JUDGMENT ON THE PAST If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future. By Winston Churchill in Their Finest Hour
Sermon Illustrations
SET UP WITH WHISKEY The local priest was driving down a country road when a second car careened around the bend, spun out of control, and crashed into the priest's car. Both cars landed in…
THE ONE WHO COUNTS It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit…
INFLATED NUMBERS During the revolution, the Bahamas had been captured by Spain. After the war, a Loyalist lieutenant colonel of South Carolina, Andrew Deveaux, recruited a handful of militia and Harbour Island settlers and took…
CATER TO CLUTTER A recent Ad in the Thrifty Nickel read: "We cater to Clutter. Dependable house, apartment or business cleaning." And then there were a couple of phone numbers so you could contact the…
SCORE RUNS In baseball, victory is determined not by hits, but by runs. The player who gets to third base and no farther doesn't get credit for three quarters of a run. Too many of…
FRESH FISH FOR SALE HERE The new owner of a fish market ordered a sign which read "FRESH FISH FOR SALE HERE." "Why did you include the word 'FRESH' in your sign?" asked the very…
REVENGE OF LOVE Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get rid of him, I…
EINSTEIN ON GRATITUDE Albert Einstein said, "Many times I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built on the labors of my fellowman, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must…
"GUILTY...WHO ME?" In the spring of 1959 an Air Force major entered a Texas mental institution for the second time. He had tried to commit suicide twice and he had been arrested for forgery and…
HE LEADS US The moment has arrived when we must move ahead; may God be with us always wherever we are led. He'll hold our hands and guide us and teach us how to cope…
WASTED AGES We must not waste our youth on the young or our retirement on the old. Source Unknown
TWINS Statistics indicate that more twins are being born now than in previous years. When a teacher mentioned this to her third-grade class, one of the pupils said, "I guess more twins are being born…
HE BUILT THE PLANE A pilot was performing amazing feats for the people watching below. He was doing double and triple loops and other tricks. But when he landed, he broke a strut on his…
ETIQUETTE FOR HUSBANDS AND WIVES The following advice from the 1890's is as good today as then: Let the rebuke be preceded by a kiss. Do not require a request to be repeated. Never should…
EYE ON THE SPARROW A February ice storm hit on a Friday, and continued to come down all weekend, closing almost everything. On Monday morning, I was a little down because of the cold and…
TOOK TOO MUCH The motto of the self-indulgent: We took what we wanted until we no longer wanted what we took." This also describes a number of us at a church potluck. Motto by F.…
PRESBYTERIAN BY EARTHQUAKE Reverend Rick Lemberg, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Casa Grande, Arizona, describes himself as a "Presbyterian by earthquake." He explains that his grandmother, a Baptist, moved the family from Iowa…
CONVICTIONS OR OPINIONS The German poet Heinrich Heine stood with a friend before the cathedral of Amiens in France. "Tell me, Heinrich," said his friend, "why can't people build buildings like this anymore?" Heinrich answered,…
GOLD IN ITS PLACE Gold is good, in its place, but when it becomes our master, it places a crown of thorns upon the brow that crushes the strongest to the earth. Better a man…
