THE PATROL IS AGAINST US On the walls of the men's room at a Kansas truck stop were scribbled the words from Romans 8: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Scrawled…
Sermon Illustrations
THOSE WHO SUFFER FOR HIS SAKE Blessed are those martyred by our disapproval of their love for the one we hope for and seek without passion. Blessed are those we condemn out of jealousy of…
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER My wife, a registered nurse, once fussed over every pain or mishap that came my way. Recently, however, I got an indication that the honeymoon is over. I was about to…
SUFFERING WITHOUT SIN God had one Son on earth without sin, never one without suffering. From Sword of the Lord, October 2, 1987, page 15
THE TERREMOTO The beautiful land of Chile has been subject to terrible earthquakes for centuries. On May 13 of each year, there is a solemn processing in Santiago in memory of the terrible quake which…
THE SUFFERING OF A LIAR The liar's punishment... is that he cannot believe anyone else. By George Bernard Shaw From "Cornerstones," The Progressive Farmer, December, 1992
BETTER TO SUFFER WRONG It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. By Samuel Johnson From "Cornerstones," The Progressive Farmer, December, 1992
AVOIDING UNNECESSARY SUFFERING Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night. By Robert C. Edwards From "Cornerstones," The…
LIFE IS LIKE AN ONION Life is like an onion, you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep By Carl Sandberg
CLOTHES ENCOUNTER Just when you thought it was safe to get dressed in the morning... a report reveals 120,000 Americans suffered clothing-related injuries in 1990. According to the consumer Product Safety Commission, one woman dislocated…
THE WORLD VERSUS MY GOD THE WORLD ROARS I cannot hear my God... but... MY GOD HEARS MY SILENT ANGUISH. THE WORLD GLARES I cannot see my God... but... AS MY GOD SEES THE SPARROW,…
THE WHY OF SUFFERING He who has a WHY to live can bear almost any HOW he must endure. Nietzsche
THE LOCATION OF SUFFERING The intensity of pressure doesn't matter as much as it's location. Does it come between you and God, or does it press you closer. Source Unknown, Leadership Journal, Summer, 1985, page…
TOO MUCH HALF- TRUTH The thing from which the world suffers just now more than from any other evil is not the assertion of falsehood, but the endless and irrepressible repetition of half-truths. By G.…
AID FOR ACHING HEARTS Dropouts are those who, like the missionaries' son from my college days, suffer acutely from the double vision -- so much so that they finally give up trying to reconcile it.…
SILENT SUFFERING A large number of people are quite happy to suffer in silence, if they are sure everybody knows what they're doing. From Sword of the Lord, March 4, 1988, page 8
TERTULLIAN: CHRISTIAN BLOOD IS SEED But go zealously on... Kill us, torture us, condemn us, grind us to dust... The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood…
A FOCUS OF FEELINGS In the play, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, by William Inge tells a story of an unhappy, quarreling family in Oklahoma in the early 1920's. This family -…
THE SUFFERING OF TERRY ANDERSON Terry Anderson is a living testimony that waiting need not mean passivity. For six years he was forced to wait in a dark cell, sometimes alone, often chained. His captors…
THE VERDICT AGAINST GOD A powerful expression of the love of God is in a play written after World War II by a Lutheran minister named Guenter Rutenborn. The setting is in devastated Germany, and…
