A STRONG SENSE OF CALL A strong sense of call would seem to be an imperative if one is going to be an overseas missionary, especially if you are going to face difficult situations. Jim…
Sermon Illustrations
WHERE ARE YOU? The following was sent in by William Boyd, President of Western Bible College in Morrison, Colorado: r80465 Tim looked morosely out of the barrack's window. The snow was falling against the rich…
EVEN BETTER THAN MOTHER A little boy disobeyed his mother. But his conscience began to hurt him, and he was sneaking up to his room when his mother saw him. "Where are you going, Frank?"…
HOW YOU RESPOND I recently read that it isn't failure to stumble and fall. The failure is in staying there on the floor. Success is in finding something while you're down there to pick up…
THE CHURCH Sid Gunter, Pastor of Nazareth Presbyterian Church sends us these two on the church in all of its weakness: I have been told that when the wild donkeys of the great Northwest are…
LET'S GET TOGETHER In his book Wind and Fire, Bruce Larson tells of a friend of his who lives near Hoyt Park in Madison, Wisconsin and who happens to be a great bird lover. Invariably,…
THE STRUGGLE WITHIN A young soldier was going off to fight in World War II against the Japanese. As his father put him on the train and waved goodbye, he turned with bitter tears and…
A GLORIOUS MIXTURE Ken Idleman, President of Ozark Bible College, in a recent sermon, said, "We are such a mixture of sinner and sinned against that we cannot forgive people without feeling set free ourselves."…
A SECOND CHANCE In World War I a fine lad in the battalion with which I was serving failed through illness in face of the enemy and was court-martialed and punished. All that the colonel…
RADICAL GRATITUDE I suppose one of the most genuine ways to develop a sense of gratitude is to go through times of privation and then in those times find God's loving care come through. I…
SPORTSMAN The Olympic Games of 1936 were held in Hitler's Germany. The American entry in the running board jump was Jesse Owens, a black man. The German entry was Luz Long, a blond, blue-eyed athlete…
FORGIVENESS THE RESULT OF GRACE Don Mallough, in his book, Crowded Detours, tells the story of a young employee who secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm's money. When this action was discovered…
BURRO WRESTLING One morning a couple of cowpunchers went out on the range to bring in a wild steer from the mountains. They took along with them one of those shaggy little gray donkeys-a burro.…
LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS Sir Thomas More was an Irish poet. He married, early in life, a beautiful Irish lass. Her beauty was such that no one, looking at her, could fail to take note of…
HE DOESN'T COST ME A DOLLAR When people complain that ministry costs money -- use this quote from President Pearson of Miami Christian College, sent to us by David Olson of Excelsior, Minnesota. r55331 The…
IF WE MAKE HEAVEN OUR GOAL Scripture and tradition habitually put the joys of Heaven into the scale against the sufferings of earth, and no solution of the problem of pain which does not do…
AWESOME OBEDIENCE A few centuries before Christ, a man named Alexander conquered almost all of the known world using military strength, cleverness and a bit of diplomacy. The story is told that Alexander and a…
THE BIBLE, AND THE CHRIST OF THE BIBLE We have an almost superstitious attitude to Bible reading as if it had some magical efficacy. But there is no magic in the Bible or in the…
MOTIVATION I was reminded by my friend Ken Christensen the other day that, though you can lead a horse to water and yet not make him drink, it is possible to salt his hay a…
THE FAILURE TO FEAR You've failed many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?…
