Sermon Illustrations

Category: John Mark Comer

  • Elderly people

    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…

  • Agents of grace or carriers of sickness

    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*

  • Hurry the greatest enemy of spiritual life

    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…

  • Scroll of social media

    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*

  • The way, the truth, the Life

    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…

  • Problems of the world

    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*

  • Honesty with emotions

    Jesus isn’t nearly as scared of honesty as we are. We hide how we really feel from God, we hide from our community we even hide from ourselves. But prayer is a safe place to bring all that we are before all that God is. No edit button. You don’t have to Moralise. You can…

  • Meditators

    Tim Keller “Persons who meditate become people of substance who have thought things out and have deep convictions, who can explain difficult concepts in simple language, and who have good reasons behind everything they do. Many people do not meditate. They skim everything, picking and choosing on impulse, having no thought-out reasons for their behavior.…

  • Multitasking is a myth

    One of the reasons I’m so pharisaical about my phone, email, and social media is because I’ve come to realize the obvious: multitasking is a myth. Literally. Only God is omnipresent. I inhabit a body. A body that can do only one … thing … at … a … time. Multitasking is just sleight of…

  • Keep your phone off until…

    Keep your phone off until…

    Keep your phone off until after your morning quiet time. The stats are ominous: 75 percent of people sleep next to their phones, and 90 percent of us check our phones immediately upon waking. My friends at Red Church in Melbourne, Australia, have this saying: “Win the day.” They mean, at the beginning of each…