“Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your…
Sermon Illustrations
“For the love of money is the root of all sort of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith…” (I Timothy 6:10). Psychiatrist Karl Menninger once asked a very…
“…it is in Him that we live, and move, and exist” (Acts 17:28). About twenty years ago, a panel of social scientists met for a week-long discussion of the principal concerns of that generation’s life.…
“When I was a child I used to talk like a child, and think like a child” (I Corinthians 13:11). A fifth-grader--kept doing mischievous things in class, in the halls, and out in the playground.…
“…do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the Will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect”…
“For I am not ashamed of the Good News: it is the power of God saving all who have faith” (Romans 1:16). “Lord, give us a miracle,” we pray. But that’s not usually what we…
“. . . for there is hope for a tree, when it is cut down it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail” (Job 14:8). A farmer tells the story of the “Miracle…
“. . . the Spirit of God dwells in you” (Rom. 8:9). Do you really appreciate the miracle of who you are? Do you appreciate the wonder of your body, for instance? Amazing are your…
“They were all astonished and praised God, and were filled with awe, saying ’we have seen strange things today’” (Luke 5:26). A pastor went to the hospital to visit one of his parishioners — a…
“Think of the Love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God’s children” (I Jn. 3:1). At the conclusion of a week-long prayer and meditation retreat, the participants were asked…
“God said,‘Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees bearing fruit with their seed inside, on the earth’” (Genesis 1:11). There was an old Professor of Biology who would begin his course by…
“Unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat. But if it dies, it produces much fruit. (John 12:24). Grandpa’s eyes sparkled as he turned the…
Judith Viorst wrote a book called “How Did I Get To Be 40 & Other Atrocities.” The book includes a poem describing the author ’s “Self-Improvement Program.” The poem begins with a litany of many…
“Then He strictly ordered His disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Messiah” (Matthew 16:20). There is an old Rabbinic tale about an unemployed Jewish man who asks his Rabbi to help him…
In my inmost self, I dearly love God’s law (Rom. 7:22). The New York Times “Metropolitan Diary” column ran the story of a man with a self-recognition problem. It read... Another forgetful friend is at…
“. . .throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started” (Hebrews 12:1). The famous director of suspense films, Alfred Hitchcock, was…
“The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.” (Psalm 34:16). There is a story abut a man who owned an elephant around which he created…
“…he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying ’Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another’”(Acts 7:26). On “Memorial Day,” Americans especially remember and honor their war dead. They renew their resolve “that…
Do you remember the film, “The Bridge on the River Kwai?”: Alec Guiness played the Senior British Officer in a Japanese concentration camp, and he undertook on behalf of the prisoners to build a railway…
“Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Mk. 10:14, 15). Comedian Jerry Lewis says that the best wedding gift he received was…