NOW COMES THE GOOD PART A family was watching the movie "The Greatest Story Ever Told" on television. One of the children in the family was deeply moved. As Jesus journeyed to Calvary, tears rolled…
Sermon Illustrations
HE LIVES AND LOVES FOREVER Some time ago a preacher was speaking about the resurrection of Christ, and he said that he had been telling the story of the crucifixion to his four-year old boy.…
WILLING AND ABLE Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid-1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he went…
SPEAKING OF SEED S. . . ALIVE! A story told by Paul Harvey tells of the dormant power that can be revealed over time. Workman in a Kemigawa farmyard twenty-five miles southeast of Tokyo were…
TAKE HOPE 1809 was proclaimed by that year's contemporary historians as the darkest time in the history of mankind. Napoleon was devastating Europe, and one writer predicted that future generations would call 1809 "the world's…
ONE GAME THIS WINNER WILL ALWAYS LOSE Al Davis is the owner of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. In the eyes of his peers and many in the world he is a…
RESURRECTION Resurrection. . . is what God does when we have done all we can and it is not enough, when we have done all we can, and it turns out to be crucifixion. It…
WHERE WAS THE KEY? A little girl died at a hotel where she was stopping with her father. The mother was dead. Just two followed the body to the cemetery, the father and a minister.…
AN IMAGE OF RESURRECTION It was April 28th. The day before Jan's 19th birthday. Tomorrow would be a sad day. Jan had died five months before at the young age of eighteen. No one really…
THE LIGHT IS ON A young child likes to fall asleep with a light on. The darkness is a fearful environment for him. The children of God sometimes find that a cloak of darkness has…
JESUS WILL COME Soon Jesus will come again, and we'll meet Him in the sky. With our loved ones who have gone on, to be with Him on high. He said I will never leave…
FAREWELL Fallen asleep in Jesus! How precious is that word, Enjoying now forevermore, The presence of the Lord. This is not death, tis only sleep, The Lord your loved one now does keep. 'Tis not…
HEALING You sit in the shadow of sorrow seeking, searching for the magic that will make the pain go away Weep what you must weep, not only for this loss but for all other losses…
HISTORY REVISITED Here is a number of answers turned in by students of history teachers: David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. Solomon his son, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines. Without…
A GOOD BET The minister felt sorry for the old man he saw in the park through which he walked to his office every morning. It seemed the world had been hard for him. One…
THE UNKNOWN PROMOTION The following illustration is taken from All the Promises in the Bible and
APPEARANCES AND REALITY The trouble is that our public men are really artificial. They're created by the most devastating tool that technology has invented. . . the teleprompter: They don't speak spontaneously. . . They…
SPIRITUAL FREEDOM During a three week stay in Africa, we spent one afternoon in a game park near Nairobi. There we heard how monkeys are captured for zoos in the United States. A shining metallic…
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT "The sturdiest tree is not found in the shelter of the forest, but high upon some rocky crag, where its daily battle with the elements shapes it into a thing of beauty. So…
FRIENDS Good old friends are worth keeping whether you like them or not. Andy Rooney from Reader's Digest.
