Tag: Sermon illustrations
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The Garbage Man and the Forgiveness of Sin |Dr. Kevin DeYoung Sermon Illustrations
Tomorrow is a great day at the DeYoung house, because Monday is garbage day. We have a lot of garbage. When you add recycling, we have two of those big bins for garbage and three for recycling. So, when it’s all there and lined up, five huge bins. Five! God bless the garbage man. He…
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The Impossible High Jump | Dr. Kevin DeYoung Sermon Illustrations
In Philippians 3, we are found in Christ with a righteousness not our own, but one that comes through faith in Christ. Here’s an analogy. I think I gave this a few years ago. I’ll do it quickly, but it helps me think about this. It’s a track-and-field analogy. You were all hoping! The high…
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The Missing Word: Justification in Eastern Orthodoxy | Dr. Kevin DeYoung Sermon Illustrations
We’re actually reading as a staff, as a faculty, at Reformed Theological Seminary this semester. We pick a book every semester, and I attend those meetings whenever I can. This semester, we’re reading a book by Timothy Ware called The Orthodox Church. It’s an introduction to Eastern Christianity. It was originally written in 1963 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,…
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The King’s Acknowledgment | Voddie Baucham Sermon Illustrations
There is a great story of the musical piece Handel’s Messiah. When Handel finally finished and presented this piece of music, the King of England was in the audience. When the orchestra began to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, the king stood up, acknowledging the kingship of Christ. When the king stood up, everybody else stood…
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Buying a house – Earnest money | Voddie Baucham Sermon Illustrations
When you are buying a house, you sign an earnest money contract. What is your earnest money contract? You go and you see the house and you say, I wanna buy the house. And you write a contract and your contract says, I will buy the house at this price. You attach a check and…
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The salesman and the $1,000 cheque | Voddie Baucham Sermon Illustrations
I remember when I was in college and I got a job and I was trying to make some money and I wanted to make some good money, so I went and found a sales job. And I had this guy who was training me as a salesman. And one of the things that he…
