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IllustrateTheWord has 7 sermon illustrations referencing 3 John, across all 1 chapters. Most are free to browse and preview.

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The Letter That Arrived on a Tuesday

In 1987, a retired Sunday school teacher named Dorothy Caldwell lived alone in a small apartment in Terre Haute, Indiana. She had spent thirty-one years...

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The Invisible Enemies of the Vineyard

In 1863, Emperor Napoleon III summoned Louis Pasteur to address a crisis threatening the French economy: wine was souring in its barrels, and no one...

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The Letter That Arrived Thirty Years Late

In 1987, Margaret Ellison taught a Wednesday night Bible study for teenagers in a cinder-block church basement in Terre Haute, Indiana. She brought homemade snickerdoodles...

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Sermon Illustration

The Two Carpenters of Appalachia

In the 1930s, two carpenters worked side by side in Harlan County, Kentucky, building homes for families displaced by mine collapses. Elmer Sizemore cut corners...

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The Carpenter's Hands

In 1987, a young furniture maker named Tomás Herrera walked into a workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, and apprenticed himself to master woodworker Don Refugio. For...

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Spiritual Discipline

Service and Hospitality: The Didascalia: Hospitality in the Early Church

Teaching on Service and Hospitality from Unknown: The Didascalia: Hospitality in the Early Church

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Spiritual Discipline

Service and Hospitality: Jerome on Hospitality to Pilgrims

Teaching on Service and Hospitality from Jerome: Jerome on Hospitality to Pilgrims

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