Sermon Illustrations

Category: Eugene Peterson

  • Plans

    God cannot fit into our plans, we must fit into His. Eugene PetersonClick to Tweet

  • History is lubricated by tears

    History is lubricated by tears

    History is lubricated by tears. Prayer may be most prayer when it is accompanied by tears. All these tears are gathered up and absorbed in the tears of Jesus. Eugene PetersonClick to TweetFrom the book “Christ plays in ten thousand places” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Farmers not in a hurry

    I can’t remember a farmer who was ever in a hurry. Farmers characteristically work hard, but there is too much work to do to be in a hurry.On a farm everything is connected both in place and in time. Nothing is done that isn’t connected to something else; if you get in a hurry, break…

  • Take a Sabbath

    If you don’t take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You’re doing too much, you’re being too much in charge.You’ve got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you’re not doing anything. Eugene PetersonClick to Tweet

  • Prayer – participating in God gracious action

    In Christian prayer, as Eugene Peterson puts it, “I enter into an action begun by another, my creating and saving Lord, and find myself participating in the results of his gracious action.” Eugene PetersonClick to TweetFrom the book “The contemplative pastor” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Membership

    Eugene Peterson writes in his introduction to the book of Numbers, ‘We need organisational help. When people live together in community, jobs have to be assigned, leaders appointed, inventories kept. Counting and list-making and rosters are as much a part of being a community of God as prayer and instruction and justice. Accurate arithmetic is…

  • Holy plans

    ‘God cannot fit into our plans, we must fit into his,’ writes Eugene Peterson. ‘We can’t use God – God is not a tool or appliance or credit card. Holy is the word that sets God apart and above our attempts to enlist him in our wish-fulfilment fantasies or our utopian schemes for making our…

  • Pastoring like changing nappies

    Pastoring is not a very glamorous job. It’s a very taking-out-the-laundry and changing-the-diapers kind of job. Eugene PetersonClick to Tweet

  • Salvation is the answer to

    Salvation is the answer to catastrophe! Eugene PetersonClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • When we worship we are

    When we worship we are oriented ourself to God’s compass Creation, covenant, judgement and salvation Whore worship give us great gain. Bride worship is an offering we give of ourselves Eugene PetersonClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*