A Sunday School class was concerned about one member’s mother, who was in the hospital. The teacher suggested that each child sign a “get well” card to send the mother and write a Bible verse…
Sermon Illustrations
A Sunday-school teacher had a dream about the Lord Jesus. “Where are the souls of My children?” Jesus asked. “Here are their manners,” the teacher replied. “They are well-behaved children; they listen respectfully to everything…
At an adult Sunday-School class, the teacher asked the students to think about how they could practice their religion in their every day lives. The topic of driving courtesy came up. “How would you respond…
A father asked his son what he had learned in Sunday School. The boy replied, “We learned about how Moses went behind enemy lines to rescue the Jews from the Egyptians. Moses ordered the engineers…
“Miss Murphy” was a dedicated young woman who taught the kindergarten Bible class in her church school. She was very much loved by her little students. One morning, while the children were memorizing the Twenty-third…
A Sunday School teacher had been lecturing her class on the virtue of spiritual and mental cleanliness. “You must keep your minds as clean as your bodies,” the teacher said. Then, to emphasize the point,…
Three men were trying to come up with a definition of “success”. Said the first man, “I would consider myself successful if I could have a private, personal conversation with the President of the United…
“Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the Will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect,”—Romans 12:2 A…
One man was suffering his little daily deaths in the form of job stress and tension. Finally, after he had been overworked to the point of near total exhaustion, he began to pray. He said…
A mother in Arizona tried to teach her daughter the meaning of “proportionate giving”. She took ten pennies from her daughter’s bank and laid them in a row. The mother said, “There are your ten…
Henry Ford gave away millions of dollars. But he always tried to avoid solicitation for gifts to schools because he felt that money given to schools was frequently mishandled by well-meaning, non-businesslike people. Although she…
A mother in Arizona tried to teach her daughter the meaning of “proportionate giving”. She took ten pennies from her daughter’s bank and laid them in a row. The mother said, “There are your ten…
A minister told the organist how the morning service was to to be conducted. Then he explained, “After my sermon, I’m going to ask those members who are willing to give $25 or more for…
A small midwestern community depended on the large manufacturing plant in town as its primary source of employment. The community was devastated when the plant was forced to cease operations. One Sunday, a local Pastor…
A newly married preacher and his wife struggled to make ends meet as they began their new life together. The preacher was frequently called upon to speak at small rural Churches. One Sunday, he and…
Several years ago, a cartoon was published which depicted two men marooned on a desert island. One of them is standing at the water’s edge looking extremely distraught and worried, the other man is sitting…
The Pope was travelling to a much anticipated, historic meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations. Preparations for the meeting had begun months earlier, and the Pope, now restless from his long journey,…
An Irish Prayer: May those who love us, love us; And those who don’t love us, May God turn their hearts; And if he doesn’t turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we’ll…
When the wife of University of Oklahoma Basketball Coach Billy Tubbs suggested that he loved basketball more than he loved her, he joked, “Well, I love you more than track.”
At a reunion of retired executives, each of the guests was invited to give a two-minute after-dinner talk on his experiences since retirement. Since some of the former executives were inclined to be rather long-winded,…