As was his ritual, a kindly-looking old man would arrive at the same park bench at precisely the same time each day. The man would sit quietly, whittling on a piece of wood, acknowledging passersby…
Sermon Illustrations
A man called his local bank and asked to speak to someone who could answer his question about C.D.’s. “Do you want conversion or redemption?” the receptionist asked. The man hesitated for a moment and…
From the recent bestseller “Growing Up Isn’t Hard To Do If You Start Out As A Kid,” author David Heller shares the results of hundreds of hours of interviews with children between the ages of…
Biographer Philip Guedella often lectured on the art of writing biography. He used to say that a biographer’s most difficult task is finding out what kind of person his subject really was. And then he…
There is the story about a man who was moving overseas. His life’s savings were tucked away in a big money belt he wore around his waist. On the first night of his journey the…
Some people find out who there real friends are precisely when they need them the most. A man lost his entire fortune, suddenly, as the result of one bad investment. The man’s wife confided in…
In a certain Sunday school there were a number of teachers who had been through the same training program. Consequently, they all went about their work using the same techniques. They would share a Bible…
A mother wistfully handed her son a beautifully wrapped package on his 18th birthday. Carefully, he removed the paper and lifted the box cover. Finally, he parted the soft inner-wrapping, revealing the contents: two long…
The following true account was quoted in the Shreveport, LA Times: My 81-year-old mother is proud of the fact that she doesn’t look her age. One summer day she went into a drugstore and, talking…
An eight-year-old boy wrote an essay in school entitled, “What a Mom means to a kid”: A mother is a person who takes care of her kids and gets their meals, and if she’s not…
These lines come from a young Glasgow mother. She calls it, simply, “A Mother’s Prayer.” Oh, God, you know I’m busy each moment of the day; please help me to remember that I still have…
Austin Pardue, in his book “Bold To Say,” tells about a woman who lived on a busy street corner in the heart of a large city. One hot summer night she retired early. The telephone…
There is the story about a golfer who set up his ball on the tee, swung mightily and missed. His club hit an ant-hill, killing thousands of ants. He became more and more frustrated as…
Consider the mystery of the universe. Many centuries ago, Ptolemy could count no more than one thousand and twenty-two stars; centuries later, Galileo could see five thousand through his telescope. Seventy years ago, scientists’ best…
Albert Einstein once said: “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious...Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, and is as good as dead.”
There is no single thing on earth about which we have total knowledge because all creation is permeated with the ultimate Mystery which is God. In a story by H.G. Wells called “The Soul of…
William Jennings Bryan, on mystery: I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight. When you can tell me…
If we should call the sun “moon,” and the moon “sun,” neither sun nor moon would change one iota. The change would be in us. The same is true of our images of the Divine.…
Some of you may have read the best-selling book, “Life After Life,” by Dr. Raymond A. Moody, Jr. The book is a collection of actual case histories of persons who appeared to have died clinically,…
Comedian Louie Anderson, famous for his brand of self-deprecating humor, authored a best-selling book consisting of letters to his late father. The book is entitled, “Dear Dad — Letters from an adult child.” Anderson, the…
