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11 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 2019, a seminary professor received a stage-three cancer diagnosis. His colleagues expected devastation. Instead, they found him at his desk the next morning, Bible...
In John 14:27, Jesus declares, "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to...
In her autobiography, Teresa of Avila describes the soul's interior castle — room after room leading deeper toward the center where God dwells. Most of...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night prayer when a violent thunderstorm shook the abbey walls. The windows rattled,...
When Jesus spoke, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you," He was not offering a concept to be grasped but a...
In the monastery chapel at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night vigils when the wind howled against the Kentucky hills, rattling windows...
In the early days of American westward expansion, government surveyors drove brass benchmarks into solid bedrock across the continent. These small, unassuming discs became the...
In downtown Portland, a vacant lot sat wedged between a luxury condo development and a Section 8 housing complex. For years it collected broken glass...
In 2019, a small congregation in Portland set a long wooden table on the sidewalk outside their church every Sunday evening. They called it the...
When Jesus told His disciples, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world...
When Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives," He was not offering...
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