PUTTING OFF FOR TOMORROW The unconverted man says, "Conversion is easy tomorrow, but hard today. I'll put it off." Even so, prayer that now is difficult appears easy in the future. Alas, you will find…
Sermon Illustrations
A LITTLE SMOKED A woman tearfully testified she had no idea the man standing next to her in an elevator was annoyed by her cigarette smoke until she felt blood spurt from her chest. Article…
ANY WILD NIGHT CLUBS? A certain evangelist arrived in a town that was particularly hostile to religion in general and Christianity in general. He was, nonetheless greeted by the media upon his arrival. One newspaper…
ONLY ONE DISCUSSION A family was asked by their pastor how much time they spent together in meaningful discussion. The father said that they spent about two-and-a-half hours a day in meaning discussion. The pastor…
PAY THE MAN & GO HOME In 1882, Macmillan published an essay by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy entitled The Decay of Modern Preaching. And at the beginning of this century Canon J. G. Simpson of…
INNOVATIVE CHURCHES One of the saddest commentaries on the evangelical church is its deadening sameness. One can look in the yellow pages and find Sunday School, worship, Sunday evening and midweek services listed with numbing…
THE UNUSED HEART An elderly patient needed a heart transplant and discussed his options with his doctor. The doctor said, "We have three possible donors; you need to tell me which one you want to…
CHRISTIANS & AIRPLANES Being raised in a church makes you a Christian about as much as being raised in a hangar makes you an airplane.
PRAY FOR PREACHING The preacher's little daughter noticed that her father always bowed his head for a minute before starting his sermon. One day she asked him why. "Well," he replied, "I'm asking God to…
ANOTHER WORD FOR THESAURUS People say there is a book written for every need. I'm not so sure that's true. I have not been able to find a book that offers another word for Thesaurus?"…
FROM RICHES TO LESS RICHES A woman told a friend , "I was the one who made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend. The woman replied,…
AIRLINE AXIOM In an industry where the only constant is that of change, there is only one well-known axiom for airlines. The axiom states that the only way to make a small fortune in the…
OBVIOUS CHOICE A commercial traveler was passing through a small town when he came upon a huge funeral procession. "Who died?" he asked a nearby local. "I'm not sure," replied the local, " but I…
COLD POLITICS This winter was so cold in Washington D.C. that reporters were able to film Congressmen with their hands in their own pockets. From The Preacher Joke Book, by Loyal Jones
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR SUFFERERS Psychologists conducted an experiment to determine the capacity of people to endure pain. They measured how long a person could stand barefooted in a bucket of cold water. They discovered one factor…
SOME TRICK It seems that there was a magician booked on a cruise ship as the entertainment. In some part of his act, the magician had a parrot do some parrot tricks, and the rest…
STAYING OR STRAYING The only thing worse than listening to a good speaker who constantly strays from the subject is to listen to a poor speaker who always stays on the subject. Michael Hodgin
ACTING ON THE UNKNOWN I don't fully understand God, yet I refuse to grope in spiritual darkness because of that. Lord Kelvin, the British physicist, told us, "I do not know what electricity is, but…
MISPLACED MOUNTAIN A party of climbers were climbing a range of mountains. After a half day of climbing they came to the realization that they were lost. They took turns studying the map, and each…
FATHER OF LAWYERS A minister once asked a lawyer: "What do you do if you make a mistake on a case?" The lawyer answered, "I try to fix it if it's big and ignore it…