Sermon Illustrations

Mindy Caliguire in Spiritual friendship says, “What do you do when you can’t stand the thought of praying, when the words of the Bible seem plastic and false… when you have been doing everything ‘right’ and the bottom falls out? It’s at these times when it is the spiritual friends who throw us a life preserver. They are, as one prayer says, “God’s ‘hands and fingers taking hold of me.’”