HIS PRESENCE CHANGES OUR LIVES A working man was strongly drawn toward a beautiful vase he saw in a stall down in the town market. He bought the vase and brought it home. The vase…
Sermon Illustrations
VALUE GURUS In the April 26 - 28, 1996 issue of USA Weekend, appeared an article by Brenda Turner entitled "Culture Crash." In this article Turner, a senior associate editor of USA Weekend, identified five…
WHERE IS THE WORLD? It is not the ship in the water, but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it is not Christian in the world but the world in the Christian…
SPEAK THE VISION In answering the question why so may business executives are boring speakers, communications consultant Jo Farrell, president of Farrell Group, offers a general observation: "People look out and see the audience has…
THE FACE OF GOD After the terrible earthquake that devastated Equador in 1988, John Jackson, a photographer for an Indianapolis Indiana newspaper, went there to cover the story. When he saw the human suffering there,…
HAIRCUTS & HEADS I was brought up to believe that beauty is not worth thinking about, what's important is your soul, your mind -- you don't want to be a fifty dollar haircut on a…
LOVE YOUR HUGS OR YOU We have a four year old grandson Patrick who taught his grandmother a lesson about love recently, about God's love. Patrick gave me a real bear hug, and I said,…
CLEANING OUT MY HEART I was cleaning out my heart one day, And there in the dust of my life, I discovered in all of the corners, Lay bitterness, fear, and strife, Hatred I thought…
WORK SPEAKS LOUD ENOUGH "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser
SECOND FIDDLE WELL It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well. By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
WHERE IS THE HELICOPTER? Something happened when I was a control tower supervisor in Japan that I can never forget. Two jet fighters were flying in formation and had just started their descent when the…
BAPTIZED & ADVERTISED As a pastor of a Baptist church with a unique baptismal design, I have opportunity to field lots of questions from visitors. The baptismal tank was free-standing on the side of the…
WORTH THE MESS A woman was visiting friends who had been happily married for over fifty years. The husband entered the house in his work shoes and left clods of dirt on the clean kitchen…
THE RESCUED RESCUES HIS RESCUER Here's a story I read in the Israel for Christ newsletter: Corrie ten Boom was a great Christian leader whose story, The Hiding Place, is well known, however not many…
WET PANTS COMFORT Come with me to a third grade classroom... There is a nine- year-old kid sitting at his desk, and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet, and the…
SPECIALTY NAILS Two novices were trying to build a garage, and one was attaching the siding. He would pick up a nail, look at it, then hammer it in. Then he would pick up another…
VICE PRESIDENT OF PEAS The new vice-president was flaunting his title so much, one of his co-workers finally said to him, "These days vice- presidents are a dime-a-dozen. In fact, the title is getting so…
IN A NURSING HOME A minister went to visit the elderly couple that just entered a nursing home. The wife had been losing touch with reality to a point that it really wasn't safe for…
RELATIVES ARE MULES A husband and wife, on an automobile trip, got into a large- sized fuss over a small-sized issue, and for a number of miles afterward, they refused to speak to one another.…
PLANT THE POTATOES A woman wrote to her husband who was serving time in prison for armed robbery. "When is the best time to plant the potatoes?" she wrote. The husband wrote back, "Don't dig…
