WORRY STREAM Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. By Roche
Sermon Illustrations
MOST CHALLENGING MESSAGE In a recent cartoon, a tourist is standing next to a Native American Indian who is sending smoke signals. The Indian is answering the tourist's question: "The most challenging message I have…
BEST NOT ALWAYS SEEN It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye. By Antoine deSainte-Exupery, The Little Prince
TWO KINDS OF BLINDNESS Physical blindness is the absence of light, not the dismissal of truth.
GET THE STINK OUT "Disciplining children is a lot like taking out the garbage: If you don't do it, you have no right to complain later if something smells." Ann Landers, September 15, 1989
GUILTY OF DELINQUENCY Father Story # 1: A dad routinely dispensed his daughter's allowance every Sunday night. She knew where to find it when she got up on Monday morning. One Sunday night he forgot…
A PATERNAL MISTAKE Father Story # 2: I heard of a father who, under the pressure of unreasonably heavy outside demands, became so rude toward his family that they dreaded his coming home. One morning…
NOT TIME YET Father Story # 3: There are many unbelievable things about fatherhood. Even for the most prepared papa, the very event of becoming a dad itself can bring a great shock. One young…
GOD HELP DADDY Father Story # 4: I heard about a young fellow who ended his prayers with this petition: "God bless Sister, God bless Mommy, and God help Daddy." Not a bad prayer on…
GRAEBEL'S BEST YEAR YET David Graebel of Wausau, Wisconsin started with one truck and built one of the largest moving companies in the world. In 1990 Graebel Worldwide Movers lost one its largest accounts to…
BAPTIZED BY SOCRATES There's a story about a proud young man who came to Socrates asking for knowledge. He walked up to the muscular philosopher and said, "O great Socrates, I come to you for…
THE WORTH OF A HUG Hugging can be vital for your emotional well- being. Everybody feels skin hunger throughout their lives, and unless that hunger is satisfied by touching, there's a vital void in the…
BACKWARD TRAINING You are being trained by your children when you hear yourself telling them the same thing more than once.
A CASE OF TIRING DISCIPLINE Back in the 1930s in the little village of Cactus Garden near the main shaft of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company north of Miami, we kids often rolled tires for…
UNFAIR IN MY FAVOR Calvin is arguing with his Father about going to bed. "Why can't I stay up late? You guys can. IT'S NOT FAIR!" Dad looks down and says, "The WORLD isn't fair,…
A CHEERFUL-ER GIVER A six year old girl insisted that as a new first grader, she should be allowed to take part in the offering and put something in the offering plate during the worship…
DEAR DOBONSON "Dear Dobonson: You are a mean and curle thing. You and your dumb sayings whon't take you to heaven. Kids don't like wippens." Taken from a letter written to Dr James Dobson, "Focus…
INPUT OR OUTPUT The oft asked questions that preoccupy the time of reflective parents are questions like this: Do we hear too well or are our children just too noisy.
CAPTURE THE MOMENT Recently a teenage boy was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis. Surgery had been scheduled, so it was puzzling when the boy's father asked the surgeon if there was a barber in…
THE PROBLEM WITH PEA SOUP In a recent Dennis the Menace cartoon, Dennis and his pal Joey are eating lunch. Joey has this forlorn disgusted look on his face. And it's obvious that Mrs. Mitchell…
