QUICK STUDY A young soldier who was fighting in Italy during World War II jumped into a foxhole just ahead of some bullets. He immediately tried to deepen the hole for more protection and was…
Sermon Illustrations
LENT -- THE WORD AND THE SEASON Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lencten meaning spring which comes from the Anglo-Saxon "long" indicating that the days of Spring get longer. So the word Lent has…
HOW GOD BRINGS CHANGE Charles Colson told the following story in an address at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. I love the illustration about a man named Jack Eckerd. A few years ago I…
AIRLINE SAFETY Despite the horrifying film footage you have seen in recent months, it is still tough to make money by dying in a plane crash. In the period beginning 1980 and ending a couple…
CLARITY IN COMMUNICATION The following items are from letters for support received by a welfare department: "I am writing the Welfare Department to say that my baby was born two years ago. When do I…
WHEN YOU REALLY DON'T NEED A C.P.A. Two men were in a hot-air balloon and were lost. They spotted a man on the ground so they descended within shouting distance hoping he could give them…
SICK JOKE DEPARTMENT A man had a check-up and then went in to see his doctor to get the results. The doctor said he had bad news and worse news for him, which did he…
THE GUTTY BOAT PEOPLE Did you notice this statistic about Indo-Chinese immigrants who started "flooding" the United States since 1978 as refugees? Two thirds have found jobs, "and more than a fourth of their children…
CREATIVE COMMUNICATION -- GOLDWYNISMS Stephen Birmingham's book The Rest of Us chronicles the story of the Eastern European Jews, particularly the Russian Jews, who came to America through New York between 1882 and 1915 in…
FREE, INDEED! The warranty on a new color TV set had no sooner run out than the set started causing trouble. The lady of the house called the company and they sent a man to…
MIXED COMMUNICATIONS Some friends recently related an experience they had soon after they joined a new church. They had been assigned to a cell group in the congregation under the care of a church officer.…
COMMUNICATING WITH BODY LANGUAG E. Rae Holt also contributed the following item from Spurgeon. The great preacher was sharing with a class of ministerial students about the importance of making the facial expression harmonize with…
SWEET REVENGE Abe Lemmons was asked if he was bitter at Texas Athletic Director Deloss Dodds who fired him as the Longhorn's basketball coach. He replied, "Not at all, but I plan to buy a…
THE BEAM IN THE EYE Father Murphy stopped in the local barber shop for a shave and haircut to find the barber hung over from a heavy weekend. He endured the shaking hand but when…
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT The following item was clipped from Time magazine's "American Notes" section, Oct 21, 1985. "Caesars Hotel-Casino in Atlantic City hit the jackpot when Brian Molony became a regular customer. In 1981 and…
WINE VERSUS GRAPE JUIC E. There was this tea-totalling mother who was very vocal from time to time about her theory that only grape juice -- not wine -- was served at the Last Supper.…
AN UNDERSTANDABLE BIA S. The judge glared down from his bench at the prospective juror. "And just why it is," he asked, "that you don't want to serve on this jury?" The man replied, "Well,…
CHANGING PERSPECTIVE Novelist and editor William Dean Howells was talking with an author who was known for having a very high regard for himself. The author said, "You know, my books are selling very well.…
LITTLE APPRECIATED FACTS I bet you didn't know that Deer have no gall bladders. That crocodiles can run rather rapidly over land but they can't change direction very fast, so if you are chased by…
OUT RANKED: OR, SCENES THAT WOULD LOOK GREAT IN THE MOVIE S. I just finished reading Yeager, the autobiography of Chuck Yeager, well-known war hero, test pilot (who first broke the sound barrier) and currently…
