Loading...
Search, filter, and discover the perfect illustration for your sermon
Free to browse · Sign up free to unlock most illustrations · Premium ($9.95/mo) for the full library of 50,000+ illustrations
Luke 4:21-30 invites ordered love—right worship that spills into right living—today, not someday.
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 shatters self-salvation—your best efforts can’t pay what only Christ can forgive—today, not someday.
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Luke 18:9-14, the Word confronts the individual and forms a covenant people by conviction.
1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a exposes our control; the Spirit refuses to be managed—today, not someday.
Acts 2:14a, 36-41 Philemon 1-21, God’s covenant faithfulness outlasts human failure and calls forth obedience—today, not someday.
Jeremiah 18:1-11 is a mirror—if it offends, it’s doing honest work—today, not someday.
Colossians 2:6-15 points beyond itself to the person and work of Jesus—today, not someday.
Isaiah 52:7-10 107:1-9, 43 is read with Scripture, Tradition, and Reason—truth that forms worship and life together.
Luke 22:14-23:56 insists that worship without justice is noise, not devotion—today, not someday.
Mark 13:24-37 80:1-2, 8-19 challenges untethered spirituality—without rooted worship, zeal becomes drift—today, not someday.
In Psalm 19, love becomes public: the kingdom confronts systems that crush the vulnerable—today, not someday.
Isaiah 5:1-7 comforts the afflicted and empowers the community to rise together—today, not someday.
Matthew 4:1-11 12:49-56 shows that freedom is received by faith, not achieved by effort—today, not someday.
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Luke 19:1-10, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.
Acts 11:1-18 confronts consumer Christianity—if you’re not being sent, you’re being sold—today, not someday.
Matthew 3:13-17 11:1-11 offers holy endurance: God gives strength for the long road and joy for the weary.
Romans 8:6-11 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 annoys your ego, it’s because the gospel won’t let you be your own savior.
Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 65 draws us into mystery—truth tasted through worship, not merely analyzed—today, not someday.
Matthew 17:1-9 79:1-9 shows redemption as restoration—God reclaiming creation through Christ—today, not someday.
Psalm 65 draws us into sacramental life—grace received, then lived through charity and communion—today, not someday.
Acts 16:16-34 exposes our control; the Spirit refuses to be managed—today, not someday.
Romans 8:6-11 12:13-21 draws us into mystery—truth tasted through worship, not merely analyzed—today, not someday.
Psalm 138 exposes pious excuses—if faith never costs power, it’s probably not liberation—today, not someday.
Luke 16:1-13 shows that God’s power is for love, not spectacle—today, not someday.