Spiritual Growth Archives - Sermon Illustration Ideas

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…

Waiting On God

Challenges, God's Timing, Growth, Hope, James 5:11, Micah 7:7, Overcoming, Proverb 3:5-6, Romans 12:12, Romans 5:3-4, Romans 8:25, Romans 8:28, Spiritual Growth, Testimony, Trials, Waiting, Waiting on God, Waiting on the Lord

Waiting is part of our ongoing walk with Jesus. We aren’t comfortable with waiting, because we feel like it’s pointless—or worse, that we are…

Spiritual Cultivation

1 Corinthians 3:7, Effort, Ephesians 3:17, Faith, Farming, Fruit, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23, Galatians 6:9, Gardening, God's Work, Grace, John 15:5, Philippians 2:12, Philippians 2:13, Psalm 1:1-3, Reaping, Sanctification, Sowing, Spiritual Growth

There’s one type of image that pops up in Scripture repeatedly when describing the growth of Christians—farming or gardening. Perhaps we should think of…

The Sanctification Spiral

2 Peter 1:5-8, Change, Circular, Future Glory, Galatians 5:22-23, Good Works, Hebrews 5:12-14, Humility, Matthew 6:33, Process, Sanctification, Spiritual Growth, Titus 2:11-14, Transformation, Trusting God

In an article about sanctification for The Gospel Coalition, Wendy Alsup writes, “When you feel ‘stuck,’ when you feel like you are continually rehearsing…

God’s Work

Awareness, Faith, Fighting Sin, Galatians 6:1-3, Humility, James 4:10, Kingship, Obedience, Pride, Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 8:13, Romas 12:3, Spiritual Growth, Surrender, Trusting God

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of…