TREATMENT: The way we treat people is the way we treat God.
Sermon Illustrations
INTERACTION: If one stays too long in his shell, he'll wind up nuts!
APPLIED LEARNING: "Son, don't give me any of those fancy pamphlets. . . Why, I don't farm half as well as I know how to now!"
THE FUTURE: "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln)
ENDEARMENT: When you have a lot of rough edges, you're easy to get hold of, but hard to embrace.
SELF-CONCERN: We would be far less concerned about what other people think of us if we only realized how seldom they do!
CONSISTENT LIVES: If you resent it, don't do it; if you do it, don't resent it.
FREELY GIVING: "God, you can have anything you can pry out of my hands!" All of the above short shots were
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