PHENOMENAL ODDS If the odds are a million to one against something bad occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
Sermon Illustrations
STUBBORN FOOLS A fool is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
SCIENTIFIC HINDSIGHT Hindsight is an exact science.
TO STOP SINNING It's not really that hard to stop sinning all at once. All you have to do is die.
SIMPLE THINGS Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
CROCODILE CONFUSION Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. -- Malayan Proverb
WINNING OR LOSING Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi
FORGOTTEN LEARNING It remains, then, I think, that like a pitcher I have been filled, through my ears, from some foreign springs; but here again so stupid am I, that I have quite forgotten both…
TIME FOR WHAT WE WANT Isn't it funny how big twenty dollars looks when you take it to church but how small when you take it to the grocery store? Isn't it funny how much…
MUSIC & SPINACH It helps to think of rock music as youth's way of getting even for spinach. Robert Orben
CHICKENS OR OWLS The teenage son told his father that when he finished college, he wanted to settle down and raise chickens. His father responded: "Son, take my advice. Forget the chickens and raise owls.…
MONUMENTAL PASTORAL DECISIONS One of the great decisions a pastor is faced with is whether to actually read those six years of unread ministry magazines or to throw them away. Another one of those great…
THE BIGGEST QUESTION Recently I noticed a local grocery store advertisement for their Gold Card. The ad reads: "Apply for the card that answers your biggest question... 'What's in it for me?'" Is this our…
INDIANS & SWEDES Gallup and cooperating research agencies in Europe have done cross-cultural surveys of ... "religiousness" in various countries. Among the nations of the world--measured by belief and behavior--India is the most pervasively religious…
WANT TO BE SOMETHING In an old comedy, "The Delicate Delinquent," Jerry Lewis plays the typical inept young man that he always plays. In this movie, he tried but failed to be a juvenile delinquent.…
GARLIC SANDWICH Have you heard about the new garlic sandwich diet? GARLIC sandwiches? Yeah. You don't lose any weight, but you look a little smaller from a distance.
TELEVISION VIEWS All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler The one function that television news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same…
DIRTY COFFEE CUP Last week I devoted an entire morning to cleaning out my coffee cup. Imagine Alaska's coast after Exxon Valdez. Imagine a Stephen King novel about a java mug. Imagine your teenager's room…
Applause | Appreciation | Bloopers | Fame | Honor | Humor | Praise | Sports | Thanks | Understanding
APPLAUSE FOR THE SHULAS Years ago, Miami Dolphins coach, Don Shula, was vacationing in Maine with his wife and five children. One rainy afternoon they went to the town's only theater. To a person, however,…
INSURED CIGARS A cigar smoker bought several hundred expensive cigars and had them insured against fire. After he'd smoked them all, he filed a claim, pointing out that the cigars had, in fact, been destroyed…
