, shaman, teacher, friend, prophet, prince of peace?
Now, as you try and answer that question, don’t be too alarmed if you cant’ nail it down. Even those of us who wrestle with the question regularly find it difficult, because Jesus is sometimes downright incomprehensible; he is often enigmatic, ambiguous. From the very beginning, who Jesus was, what he was about, was far from self-evident. There were people who stood face-to-face with Jesus and said, “This is God incarnate.” There appear to be many more who said, “This man is nuts.” Although I think that for most of us, the biggest issue isn’t that we’ve listened to Jesus and found him incomprehensible; it’s that we’ve listened to him and found him too damned difficult.
Herb Miller, Who Do You Say That I Am?
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Defining Christ
Every photographer knows the importance of having the camera lens in focus before triggering the shutter. You can set the right shutter speed. You can open the lens to its proper setting. But if that lens is not in focus, the picture will be worthless.
Anyone who’s trying to sell something these days knows the importance of having an accurate focus on the market for which a product is intended. Whether you’re trying to sell soap or soft drinks, it’s necessary to know exactly which people will most likely purchase your product. On what age group or sector of the public do you focus your advertising?
So Jesus realized that if people were going to follow him, and if his followers were going to be truly effective Christians in the world, they needed to know exactly who he was. They also needed to know precisely what was involved in being a Christian.
That’s probably one reason why he asked this simple, but all-important question in our Bible reading. “Tell me,” he says, “who do people say I am?” And a little later he refines the question: “What about you?” he asked them. “Who do you say I am?”
Richard W. Patt, Partners in the Impossible, CSS Publishing Company
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