SAME STARTING DATE It may be true that life begins at 40, but so does rheumatism.
Sermon Illustrations
DISCERNMENT Developing a habitual way of listening to God. Alive Now, Nov/Dec, 1987
ANGER Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intention of throwing it at someone else -- you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
COMMUNICATION Communication should be as crisp and to the point as the sign I saw when I was in Chicago recently. It read: WARNING! GUARD DOG ON DUTY -- SURVIVORS WILL BE PROSECUTED! Now that…
THE EXTRA STEP THAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE A Christian woman, laboring among the moral lepers of London, found a poor street girl desperately ill in a bare, cold room. With her own hands she ministered…
A FRIEND knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. William Arthur Ward
DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS A young American at a banquet found himself seated next to a Chinese diplomat. Not knowing what to say to a Chinese person, the young man pointed to the first course…
DREAM AND DRIVE In the same article, "The Happy Huckster" we learn about the great drive of James Kabler. When working as assistant chief of protocol he made many contacts. Later he went into business…
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS In an article called "The Happy Huckster" we learn about James Kabler, the Master of Upscale Novelties (Success, Dec, 87). Kabler picked up his education in a variety of…
POWERFUL MOTIVATION This announcement appeared in the bulletin of the Church of the Incarnation in Sarasota, Florida: "The Magic of Lassie, a film for the whole family, will be shown Sunday at 5 p.m. in…
PRAYER FOR A BUSY DAY Dear God, When the day is too busy and the voices too loud, When there is too much on my mind and too little in my heart, When I plan…
THE SENSITIVITY OF A GRATEFUL HEART If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search…
PERSPECTIVE There was a distraught woman staying at a Boston hotel who one day telephoned the manager: "I am dizzy, faint, and at my wit's end. Someone in the next room has been banging on…
HERO OR FOOL -- THE CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE In the fourth century, a Christian named Phocas lived outside of Sinope in Asia Minor. Hundreds of travellers to the city passed by his door. They would stop…
DEMILLE AND THE WATER BEETLE Cecil B. DeMille, the famous motion- picture producer, was a man of great talents and keen insights. He liked to get off by himself at times to think out a…
BALANCE I spent much of my ninth summer on a bicycle. About a mile from our house the road went down a steep hill and turned sharply at the bottom. Coasting down the hill one…
RUSSIAN JOKES Apparently even the Russians have the ability to laugh at themselves. They pass around stories such as the following, which is one of President Reagan's favorites of this genre: It seems a Russian…
SUCCESS AND THE BEATITUDES The one thing we must see is that the Beatitudes by which Jesus begins this sermon are not a mild and sentimental collection of platitudes. They are a frontal challenge to…
THE TRUTH WILL OUT A Deputy District Attorney asked several robbery victims to study a lineup of five people. He had placed the suspect in the middle, and had told each man to step forward…
THE INTERPRETATION MAKES THE DIFFERENCE What do you see in the circumstances of life? As people of faith we see the hand of God active in our lives. The person without faith does not. Two…
