Sermon Illustrations

Dr. David Seamands tells of a Muslim who became a Christian in Africa: “Some of his friends asked him, ‘Why did you become a Christian?’ He answered, ‘Well, It’s like this. Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions and you didn’t know which way to go, and…

Jesus’ Great Commission to “go and make disciples of all nations” is a command to make disciples im all nations, not take them from all nations. The Great Commission is not about removing disciples from their contexts but about making disciples within their contexts. Missional disciples are missionaries wherever God places them. Our mission fields…

if you don’t come apart, you will come apart Joanna Collicut Click to TweetFrom the book “The Psychology of Christian Character formation” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

The way Jesus showed hospitality is unusual. According to the Gospels, he didn’t invite people round to his place; he invited himself to theirs. He was in the habit of being a guest in someone else’s home rather than a host (e.g. Luke 10:38 ). In fact he didn’t have a home into which he…

In modern psychology ‘Worry’ refiers to the cognitive aspects of anxiety — the tendency to go round and round in ‘What it?’ circles. lt involves ‘elaborative cognitive processing’ , something that is all well and good in its place but can cause problems if it gets out of control, Winding us up to a fever…