TRAVEL ADVICE FOR THE P0PE Prior to the April, 1992 decision of the Pope to come to Denver, Colorado in August, 1993, he received a number of encouraging letters from the students of Good Shepherd…
Sermon Illustrations
A REAL PROBLEM IN ARITHMETIC In an arithmetic class, the teacher gave her students a problem to solve that involved fractions: "Suppose that, in a family of five children, the mother had but four eggs…
SAVE THE MALES The men's movement... that exercises in running naked through the woods while screaming one's inner thoughts to the heavens... has gotten way out of control. Blame it on the Boomers. You know…
STOP DREAMING Dreaming is great; but when the alarm goes off, you had better get up and make them come true.
KEEP THE TOWELS Said a priest to his bishop: "I won a his and her set of towels in a raffle. What shall I do?" Replied the prelate, "The way things are going, hold on…
RABINICAL MOONLIGHTING The rabbi was wearing a reverse collar and explained, "I'm moonlighting."
SILENCE IS DREADFUL I went home for lunch. While sitting at the table, I watched my twenty one month old child spill a half gallon of bleach. It's been said that children are like mosquitoes…
HE GAVE - WE GIVE Grace Kittinger was a school teacher in our first church in New Mexico, out in the Rio Grande Valley. She shared with me how she learned to tithe. Her father…
FIRST TO KNOW During the children's sermon, we lighted the Shepherd's Candle in the Advent Wreath. I was attempting to explain about the shepherds being the first to hear of Jesus' birth. I asked, "Who…
DISCRETION MAKES FRIENDS Honesty can turn a friend to an enemy; Discretion can turn an enemy to a friend. Editor
HOPING UNTIL CHRISTMAS In Bill Keane's "Family Circus," Billy reads the calendar that reads December 18. He says: "Only seven more HOPING days 'til Christmas." And he's right, for come the 25th, hope will be…
ENJOYING WHAT WE GET There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of people achieve the second. Logan Pearsall…
THE WAY IN THE MANGER My three-year-old son, Tommy, and I were singing Christmas songs together. Instead of singing "AWAY" in a manger, Tommy kept singing "THE WAY" in a manger. Tommy was right! Jesus…
FAST FORWARD TO CHRISTMAS In The Family Circus, Billy says, "I wish we could put tonight and tomorrow on fast forward." From The Family Circus, December 23, 1991
A MONSTROUS GIFT In Port Arthur, Texas, children at a Sunday School party were playing an alphabet game. Each would take turns saying, "I'm going to a Christmas Party, and I'll bring '------' (naming a…
PRESENTS OR PRESENCE? A military expert was asked to deliver a speech in St. Louis, Missouri. It was during World War II, and he had a difficult time getting a seat on the plane. However,…
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING In the Christmas Day Walnut Cove comic strip by Collum, Dad walks in and sees Mom sitting in front of the Nativity set and asks, "Whatcha doing, Hon?" Mom…
HIDDEN MONEY Allison and Kelly Smith decided to play a trick on their mother at Christmas in 1991. They exchanged the Christmas presents she had sent from Detroit, Michigan, to Birmingham, Alabama where the girls…
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS "What will you do if I bail you out for Christmas?" asked Daniel Lehner, owner of Inflight Newspapers, Inc. He was speaking to five inmates of the Nassau County (New York) Jail,…
GETTING CHRISTMAS The only way to get Christmas is not with money, but with love.
