PHONE SALES ANSWERS The next time one of those telephone salespeople calls during dinner to sell you something you don't need, ask for his phone number and say you would like to call him back…
Sermon Illustrations
THE STARS ARE GOD'S WINDOWS The family was out camping. After setting up their tent for the night, they put their little four year old son John to bed. The rest of the family was…
STRONG WOMEN If women are not as strong as men, how are they able to a cap on a fruit jar so it takes thirty minutes for the husband to get it off?
IMPOSSIBLE CHANGES Every great accomplishment was once an impossibility.
SECURITY The manager and one of his salesmen stood before a map on which colored pins indicated the representative in each area. "I'm not going to fire you, Cartwright," the manager said, "but just to…
THE GOAL IS THE GOAL Bobby Dodd, the former great football coach of Georgia Tech, tells the story of a game in which his team was leading 7 - 6 with just a minute to…
DIVIDED LOYALTIES Imagine a little league baseball player waiting on deck. His father, standing behind the backstop, tells him to swing away because he can hit the pitches from this pitcher. Upon coming to the…
DUMB MEN JOKES It is typically our editorial policy to avoid jokes that degrade a certain segment of the population. We have made an exception with this grouping. Here are our reasons: 1) Men are…
FIND THE CRACKS The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is in Fort Worth, Texas. The centerpiece of the campus is an area called "the rotunda" which is covered by a dome top. The front of the…
JUDY'S ORGAN There once was an organist named Judy, Who, in order to fulfill her church duty Sat at the organ to play, Nothing worked right - not even the tutti. She called a repairman…
GIANT FLIES Missionaries were showing a graphic film on hygiene to the Masaii in Kenya, Africa. The film started out with the camera zoomed in on an ugly fly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.…
PRIDE HIDES AND HURLS Pride hides and hurls. We want our lives and the lives of others to be perfect. We try to make our own lives perfect, but upon examination we fail. So we…
WHAT COMES AROUND One of the boys at the feed store told about the time his uncle saw a revolving door for the first time. He noticed a gray-haired grandmother go in and a cute,…
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE A young lady once consulted with her minister. "I can't stick it out any longer. I'm the only Christian in the factory where I work. I get nothing but taunts and…
NO TIME TO PRAY It's a frustrating thing to lose a soccer game. Its even more frustrating when the first goal is scored three seconds after the beginning of the game. But this is just…
ENGLISH HEATHEN Around 1,300 years ago, some Christian missionaries went to a dangerous little island, full of savage tribes, to tell the people about Christ, and especially about his resurrection. The name of this savage…
BENSON QUIT Our gasoline was getting low as we drove through the Salt River Canyon toward Phoenix. I asked my wife what was the next town on the map. "Nelsonville," she replied. We drove on…
THE GREATEST CATCH New Haven, Conn. -- Six-year-old Javon Saucier completed the greatest reception of his life during football practice: He caught his 3-year-old neighbor falling from a window. "I knew I could catch him,"…
GREAT GOD "In a recent conversation on the phone, Dan exclaimed, 'Lloyd, what a puny God I had! It was like shutting myself up in a 3 foot by 7 foot tall hut on the…
WHAT MAKES US GREEDY? The list of those corrupted by power and money is lengthy, and no field of endeavor is exempt. Free-world politicians and heads of communist states. Investment bankers and TV preachers. Those…
