You can't get ahead if you're busy getting even.
Sermon Illustrations
CONVICTION: You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
FELLOWSHIP: Is God far away? Remember, he's not the one who moved.
TEMPTATION: If you don't want the fruit of sin in your life stay out of sin's orchard.
ENVY: Before trying to keep up with your neighbor, find out where he's going.
TEMPTATION: Ditch dirty thoughts fast or they'll ditch you.
SINFULNESS: Running from God is the longest race of all.
DISCIPLESHIP: If you serve two masters, you will always be half-hearted.
TEMPTATION: Avoiding the mud hole is easier than scraping off the mud.
Nothing will cook your goose faster than a red-hot temper.
HABITS: Cultivate good habits - the bad ones all grow wild.
ENVY: When green with envy you'll be ripe for trouble.
TEMPTATION: It is hard to resist temptation if you go out of your way to find it. These "short shots" were sent in with a total of five pages of them. Whoever sent them in,…
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MOTIVATED GIVING About two weeks before their fifth wedding anniversary, a husband asked his wife what she would like for a gift. She told him she would love something impractical and romantic. On the morning…
FINAL OBSERVATION A lawyer was trying to console a weeping widow. Her husband had passed away without a will. "Did the deceased have any last words?" asked the lawyer. "You mean right before he died?"…
HER ONLY DEFENSE Once the wife of Rabbi Levy Wolfe of Zhbarazh accused her maid servant of stealing a costly vessel. Tearfully, the girl denied the deed. When the Rabbi saw his wife putting on…
WRONG AILMENT A recent Hugh Downs news report told of a woman who had faked having cancer for the past two years. This woman had even cut off all her hair, and lost 30 pounds…
REMEMBER THE PLANT Between two bricks on the paved patio in our back yard a spindly yellowed string of a stem had somehow poked its inquisitive head. I noticed it one day and thought idly,…
