CHANGE Fortunate was the Cleveland Heights woman who lost her purse in a shopping center. An honest lad found it and returned it to her. "Funny?" commented the lady, "but before I lost my bag,…
Sermon Illustrations
COMMUNICATION Alan Greenspan, 62, Federal Reserve Chairman, before speaking on the economy to the 323rd meeting of the Economic Club of New York: "I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be…
LOCK YOUR CAR At the airport, I struck up a conversation with a couple from New England. "In our small town, no one ever locks anything - except for car doors during August," the woman…
PRIMITIVE The first business concession that Armand Hammer received in Russia following his 1921 visit with Lenin, was the development of an asbestos mine near the rural town of Alapayevsk. This town was so primitive…
LOVE IS A WEAVER OF TATTERS A devout Amish woman once said, "I seem to create so much of my life the way I fashion my rugs - from leftover remnants and tatters of whole…
THE DISABLED FOX A fable of the Arab mystic Sa'di: A man walking through the forest saw a fox that had lost its legs and wondered how it survived. Then he saw a tiger come…
CHRIST OUR BROTHER The year was 1942. A U. S. Army Lieutenant was deeply troubled. The troop- transport ship to which he was assigned had just landed on the Northwest coast of Africa and the…
SUCCESS AND SERVICE Toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists -- Newton and Maxwell -- from his wall and replaced them with portraits of Gandhi and Schweitzer. He…
ONE IMPORTANT GIFT A little girl was saying her prayers a few nights before Christmas when she stopped suddenly and asked her mother a question with a worried look: "What are we giving God for…
WHAT PRICE MONEY? Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it. Bits & Pieces, October, 1988.
ARE YOU SURE? A teacher was having trouble with his bank. Neither the bank's accuracy nor its mode of expression lived up to his standards. The last straw arrived in the form of a letter…
FOOL'S MONEY How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
CHRISTMAS LEGENDS Helen Keller wrote that there is a legend that tells that when Jesus was born the sun danced in the sky, the aged trees straightened themselves and put on leaves and sent forth…
INTERFAITH LOVE Christmas was only a few weeks away . . . when the Jewish War Veterans of New Brunswick, New Jersey mobilized volunteers for a unique project. To improve further the already fine community…
BIRTHDAY Five-year old Billy was showing his Christmas presents to grandma, when she asked, "Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?" Billy thought for a moment before he answered, "No, I didn't, Grandma. But…
THE HISTORY OF SANTA CLAUS According to Maymie R. Krythe, in her book All About Christmas, the name we know as Santa Claus has come to us through many forms: Good Saint Nick, Saint Nicholas,…
THE UNEXPECTED GIFT My wife still hasn't spoken to me since last Christmas. I asked her what she wanted for Christmas and she said, "Oh, just surprise me." So, at three o'clock Christmas morning, I…
A CHRISTMAS BENEDICTION May you, wherever you are in this golden hour, know joy. May your hearthfire be surrounded with those near and dear to you; the happiness of your children re-echo the gladness heaven…
A BIG CHRISTMAS FAMILY GATHERING On Friday evening before Thanksgiving Mr. and Mrs. Benoit of Creston, Connecticut received word that Mrs. Benoit's sister and her husband had been in an accident on the icy highway…
PRAYER IN KIND It was the Christmas season and a meeting was held in a small church for the announced purpose of praying for a local family that was having a tough time of it.…
