Sermon Illustrations

Tag: servanthood

  • Opening doors

    Kids who know and follow Jesus understand that they are ministers called to serve. There is no better antidote to entitlement than serving. We must teach our children to seek out relationships and then seek to give to those people rather than to receive from them. For my son, it was simple and started early…

  • In the mind of Jesus

    In the mind of Jesus acts of service were not inconsistent with greatness but rather an integral part of it. Jesus’ concept of greatness-and obviously is the correct one-is so contrary to the wolldis sense of values that even we Christians Cave difficulty grasping it. Even the disciples vied among themselves for rank and position…

  • Jesus knew that it was

    Jesus knew that it was the night of his betrayal and that the very next morning he would suffer on a cross for the sins of the world. He wouid from out viewpoint, have had every reason to be preoccupied with his imminent sufferings. Yet Jesus took time to tend to a duty -washing the…

  • When Wycliffe Bible translator Doug

    When Wycliffe Bible translator Doug Meland and his wife moved into a village of Brazil’s Fulnio Indians, the Indians referred to him simply as “the white man.” That reference was not complimentary since other “white men” had exploited them, burned their homes, and robbed them of their lands. But after the Melands learned the Fulnio…

  • Mark Twain and a Mormon

    Mark Twain and a Mormon were arguing about polygamy (having more than one wife). The Mormon said, “Give me just one verse in the Bible that forbids polygamy!” Twain quickly answered, “That’s easy. ‘No man can serve two masters.” Click to Tweet