Sermon Illustrations

Tag: presence of God

  • Shackleton’s third man

    The experience of Shacklteon in the Antartic when on a perilous journey over ice mountains he and his colleagues were aware of a strange accompanying presence: Who is the third who always walks beside you? When I count there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road there…

  • Prayer just asking?

    Peter Greif “I’ve been thinking about something lately,” he said. “So much of the Christian prayer life consists of asking God for things. So what are we going to pray about when there’s no more pain and sin and suffering?” That messed me up. I think most Christians, myself in particular, see God mostly as…

  • Practicing the presence of God

    “It was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times.” BROTHER LAWRENCE Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Turn up

    Turn up

    Just by turning up and being there, you bring the presence of God. When thoughts pop into my head like “What’s the point of you going?”, “What on earth can you do?” or “They don’t want to see you now”, I turn to the great truths that God is with me, that I am a…