Sermon Illustrations

Category: Phil Togwell

  • Jesus prays

    In his Gospel, Mark records Jesus withdrawing to pray on three occasions, and they’re all significant. Here in chapter 1, Jesus prays in a solitary place. In chapter 6, Jesus prays on a mountainside, and then in chapter 14, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane. At the start, at the end, and in the…

  • Maximilian Kolbe

    In 1906, when Maximilian Kolbe was just 12 years old, he had a vision which shaped the rest of his life. In it, he was offered two crowns, one red and the other white. ‘The white one meant that I should persevere in purity,’ said Maximilian, ‘and the red that I should become a martyr.…