BUDGETS & SCHEDULES The value of having a budget is that you are able to watch where your money is going before you wonder where it all went. The value of a schedule is that…
Sermon Illustrations
HYMN SPINS Subject: Favorite Hymns of Pretty Good Feelings THE WAY WE MIGHT SING SOME WELL-KNOWN HYMNS IF WE WERE BEING HONEST I Surrender Some There Shall Be Sprinkles of Blessings Fill My Spoon, Lord…
TIME FOR TALK We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering…
TRUE CHRISTIANITY I 'm not a Christian because of what God has or can do for me. I'm a Christian because it is the truth. -- Francis Schaeffer
FIGHT FIRE WITH A GREATER FIRE The candle of temptation is best resisted by having a forest fire burning within. From Lynn Jost, Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas
LADDER OF SUCCESS A cartoon appeared in many of the major newspapers around the country. The occasion was the celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The cartoon showed a humble log cabin. Above the log cabin…
WORSHIP OR WORRY Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases…
THE REST OF THE STORY A man was looking through a shop window at a beautiful picture of the crucifixion. Standing next to him was a ragged little boy who was rapt in contemplation of…
ORIGIN OF APPLE Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer: "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this…
MEASURE MEN BY THOUGHTS The measure of a man is the size of this thoughts.
TRAINING PARENTS Perceptive children have come to the conclusion that the problem with parents is that when children get them, they are so old that they are more difficult to train.
BLACK & WHITE The symbolism of weddings is sometimes confusing. The bride wears white to show that this is the happiest day of her life. So why does the groom wear black?
SO MUCH CHANGE An old fellow decided to rejuvenate himself. So he took up jogging. He married a younger woman. He tinted his hair so the gray no longer showed. The man had so fully…
JESUS LEADERSHIP Quite unlike Hitler or the Stones or Hefner--who also changed the world, simply by intuiting which way the parade was heading and getting in front of it, Jesus did not give us a…
PRELUDE TO THE CROSS The church through the ages has celebrated Palm Sunday in a right mood. It is not a joyous festival, but a token of the blindness and fickleness of human loyalty. It…
LIGHT BULB CHANGERS--A COLLECTION Q: How many Calvinists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. God has predestined when the lights will be on. Q: How many Arminians does it take to…
MORE POWER FOR LIGHT There was a student who took his car over to Chick's Garage and told the mechanic, "Something's wrong. I don't have any lights." The mechanic suggested, "It's probably the battery that's…
POLITICALLY CORRECT LORD'S PRAYER Our universal chairperson in outer space, Your identity enjoys the highest rating on a prioritized selectivity scale. May your sphere of influence take on reality parameters; may your mindset be implemented…
NOT DRUNK There is the story of a man who came home drunk after a night of carousing in a number of neighborhood bars. His wife helped him up to the bedroom, helped him to…
HIS BLOOD COVERS IT While serving as a counselor at Junior camp, I was attending a meeting for the staff of the camp. While at this meeting, the boys of my cabin got a bit…
