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Sermon Illustrations
NO MORE NEEDS A quote from Christianity Today, August 18, 1989: It was Mother Teresa who said, "You will never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you got."
ELECTRIC CHAIR Menelik II was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until 1913. News of a successful new means of dispatching criminals reached him. The news was about a device known as an electric chair.…
LIMITED PERSPECTIVE I cannot prove the existence of heaven. I accept its reality by faith, on the authority of Jesus Christ: "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would…
COUNTERFEIT This has not been a good year for the American language! Bathroom plungers are no longer called bathroom plungers. The new phrase, devised by a company which makes them, is hydroforce blast cup. In…
GREEDY COMPARISONS A pastor at a nearby church wanted to share a poignant message on inequality in a children's sermon. When the time came for the children to come forward for the story, he told…
HIS MYSTERIOUS WAYS By the summer of 1977, my heavy drinking had taken its toll. I was alone, and the only creature in the world that I cared about was my Burmese cat, Chocolate Mousse.…
PARANOIA Minister to his ruling board: "I'm not paranoid. Just ask the people who are after me!" Bruce Rowlison
HYPOCRISY Hypocrite defined: One who complains about the sex and violence on his V.C.R. Bruce Rowlison
FRIENDS Good old friends are worth keeping whether you like them or not. 50 More Cranky Opinions from Andy Rooney, as quoted in Reader's Digest.
NOT AN UNEXPRESSED THOUGHT People who are wrong seem to talk louder than anyone else. Andy Rooney
SEEN ON A BUMPER STICKER "Women are natural leaders. You are following one now."
DISTINCTIONS We herd sheep. We drive cattle. We lead men.
MY CHRISTMAS PRAYER Dearest God, please never let me Crowd my life full to the brim, So like the keeper of Bethlehem's inn, I find I have no room for Him./Instead, let my heart's door…
THE UNDERGROUND ANGELS On Christmas Eve, after getting off my typing job at noon, I stood dejectedly in the crowd waiting for the subway train. I had worked by myself all morning, since all my…
ADVENT Slowly, I take my first tentative steps on my journey through Advent, my hopes and fears adding their colors to the red and green of the Christmas season./With the breathless anticipation of a child…
HOW FAR TO BETHLEHEM? "How far is it to Bethlehem Town?" Just over Jerusalem hills adown, Past lovely Rachel's white-domed tomb- Sweet shrine of motherhood's young doom. "It isn't far to Bethlehem Town- Just over…
BRIGHTEST AND BEST Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid, Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.…
THOU SHALT KNOW HIM WHEN HE COMES Thou shalt know Him when He comes, Not by any din of drums, Nor the vantage of His airs, Nor by anything He wears; Neither by His crown,…
OUR BROKEN HEARTS My heart breaks when Christmas begins the day after Halloween. Advent also breaks the hearts of many people because of the full-court press our culture attempts in the name of a "healthy…
