A pearl is a garment of patience which enclosed an annoyance.
Sermon Illustrations
TRIALS: A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under heavy pressure.
TRIALS: Ironing out problems without Jesus puts wrinkles in your face.
TRIALS: When down in the mouth remember Jonah - he came out all right.
GOD TRUSTED HER One dear lady of faith who was a charter member of my previous congregation became blind some years ago during a worship service. She surprised many people when she responded to her…
Trust - Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. (Francis Beaumont) - To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. (George…
FATHER KNOWS WHAT I CAN CARRY The winter was harsh and cold. In preparation for the night, which promised to be just as cold if not colder, a father and his young son made their…
MISSING GUARDIAN ANGELS In Family Circus by Bill Keane, Billy comes into the house all tattered and torn. He looks like he's been in a wreck and then a fight and then drug for a…
THE WORD OF A GENTLEMAN David Livingstone opened Africa to trade and to missionaries and the Gospel. He was in such constant danger and personal privations that only an iron will and a strong faith…
LET IT SHINE Yea, dogs bark at the moon, And does the moon still shine? Don't worry about the critics, But 'bout "this little light of mine." By Paul Noxon, Fellowship Baptist, Castleton, NY
OPPORTUNITIES We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
JUST A HEAD START On a crowded street a motorist stopped for a red light and his rear bumper was bashed by the car behind him. He got out, looked for damage, glared at the…
TO KILL A SNAKE The following is from the U.S. Government Peace Corps Manual for its volunteers who work in the Amazon Jungle. It tells what to do in case you are attacked by an…
THE POWER OF PRAISE Many of us are constantly defeated by the circumstances around us because we aren't ready to accept that the battle is God's, not ours. Even when we realize our own powerlessness…
END OF THE LINE You know you're in trouble when you realize the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train...
THREE OUT OF FOUR AIN'T BAD A husband came home from work after a very long and terrible day. Everything had gone wrong. He said to his wife, "I've had nothing but bad news at…
Gossip/Imagination/Persepective/Problem Solution Mind/Thoughts/Delusions/Illusions/Solution: THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION Dr. J. Edwin Orr told this to a college chapel service: On a fishing trip, Pat and Pete stayed overnight at a hotel. Pat woke, screaming, "I'm…
GOD'S BEGINNING "When God is going to do something wonderful He begins with a difficulty. If God is going to do something very wonderful, He begins with an impossibility. (Dewey Cass)
"I wonder if Murphy's Law is among the ten?"
Attitude: If you want to know what you're full of, see what spills out when you're jostled.
