TURNED OFF JESUS To show the splendor of the newborn Savior in the church Christmas pageant, an electric light bulb was hidden in the manger. All the stage lights were to be turned off so…
Sermon Illustrations
"A Psalm For Christmas Eve" Praise God for Christmas./ Praise Him for the Incarnation/ for Word made flesh./ I will not sing/ of shepherds watching flocks/ on frosty night/ or angel choristers./ I will not…
THE NIGHT CHRISTMAS ARRIVED Marge had been a member of our church study group for several years. Now she was terminally ill with cancer. The rest of our group gathered to go caroling. It was…
INCARNATE ANOMALY Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman's breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother's arms. King…
CHRISTMAS One little boy in telling the Christmas story said, "And there was no room for them in the inn because Joseph forgot to make a reservation!" King Duncan
What We Do On Christmas? The Roper Organization knows when we've been sleeping and knows when we're awake on Christmas Day. Here's what they discovered Americans do on the Holidays: Open presents (68 percent) Visit…
AN IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY Two caterpillars were crawling across the grass when a butterfly flew over them. They looked up and one nudged the other and said, "You couldn't get me up in one of those…
CHRISTMAS IN HIS HEART He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith in Lutheran Witness, December 15, 1974
PRACTICE TURF Practice needed: A golfer who made a spectacularly bad shot and tore up a large piece of turf took the sod in his hand and looking wildly about, asked: "What do I do…
LAST GAME DETERMINATION Sharon Fanning, head basketball coach for women at the University of Kentucky, tells of a young athlete named David Moss. He played basketball for the University of Tennessee and started as a…
A NEW APPROACH FOR THE BOSS It wasn't exactly what the boss expected when he asked his employees to put suggestions in a box as to how the business could be improved. "When I come…
RUST IN PEACE The best toast for the weapons of war is: "May they rust in peace!"
BASIC FACTS ON TIME MANAGEMENT 1. We all waste time. 2. We cannot change time. 3. We must accept time as the most important resource of mankind. 4. We cannot increase the quantity of time.…
UNCERTAIN MATURITY Maturity is when we change from cocksureness into thoughtful uncertainty...
OILFIELD WISDOM An oilfield worker once offered some great advice to a speaker who had trouble concluding his public address: Once we start drilling, if we haven't struck oil in thirty minutes, then we should…
LEARNING THINGS Here are some (I think) great pearls of wisdom from the book, Live and Learn and Pass It On. It was written by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. but he didn't really write it,…
FRIENDLY OBSTACLES For every hill I've had to climb, For every stone that brushed my feet, For all the sweat and grime, For blinding storms and burning heat, My heart sings a grateful song, These…
SINS COME IN TWOS It seems to me that sins always come in twos. The first sin is in turning away from God; The second is trying to replace him.
SINFUL VISION In July of 1991 thousands of tourists flocked to the little town of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja to witness a total eclipse of the sun. The night before the…
EVERY THIRD CAR EMPTY Statistics show that in 1940 each car on the road had an average of 2.2 persons; in 1950 it was 1.4. It won't be long until every third car on the…
