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May 11, 2025
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Happy New Year Illustrations
New Year
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Feb 28, 2025 = A sermon by Preaching Minister Randy Johns on preparing for a new year, and what to expect from the pulpit in 2025!
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Sin Illustrations
Devotional Thoughts and Teaching Illustrations About Sin
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What is Sin?
Sin will always be an offensive word. We can talk openly and impersonally about crimes like rape and murder; we can make statistics out of our adulteries, unwed pregnancies, and divorces; we can trivialize greed, selfishness, and lust or elevate them to the level of cultural values-but to call anything sin makes us uncomfortable. The word sin implies violating an objective and absolute standard or code of behavior established by God. We almost instinctively feel this to be an infringement on our rights. Yet such an attitude displays a terrible misunderstanding of sin and an underestimation of God. When a doctor correctly diagnoses a disease in our body, we do not accuse her of impinging on our freedom; rather, we are grateful because we know diseases can destroy our lives. The Bible teaches that God is concerned about sin-not because he wants to limit our freedom and enjoyment of life but because sin is a disease of the soul that destroys our lives and leads to spiritual death if we do not treat it.
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Monday, October 21, 2024
Virtues Illustrations
Devotional Thoughts and Teaching Illustrations About Virtues
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Monday, August 05, 2024
Loneliness Illustrations
Devotional Thoughts and Teaching Illustrations About Loneliness
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In the lonely hours of the night, do you sometimes wrestle with God and your emotions, feeling desperately alone, rejected? Perhaps a best friend deserted you. Or the one you hoped to marry wants someone else. Or the one you did marry wants out. Maybe your child has turned against you, or your parents don’t seem to care. Ironically, you can feel equally lonely on a crowded city street, in a busy airport, or in a stadium filled with people. Have you ever sensed the loneliness of being in a crowd? There are so many people, but no one you know or truly care about is there. Everybody is there but no one is with you—truly with you—except for God, who is always with you. If you develop a relationship with him, you can disperse your loneliness. He is always there for you. You never need to feel lonely when the creator of the universe is by your side.
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Psalm 25:16 NIV - 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Psalm 68:6 NIV - 6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Mark 1:45 NIV - 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
Luke 5:16 NIV - 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Psalm 23:4 Even when I walk through the darkest valley . . . you are close beside me.
Hebrews 13:5 For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”
Logos Dictionary Themes
Loneliness
God is concerned about our loneliness (Genesis 2:18)
God encourages the lonely (1 Kings 19:14–18)
God takes care of lonely people (Psalm 68:6)
Friends help in times of loneliness (Ecclesiastes 4:10–11)
God remains with us (Matthew 28:20)
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Tuesday, July 09, 2024
Gospel Illustrations
Devotional Thoughts and Teaching Illustrations About the Gospel
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2 Corinthians 11:4 NLT - 4 You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.
Galatians 1:11 NLT - 11 Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning.
Galatians 2:5, 7, 14 NLT - 5 But we refused to give in to them for a single moment. We wanted to preserve the truth of the gospel message for you. ... 7 Instead, they saw that God had given me the responsibility of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as he had given Peter the responsibility of preaching to the Jews. ... 14 When I saw that they were not following the truth of the gospel message, I said to Peter in front of all the others, "Since you, a Jew by birth, have discarded the Jewish laws and are living like a Gentile, why are you now trying to make these Gentiles follow the Jewish traditions?
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Monday, July 08, 2024
Family Illustrations
Devotional Thoughts and Teaching Illustrations About Family
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Ephesians 1:5 NLT - 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Ephesians 2:19 NLT - 19 So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family.
Ephesians 3:15 NIV - 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
Logos Dictionary Themes
Family
The members of a family can teach each other about God (Deuteronomy 6:4–9)
Do not let sin affect your family life (Psalm 101:2)
Do not bring trouble to a family (Proverbs 11:29)
Christian faith is of greater importance than family (Luke 12:51–53)
Christians are members of God’s family (Ephesians 2:19)
Husbands and wives should love each other (Ephesians 5:21–33)
Children should obey their parents (Ephesians 6:1)
Church leaders must have a good family life (1 Timothy 3:4–5)
Families should take care of each other (1 Timothy 5:3–5)
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Kevin Rayner
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