SOCIALISM Managers planning production in socialist Sweden have to allow for about 20% absenteeism. In Japan they don't even have a word for absenteeism.
Sermon Illustrations
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE PRACTICAL Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. John Ruskin.
DIRT There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, attracted to light objects and the light kind, attracted to dark objects. Ely Slick, Reader's Digest
THE WAY IT WORKS IN LIFE The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your actions. A. Kindsvater, Zurich, Switzerland, Reader's Digest
ON TIME Cross a porcupine with an alarm clock and you get a stickler for punctuality.
AUTHORITY Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphrey
IN AN EMERGENCY Itwas sent in by Stephen McCutchan, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. It seems that a mother mouse felt that the time had come to introduce her baby mice…
BROKENNESS The following short paragraph by Vance Havner was
SEVENTH PLACE -- A CLASSIC Claude Ponting, Pastor of Opportunity Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, submitted the following classic story. Claude prefaces his remarks by observing, "I cannot testify to the historical accuracy of the…
HUMILITY This brief analogy by the late Danish Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, was
ON GOD'S LOVE by Bob Benson from Come Share the Being and was
ACCIDENTS Some people who had automobile accidents were asked to summarize exactly what happened on their insurance form. The following quotes were taken from these forms and published in the Toronto Sun on July 20,…
THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF FRIENDSHIP Pastor Scott Camp of Faith Fellowship in Orange, California sent in the following story which brings out one of the most important aspects of the transforming power of friendship. It…
A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM The following story was
THE PLAINTIVE CRY FOR RECOGNITION I found one in a recent Readers' Digest that I used in a sermon on the dynamics of fellowship needs within the church. The funny thing was that I had…
COMMUNICATION -- THE MUDDLED MESSAGE Horace Greeley, famous editor of the New York Tribune was noted for having about the most illegible handwriting there was. Often he couldn't even read it himself if it was…
PUTTING THINGS INTO PROPER PERSPECTIVE This oldie but goodie is the letter that was sent home by a daughter who was away at college. It goes like this: Dear Mom and Dad: I'm sorry to…
HOW ABOUT YOUR SERMON'S LASTING IMPACT? Several years ago a reader of the British Weekly wrote a letter to the editor as follows: "Dear Sir! I notice that ministers seem to set a great deal…
UNENDING LOGIC My friend Roger Clemens of Saratoga shared this one with me: After a lecture on the solar system, philospopher William Jamess was approached by a determined elderly lady with a theory. "We don't…
FAITH Pastor John Hionides of the Greek Gospel Church of Toronto, Ontario, sent in this story which he found in a newspaper from Athens, Greece. The drought of the past winter threatened the crop in…
