Category: Love
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The solar system with too many centres | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
Biblical exposition Keller explains that humanity was created to live with God at the centre, to love one another and to care for creation. When humanity rejected God’s authority, relationships became damaged: between nations, social classes, races, families and friends. Illustration – A solar system with everyone at its centre Keller compares human relationships to…
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The metaphysical second-chance comedy | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
Biblical exposition Keller explains that the Gospel does not merely tell us to change our behaviour. It gives us a new understanding of ourselves through the work of Christ.He refers to a movie review in The New York Times. Illustration – A second chance to become a new personThere was a recent movie review in…
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The artist and the bulldozer | Tim Keller Sermon Illustrations
Biblical exposition Keller explains why worship changes the heart. Christian transformation happens when we grasp how much Jesus Christ loves us and what He sacrificed for us.He compares Christ’s sacrifice to an artist’s love for his work. Illustration – The artist and the bulldozer > If you saw an artist who’d done a beautiful sculpture…and…
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Degrees of Love | Voddie Baucham Sermon Illustrations
Love is always special, but the degree to which the love is special is determined by the magnitude of the one doing the loving. A dog loves its owner because the owner feeds it, and children love their daddy because he is their father. A wife’s love is different because she had a choice. However,…
