THE DREAM "...an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream." Matthew 1:20 Amiably conversant with virtue and evil, The righteousness of Joseph and wickedness Of Herod, I'm ever and always a stranger…
Sermon Illustrations
WRONG SONGS In B.C.'s Christmas edition, The gang is gathered around a piano singing Christmas carols. The first few words of each song is listed: "Rudolf the Red Nosed... "Tis the Season to Be... Jingle…
A BIG HUG CHRISTMAS Mom Ryatt is sitting on the couch with the kids hugging all over her and she sums up the essence of Christmas saying, The best Christmas a person can have is…
SEE SANTA RUN After several mishaps, Andrew, one of the main characters of the comic strip Walnut Cove has gotten himself fired from his job of playing Santa at a Department Store. Standing outside the…
BRING A DRUM In Snafu, Santa is reading Christmas letters, "Dear Santa, My neighbor's lawn mower woke me every Saturday last summer. Please bring his kid a drum set." From Snafu, December 23, 1991
HARD TO FIND Classified Ad in the Springfield, Mass, UNION: "XMAS TAG SALE - Handmade gifts for the hard to find person. Jeannette Guinard in Detroit News
KEEP THE DREAM A week before Christmas, a wife told her husband, "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed you gave me $200.00 on a new Christmas wardrobe. You wouldn't want to do…
UNHEALTHY TIMING From under a beach umbrella: "Just when I can afford to lie in the sun, they decide it's hazardous to my health."
THE LONG AND WINDING WORK The retired fellow felt like he had been tricked by his employer. For his retirement he had been given a beautiful gold watch that winded automatically whenever he would move…
THE MORE IMPORTANT COIN Jessie David Roberts tells in "Bears, Bibles and a Boy" about his days as a young pastor around the early 1900s. He received no fixed salary but got the plate offerings,…
MONEY WILL BU Y... a bed, but not sleep; food, but not appetite; books, but not knowledge; medicine, but not health; finery, but not beauty; luxuries, but not culture; entertainment, but not happiness; a house,…
LOVE IS A GIFT Love is a gift two people share with one another - a gift that is filled with understanding, wrapped with patience and gentleness, and tied with trusting faith. Love is a…
Too many of us are spending money we haven't earned... to buy things we don't need... to impress people we don't like.
PHONE SALES ANSWERS The next time one of those telephone salespeople calls during dinner to sell you something you don't need, ask for his phone number and say you would like to call him back…
WHAT MAKES US GREEDY? The list of those corrupted by power and money is lengthy, and no field of endeavor is exempt. Free-world politicians and heads of communist states. Investment bankers and TV preachers. Those…
WALLET WOUNDS A Scotsman caught a Taxi and they were hit by another car. The door flew open and the Scot was thrown to the pavement, bleeding and in great pain. The cab driver jumped…
PRIOR EARNINGS It is especially hard to work for money you've already spent for something you didn't need.
SUFFERING LOSS Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain: the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. Chilon, 560 B.C., from Leadership Quotes
MONEY SAYS GOOD-BYE While the husband is balancing the checkbook, he turns to his wife and says, "You know the old saying 'money talks'? Well, ours just said, 'So long!'" Polston in McCall's
Money doesn't bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for it in more places.
