HIDDEN SIN Working in my garden, I was admiring the large, green, healthy-looking squash plant. The stems appeared to be strong, and the leaves were large. A few days later I noticed that the plant…
Sermon Illustrations
OPTIMISM Chuck Colson reminded us in one of his letters of the inscription on a church in England -- In the year 1653, when all things sacred in the kingdom Were either profaned or demolished,…
NO STRENGTH TO RISE There are some of God's signals over the inviting archways of the forbidden land. And yet Christians walk cooly past them, and only awake to their danger when it's too late…
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY There's the marvelous old story about the smart alec kid who tried to pose a puzzler for an old man. He told him, "I have a bird in my hand -- is it…
TURNING FAILURES INTO SUCCESSES 10 Major Steps necessary to convert your past failures to successes and achieve many future high goals: 1) Write down the goals you definitely want to achieve. 2) Take a half-hour…
REASON TO CHEER The following story is taken from the Christian Communications Laboratory: The streets were lined with crowds, cheering the marching regiments about to leave for overseas. A recruit, who had watched the crowd…
FEAR OF FAILURE An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in…
FIFTY-SEVEN PENNIES UNDER HER PILLOW Fifty-seven pennies found under a little girl's pillow when she died left their mark on Philadelphia. The girl wanted to enter a little Sunday School in Philadelphia years ago, and…
SAVING FACE is often accomplished by keeping the lower part of it shut. Funny, Funny World
LET ME PUT IT ANOTHER WAY Once a young man proposed to his girl as they sat looking over the beautiful lake. "Darling, I want you to know that I love you more than anything…
I WORK TOO HARD! The following story is presented as told by President William D. Boyd, in Western Witness, Vol. 14, #4 (pub. by Western Bible College, Morrison, Colorado 80465). The story is told of…
TIME FOR FORGIVENESS Some years ago, after a vigorous brotherly and sisterly disagreement, our three children retired only to be aroused at two o'clock in the morning by a terrific thunderstorm. Hearing an unusual noise…
RECIPROCITY At a party, a doctor who was chatting with a lawyer was interrupted by a woman who insisted on telling the doctor about a pain in her leg and asking him what to do…
DON'T CARRY A GRUDGE Buddy Hackett says he doesn't bother to carry a grudge. He says, "I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying…
SPIRITUAL DEPTH O. S. Hawkins used to spend his summers down in Tennessee at a place called '9 Miles.' Out there they had a surface well that you would have to pump and then the…
GOD'S SERVANTS Archbishop Secker used to say, "God has three sorts of servants in the world: some are slaves, and serve Him from fear; others are hirelings, and serve for wages; and the last are…
ON THE NEED FOR ACTION Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling
POINTING OUT THE OBVIOUS A man was filling out one of those job application forms. He stopped, confused, by the blank after the item: "Person to Notify in Case of Accident." He thought for a…
LUTHER ON MARRIED LIFE Along comes the clever harlot, namely natural reason, looks at married life, turns up her nose and says: 'Why, must I rock the baby, wash its diapers, change its bed, smell…
MORE FORMS An elderly woman was filling out an application for residency in a retirement village. She was a bit nervous answering all the questions about her health, fearing she might be refused admission. But…
