NOT MUCH AT AGE TWENTY "Anybody who can still do at sixty what he was doing at twenty wasn't doing much at twenty." By Jimmy Townsend
Sermon Illustrations
WHEN TO CUT THE HOOK I was ten years old when my younger brother hooked me behind the ear with his new bass plug. Traveling over rough country roads for what seemed like hours, we…
NO EXCEPTIONS "I'm very sorry," said the personnel manager, "but if I let you take two hours off for lunch today, I'd have to do the same for every other employee whose wife gave birth…
WRONG PRESCRIPTION An explosion occurred in the back room of the drugstore. The pharmacist emerged with black smoke marks on his face and his jacket in tatters. Staggering up to the woman customer he said,…
GLUE DOWN THE AUDIENCE Dustin Farnumm, a talented but conceited actor, once crooned on to his dinner host, writer Oliver Herford, about a play he was doing at the time. "Why, yesterday," boasted Farnum, "I…
TEMPTATION AND COWARDICE There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain
CAUGHT CANDY-HANDED An Arizona businessman was entertaining the wife of a wealthy rancher at a fine French restaurant near Scottsdale's high-end Fifth Avenue district. Throughout the five-course dinner, the woman displayed impeccable manners. However, on…
THE TOIL OF TENNIS Ruth Graham tells the story of the early days of missionary work in China. The missionaries knew the importance of relaxation and built a tennis court of dirt. They played for…
HOLD THE BIGGER HAND It's a little like the time a father and his son were hiking along a steep mountain trail. At the beginning of the climb, the way was easy. They were walking…
NO JOB FOR A LADY A motorist noticed a woman standing beside her car, looking helplessly at a flat tire. He stopped and began removing the tire. "Oh, thank you," said the woman, "I don't…
NOT DEAD YET The man's plane crashed in the heart of the darkest jungles of Africa. He pried himself from the wreckage and began to work his way through the dense jungle. As he entered…
SIGHT OR VISION Sight sees that which is visible and present, Vision sees that which is invisible and yet to be. Michael E. Hodgin
SHALLOW VICTORY It's a shallow victory, when it's at the expense of someone else.
PULL NO GOSPEL PUNCHES Peter Cartwright, a nineteenth-century circuit-riding Methodist preacher, was an uncompromising man. One Sunday morning when he was to preach, he was told that President Andrew Jackson was in the congregation, and…
COLLEGIATE ADVICE A literature student, upon graduating from Harvard, went to T.S. Eliot to get advice. For a while Eliot said nothing, then he said, "40 years ago I went from Harvard to Oxford. Now…
STAINED GLASS FAME A young boy, away at boarding school, wrote home after his first visit to the school's chapel: "It has lovely stained glass windows with pictures of people who were famous in God's…
THE OLD GOAT The young couple invited their parson for Sunday dinner. While they were in the kitchen preparing the meal, the minister asked their son what they were having. "Goat", the little boy replied.…
Art and Music | Children | Discipleship | Remembering | Sanctification/ Praise | Songs | VBS | Value
THE SUCCESS OF THE SONG I spoon-fed my 2 year old parts of "Jesus Loves Me," hoping he'd learn the most important part: "Jesus loves me; this I know." We sang that line over and…
LUCKY GUESS A farmer was walking down the road carrying a sack. His neighbor was driving his pickup and pulled alongside of him and asked him what was in his bag. "Chickens," the farmer answered.…
DESTRUCTIVE ASSISTANCE I remember one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the bark of a tree, just as a butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing to come out. I waited…
