MISS ARIZONA My husband and I decided to take our children on a vacation to Arizona to show them where we lived for eight and a half years after we were married. So we bought…
Sermon Illustrations
PRODIGAL JUMPER I was thinking the other day that sin is like bungy jumping. As Christians, we find ourselves at a particular spiritual elevation. This elevation differs for everyone, some higher, some lower, all are…
TWO RULES FOR HARVARD'S SUCCESS A former treasurer of Harvard once told me that he had two golden rules for managing the Harvard portfolio: 1) Never consult the economics department. 2) Never consult the business…
GROW UP TO BE GOD In January of 1993 my five year old grandson was in a kindergarten class near Sioux City, Iowa when the teacher asked, "Who would you like to be when you…
THE BRIDE WON'T OBEY "How did the wedding go?" asked the minister's wife. "Fine, my dear, until I asked the bride if she would obey, and she said, 'Do you think I'm crazy?' and the…
IT OWNS YOU Albert Schweitzer said, "If you have something you can't live without, you don't own it, it owns you."
BROKEN ANALOGY ON PEACE Lucy and Linus are deep in conversation. Linus is telling his big sister: "Charlie Brown says that brothers and sisters can learn to get along. He says they can get along…
DRIVE TO SCHOOL AND LEARN School is never the same when you get your driver's license. A teenage son got back home from his first day at school as a driver. His mother asked him…
BIBLICAL BELIEFS Belief in the Biblical account of creation is still common amoung Americans according to a 1991 Gallup Poll. But belief in a literal interpretation of the Bible continues to decline. The poll found…
HUMAN PRETZEL WORK I heard it said, "Put your nose to the grindstone, put your shoulder to the wheel, your hands to the plow and feet to the feat. Put your money where your mouth…
CLOCK CHRISTIANS The Christian life is a little like the dial or face of a clock. The hands are God's hands, passing over and over again. The short hand is the hand of the law…
ROOTS ARE IMPORTANT I 'll never forget a visit with my dad several years ago! We made the usual trip to the cemetary and then drove around the "old neighborhood" so that he and I…
RESTRAINT OF THE GROWLER It's a very scarey feeling when we are walking down the street at night and hear the fierce growling of a dog. Is the dog restrained or is he at large.…
MODERN FUNERALS "At Junior Funeral Home in Pensacola, Fla., they know how hectic life can get. That's why you can pull up to the drive-in viewing window, give your dearly departed the once-over, sign the…
IN TWO PLACES On the TV show Hee Haw, Doc Campbell is confronted by a patient who says he broke his arm in two places. The doc replies "Well, then stay out of them places.…
CHURCH IS WHAT WE MAKE IT Tim Stafford contrasts the church to the natural family. He writes: "Our churches have grown more sophisticated and our society more mobile, Christians have regarded churches with the eyes…
POWERLESS CAPE David received a Superman cape for his third birthday. Ecstatic, he donned the cape and ran as fast as he could around the backyard. Shortly, he returned to the house with the cape…
TRADED TWO BOYS FOR A DOG Out of history comes the story of a frontier preacher who took to a stray dog of which his two boys had become very fond. The dog was as…
HELL IS THE PLACE A couple of nuns attended a baseball game. Behind them sat a group of belligerent anti-Catholics. They were making lude comments about these two gracious ladies in front of them. They…
SUCCESS HANGS ON Success is the ability to hang on after all others have let go.
