A prosperous young businessman met, fell in love with, and was frequently seen escorting about town a young woman of great gentility and dignity ... He wanted to marry her, but being a cautious man…
Sermon Illustrations
“I tell you solemnly, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 19:23). Composer Rudolph Friml once turned on the radio and was outraged to hear one of…
“I give you a new commandment: Love one another, such as My love has been for you. So must your love be for each other. This is how all will know you for My disciples.…
“Wives, give way to your husbands… Husbands, love your wives” (Colossians 3:18, 19). A man named Larry came home from work one evening and was astonished to find his wife cramming her belongings into a…
A married couple had to interrupt a sightseeing tour because of the need for a dentist. “I want a tooth pulled and I don't want novocaine or gas because I'm in a hurry,” the woman…
“I have been in danger... in the towns, in danger in the open country” (II Corinthians 10:26). There is a story of a pioneer couple, Zeb and Martha, who staked a claim and settled down…
“If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last and servant of all” (Mark 9:35). A testimonial dinner was arranged for a woman who was retiring after many years of faithful service as…
“Let us make a man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves” (Genesis 1:26). We are human beings. Each one of us is a unique human being. We are not “things.” Mankind is…
In the year 1911, the priceless “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was missing for two years. During that time, more people came to the museum to stare at the…
“Love one another” (John 13:34). For nurturing and sustaining a life-enriching home life, a well-known family therapist once prescribed a daily dose of hugs. She suggested a minimum daily requirement of... ...four hugs for survival…
“He is the One who has given us the qualifications to be the administrators of this New Covenant” (II Corinthians 3:4). In Jewish religious folklore, there is the story of the student of the Torah…
In Greek mythology there is a legend in which Zeus, the righteous ruler of the world, presents his subjects with a big vase filled with everything they would need to be whole and happy persons.…
In a nineteenth century painting entitled “Hope,” the artist portrays a woman with bandaged eyes. She is unable to see ahead of herself. In her hands is a harp with bro- ken strings, representing her…
If one part is hurt, all parts are hurt with it. If one part is given special honor, all parts enjoy it (I Cor. 12:26). Several years ago, one of the big, daily newspapers ran…
“He touched her hand and the fever left her and she got up and began to wait on Him” (Matthew 8:15). A sensitive woman named Marcia relates the following“touching” episode in her life: “Now you’ve…
"What then will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life?" (Matthew 16:26). “What does it profit a man” — this frantic pursuit of what we have been conditioned to…
“If life on earth is not a road to heaven,” someone has said, “then it is a treadmill, a merry-go-round minus the merry.” It is like an old “Mutt and Jeff” comic strip ... It…
When C.S. Lewis lost his dear friend, Charles Williams, he wrote something which he hoped would not be regarded as maudlin. He felt that since Charles Williams had died, heaven was no longer a strange,…
“…you will be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never run dry” (Isaiah 58:11). Once upon a time, two little sweet-pea seeds nestled snugly together in the soft earth. They…
“He sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God, and to perform healing” (Luke 9:2). True story: A young woman named Mary dreamed as a young girl of becoming an obstetrician. She completed her…