Sermon Illustrations about Holy Spirit, indwelling
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Power Outage Creates 'Cruise Ship from Hell'
On February 10, 2013, a fire broke out in an engine room of the Carnival cruise ship, Triumph. The fire knocked out the ship's power, leaving the vessel ...
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Gadgets Nag Us to Change Behavior
No matter how hard we try we just can't seem to shed our need to live by law rather than grace. A recent (2013) article in The Wall Street Journal explored ...
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Steve Jobs' Death Causes Apple Stock Crash
In April 2013 an article in the USA Today Money section reported that Apple's stock has been struggling. According to the article, "The Apple stock crash ...
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Beautiful and Cracked Vases Teach about Self-esteem
Editor's Note: The following illustration could be used as a simple but powerful object lesson. Discount or thrift stores usually carry plenty of cheap ...
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Director Forces Actor to Act like Jesus
In 1927 the director Cecil B. DeMille cast British-born actor H. B. Warner as Jesus in his famous silent film King of Kings. Warner, who 19 years later ...
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Our Prayers Are like a Paralyzed Man's Groans
Pastor Sinclair Ferguson offered the following personal story to illustrate the Spirit's involvement in our prayer life:
When I was a little boy, I used ...
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Helium Balloon Demonstrates Our Life in Christ
To illustrate how the beauty and majesty of God can cause our hearts to desire him more than we desire sin, J. D. Greer writes:
Think of [our relationship ...
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Young Boy Struggles to Move a Desk Without His Dad's Help
Kyle Idleman writes in “Not a Fan”:
When I started a new church in Los Angeles County, California, I found that I was overwhelmed with pressure ...
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Information Alone Doesn't Change Behavior
In his book The Social Animal, David Brooks summarizes vast amounts of social science research by stating that "information programs alone are not ...
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The Privilege of Having the Holy Spirit Live Within Us
Derek W. H. Thomas writes in “How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home”:
One recent summer, in a large urn that sits outside the front door ...
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