“…anyone who eats of this Bread will live forever” (John 6:58). A few years ago a story came over the news wire services about a man residing in the city of Greenville, South Carolina who…
Sermon Illustrations
During a period of economic recession, Sam, a construction worker, was asked by a co-worker for advice on how to manage his budget. “This is how I do it,” Sam said. “I budget forty percent…
“Each one of us . . .has been given his own share of Grace” (Eph. 4:7). There is a beautiful little parable in which a high-flying sparrow looks down at her shadow skimming along a…
“I tell you solemnly, insofar as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did it to Me” (Matthew 25:40). Several years ago, on national TV, the true story…
“Do you not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against you? But he kept silent and did not answer” (Mark 14:60-61). President Calvin Coolidge avoided meeting with the press as much as…
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me ... He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives” (Lk. 4:8). A man who conducted a seminar on how to make money (“The Million Dollar Forum”)…
“...they set out to take charge of Him, convinced that He was out of His mind” (Mark 3:21). In her book called “Out of My Mind,” (the author), Katharine Brush, confesses to several episodes in…
“I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth” (2 Samuel 7:9). A tourist was passing through a picturesque village when he came upon an…
“These men are throwing our city into confusion” (Acts 16:20). Sometimes regions or cities develop a kind of friendly rivalry, like the one fostered and enjoyed between St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. St. Paul struck…
“Did our hearts burn within us as He talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us” (Luke 24:32). The story is told of a missionary’s gift of a Bible to a…
“For what does the Scripture say?” (Romans 4:3). Three persons were talking about some of the recent translations of the Bible. One said, “I like the New English version of the Gospels. It’s easier reading…
“I strain ahead for what is still to come” (Phil. 3:14). In the “Wizard of Oz” legend, a great cyclone strikes in the state of Kansas, transporting young Dorothy to a strange land called Oz.…
“Do not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans…
“Think of the flowers growing in the fields” (Matthew 6:28). One day a butterfly was flying about in a meadow. It noticed below a brilliant multi-colored expanse filled with little yellow, red, purple and pink…
“He who obeys the command will come to no harm” (Eccl. 8:5). A United States Army Brigadier General went with his wife to do the family food shopping in the commissary — something he hadn’t…
“They prostrated themselves in front of the dragon because he had given the beast his authority… Who can compare with the beast? How could anybody defeat him?” (Rev. 13:4–5). Once upon a time a government…
“Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear” (Mt. 13:16). The late Fritz Kreisler, the great violinist, was walking down the street one day with a friend when the two…
“They were on the road…then were in a daze, and those who followed were apprehensive” (Mark 10:32). Enjoying a leisurely Sunday drive on his brand new motor scooter, an elderly man stopped for a traffic…
“God is not the God of the dead but of the living. All are alive for Him” (Luke 20:38). A college student used the men’s room wall to expound upon what he learned in his…
“I am, as Isaiah prophesied; a voice that cries in the wilderness: make a straight way for the Lord” (John: 1:23). There is a story in which God is interviewing persons who want to be…
