Sermon Illustrations on Spiritual formation Background Stories Analogies More Resources Background Being Formed in Christ’s Image In their excellent book Invitation to a Journey, M. Robert Mulholland and Ruth Haley Barton describe the Biblical understanding of...
Sermon quotes on the early church T.R. Glover The early Christian church conquered because the Christians of those days out-thought, out-lived, and out-died the pagans. William Goode The Catholic Christians (Early Church) will neither speak nor endure to hear...
Sermon quotes on Aim Aristotle (For Contrast) Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Dietrich Bonhoeffer God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which...
Sermon quotes on the internet Dave Barry The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Dave Barry in Cyberspace, Ballantine Books Dave Barry What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it...
Sermon quotes on protection Gaston Bachelard We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. The Poetics of Space: The Classical Look at How We Experience Places (New York: Penguin, 2014), 28. Columba of Iona Be a bright flame before me, O God a guiding star...
Sermon quotes on crucifixion Dietrich Bonhoeffer The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success for its standards. Frederic Farrar By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no...
