THE TOWER STANDS The storms that hid the Texas coast sometimes would seem to blow down any tower, but the Bolivar Lighthouse has withstood the worst. A hurricane on September 7th, 1900 hit with 120…
Sermon Illustrations
SECHES ARE LIKE BABIES Giving speeches is like having babies; they are easy to conceive, but they are hard to deliver. Adapted from a submission by David Rushton
CHURCHES DID NOT WELCOME Our family returned to the U.S. last summer after nearly two decades of living abroad, where we were active in several international congregations. We settled into an attractive east-coast college town,…
POOR CONDUCTOR He was not that talented, but what was worse, he had a terrible temper. He was the new conductor of the city's orchestra. Funding had been cut, and he was the best the…
EVANGELISTIC MIX The greatest potential for evangelism in the church comes from a combination of the ten percent of mature Christians who are able to evangelize with those who are recent converts of less than…
SURREAL CHANGES Question: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: It takes two: One to hold the giraffe and the other one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.
WHAT TO DO WITH FEAR In Leon Uris' book on the Irish experience, Redemption, he writes about fear. The conversation is between Rory who "lost it" in battle and Chester, a comrade. "`You've known the…
REAL MYTHS With Tolkien's help, Jack (C. S. Lewis) began to see Christianity in relation to the myths he already loved, began to believe "that the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a…
D R. SEUSS ON COMPUTERS The following was taken from a December 23, 1996 newsletter of First Card: If Dr. Seuss wrote technical manuals... Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to…
FUTURE CHANGES INCREASE The rate of change will be faster than ever before. Harper's Index predicts that the average American born today will hold eight different types of jobs and live in thirty different homes.…
POWER IN THE BLOOD "There is Power in the Blood" is one of our best-loved songs, Robert Cummings, missionary-educator, brought a powerful illustration of this truth many years ago. The antitoxin serum used in India…
EARTH'S CULTIVATION Speaking of God's plan for humankind, Dominican priest Benedict Ashley says, "He put Adam and Eve in a garden and said, 'I prepared a place for you. You are to conserve it, that's…
MARY'S LAMB Mary had a little Lamb, Whose "fleece" was white as snow; And everywhere that Lamb would walk, He wanted me to go. I followed Him to Bethlehem One dark and starry night; And…
DRY CLEANED CONVERTS A rural Baptist minister proclaimed, "Get your sins washed away!" One of his listeners objected: "I've already done that at the Methodist Church." "Oh no," said the preacher, "you have not been…
IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS Here are the top ten ways things would be different if Microsoft built cars... 1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until AFTER that year, instead of before.…
LEAVE IT TO BETTY A popular cereal commercial--popular to Betty Crocker at least--depicts a husband and wife with their son. The father and his son are sitting at the breakfast table and are eating some…
DON'T KICK THE ROCK Gregory Elder tells that when he grew up on the Atlantic Coast, he spent long hours building intricate sand castles. He was continually confronted by bullies who would smash his sand…
ELECTORAL COLLEGE What is this business about an electoral college? Did anyone ever graduate? What if they decided to ignore the results of the general election and vote for someone else? When we speak of…
GOD'S INCOGNITO We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real…
COMMUNITY OF CHURCH Only the church can offer a community that was here before any of us were born, that will be here after all of us die and that binds us to one another…
