Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermon Illustrations For Easter 2 (2017)
Illustration
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Prove it! Those words have been used on school playgrounds since practically the beginning of time. A kid will make a fantastic claim, and his dubious friends will snap back: “Oh yeah, prove it!” You’ve seen it before, maybe even experienced it.
* A fifth-grader, seeking to impress his classmates, brags: “My dad knows Tom Brady!” He is likely to be showered with a chorus of “prove it.”
* A middle-school student who claims to have met Jennifer Lawrence will be challenged by her friends to “prove it.”
Prove it! Those words have been used on school playgrounds since practically the beginning of time. A kid will make a fantastic claim, and his dubious friends will snap back: “Oh yeah, prove it!” You’ve seen it before, maybe even experienced it.
* A fifth-grader, seeking to impress his classmates, brags: “My dad knows Tom Brady!” He is likely to be showered with a chorus of “prove it.”
* A middle-school student who claims to have met Jennifer Lawrence will be challenged by her friends to “prove it.”
