FEARS PRODUCE Strange, but the things we most fear are what we always seem to bring about. -- Anonymous
Sermon Illustrations
POINTS FOR FEAR God don't give you no points for doin' stuff you ain't afraid to do. -- Robert Blake
LEAVE THE PRISON KEYS When you break out of prison, be sure to leave the keys behind. -- Robert Allen
ADVERSITY & TRUTH Adversity is the path of truth. -- Byron
CAMUS ON PERSPECTIVE In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus (pronounced "CAM - MOO")
UNREALISTIC TIME FRAMES There's no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just an unrealistic time frame. -- Anonymous
THE SIMPLE COMMANDS The simple commands are always the hardest to obey -- loving each other in Christ, offering hospitality, serving those in need, keeping sexually pure, remaining faithful in marriage and resisting the love…
COMFORT FOR PARENTS "I'll lend you, for a little while, a child of mine," He said, "For you to love while he lives, and mourn when he is dead. It may be six or seven…
CAN'T GIVE NO HELP A teacher in an isolated mountain school had just given her class an examination. At the end of the exam, she told her class to write a pledge that they had…
TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL It was the twelfth summer of my life. My mother sent me to the field to call my Dad home for lunch. I rode my bicycle to the edge of the…
HAPPY AT HOME A well-known evangelical leader was constantly criticized by the news media for his stand on a particular issue. He was asked how he was able to maintain his disposition under such turmoil.…
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE Jorge Rodrigues, at age twenty-two, went before a Kenosha, Wisconsin municipal judge last November on a charge that he had hit a parked car while driving drunk. Rodrigues earnestly handed…
NO CORN A farmer from a rural church was especially proud of his field of corn. In the spring he had prepared the ground, and the soil was perfect. The rain held off so that…
CHURCH IS GOD'S WORK It is important to remind ourselves from beginning to end that the work of the church is God's work. We can claim it as our own only to the extent that…
AMAZING MAZE In the middle ages, when they were constructing many of the huge cathedrals, they made the floors out of tile. There were no pews then, so the area of the floor was all…
FORGIVE & FORGET An African man worked for a missionary in Liberia who caught him stealing clothes from her house. The man asked her forgiveness and promised he would never steal from her again. The…
FORGIVE AS JESUS DOES Nothing in this lost world bears the impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. -- Alice Cory
CONCERN OF A KING Ramesh Richard relates an encounter with a man from the United Arab Emirates who was complaining of a neighboring king who lived in luxury while his people lived in difficult circumstances.…
NONE OF THESE DAYS One of these days is none of these days. -- English Proverb
NEED THE HAND RAILS When the magnificent passenger ship the Queen Mary was built, its owners assumed it would be so stable that it would not require hand rails to steady the passengers in rough…
