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- Faith as A Wire
- Faith as An on Switch
- Faith as A Corn Kernel
We can picture faith as a connection between the work of the Holy Spirit and the power at work in our new nature. Faith is a wire that conducts a current called grace that flows from the Spirit so that the new nature receives power.4
Most things that are powered by batteries have an on and off switch. If the batteries are included when an item is purchased, then it is ready to be used immediately. However, it still must be activated by the switch. As Christians, our switch is faith. When we turn on our faith, we are able to access the power included in us.5
From 300 Sermon Illustrations from Spurgeon: To all appearances, the most absurd thing that ever was done by mortal man is to throw away good corn, burying it in the ground. If you had never seen or heard of its results, it would seem the way of waste and not the work of [farming]. Yet the farmer has no doubt, he longs to be allowed to cast away hi...
- Grace. A Texas police officer writes a ticket but folded a $100 bill inside the citation. Read the story about grace. God gives us a great gift, even though we are guilty.
- Teamwork. Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that everyone writes, put the mega-staffed, super-popular Microsoft Encarta out of business. Read the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia and remind your congregation that teamwork makes the dream work; you’re stronger together than any one person alone.
- Faithfulness. Chinese bamboo produces very little outward growth for the first four years of its life. Though it’s puny and pitiful, there’s something powerful happening underground.
- Restoration. Starbucks reclaimed four shipping containers and made a pretty cool coffee shop out of them. They say the containers are “reclaimed, refurnished, renewed and revived.”
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God’s Asterisk. You often find in a book or manuscript a star calling your attention to a footnote or explanation. That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all the stars of the night-heaven are asterisks, calling your attention to God, an all-observing God.
