Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermon Illustrations for Lent 5 (2014)
Illustration
Ezekiel 37:1-14
"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones..."
They're forty feet long and thirteen feet tall, with a mouth longer than your arm and filled with serrated, six-inch long fangs, yet nearly everyone can walk right up to one without any fear at all. Tyrannosaurus Rex makes a great white shark look about as threatening as a goldfish, but there is nothing scary about T-Rex now. They're just bones. With flesh and nerves and muscles, it would be a different matter to be sure, but not much different. Life is more than nerves and muscles and bones.
"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones..."
They're forty feet long and thirteen feet tall, with a mouth longer than your arm and filled with serrated, six-inch long fangs, yet nearly everyone can walk right up to one without any fear at all. Tyrannosaurus Rex makes a great white shark look about as threatening as a goldfish, but there is nothing scary about T-Rex now. They're just bones. With flesh and nerves and muscles, it would be a different matter to be sure, but not much different. Life is more than nerves and muscles and bones.
