Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermon Illustrations for Advent 2 (2015)
Illustration
Malachi 3:1-4
When I was a boy, there was a large empty field near our house. This was not a grassy green meadow with beauty that invited neighborhood children to enter and play. Instead, we were encouraged to avoid this ugly place. The field was overgrown with thick weeds, thickets of scraggly trees, stands of allergy-inducing goldenrod, and snarled patches of jean-snagging brambles. That field had little to offer a child.
When I was a boy, there was a large empty field near our house. This was not a grassy green meadow with beauty that invited neighborhood children to enter and play. Instead, we were encouraged to avoid this ugly place. The field was overgrown with thick weeds, thickets of scraggly trees, stands of allergy-inducing goldenrod, and snarled patches of jean-snagging brambles. That field had little to offer a child.
