HOPE CROP Hope is the only crop that can grow in any climate.
Sermon Illustrations
WATCHING EVERY STEP The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to…
PRAY FOR A STRONGER BACK Do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. -- Phillip Brooks
PORTIONS OF GRACE If God wants you to do something, he'll make it possible for you to do it, but the grace he provides comes only with the task and cannot be stockpiled beforehand. We…
TWO STREAMS IN PROPHECY There are two streams in prophetic scripture. One leads us to understand that as we approach the latter days and the second coming of Christ, things will become worse and worse...But…
PURIFIED SILVER Some time ago, a few ladies met in a certain city to read the scriptures, and make them the subject of conversation. While reading the third chapter of Malachi they came upon a…
HUMMINGBIRD LESSONS "Into everyone's life some rain must fall," so the song goes. How many sermons have I preached on what it means to live rain-lashed lives? How many times have I lectured in painstaking…
CORRECT BUT USELESS ANSWER A helicopter was flying above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's…
UKULELE MASTERS NEVER HEARD A NOTE They've never actually heard a ukulele but Jose Hipolito, Jr. and Kenneth McFeeley of Honolulu sure knew how to make them. The two hearing-impaired men became master ukulele makers,…
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE A lesson in "heart" is my little, ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, who was born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time. She came home one beautiful spring…
SHAYA'S GRAND SLAM In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school career, while others can be main-streamed into conventional Jewish schools.…
SHORT SHOTS Stupidity got us into this mess--why can't it get us out? Melinda Hodgin
TOUCHING STRANGERS This is a heart-warming story, but you may need to adapt it to your particular situation(s): Yitzak was a survivor. Liberated from a concentration camp in 1945, he had come to America, worked…
WE ALL MUST FINISH I read not long ago about an Air Force pilot who said that the obstacle course in basic training changed his life. On his first attempt he completed the course far…
HOW WE MEET TRIALS Nothing shows more accurately what we are, than the way we meet trials and difficulties. Source unknown
PRACTICAL PROVERBS Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it.
PRACTICAL PROVERBS Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
CAT QUOTES "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer
EXTENSIVE POVERTY More than a billion people in the world live on less than one dollar per day. Every six seconds a child dies because of hunger. As a result of famine, war and natural…
DEAF--NOT BLIND On a visit to the library I happened to notice a man and a woman, both deaf, signing with intense gestures, apparently in a heated debate. The man said something, and the woman…
