Money is not everything... there are also credit cards, debit cards, bank cards, money orders, certified checks, and travelers checks.
Sermon Illustrations
By the time a man can afford to buy one of those exotic little sports cars, he's too fat to get into it.
Then, there are too many church attenders, who could appropriately begin all church services by singing: "Nothing in my hand I bring... simply to the cross I cling..."
One big difference between outlaws and in-laws is that outlaws don't promise to pay it back. Source unknown
DOING WITHOUT Editor George W. Hunt wrote this in the winter on the hundredth anniversary of his father's birth: "To our eyes, the world of 1895 looks like a world 'without' in every... imaginable way.…
DISCOUNTED JESUS I recently read of a commercial venture of one of the largest department stores in our nation. It proved to be disastrously unsuccessful. It was a doll in the form of the baby…
Desire | Generosity | Gift | Giving | Money | Sacrifice | Servanthood | Stewardship | Story | Tithes
HE WANTED TO GIVE Never before in all my ministry had this ever happened! Deanie Sefton, our church secretary, came into my office and said, "You had better come out here. There is a man…
SCHOLARLY DECEPTION The scholars of the so-called Jesus Seminar remind me of Judas. Under the cover of scholarship they cash in on Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. Like Judas, their interest in Jesus is…
WAG A DOG'S TAIL Money will buy a fine dog, but love will make him wag his tail. -- Japanese Proverb
IT WEARS WELL The Roman emperor Vespasian is still famous for his saying that money does not smell. Oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, who built the imitation of a Roman emperor's villa in Malibu, California,…
MONUMENTAL PASTORAL DECISIONS One of the great decisions a pastor is faced with is whether to actually read those six years of unread ministry magazines or to throw them away. Another one of those great…
TIME TRAVEL FUTURE There's no future in time travel.
STOLEN PLEDGES The sexton ran into the rabbi's apartment near the temple and said excitedly, "Rabbi, somebody broke into the synagogue office yesterday and stole $80,000 in pledges!"
MONEY STILL GOES FAR They say that money doesn't go as far as it used to. That's not necessarily true. It's just that more of it goes in a different direction; to Washington D.C.
CONSISTENT CHRISTIANS Is this for you? If any Christians treated their weekday job like they do their church -- staying at home when the weather is bad, or when they feel lazy or sleepy --…
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE One day, about eight years ago, Carol and I found ourselves in the position of being richer than we thought. We, like most other people, always seem to have more month than…
THANKFUL THIEF "Give thanks to the Lord..." - Psalm 105:1 A robber in Vancouver, B.C. called to say thanks after taking an undisclosed amount of money from a branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia,…
NO CHEAP PRESENTS In one of the comic strips, Peanuts, Charlie Brown cracks open his piggy bank. He says, "Look, I've got $9.11 to spend on Christmas." Lucy is not impressed. "You can't buy something…
ANOTHER COLLECTION AGENCYA woman has finally figured out how to stop those unsolicited and unwanted "chance-of-a-lifetime"-offers by hideous telemarketing phone callers. She enthusiastically welcomes these calls by saying, "Oh, thank you so much for calling!…
RADICAL LIFESTYLE CHANGE Millard Fuller, the founder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, was a millionaire by the age of twenty- nine. As such, he could buy his wife "everything" he thought she possibly could want. But…
