Category: Expectations
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Keep Showing Up | John Ortberg Sermon Illustrations
My friend Eugene has a black belt in martial arts. During a sermon taping, I once held a block of wood as tightly as I could, right in front of my face, while Eugene did a 360-degree spin and splintered the wood with a roundhouse kick. I will never do that again. I did not…
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Santa Claus and the naughty-or-nice list | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
Biblical exposition Isaiah 56:1 says:“Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand.” At first glance, this sounds as though people must behave well to earn salvation. Keller explains that this would contradict the Bible’s teaching about salvation by grace. Illustration – Better watch out, better not cry Keller refers…
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The Junior High Resume | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
“When I was a junior in high school, maybe this happened to you. My parents kept coming to me—my mother would keep coming to me and saying, ‘You know, honey, go out for the chess club.’ I said, ‘Mom, I hate chess.’ ‘Yeah, I know,’ she says, ‘but it would look so good on your…
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Murray G. Brett | The dense forest of the Pacific Northwest
The dense forest of the Pacific Northwest, and we’ve been there, we got out and walked, it’s incredible. I’ll try as best I can to describe a little bit. The dense forest of the Pacific Northwest hold unrivaled, and we use the word natural beauty, natural beauty, but they also hold danger. They’re a maze…
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Choosing a Side: The End of Neutrality | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
Here’s Switzerland, neutral in the middle of World War II. And Switzerland is neutral during World War II, and the Allies are battling the Axis and so on, and because they’re neutral, they might have some skirmishes around the edges, but basically they’re not at war. If they come into the war on the side…
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The Power of Expectations | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
Lane Arthur was in a taxi in New York, right? When was it? Yesterday? And he was in a taxi, and when he was in a taxi, another taxi came up and rammed the end of the taxi that he was in. What did the taxi drivers do? What did they do? Nothing. They just…
