Jump directly to the Content

Sermon Illustrations about Death

Home > Illustrations > Topics > D > Death

Find fresh sermon illustrations on Death to help bring your sermon to life.

Unrepentant to the End

In A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers writes:

When my father was in intensive care, about a day and a half from throwing in the towel, ...

[Read More]
Death Just a Gardener

"Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardener."


[Read More]
Healed from Anger

In Preaching Today, author and speaker Tony Campolo tells this story:

I was in a church in Oregon not too long ago, and I prayed for a man who had cancer. ...

[Read More]
C. S. Lewis: War Gives Important Reminder

War does do something to death. It forces us to remember it. The only reason why the cancer at 60 or the paralysis at 75 do not bother us is that we forget ...


[Read More]
George Mueller on God's Goodness

Is God good even in the most painful times in life? In his book The Pleasures of God, John Piper shared the following account from the life of 19th century ...


[Read More]
Mother Brings Peace During Crisis

Cindy Holmes is a writer and pediatric nurse in Houston, Texas. She wrote an article about a mother and child she got to know at the hospital who were ...


[Read More]
Mission to Die

In The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan writes:

In 490 B.C. as Xerxes was advancing into Greece, he came to Thermopylae, a small pass in central Greece. ...

[Read More]
Earthly Memorials vs. Heavenly Glory

Tombstones are getting updated, at least in Hollywood. At Hollywood Forever, a 64-acre cemetery next to Paramount Studios, they produce multimedia narratives ...


[Read More]
"The Lion King": Substitutionary Sacrifice

Disney's animation The Lion King portrays the primal struggle between good and evil through its main character. Simba, a cub on his way to becoming ...


[Read More]
Bonhoeffer's Prayer Brings Prisoner Peace

The made for TV film, Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace, depicts the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader in the Confessing Church of Germany during ...


[Read More]