Sermon Illustrations

Though we think of ourselves as followers of Jesus, we are often seduced by the fearful questions the world presents to us. Without fully realizing it, we become anxious, nervous, worrying people caught in the questions of survival: our ownsurvival, the survival of our families, friends, and colleagues, the survival of our church, our country,…

Fearful questions never lead to love-filled answers; underneath everyfearful question many other fear-filled questions are hidden. Once I have decided that in order to have a child I must be able to offer that child a college education, I get caught in many new, anxious questions involving my job, the place I live, the friends…

We are fearful people. The more people I come to know and the more I come to know people, the more I am overwhelmed by the negative power of fear. It often seems that fear has invaded every part of our being to such a degree that we nolonger know what a life without fear…