To confess your sins to God is not to tell him anything he doesn’t already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.…
Sermon Illustrations
A teenage girl left for school wearing one yellow and one orange sock. Her mother, noticing this, headed her daughter off at the front door and asked why she was wearing two different colored socks.…
One method of catching crabs is to use a wire basket with a single hole on top. Bait is secured inside the basket which the crabber then lowers into the water. Slowly at first, a…
Every weary traveller has wondered if the worst part of the trip is the ride from the airport. A man had a taxi driver pick him up, and the first red light he came to,…
I attempt to look at life in all its richness, seeking to be affected at levels deeper than those of thought. I contemplate The birth of a baby — The parent’s sense of joy and…
A man had found a magic lantern and, for years, every time he rubbed it a “Genie” would appear to grant his wish. The man was a real worry-bird and, because of his constant anxious…
A woman’s scream suddenly startled a party of surveyors at dinner in a forest in northern Virginia on a calm, sunny day in 1750. The men ran in the direction of the scream. One of…
The Christian Science Monitor once ran a story of a springtime in New York, when the fancy of a certain young woman had lightly turned to thoughts of love. She had been seeing a good…
A man who had been dating a young woman for several months, called on her one evening and presented her with a little box. In the box was a beautiful diamond bracelet with her name…
A Louisiana lawyer sought a loan from a government agency on behalf of a client, offering a tract of land as collateral. The agency said it would grant the loan if the lawyer could show…
You may be sitting there at this moment thinking all is well with you. But before the day is over, the crisis may come, the rain may fall on your parade. You never know when…
A father took his sixteen-year-old son, Jason, to the circus. The man on the flying trapeze swung high above the crowd, hanging precariously by his toes as he zoomed through the air. Jason watched incredulously…
Mother Teresa of Calcutta did God’s work for many years in the streets of India, ministering to the dying poor. “For them and for me,” she once said, “the greatest development of human life is…
Two caterpillars were inching along the ground when suddenly they were shrouded by an enormous shadow. Then, just as suddenly, the shadow disappeared. A beautiful monarch butterfly had momentarily soared overhead and blocked the sun’s…
The newest member of a golfing foursome was a bit nervous on his first outing. Intent on making a good impression, tHe man teed up the ball, spread his feet, fixed his stance, and then…
An actress was suffering from nervous tension and strain. She went to see a psychiatrist. “You need a change. Get away from your normal routine, do something different,” he said. “A change?” she screamed. “During…
It has been said that change is the very nature of life itself. To live life is to know change—to experience change. We must accept that! Things never stay the same! In New England there’s…
A young American and a young man from India were attending an International Conference. During a break in the proceedings, they found themselves talking to each other about religion. The young man from India was…
According to an ancient legend, the wealthiest man in town was known as the “sponge-giver,” because the meagre amounts he gave to charity had to be squeezed out of him. Everyone knew that even to…
In a study several years ago, Stanford University psychologist Albert Bandura found cartoon violence as potent as real-life models in increasing violence among youngsters. A University of Kansas researcher reported that Saturday-morning cartoons markedly decreased…
