Sermon Illustrations

Tag: distraction

  • Distracting ourselves to spiritual oblivion

    How do you pray, read the Scriptures, sit under a teaching at church, or rest well on the Sabbath when every chance you get, you reach for the dopamine dispenser that is your phone? To requote the Catholic father and social critic Ronald Rolheiser, “We … are distracting ourselves into spiritual oblivion.” John Mark Comer…

  • Distraction and faith

    John Ortberg “For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.” John Mark Comer – American…