TEEN RELATIONSHIPS The kind of relationship you offer your teen is the single most influential factor in shaping the kind of person he chooses to be. From Parenting Adolescents, by Kevin Huggins, published by NavPress,…
Sermon Illustrations
CHRIST'S ECHOES The Christian echoes Christ's words and deeds. -- E. Kenneth Ditterich
PRAYER & STUDY Andrew Bonar kept a card on his mantel that read, "He who has truly prayed has completed the half of his study." -- Marjorie Bonar
CUSS WORDS COME BACK A young man regularly cut the grass of a pastor. One day the boy announced to the pastor that he would no longer be able to mow the pastor's yard. He…
CHURCH MENTORS Robert Hicks discusses a mentoring program designed for seminarians at the Seminary of the East, and presents the mentoring process as that which facilitates the three ingredients of success: 1. the dream or…
LOVE & SELF- CONTROL It is interesting that the fruit of the Spirit starts with love and ends with self-control. Love and self-control seem to be like two bookends holding all the other virtues in…
GOD'S EQUAL God cannot do everything. We can do something that he cannot do. We can see our equal.
ONLY TWO IN HEAVEN This man wore his religion on his sleeve. He acted like he was the only one who was quite good enough for God's acceptance. He lived his entire life with this…
FOCUS OF FAITH The focus of faith is on its object, not the faith itself. For example, if I believe that a certain chair will hold me when I sit on it, the primary issue…
GUILTY SNOWFLAKES Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. By Stanislaw J. Lec
GOING BEYOND OURSELVES Coach Bill McCartney tells about the time in 1991, while coaching football at the University of Colorado, that he challenged his entire team to play beyond their normal abilities. He had heard…
WHO DROPPED THE BALL? "The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."
Conflict | Conflicts | Creation | Desire | Inventions | Nature | Science | Short Shorts | Technology
SCIENCE & NATURE The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
TROUBLING GOD Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The only way to trouble God is not to come at all. -- Dwight L. Moody
IMPOSED OR EXPOSED AUTHORITY Jesus' authority was not something imposed on others, but rather a force he exposed. . . His authority was the exposing of an inner spiritual power that was released little by…
PROBLEMS WELL STATED A problem well stated is a problem half solved. -- Charles F. Kettering
VALUE OF AIRPLANES Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marshal Ferdinand Foch Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and future World War I commander, 1911
IS THERE A RESEMBLANCE For the past twelve years on and off I have worn some white chin whiskers, and my features are somewhat like that of former surgeon General, C. Everette Koop. At least…
FORGIVE US ALL When Allied troops liberated the Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1945, they stumbled on to the indescribable horror of the Nazi Molochmachine in which 92,000 women and children had died. But they also…
FIRE GAVE LIGHT Years ago a fishing fleet went out from a small harbor on the east coast of Newfoundland. In the afternoon there came up a great storm. When night settled down not a…
