A HEAVENLY SHAKEUP Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are…
Sermon Illustrations
INADEQUATE EDUCATION David Levy, highest ranking graduate from Dartmouth in 1971, in his valedictory address said: "Take pity on me, those of you who can justify the air you breathe... send me letters and tell…
A CIRCLE DRAWN WITH LOVE There are many kids who, if we're going to demand perfection of them, may as well be written off to begin with. But there are scores more who will come…
THE REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT Alexander the Great was buried with his empty hands extended out of the casket. He requested this to show how even the man who has conquered the known world takes nothing out…
THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU MISERABLE "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
CANNIBALS TASTE CHRISTIANITY Did you hear about the missionary who gave a tribe of cannibals their first taste of Christianity? Author unknown
EAT UP THE PROPHET It's difficult for missionaries to make a living working with cannibals - they keep eating up the prophet!
A FUTILE QUEST TO LEARN A father and his small son were out walking one afternoon when the youngster asked how the electricity went through the wires stretched between the telephone poles. "Don't know," said…
POWER OF SIN Adrian Rogers declared: "Years ago, a country preacher said, 'Adrian, I want to tell you something about sin. I have never forgotten what he said... 'Sin will take you further than you…
JIM ELLIOT'S SURRENDER OF LIFE "One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime." By Jim Elliot, Leadership, Spring 1986
THE ANIMAL IN YOU Daag Hammarskjold, who was Secretary General to the United Nations in the 1950's said: "You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting…
GET THE MESSAGE A shipping company had advertised a job opening for a ship's radio operator and the outer office was crowded with applicants for the position. They were waiting to be called in turn,…
EGO TIME James Dyke sent in the following Humor Contest winner: A Hollywood producer calls his friend, another Hollywood producer, on the telephone. "Hello?" answers his friend. "Hi, Bernie," says the first producer, "this is…
HOW TO KILL YOUR CHURCH Meditate upon the following and determine, honestly, which impresses you most: 1. A lost soul you could witness to - or a lost personal item? 2. A mar on your…
SIN'S INVESTMENT A lady worked in a watch factory painting faces with florescent paint. She became seriously ill but her doctor was unable to find the cause of her illness. She grew worse and worse…
WHAT BELONGS TO WHOM? I have a teenage son, and I really do love him very much. I suspect he might become a better man than his father, if I let him live that long.…
CANNIBAL COMPROMISE Compromising with this Congress is like paying the cannibals to eat you last. By Haley Barbour, Bush- Quayle Advisor, defending Bush's record on ABC's Nightline on August 7, 1992
HUMAN CREATIONS After the beginning, man began. And man said, "Let there be wheels and man invented vehicles (from pony carts to jet airplanes). And man said, "Let there be laboratories and factories". And man…
BABY PRICE TAG A father brought his little daughter to the hospital to see her newly-born baby brother for the first time. She looked at the baby through the window in the nursery. Attached to…
TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE A caring couple took a group of impoverished tenement kids on a two-day trip to the country far from the city. For most of them, it was the first time…
