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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “One important sign of an engaged heart is awe before the greatness of God and before the privilege of prayer.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller, p. 126. Psalm 140:13 (CSB) Surely the righteous…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller, p. 48 Psalm…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 26 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “Prayer is how God gives us so many of the unimaginable things he has for us. Indeed, prayer makes it safe for God to give us many of the things we most desire. It is the way we know God, the way we finally treat God as…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “The famous statement of Jesus to the church in Laodicea—“ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me” (Rev 3: 20)—is often…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “It is a simple fact that the nearer we get to supreme beauty or intelligence or purity, the more we are aware of our own unsightliness, dullness, and impurity.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking, when nothing is forcing you to think about anything in particular.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
In his book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller says, “It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.” — Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller, p. 19-20 1 Thessalonians…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Larry Ripple stole $3000 from a Kansas City bank at gunpoint. Then he sat down in the bank lobby, told a security guard, “I am the guy you are looking for,” and waited for police. He then confessed to police that he had earlier argued with his wife and told her “he’d rather be in jail than at home.”…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 9 views
Blaise Pascal had a kind of born again experience the night of November 23, 1654. A brilliant scientist and intellectual, Pascal met God, as it were, face to face, and wrote what he saw and felt, as it was happening to him. He recorded on a piece of parchment, “From about half past ten in the evening…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 12 views
Surgeon Paul Brand tells a story that provides a gripping picture of the work of the paraclete. He was a junior doctor in a London hospital when one day he came into the room of an eighty-one-year-old cancer patient named Mrs. Twigg. Her cancer was in her throat and, as he describes it, this “spry, courageous…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 11 views
The president of Great Lakes Christian College says that when he was a kid playing Little League baseball, his coach had a picnic at the beginning of the season. After they’d pigged out on hot dogs and burgers, it was time for the pep talk. He says that the coach always asked them, "How many of you have…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In Flickering Pixels, Shane Hipps writes, “Without a framework for healthy conflict, diagnosing problems—let alone solving them—becomes extremely difficult. When we learn to welcome conflict as a natural part of human community, we can dispel some of its destructive power. In fact, under the right circumstances,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 19 views
God is like a good father. Or like a good friend. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead liked to tell the story of an old Scot who was quite ill and near death. His pastor came to call on him one morning. When he entered the bedroom and sat down beside him, he noticed another chair opposite him, placed next to the…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 14 views
A week after these experiences at Hope College, I went to Chicago to attend a National Day of Prayer event. Different pastors spoke on what God was doing in their communities. One of them, a pastor from Texas, had a ministry with street gangs, which in itself was amazing, because he didn’t look like…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 223 views
One missionary writes that while he was serving in Paraguay, a Maka Indian by the name of Rafael would come and sit on his porch. He was inside eating, so he went out to see what Rafael wanted. When he asked, Rafael just said, “Ham, henek, met.” He didn’t get a lot out of that, even though he understood…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
But there may be a deeper meaning to our thirst and fatigue. John Sanford paints a picture of this in his description of an old well that stood outside the front door of a family farmhouse in New Hampshire. The water from the well was remarkably pure and cold. No matter how hot the summer or how severe…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 12 views
There’s a question mark in my mind after every Discovery Class. (By the way, if you don’t know what the Discovery class is, it’s the class that allows you to discover more about Peace Church and whether or not you want to join our church family.) That question mark is always there. Know what I’m asking…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 93 views
Select all the text in this box and paste your sermon here... Introduction Sermon text with italics and bold and John 3:16 and Jn 3:20. Heading 2 What one most deeply loves, one most deeply fears. My wife, Lauretta, is the dearest person I know, and apart from Jesus, the clearest, most incontrovertible…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 85 views
It was not easy for Mr. Taylor, in his changeful life, to make time for prayer and Bible study, but he knew that it was vital. Well do the writers remember traveling with him month after month in northern China, by cart and wheelbarrow with the poorest of inns at night. Often with only one large room…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 155 views
Matt Proctor writes: My 5-year-old, Carl, and my 3-year-old, Conrad, love it when I dress like them. After they put on jeans and a blue T-shirt, they'll come ask me to wear jeans and a blue T-shirt. When I do, they have a saying. They will survey me, survey themselves, and say, "Look, Dad—same, same."…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 61 views
In his book The Pressure's Off, psychologist Larry Crabb uses a story from his childhood to illustrate our need to delight in God through adversity: One Saturday afternoon, I decided I was a big boy and could use the bathroom without anyone's help. So I climbed the stairs, closed and locked the door…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 17 views
An article in the Denver Rocky Mountain News described various web sites to which people can submit prayers. One site,Newprayer.com, says, "Simply click on the 'Pray' button and transmit your prayer to the only known location of God." The site claims "that it can send prayers via a radio transmitter…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with my grandson. I won’t bore you with the details, but I had a blast. We played silly games. He found one of the plungers in the bathroom (It’s the one we use to unstop the drains, not the commodes, ok?) He found it in the bathroom and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
INTIMACY When we pray, we often get caught up in asking for things and fail to enter into intimacy with God. Real intimacy can only happen when we drop our pretense and open ourselves up to knowing God and stop hiding from him. In his book Intentional Disciplemaking, Ron Bennett writes, “Intimacy with…