Are you looking for high-quality, free sermon illustrations? You have come to the right place! Here are some that I have gathered and used over the years.

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Oak Trees and Successful Environments (Sermon Illustration)

Flying Blind (Sermon Illustration)

Dad Books Six Flights To Be With Flight Attendant Daughter (Sermon Illustration)

A Christmas Letter to Jesus (Sermon Illustration)

Mark Twain Stole Watermelons (Sermon Illustration)

A Melted Bible in the Wreckage of 9/11 (Sermon Illustration)

Matt Emmons Misfires (Sermon Illustration)

Bird By Bird (Sermon Illustration)

Prayer and the Richest Man in the World (Sermon Illustration)

Forgiveness Has No Statute of Limitations (Sermon Illustration)

Set Your Priorities or Someone Else Will (Sermon Illustration)

Nobody Told the King His Ship Would Sink (Sermon Illustration)

Man Chooses Death Over Change (Sermon Illustration)

Harvard Study Discovers the Secret to a Good Life (Sermon Illustration)

Impatient Mother Pulls Gun On Son’s Barber (sermon illustration)

The Priority Of Father Daughter Time (Sermon Illustration)

A Firefighter’s Search For His Son (Sermon Illustration)

Monkeys and a Pole (Sermon Illustration)

The True Riches of the Church (Sermon Illustration)

The Shadow of Death (Sermon Illustration)

Mopping the Floor to Put a Man on the Moon (Sermon Illustration)

The Offensive but Good News of Christmas (Sermon Illustration)

The Christmas Truce (Sermon Illustration)

The Humble Birth of Jesus (Sermon Illustration)

Teen Says She’s Pregnant With Baby Jesus (Sermon Illustration)

Francis Chan Rope Illustration (Sermon Illustration)

Renew Your Mind (Sermon Illustration)

Plane Crash Survivors Endanger Lives to Get Their Bags (Sermon Illustration)

Two Famous Pastors Named John With Two Very Different Marriages (Sermon Illustration)

Fresh Bread (Sermon Illustration)

Find the Pony (Sermon Illustration)

The Audacious Prayer of an Orphan Girl (Sermon Illustration)

Holes In The Fence (Sermon Illustration)

Christian Road Rage (Sermon Illustration)

Thomas Edison’s Reaction to His Lab on Fire (Sermon Illustration)

Olympian Sent to Finish the Race (Sermon Illustration)

True Story of A Failed Affair (Sermon Illustration)

Mr and Mrs Hand Leave The Church (Sermon Illustration)

Greatest Pitcher In The World (Sermon Illustration)

God Answers Prayer and Heals an Aneurysm (Sermon Illustration)

Sin is Like a Golf Ball Through a Window (Sermon Illustrations)

Compliments Change a Marriage (Sermon Illustrations)

Unlikely Rescue at Ground Zero (Sermon Illustration)

The Rich Father’s Art Auction (Sermon Illustration)

The Next Mile (Sermon Illustration)

The Shepherd’s Voice (Sermon Illustration)

If You Were a Christian, Why Didn’t You Tell Me About Jesus? (Sermon Illustration)

Winchester Mystery House (Sermon Illustration)

The Law of the Pendulum (Sermon Illustration)

Children Suffer From Secondhand Stress (Sermon Illustration)

Rockefeller Tithes (Sermon Illustration)

Doubting God Because of Broken World (Sermon Illustration)

Vomit Hug (Sermon Illustration)

Hilton Hotels Were Built on Prayer (Sermon Illustration)

If Life Is A Movie, You Aren’t The Main Character (Sermon Illustration)