Sermon Illustrations
Company Boasts Perfect Wedding Weather
A London-based luxury travel company is offering to guarantee that rain will not ruin your wedding day. Is this really possible? According to Oliver's Travels website:
Yup, in order to ensure the most perfect of perfect days … we can now offer our customers a 'cloud-bursting' service that can 100 percent guarantee fair weather and clear skies for your wedding day! Currently available to customers organizing a destination wedding in France … the service employs the talents of pilots and meteorologists and takes over three weeks to plan, and uses silver iodide to 'seed' the clouds—essentially giving the water vapor something to condense around to produce rain.
Costs start from [$150,000], which is a fair old whack of cash! But then again, you can't put a price on perfection right?
The company boasts "success can be guaranteed," however they also admit, "If a natural disaster such as a hurricane were to occur this cannot be controlled."
Possible Preaching Angles: (1) Marriage; Weddings; (2) Control; Disappointment; Sovereignty of God—We try to control the circumstances of life so we won't have to suffer, but it's far better to trust in the sovereignty of our good and gracious God.