Sermon Illustrations

Category: Bill Hybels

  • Hope of the World

    There is nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. It comforts the grieving and heals the broken in the context of community. It builds bridges to seekers and opens its arms to the forgotten, the downtrodden, and the disillusioned. It breaks…

  • Prayer

    ‘If the request is wrong God says “No”. If the timing is wrong God says “Slow”. If you are wrong God says “Grow”. But if the request is right and the timing is right and you are right, God says “Go”.’ Bill HybelsClick to Tweet

  • Something I have to remind

    Something I have to remind myself of constantly is that people in our churches have real lives. You heard it here – engagements other than church. They have challenging jobs, children to raise, lawns to mow, and bills to pay. Because of all these daily responsibilities, the vision we poured into them on Sunday begins…

  • Contrary to what we might

    Contrary to what we might first think, the existence of evil should lead us toward belief in God, not away from it. If we are alone in the universe with no God, then there would be no standard of right and wrong. There would be no ultimate consequence or value in anything that we do.…