GET EVEN THROUGH LOVE Go ahead and get even with them Find all those people who have shown you love and kindness and get even with them! In other words, owe them nothing but love…
Sermon Illustrations
It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice. From Bruce Rowlison, Gilroy, California
ALL YOU CAN Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all…
NOT TOO PICKY A woman went into a restaurant and ordered the breakfast special, "I want my pancakes well done," she said. "You need to cook them all the way through and golden brown on…
TINY LOAF OF SILVER Long ago, there was a great famine in Germany, and those who were poor suffered severely from hunger. A rich man who had great compassion sent for twenty children and told…
PRETENDING THEY'RE MARRIED A man and a woman who have never met before find themselves in the same sleeping carriage of a train. After the initial embarrassment they both go to sleep, the man on…
CHRISTIAN OR BAPTIST Robert Hastings told a story of a preacher friend returning from an out-of-town meeting. The preacher stopped in a small Georgia town to spend the night. After checking into a motel, he…
COACH BROWN IN TOWN When Larry Brown was the coach of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team, he spent an afternoon at a local men's store signing autographs. He spent more than the allotted two…
SWEET ARROWS OF TRUTH An old Arab proverb, "When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey."
PRESIDENTIAL POLITENESS Barbara Bush wrote in her diary about presidential politeness: "(Pat Buchanan) endorsed George (Bush) strongly after cutting him to ribbons for month after month and was very extreme. It is hard for me…
STRETCHING THE SOUL It's a good story which was told many years ago by R. Lee Sharpe. And a short but big sermon it was too! Let's relate it mostly in Mr. Sharpe's own language:…
SAY GOODNIGHT Paul Tournier tells of a Swiss woman who lived in a large apartment house and worked in a shop with many people, but every evening she would tune into the "Sign Off" of…
STEALING OUR KINDNESS One upon whom we show kindness, But who does not express gratitude, Is worse than a thief, Who takes that which is ours. From a Nigerian proverb
MERRY CHRISTMAS, RABBI An actual story is told by a young couple in Brooklyn, George H. Thomas, Jr. and his wife. They had a little boy also named George who was four years of age.…
SENATOR BRADLEY ON CIVILITY Former U. S. Senator Bill Bradley left the senate to make a greater difference by chairing the National Civic League which assists local communities by promoting civil cooperation. In his first…
WHAT JESUS WOULD DO Six-year-old Tommy entered the kitchen with two pieces of candy in his hand. "Look Mom, I found two pieces of candy in the drawer." His mother saw his younger brother following…
GEORGE WASHINGTON ON PEACE Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct. And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin…
TOUCHING MARILYN MONROE A free-lance reporter from the New York Times was interviewing Marilyn Monroe years ago. She was aware of Marilyn's past and the fact that during her early years Marilyn had been shuffled…
COMFORT THERAPY Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. -- Louis Nizer
ENCOURAGEMENT SPREAD Encouragement in a family is like a peanut butter sandwich--the more you spread, the better the sandwich sticks together.
