AGING Everybody wants to live long, though nobody wants to be old. La Rochefeucauld . . . Weather forcasting has been speeded up, but it's still several hours behind arthritis.
Sermon Illustrations
TOO MANY COOKS IN THE KITCHEN It is recorded in history that Emperor Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, had a difficult time, as all government heads do, in balancing his country's budget. On one…
OBVIOUS CLUES A French taxicab driver once played a joke on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The man had driven Sir Arthur from the station to a hotel, and when he received his fare, he said,…
GOD'S LOVE "Do you suppose," said little Jimmy to his smaller sister, "that God cares about such little things as us? He's probably too busy taking care of the big folks to notice us much."…
ACTION, RIGHT OR OTHERWISE Now I believe in doing things right. In fact, one of my frequent prayers, the cry of my heart, is "O God, let me do one thing right before I die."…
BUSINESS We are all manufacturers -- some make good, others make trouble and still others make excuses.
SUNDAY MORNING WEATHER REPORT A lady in the Midwest had often complained about the preacher being long-winded. One winter day, however, she inadvertently described the Sunday morning dilemma as she complained of the cool temperature…
SYMBOLS OF WORSHIP A little boy and his Dad were in church, and the boy asked, "Dad, what does it mean when those men pass those plates?" The Dad said, "The people are giving gifts…
TOO BUSY Julia Ward Howe once asked Senator Charles Sumner to interest himself in the case of a person who needed some help. The senator answered, "Julia, I've become so busy I can no longer…
MADISON AVENUE Ad for sneakers: This is the shoe you'll wear if you want to be just like all the other individualists. Campbell's Notebook
MILTON'S SONNET # 19 -- ON HIS BLINDNESS When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide…
LINCOLN'S VISION OF THE HIGH COST OF FREEDOM Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught man and yet he wrote some of the greatest prose in our history. Consider the substance and the eloquence of Lincoln as…
MIRACLE Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall…
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged…
VISION OF THE GREAT I love the majesty of the closing lines of Stephen Spender's poem, "I Think Continually Of Those Who Were Truly Great" I think continually of those who were truly great. Who,…
THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US The world is too much with us: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours; We have…
THANATOPSIS So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like…
ULYSSES It is for you to choose whether you will rust and atrophy -- or shine with use. I hold up for you the marvelous words of Tennyson's poem, Ulysses, which speaks to us of…
LINES COMPOSED ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth like…
JULIUS CAESAR Brutus and Cassius are talking privately to one side while the people are cheering Caesar. Cassius shares some embittered thoughts: I was born free as Caesar, so were you; We both have fed…
