Sermon Illustrations

Category: Sam Storms

  • Emptied himself

    Emptied himself

    But when he “emptied himself by taking the form of a servant” and “being found in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:7-8) he voluntarily suspended the use or exercise of those divine attributes that would have made it impossible for him to live a genuinely human life. He didn’t forsake such attributes as omniscience and…

  • Divine weapons

    Divine weapons

    Our weapons have divine power, not human/worldly/fleshly power. Lit., dunata to theo, which can be taken one of four ways: made powerful by God; or, divinely or supernaturally powerful; or, powerful in God’s perspective; or , powerful for God. In any case, on any view, our weapons work! They are divinely effective. They get the…

  • Strongholds

    a mindset impregnated with hopelessness that causes us to accept as unchangeable something we know is contrary to God’s will Sam StormsClick to Tweet

  • 2 cor 10:3-6 not about cosmic spiritual warfare

    2 cor 10:3-6 not about cosmic spiritual warfare

    Some have misinterpreted and misapplied this text as if it spoke of cosmic level spiritual warfare (i.e., territorial demons). “Strongholds” and every “lofty thing” (NASB) have been taken as referring to demonic spirits who have been assigned by Satan to specific territorial or geographic regions. We then, according to this view, are called to identify,…

  • Emptied himself

    Philippians 2:6-11 This text does not assert that the eternal Son of God gave up or surrendered any attributes of deity. Jesus “emptied” himself by becoming a man, not by ceasing to be God. We now come to the all important statement in v. 7 that the Son “emptied himself” (NASB) or “made himself of…

  • 2000

    You’ve probably never heard of “Scythia,” but that was the name given by the Greeks and Romans to the lands between the Black Sea and the Volga basin. In 465 a.d. a man was born there by the name of “Dionysius”, the ancient form of Dennis. In order to distinguish himself from all the other…

  • God/Allah

    It’s possible for two people to have radically different ideas about someone but still to be referring to the same person. Someone who talks to Superman is talking to the same person a co-worker of Clark Kent talks to, though the latter has no notion of Kent’s superhero identity. In the same way, Muslims and…

  • The love of God, writes

    The love of God, writes Charles Hodge, “does not descend upon us as dew drops, but as a stream which spreads itself abroad through the whole soul, filling it with the consciousness of his presence and favour.” God wants your heart to be inundated by wave after wave of His Fatherly affection, so effusively poured…