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Curated Sermon Illustrations on Desires
Explore powerful illustrations on desires. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you illustrate the timeless truths from scripture.
sermon-illustrations
Explore powerful illustrations on desires. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you illustrate the timeless truths from scripture.
The church fathers consistently acknowledged the beauty and goodness of desire (e.g., Augustine, above), but they were not naive to the potential for desire to be bent by sin. They knew that our longing for an ever-growing relationship with God—one that leads to loving others, ourselves, and the world deeply—could easily be turned to desiring objects for their own sake. Instead of experiencing joy in relationship with God and others, we desire to become God and to possess others and the objects they love.
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