Sermon Illustrations about Lent
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Nurse Records the Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bonnie Ware, an Australian nurse, has spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. As Ware ...
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A Satirical "Prayer of Confession" for People Who Are "Okay"
The following prayer offers a satirical look at our shallow view of sin. This superficial prayer is based on a modern "overhaul" of a traditional ...
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Author Asks If 'We' Are Present during the Lord's Supper
In the [distracted] digital age, it may be the case that the classical debates about the presence of Jesus Christ in the [Lord's Supper] have been ...
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Two Wrong Ways to Address Struggles and Sins
On the same day, Rebecca Pippert attended two very different events: a graduate-level psychology class at Harvard University and a Christian Bible study ...
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Doctors Wash Their Hands after Seeing Their Own Germs
Dan and Chip Heath, the team of brothers who wrote the best-selling book Made to Stick, tell the following story about a doctor who was trying to get ...
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Runaway Teenager Repents and Comes Home
In her book, Unbroken, author Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of Olympic runner and World War II POW survivor Louie Zamperini. As a young teenager living ...
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Overconfident Naval Officer Loses His Way in the Fog
During a 1923 training exercise, a naval destroyer called the USS Delphy led a flotilla of seven vessels down the California coast. The USS Delphy was ...
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Lent: Cleaning Out the Hidden Corners of Our Hearts
In the daily round of life, dust and cobwebs accumulate in our souls. The hidden corners of our hearts become encrusted with grime or filled with forgotten ...
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Lenten Laughs: A Hypocritical Robber
A priest was coming back to his rectory one evening in the dark when he was accosted by a robber who pulled a gun on him and demanded, "Your money ...
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Lent: A Time to Stop Doing and Try Being
Maybe Lent is a good time to stop doing and try being. … Relinquishment lies at the heart of the Christian gospel and is a countercultural choice ...
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