Sermon Illustrations

Category: Paul Miller

  • Bed

    You’ll never develop a morning prayer time in bed Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Confident?

    If you are not praying then you are confident that time, money and talent are all you need in life. You’ll always be a little too tired, a little too busy. But if like Jesus, you realise you can’t do life on your own, then no matter how busy, no matter how tired you are,…

  • Praying out loud

    Praying out loud can be helpful because it keeps you from getting lost in your head. It makes your thoughts concrete. But it is more than technique, it is a statement of faith. You are audibly declaring your belief in a God who is alive. Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life” Available…

  • Wandering mind

    When your mind starts wandering in prayer, be like a little child. Don’t worry about being organized or staying on task. Paul Certainly wasn’t! (Ephesians 3) Remember you are in conversation with a person. Instead of beating yourself up, learn to play again. Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available…

  • Don’t be embarrassed

    Don’t be embarrassed by how needy your heart is and how much it needs to cry out for grace. Just start praying. Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Praying out loud

    Praying out loud can be helpful because it keeps you from getting lost in your head. It makes your thoughts concrete. But it is more than technique; it is also a statement of faith. You are audibly declaring your belief in a God who is alive. Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life”…

  • Praying like a child

    Praying like a child

    Private, personal prayer is one of the last great bastions of legalism. In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the non-personal, nonreal praying that you’ve been Paul MillerClick to TweetFrom the book “A Praying Life” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • A less busy heart

    A less busy heart

    Learning to pray doesn’t offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart. In the midst of outer busyness we can develop an inner quiet. Because we are less hectic on the inside, we have a greater capacity to love… and thus to be busy, which in turn drives us even…

  • Functional Deists

    Functional Deists

    Many Christians haven’t stopped believing in God; we have just become functional deists, living with God at a distance. We view the world as a box with clearly defined edges. But as we learn to pray well, we’ll discover hat this is my Father’s world. Because my Father controls everything, I can ask, and he…

  • If God is Sovereign

    If God is Sovereign

    If God is sovereign, then he is in control of all the details of my life. If he is loving then he is going to be shaping the details of my life for good. If he is all wise then he’s not going to do everything that I want because I don’t know what I…