THE OPTIONS "Why do we give so much to missions while we are paying such high interest on the building debt?" That is a good, fair question. Here is the best answer I can give:…
Sermon Illustrations
THE POWER OF THE WORD Julius Hickerson was a promising young doctor who could have made a fortune in the United States, but he felt God's pull to missions. All of his friends and associates…
WISE INVESTMENT THAT PAID When Orvil Reid went to Mexico as a missionary he met twelve-year old Jose Gonzalez. Jose had come to Guadalajara to find work. He slept in the ovens of a bakery…
NO ROAD A certain South African missionary society once wrote to David Livingstone, "Have you found a good road to where you are? We want to know how to send some men to join you."…
THINGS YOU MUST EARN You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But…
A WORD FROM THE COACH I 'm just a plow hand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until…
LEO DUROCHER was coaching at first base in an exhibition game the Giants were playing at West Point. One noisy cadet kept shouting at Leo, doing his best to upset him. "Hey, Durocher," he hollered.…
FROGS The pastor invited the children to come forward for the children's sermon. After they had seated themselves on the steps, he announced he was going to talk about frogs. He asked the group, "When…
SAFETY TIPS 1. Do not ride in an auto - they cause 20 percent of all fatal accidents. 2. Do not stay at home - 17 percent of all accidents happen there. 3. Do not…
DIPLOMACY Mark Trotter began a sermon with this: "I heard someone define diplomacy as the art of saying 'Nice doggie' while you look around for a rock."
DON'T GET SKUNKED Last summer my family went camping on Current River in Missouri. We picked a likely camp ground and set-up. My wife had insisted on bringing her dog, Kristi, on the trip. I…
BRIDGES "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon," Thoreau noted mournfully, "or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build…
WEB OF LIFE So interdependence means that not only are we tied to one another, but we are also tied to and part of an entire ecosystem. As Chief Seattle said, "This we know, the…
LOST DOUBLY A door just opened on a street - I lost, was passing by- An instant' width of warmth disclosed,/And wealth, and company. The door as sudden shut, and I, I, lost, was passing…
PRAY INFORMED PRAYERS Rev. Arley Fadness of Harrisburg, South Dakota, tells of being a student at Augustana Academy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was the custom for students in small groups to go on…
TOPICAL PREACHING A freshly certified lay Methodist preacher in Wales, in one of his earliest sermons in a rough, bawdy mining town, decided to preach on the text: "Enoch walked with God and he was…
BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT Mark Neuenschwander from Bellevue, WA, called to share the following story with me. It seems that a fellow was sitting huddled by a beach fire out on…
MOVIES Film critic Michael Medved, co-host of PBS's Sneak Previews, likens his job to that of a "sewer inspector." Hollywood writers and producers are "hugely out of touch" with church goers and "that's the way…
A RICH AROMA G. Campbell Morgan was visiting in the home of a friend. In one of the rooms he always detected the fragrance of roses. One day he said to his friend, "I wish…
OPINION A great many people do not have a right to their own opinion because they don't know what they're talking about. Andy Rooney
