Sermon Illustrations

Category: Dallas Willard

  • Lost

    Many a driver is lost long before he knows he is – though rarely before his wife knows it. Many are lost before God but do not know it. Dallas WillardClick to Tweet

  • Disciples

    Disciples

    The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as “Christians” will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human…

  • Fasting

    Fasting

    Persons well use to fating as a systematic practice will have a clear and constant sense of their resources in God… Since food has the pervasive place it does in our lives, the effects of fasting will be diffused throughout our personality. In the midst of all our needs and wants, we experience the great…

  • Fasting

    Fasting

    Fasting is one of the more important ways of practicing self-denial required of everyone who would follow Christ (Mark 16:24). iN fasting, we learn how to suffer happily as we feast on God. And it is a good lesson, because in our lives we will suffer, no matter what happens to us. Thomas a Kempis…

  • Fasting

    Fasting

    We learn too that we have meat to eat that the world does not know about (John 4:32,34). Fasting into our Lord is therefore feasting – feasting on Him and doing His will Dallas WillardClick to TweetFrom the book “The Spirit Of The Disciplines” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Fasting

    Fasting

    If nothing selse, though, it will certainly demonstrate how powerful and clever our body is in getting it own way against our strongest resolves. Dallas WillardClick to TweetFrom the book “The Spirit Of The Disciplines” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Joy is a pervasive sense

    Joy is a pervasive sense – not just a thought – of well-being: of overall and ultimate well-being. Its primary feeling component is delight in an encompassing good well secured. It is not the same as pleasure, though it is pleasant. It is broader and deeper than any pleasure… But for joy, all is well,…

  • The secret of the easy

    The secret of the easy yoke, then, is to learn from Christ how to live our lives, how to invest all our time and our energies of mind and body as he did Dallas WillardClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Asking ourselves "What would Jesus

    Asking ourselves "What would Jesus do?" when suddenly in the face of an important situation simply is not an adequate discipline of preparation to enable us to live as he lived Dallas WillardClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Oswald Chambers observes: "The Sermon

    Oswald Chambers observes: "The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us." Dallas WillardClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on…