HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR PASTOR You may want to put this piece in your weekly newsletter or bulletin, if not used in a sermon: 1. Look the pastor straight in the eye while…
Sermon Illustrations
PRAYER CHANGES PERSPECTIVE Once upon a time - that's the way all good stories used to begin for children - a monk was walking down a country road. It was early in the morning, and…
ENTHUSIASM "No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone. He has failed to…
GOING ABOUT I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is disconcerting to me that I am so satisfied with just going about. Toyhiko Kagawa
ALICE'S FOOT Alice had been through this many times before. She could not remember how often her hopes were raised only to have them dashed to the floor. The pattern was always the same. First,…
WHEN I DIE When I die, if you need to weep, cry for your brother walking the street beside you And when you need me, put your arms around anyone, And give them what you…
PRAYER Teach me, good Lord: Not to murmur at multitude of business or shortness of time. Not to magnify undertaken duties by seeming to suffer under them, but to treat all as liberties and gladnesses.…
CONVERSION -- MORE THAN ONE WAY A preacher was trying to convince a rancher that he needed to make a personal, radical conversion. After giving the enthusiastic young minister a fair hearing, the rancher replied,…
CHRIST OUR BROTHER The year was 1942. A U. S. Army Lieutenant was deeply troubled. The troop- transport ship to which he was assigned had just landed on the Northwest coast of Africa and the…
SUCCESS AND SERVICE Toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists -- Newton and Maxwell -- from his wall and replaced them with portraits of Gandhi and Schweitzer. He…
ORIGINAL ORDERS In both of Paul's letters to his 'son', Timothy, there is a great stress laid upon the value of the gospel that had been entrusted to faithful men (1 Tim. 6:20; II Tim.…
OPPORTUNISM "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." G. B. Shaw
FACING DEATH -- WHAT'S AHEAD IS EVEN BETTER A great many of us would love God more if only we became better acquainted with him. The more we know God, the more we love him.…
HOW IT'S EXPLAINED John Heisman explaining what a football is on the first day of practice: "A prolate spheroid -- that is, an elongated sphere -- in which the outer leathern casing is drawn tightly…
CHARGE! Misspellers of the world -- UNTIE!
FORGIVENESS Only the offended can forgive.
YOUTH When I was younger I could remember anything whether it happened or not. Mark Twain
FLEXIABLE Garage mechanic to car owner: "I couldn't fix your brakes so I made your horn louder."
FAILURE Failure is not an event, it is an opinion.
RESPONSE A businessman took a dinner flight across the country. After the plane reached cruising altitude, the flight attendants began serving everyone the meal. As the man picked up his fork to eat his salad,…
