Sermon Illustrations

Category: J.I.Packer

  • A rope

    The Bible is the rope God throws us in order to ensure that we stay connected while the rescue is in progress… To moderns drowning in hopelessness, disappointed, disillusioned, despairing, emotionally isolated, bitter and aching inside, Bible truth comes asa lifeline, for it is future-oriented and hope—centred throughout. J.I. PackerClick to TweetFrom the book “Keep…

  • Satan stays active, keeping pace

    Satan stays active, keeping pace wth God, cunning aiming to spoil God’s work and to thwart His plans to do good for his people and bring praise to his name. So teh church must be at war with Satan, since Satan is always at war with it – with us who believe J.I.PackerClick to TweetFrom…

  • Always in some way they

    Always in some way they will throw light on the twin themes of sin and grace; for these are the things that the whole Bible is about.Whatever part of the counsel of God they deal with, expository sermons will relate it to “Christ and him crucified,” for the Christ of Calvary is, so to speak,…

  • We are talking about God

    We are talking about God supernaturalising our lives and causing us to behave in ways in which left to our own devices we never could have behaved. J.I. PAckerClick to TweetFrom the book “Laid-back Religion?: Penetrating Look at Christianity Today” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Sanctification: "We are talking about

    Sanctification: "We are talking about God’s work of character change in Christians; about the life of God in the soul of man; about the outworking in our behaviour of our new supernatural life that is hid in Christ with God. J.I. PackerClick to TweetFrom the book “Laid-back Religion?: Penetrating Look at Christianity Today” Available on…

  • I start with the truism

    I start with the truism that each Christian’s prayer life, like every good marriage, has in it common factors about which one can generalise and also uniqueness which no other Christian’s prayer life will quite match. You are you and I am I, and we must each find our own way with God. J.I.PackerClick to…

  • I Believe that prayer is

    I Believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is, so that how we pray is as important as question as we can ever face. J.I.PackerClick to TweetFrom the book “My Path of Prayer: Personal Experiences of God” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Packer said, "The very act

    Packer said, “The very act of setting out Calvinistic soteriology [the doctrine of salvation] in the form of five distinct points (a number due, as we saw, merely to the fact that there were five Arminian points for the Synod of Dort to answer) tends to obscure the organic character of Calvinistic thought on this…

  • As it would be cruel

    As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesman to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing the…

  • Meditation is the activity of

    Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God, under the eye of God, by…