Sermon Illustrations about Preaching
Home > Illustrations > Topics > P > Preaching
Find fresh sermon illustrations on Preaching to help bring your sermon to life.
A Moment of Pulpit Panic
Pastor Jameson knows he used this illustration earlier but can't remember if it was at the first service or just five minutes ago.
[Read More]
Sounding the Magical Note
All preachers must struggle for that magical note somewhere between a trumpet of uncertain sound that brings no one to battle and the tin horn that thinks ...
[Read More]
Warm = Not So Hot
In my senior year of ministerial studies, I preached part-time in a small local church. Six months passed and none of my professors had come to hear me. ...
[Read More]
A Cushy Job
Our church has hard wooden pews, so it was good news when Rev. Watkins announced, "The Ladies Fellowship will refurbish the pews with cushions." Then ...
[Read More]
First-Time Preaching
As a first-year seminarian, I was invited to preach at a local church--only my second time in the pulpit. I was extremely nervous when the big day arrived. ...
[Read More]
Preaching to One
Here's an easy method for testing whether a sermon can deliver: ... Change the setting from a public situation to an individual one. Take away the ...
[Read More]
The Problem with the Messengers
Who will listen to the message of God's understanding and love when the messengers of that God are examples of anything but that?
[Read More]
Practicing What You Preach
I have to make a disclaimer right at the beginning. I have to tell you that I'm a phony. It's terrible living with yourself after you give a good ...
[Read More]
Shaking and Rattling the Congregation
Pastors who give their congregations only what they want are seldom able to lead them to new heights. If Moses had listened to his congregation and appeased ...
[Read More]
How Long Is Too Long?
I do not think we should use television as the measure of all attention spans. I have heard people of all ages listen for hours as a speaker or two gives ...
[Read More]
