Marriage: Marriage is like taking a bath in hot water: Once you get into it and get used to it, it ain't so hot anymore.
Sermon Illustrations
Prayer: The quickest way to get back on your feet is get down on your knees. From Shredded Wit, published by Harvest House
Trouble: Don't meet trouble halfway. Let it travel the full distance. Something usually happens to it before it arrives. "Builders Association Report"
Problems: Always tell your problems to people who don't like you. They're the only ones who want to hear them. Sam Ewing
DO IT ANYWAY Bishop Able Muzore tells of a critical period in his life when he had been asked by his people to lead the African National Council. He knew that all previous leaders in…
A STRONG FOUNDATION In San Francisco it has been discovered that frame houses stand up better against earthquakes than any other types of construction. It has further been noted that those frame houses that are…
PICK IT UP YOURSELF Murphy's Law reads, "if anything can go wrong, it will." But someone said, "Murphy was an optimist." In 1916, Georgia Tech University in Atlanta played a football game against Cumberland University,…
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES Some of the world's greatest men and women have been saddled with disabilities and adversities but have managed to overcome them. Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in…
STRUGGLE OF THE MOTH Glen Langley sent this in as the "Best Illustration Ever Heard." It did not make it in time for our January issue, but it is still worthy of publication. So a…
PEACE WITH THE PAIN: Being at peace means not fighting the pain.
TOO MUCH OF NOT ENOUGH In reply to your request to send a check for my dues, I wish to inform you that the present condition of my bank account makes it almost impossible. My…
THE POWER OF VISION There was a study done of concentration camp survivors regarding the common characteristics of those who did not succumb... in the concentration camps. Victor Frankl was a living answer to that…
MARCHING INTO MARRIAGE "Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle." Heinrich Heine From Dicky Love, Rushton, Louisiana
IRONING LIFE'S WRINKLES Afflictions can serve to refine our faith. The trials of our faith are like God's ironing. When the heat of trials is applied to our lives, the wrinkles of spiritual immaturity begin…
THE RACE "Quit!" "Give up, you're beaten," they shout and plead, there's just too much against you now, this time you can't succeed. And as I start to hang my head in front of failure's…
SPOTTING PROBLEMS One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. By Arnold H. Glasgow From Dave Gerbrandt of the Mennonite Brethren Church, Shafter, California
TIME TO WORRY A man once said, "I've got so many troubles that if anything bad happens today it will be two weeks before I can worry about it.
A WORSE CASE SENARIO Climbing a hill on our moped at the end of a beautiful day in Bermuda we were suddenly slammed into the road by a car. It was going to pass us…
DEFEAT DOES NOT MEAN FAILURE Booker T. Washington said, "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while…
THINGS ARE GOING WRONG WHE N... You call your wife and tell her you would like to eat out tonight and she says there will be a sandwich on the front porch. The Gypsy fortune…
