Sermon Illustrations

a) Ever see the movie Clue? Albert Einstein and his colleagues pass off a local garage mechanic as some surprise genius, coaching him so that he can give lectures on physics to gatherings of scholars (it was all a match-making scheme to get him hooked up with Einstein’s niece). Of course, it was so astonishing that it made the papers, and things kind of got out of hand.

2. Jesus teaching in the temple was no less astonishing. This untrained carpenter lectures the scholars on the most important topic in Israel: Religion and the Law. But his teaching wasn’t just bold…