Spiritual Growth Archives - Sermon Illustration Ideas

Song of Spiritual Growth

Discipline, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Maturity, Wisdom

The song “Love of God” by Rich Mullins describes what spiritual growth looks like. One stanza describes God’s love as an ocean of “joy…

Gift Of Growth

Discipline, Growth, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Maturity

“One of the most notable characteristics of great men is that they continue to develop as they grow older. While the majority of men…

Growing Spiritually Through Easy And Tough Times

God's Plan, Hard times, Seasons, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life, Spiritual Maturity, Uncomfortable

Our spiritual life endures different seasons. Some feel like hard work, and some seem simple and sweet. Those hard, uncomfortable times often bring the…

Christians, Consider Your Words

Church Family, Effects of Sin, Honoring God, Injustice, Responding to Others, Sin, Spiritual Growth, Words

Author and pastor Dhati Lewis shares a story about an uphill battle he and his wife faced within the church as an interracial couple…

Concentric Circles of Friendship

Concentric Circles, Friendship, Nature, Spiritual Growth, Tree Rings

Concentric circles are seen in nature, such as ripples in a pond, the layers of an onion, and the rings of a tree. Interestingly,…

Changing Landscapes

Change, Christian Life, Faith, Growth, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life

A stream or river visibly changes the land around it over the course of time. Just as our faith in Jesus requires us to…

Freedom In Surrender

Freedom, Grace, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life, Surrender, Weakness

We can learn an important lesson about the spiritual life through the Chinese Finger Trap. It is constructed simply of woven paper, but when…

Fighting Regression

Envy, Growth, Jealousy, Spiritual Growth

Have you ever been annoyed by someone else’s success? How about when someone else is getting a lot of positive attention and you are…

The Weight We Carry

Burdens, Christian Life, Journey, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Health, Weight

Thru-hikers focus on and spend lots of money on packing low-weight items in their packs. The goal weight is twenty pounds of items to…

Rootstock

Fruit, Fruit of the Spirit, Growing, Spiritual Growth

When growing apple trees, farmers can’t simply drop a seed in the ground and expect to grow a tree identical to the parent; this…

Growth Is Endless

Growing, Growth, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life

Most believers are familiar with the biblical metaphor of the new birth (John 3:7), but birth or belief is just the beginning for the…

Growing In Our Faith

Growth, Learning, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life

Babies are not born speaking, walking, or able to do much of anything for themselves. They grow and learn by using their senses. Research…

Practicing Patience

Loving Others, Patience, Practice, Selfishness, Selflessness, Spiritual Growth

Patience is hard work. Just consider your own driving practices—how it’s hard to wait for the slow person with their turn signal on to…

Imitations

Imitations, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life, The Heart

In our highly processed food society, it is easy to find goods that are cheap, fast, and lack any nutritional substance. You can get imitation…

Prayer for Beginners

Grace, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Growth

Popular films have often done the best job of depicting the awkwardness of prayer for novices. One such classic prayer scene happens in Meet the Parents,…

Spiritual Prepration

Discipline, Physical Training, Preparation, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Growth

Many people have likened the practice of spiritual disciplines to such physical training. Scripture itself does so in passages like 1 Corinthians 9:24–27; 1 Timothy…

Good Habits

habits, Prayer, Spiritual Growth

We all have habits. Hopefully most of us brush our teeth every night, many of us go on a run or hit the gym…

Safety First

Accountability, Boundaries, Christian Life, Christian Living, Growth, Guardrails, Maturity, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Maturity

If you’ve ever had a child, babysat, or been in charge of a small group of children, you understand the importance of establishing safety…

Into The Fire

Abuse, Addiction, Community, Death, Faith, God's Plan, Into The Fire, Others, Perseverance, Poverty, Preemeptive Love Coalition, Spiritual Growth, Testing, War

It is simple to talk about faith through the fire, but are we equipping ourselves now with the determination and willingness to advance His…

A Spiritual Discipline

Choice, Disciplines, Feeling, Growth, Intention, Practice, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Growth, Work

Prayer, like any other discipline, requires…well, discipline. Richard Foster writes in, Celebration of Discipline, “Prayer is like any other work; we may not feel…