Sermon illustrations come from the funniest places. Recently, my little brother was texting me pictures of these amazing meals he was preparing:
So I sent him a picture of my fridge with the text, “Clearly I need a paycheck and to go shopping.”
I had recently returned back from a Youth Mission trip, and hadn’t gone shopping yet. He responded quickly: “You need Jesus.”
Later, as I was preparing to preach on the “Bread of Life” discourse in John 6, I couldn’t get that text conversation out of my mind. So I went with it. Here’s the sermon that resulted.