SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others. (Jacob M. Braude) From S.A.M.I. (Single Adult Ministry Information)
Sermon Illustrations
WRONG CLOCKS In September, 1991, the ruling government of the Soviet Union admitted something it had denied for nearly sixty years. During the Stalin era, officials once forgot to set the national clocks back one…
SCARED IS NOT ENOUGH In Newsweek, (March issue, 1962), there was an account of Jerry Davis, then 11 years old, and in the hospital. He was being treated for serious burns. When their house had…
TO DO NOTHING "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and good women!] to do nothing." From Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, by Edmund Burke, April…
FROM THE MOUTH OF LIONS Gary Salyer tells of an experience he had while taking his three year old son to the San Francisco Zoo. They came to the lion cages just before feeding time.…
CHANGE TO WIN Most successful people are mavericks whose minds roam outside traditional ways of thinking. Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones. When Jean-Claude Killy made the French National Ski…
CONSISTENT CHANGES I 'm going to be real honest, it's whole lot easier to live out your faith somewhere else than it is to live it out at home. It's hard to be a Christian,…
SETTLING FOR LESS When James A. Garfield was president of Hiram College, a man brought his son to be enrolled as a student. He told the president that he wanted the boy to be given…
CHANGE COST 20 CENTS Shih Mu-heo was born in Japan 73 years ago. His fisherman father died at sea when he was an infant. His mother, a pearl diver, was murdered when he was seven.…
THE MASK OF A SAINT According to German folklore there once was a wicked man who wore the mask of a saint to woo and win the saintly girl he loved. Years later when a…
TEACHING ANSEL ADAMS Dave Maddox sent the following taken from Reader's Digest Personal Glimpses: Photographer Ansel Adams was a fidgety child who had difficulty adjusting to traditional schools. His father decided to teach him at…
THE CAR AND THE HOLY SPIRIT A young man named sinner once received from his father a beautiful bright red sedan named salvation. It was sparkling new and clean and bright. It delighted the young…
PROPHECY FULFILLED Nathaniel Hawthorne in the short story, "The Great Stone Face," tells about people who grew up in a small mountain village which was overshadowed by a great stone face on a distant crag.…
CHANGE CONTINUES It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect. If, after centuries, a disparity is still…
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A CHRISTIAN In the heart of man lies a yearning to know God. His eyes touch beauty, and his heart is moved... towards understanding... towards the Creator. Our need for God was…
Faith | Goal | Nature | Purpose | Regeneration | Salvation | Sanctification/ Desire | Transformation
OUR INTENDED PURPOSE Some scientists, according to a story by Harold Bredesen,, decided to develop a fish that could live outside of water. So, selecting some healthy red herring, they bred and crossbred, hormoned and…
PREACHER MAN It was July 1969 and this particular Vietnam mission started out like all the rest for U.S. Navy's SEAL Team One. Most of the guys were fairly rough and tough but there was…
LIFE'S TURNING POINT Twelve of thirty-two conscientious objectors who volunteered for a starvation experiment in 1945 recently met for a reunion in St. Petersburg, Florida. They each lost a fourth to a third of their…
CHURCH IS TO CHANGE YOU Why not go to church? Why not? You should not go to church because it is convenient. You should not go to church because the people are friendly. You should…
GREATEST CHANGE Christy and I walked into King's Mine in Six Flags. Small vehicles were sitting on a miniature railroad track. The track and the cars appeared to be safe, and I said, "They can't…
