OPEN HOUSE While going to college, I worked part time as a janitor at an elementary school. During those four years that I worked there, the same teacher would ask me for the same favor…
Sermon Illustrations
OPTIMIST TO CYNIC An optimist is a father who will let his son take the new car on a date. A pessimist is one who won't. A cynic is one who did. Joe Taylor Ford,…
CHILDREN When the disciples, overearnest as ever, asked Jesus who was the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven, Jesus pulled a child out of the crowd and said the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven…
TRIUMPHS For some reason it seems easier to get at the true reasons for an unsuccessful man's failure than to learn the real causes of a successful man's triumphs. Bits & Pieces
FORGIVE AND FORGET Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave. Readers Digest
BLESSED Blessed are they who have nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it. James Russell Lowell
MODELS The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. Anonymous
CHRISTMAS LORE A tramp stopped at a Catholic rectory shortly before Christmas and told the priest: "Father, I've been floating around long enough. Could I join your church and settle down?" The priest replied, "Why,…
DON'T BE TOO RUSHED AT CHRISTMAS In the rush of last-minute Christmas shopping, a woman bought a box of 50 identical greeting cards. Without bothering to read the verse, she hastily signed and addressed all…
THE SEASON We left the house in a pouring rain storm. Hurrying to the car my head was racing with details of the day ahead. Expected events and unexpected events were crowding an already packed…
A CHRISTMAS LULLABY Sleep, baby, sleep! The Mother sings: Heaven's angels kneel and fold their wings. Sleep, baby, sleep! With swathes of scented hay Thy bed By Mary's hand at eve was spread. Sleep, baby,…
THE BELLS Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment Their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night. While the stars that oversprinkle All…
ONE IMPORTANT GIFT A little girl was saying her prayers a few nights before Christmas when she stopped suddenly and asked her mother a question with a worried look: "What are we giving God for…
SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE "I'm sorry you don't like my Christmas gift," the aunt said to her nephew, "but I asked if you preferred a large check or a small check." He replied, "I know,…
COMMUNICATION The pastor of a small town church sent one of his parishioners to the big city to order a Christmas sign to be hung outside on the door of the Church. The parishioner lost…
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT A lady went to buy a stamp at a post office during the Christmas rush where some of the clerks have a reputation for surliness. The stamp was pushed across the counter…
CHRISTMAS IS Christmas is celebration; and celebration is instinct in the heart. With gift and feast, with scarlet ribbon and fresh green bough, with merriment and the sound of music, we commend the day --…
LEVELS OF CONFIDENCE We were laying a drain line across a college campus as part of my former company's construction contract. While excavating, we uncovered a power cable lying directly in our path. I suspected…
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT On a winter day in 1961, the meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, was using computer modeling to explore the science of weather forecasting. Lorenz would boil weather down to the barest skeleton, then feed…
THE LOOK OF JESUS In the gospel according to Luke we read the following: But Peter said, "Man I do not know what you are talking about." At that moment, while he was still speaking,…
