Sermon Illustrations about Opportunity
Home > Illustrations > Topics > O > Opportunity
Find fresh sermon illustrations on Opportunity to help bring your sermon to life.
Job Crafters Reshape Their Work to Serve Others
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Yale studied how people in unglamorous jobs coped with their often devalued work. When the researchers ...
[Read More]
The Man Who Reinvented Children's Books
A 1954 Life magazine article titled "Why Johnny Can't Read" argued that the "Dick and Jane" books that most schools depended on ...
[Read More]
Elevator Operator Shows True Joy and Gratitude
Blooming where you're planted has never been a problem for Los Angeles elevator operator Ruben Pardo. For 35 years, he has driven and steered one ...
[Read More]
College President Faces Cancer with Faith
Steve Hayner, the 66-year-old beloved president of Columbia Theological Seminary, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After tests had revealed that ...
[Read More]
Woman Ministers to Telemarketers
Once, while speaking on the topic of grace in Toronto, I asked the audience about their own experiences conveying grace to others. One woman shocked us ...
[Read More]
Dallas Willard Shares His Biggest Regret
Shortly before Dallas Willard died from cancer in 2013, Pastor John Ortberg asked him, "Do you regret anything?" Willard answered, "I regret ...
[Read More]
Wounded Man Is Helped by Off-duty Nurses
On a cold January night in downtown Minneapolis, a 22-year-old man stumbled into Maxwell's American Pub on Washington Street. At first the bartender ...
[Read More]
Swim Coach Sees the Needs in His Own City
For years, Doug Banister, a Christian from Knoxville, Tennessee, had taken mission trips to Romania. God had moved powerfully on those trips, but Doug ...
[Read More]
Pilot Displays Competence during Crisis
On February 24, 1989, United Airlines Flight 811 took off from Honolulu on its way to New Zealand. The 747 had climbed to twenty-two thousand feet when ...
[Read More]
Thanking God in the Midst of ALS
In the fall of 2000, former megachurch pastor Ed Dobson was diagnosed with ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease), a degenerative disease with no known cause ...
[Read More]
