FUNERAL COOKIES An old man was laying on his death bed. He had only hours to live when he suddenly smelled chocolate chip cookies. He loved chocolate chip cookies better than anything in the world.…
Sermon Illustrations
LOGICAL LAWS Harding's Homily: "It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything." Johnson's Law: "There's nothing to scratch but the surface." William's Law: "There is not a mechanical problem so difficult that it…
SOLOMONIC SOCIETAL SOLUTION? Solution to two of the world's problems: Feed the homeless to the hungry. From Internet address:
CHRISTIAN ENDURANCE Criticism and opposition he endured without recrimination. A Christian should be a patient, undaunted, undiscouraged torchbearer for Christ. If a storm of abuse should chance to break on him, he is to stand…
BRUISES NEEDED My son constantly ventures out past his known boundaries, continually expanding the envelope. You can tell by the number of bruises on his legs how far he has ventured that day. But he…
STRUGGLING WITH SHADOWS Sometimes humans beg for battles to be taken away from them, not realizing, that only in struggling with shadows is the Light made manifest. From People of the Sea, by Gear and…
TREE RINGS OF FIRE While vacationing in California, we were able to visit the Sequoia trees near Yosemite National Park. One of the things that impressed me most was a cross-section of a tree that…
VINCE FOSTER'S DEATH Consider it pure joy... whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work, so that you may be…
SOLVING OUR PROBLEMS The best way to forget your own problem is to help others solve theirs. Submitted Michael W. Malone.
GIVE THEIR PROBLEMS BACK Oftentimes in the ministry, we are asked to help people get rid of the negative parts of their lives. Perhaps we would be more effective in ministering to them if we…
WHAT HAPPENED TO THANKSGIVING? A family drove back east to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. On the way, they had car trouble. They found an auto repair with a mechanic on duty. But the needed parts…
EVANGELISM AND THE DEVIL The last thing the Devil wants you to do is to win a soul to Christ. If you don't believe it, try it. The Devil will let you go to prayer…
PRAYING FOR CHANGE It is strange that, while praying, we seldom ask for change of character, but always a change of circumstances.
BORN WITH ALL THOSE DEFECTS Dr. C. Everett Koop, tells in his memoirs of being the Surgeon General about one child he had to operate on that most surgeons who saw him said there was…
THOMAS PAINE ON FREEDOM THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it…
WATCH THE ROAD Driving east on Interstate 70 toward Denver the driver is still in the mountains but can see Denver. A highway sign reminds truckers that they are not yet out of the mountains.…
SPIRITUAL WARFARE Dr. John Vaughan, a faculty member of Southwest Baptist University shares the following personal experience: During a flight in 1986 from Detroit, I had a man sitting next to me who seemed to…
THE EYES OF ELISHA Lord - what happened the day I lost the battle? What happened when I fell and it seemed I couldn't get up? Why did all of these things happen to me?…
SPEAKING OF MISERY Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about "misery." From The Quotable Lewis, pg. 234; "The Letters of…
SUICIDE NOT AN OPTION Martin Luther King Jr's daughter speaking of her contemplated suicide: "Suicide is not an option any more; I thank the Lord for that. No matter how bad it gets, it's always…
