Come Down From The Mountain
An enthusiastic preacher often enjoyed showing off his command of the language by using big words in his sermons … On one occasion a member of the congregation told the […]
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Children’s Sunday Sermons January/February 20
Children’s Sunday Sermon January 1, 2009 Good morning girls and boys.Today is the very first day of the year 2009, and I want to wish each and every one of
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Learning How To Love
A seminary professor once asked his students to write a short essay on the subject, Why I believe in God. … One of the students smiled confidently. He thought it
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His Healing Touch
A young man was anxious to change his uptight attitude and approach to life. He was looking for a book that might help him and he spotted one on the
Looking For Jesus
A ìtouchstoneî is a small rock that tests the gold or silver content of a piece of ore. The ore is rubbed against the stone and the test result is
A Matter of Lifestyle
A five-year-old boy had been naughty all day. His mother sent him to bed early for punishment. He marched off without a word of protest, but a few minutes later
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Preaching Well 4:10 Christmas Issue
PreachingWell} A wellspring of resources for today’s pulpit Volume 4, Number 10 Christmas Issue Sermon illustrations, humor, ideas and resources for the busy preacher [Christmas Event, Baby Jesus] 0843 Jesus
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Mr. and Mrs. Perfect
In a magazine cartoon, a husband and wife are lying in bed about to go to sleep. The husband has a smug look on his face and the wife is
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Salute The Divinity
One of the causes of depression, social scientists tell us is a poor self-image. This was true apparently in the case of a woman who had become so depressed that
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Please God
As each new year rolls around the realization comes into play that there is one thing we all have in common: each and every one of us is getting older.
Happy New You!
A man recalls in glowing terms the first word spoken by his niece at the tender age of fifteen months … He says, “She did not want to go with
Our Earthly Glimpse
“New Yorker” magazine once ran a cartoon in which a group of prison inmates are huddled in a circle on their cell block floor … Spread before them is a
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Children’s Sunday Sermons
October 5, 2008 Good morning boys and girls. Several years ago there was a popular movie called ìTitanicî? If you didnít see the movie I can tell you that the
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Love Your Family
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a living legend of love to the poor and oppressed and the homeless and people dying in the streets. Not only was she directly involved
Applause! Applause!
Way back in Eighteen-Twenty-Seven, an American Bishop made the following complaint: ìThe devil has stolen Christmas from us. The devil has stolen the day of our spiritual redemption, and converted
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Christmas is Coming
A magazine advertisement for a certain automobile part depicted a very big, macho-type man with huge muscles bulging out of his t-shirt. In his arms he gently coddled a tiny
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Turn On Love!
An avid conservationist was driving up the Florida coast with her young son … She noticed a sign saying, ìNaturist Camp.î Assuming that the camp had something to do with
Let Him Show Through!
One Sunday morning, on the way home from church, a little girl named Claudia turned to her mother and said, ìMommy, the pastor told us that God is bigger than
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Before the Bell Rings
The following notice appeared in the personal column of a small Massachusetts weekly newspaper … Retired school teacher, tired of reading, writing and arithmetic. Is there a gentleman in his
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Thanksgiving 2006/Thanks Be To God!
If one should give me a dish of sand and tell me that there are particles of iron in it, I might look with my eyes for them, or search
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