Sermon Illustrations

Most people over the age of eighty are either the best or the worst people you know. Hear me; I do not mean this in an ageist way. Just the opposite in fact. Most twenty-somethings I know are just kind of mid, as my teenage kids would say. They aren’t saints or potential terrorists; they’re…

We become either agents of God’s healing and liberating grace or carriers of the sickness of the world. John Mark Comer – American Pastor (1980 – )Click to TweetFrom the book “Practicing the Way” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

Dallas Willard famously called hurry, “The greatest enemy of spiritual life in our day” and said, “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry form your life.” Hurry inarguably the number one challenge you will face should you decide to take following Jesus seriously. Like an enemy it won’t just stand indoor way, it will actively fight against…

If we are rooted in the infinite scroll of media, it will form us, likely into people who are angry, anxious, arrogant, simplistic, and distracted. John Mark Comer – American Pastor (1980 – )Click to TweetFrom the book “Practicing the Way” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

As the Presbyterian Pastor Eugene Peterson once said,”The Jesus way wedded to the Jesus truth brings about the Jesus life.” He then concluded, “Jesus as teh truth gets far more attention than Jesus as the Way. Jesus as teh way is the most frequently avoided metaphor among the Christians with whom I have worked for…

How many of the problems of the world would effectively be solved overnight if the billions of living humans who identify as Christians all became apprentices of Jesus? John Mark Comer – American Pastor (1980 – )Click to TweetFrom the book “Practicing the Way” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*