CHILDREN Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. Martin Mull
Sermon Illustrations
REALLY SICK No one is sicker than a man who is sick on his day off.
HOW BIG IS YOUR PLATFORM? Those running for the office of President of the United States are looking for a platform that's different from their opponent's platform. It must be large enough for people to…
THE WINNING DAD It was a nice Sunday morning after church in Ramona. My brother and I were playing separately in the back yard. There was a frantic thrashing of bushes that grabbed the attention…
TESTED British Railways was looking for a way to test locomotive windshields when they heard about an unusual test cannon at British Airways. Airways used the cannon to fire birds at great force into the…
OUR WIMP CULTURE The company had a new president and it was his opportunity to gather the employees together and give them both a pep talk and also announce some of the important changes that…
CHILDREN A friend asked, "How are your children doing at school?" She replied, "Better, but I still go to PTA meetings under an assumed name?" Christian Clippings
HELP NEEDED Two inexperienced hunters went into the woods after game. The game warden recognized them as novices and warned them that they might get lost. He said, "If you do get lost, the signal…
A PHILOSOPHY THAT COVERS IT ALL What is your philosophy as you face the dilemma of a hurting world? One day Sally comes up to Charlie Brown and says to him, "We have to write…
TALKING BACK TO GOD I 'm sure when we've been in trouble, there are times we feel God is against us. St. Theresa, a 16th century reformer stood mired in the mud on one of…
GOING ON WITH LIFE The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the…
BZZZZZZZ Did you hear about the farmer who decided to buy a chain saw? A logging foreman sold him one that he guaranteed would cut down fifty trees in a single day. A week later,…
WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING, HE DOES IT RIGHT! I am writing you this letter from Mexico City. The fact that we are here is a miracle. Let me tell you about it. Margi and I…
CHANGE Fortunate was the Cleveland Heights woman who lost her purse in a shopping center. An honest lad found it and returned it to her. "Funny?" commented the lady, "but before I lost my bag,…
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, ANYHOW? When you find yourself in the middle of really tough times -- you cry out, like Job -- "What's going on here, anyway, God?" Farmer Brown had really bad troubles.…
DO WHAT YOU CAN The story is told of two men who were talking. One of them was huge, the other quite small. The small man was admiring the size of the larger man. "Boy,…
WATCH OUT While driving down the road, a lady hit a man crossing the street. She yelled, "Watch out?" "Why?" asked the man, "are you coming back?" Jest-In- Time
PEARL DUST The king was famous for his abhorrence of waste so it was quite surprising when he came into the room where his aides were assembled carrying a breathtakingly beautiful pearl in his hand.…
FRIENDS Samuel Walter Foss was walking in New England one hot day. He had walked 24 miles and he was weary. The shade of a tree looked inviting and so did a sign hanging from…
TROUBLE If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an…
