NOT ENOUGH COMFORT I just read about an incident that is supposed to have taken place in the Atlanta Airport, which I sure hope is fictional. It seems the Atlanta air traffic controller said, "Pan…
Sermon Illustrations
AS HAPPY AS WE GET It was time for some Friday night fun and fellowship. The three couples decided to treat themselves to a steak dinner. When they arrived at the steak house, they were…
"Until a man finds the spiritual authority for his life, his life is futile and empty." Bishop Gerald Kennedy+
"Jesus is God's latchstring hung so low that even a child can reach it and open the door - to everything." E. Stanley Jones+
"God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it break upon a cross." Billy D. Strayhorn+
CREEPS NEED LOVE Curtis is walking down the street carrying on a conversation with Michelle. Michelle says, "I've already told you we can't have a relationship Curtis! I'm 13 and you're only 11!" Curtis can't…
NET SECURITY In a sermon, Juan Carlos Ortiz spoke of a conversation with a circus trapeze artist. The performer admitted the net underneath was there to keep them from breaking their necks, but added, "The…
PROGRESS IN HOLINESS Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves -- on God's grace and on our will to be holy. Mother Theresa, from Loving God, by Charles Colson, pg. 123
NO CHANGE WITH AGE In our day, as in Bible times, most people in their old age have about the same qualities they had when younger. Old age does not by itself make people more…
EVANGELISM FOR MATERIALISM When speaking of the new church they were building in Connecticut in hopes to draw the natives she says: "The natives here are just as ignorant of God's grace as those on…
GOD'S HANDWRITING He writes in characters too grand For our short sight to understand We catch but broken strokes, and try To fathom all the mystery Of withered hopes, of death, of life, The endless…
THE CHURCH'S SCOPE OF ACCEPTANCE We include this particularly denominational illustration because it teaches a powerful principle of acceptance. Whether one holds to infant baptism or not, the truth is that those who consider themselves…
NOT ENOUGH RELIGION As I sat listening to Devadas, a handsome young Indian graduate student, a story I had heard from an old-time camp meeting evangelist flashed across my mind. It was about a skeptic…
GUT-LEVEL LIVING Today, many Christians have a sound biblical doctrine of grace to which they give full mental assent. It is a truth they believe about God, but it is not their gut-level basis of…
NOBODY'S NOTHIN During World War II, a social worker helped evacuate children from London's dangerous bombing areas, taking them by bus out to the safer countryside. One day, as she lifted a four-year-old boy from…
HITTING 40 GRACEFULLY Actress Cybill Shepherd turns 40 this year, but she's dealing with it philosophically. "I'm realizing my finiteness. It's a cliche, but it really did come home to me that I don't have…
SERMONIC HONESTY REFRESHING There is one church here, so I go to it. On Sunday mornings I leave the house and wander down the hill to the white frame church in the firs. On a…
LOOKING FOR LOVE LETTERS Charlie Brown and his sister Sally are getting mail out of the mailbox. Charlie Brown pulls out a letter and asks? "What's this? A love letter from that little red- haired…
THANKFUL DEVOTION It is sweet when thankfulness does not end in mere words, but in gifts to God and devotedness of our all to Him. From Sword of the Lord, March 18, 1988, page 12
THE GOSPEL IS FOR NOW The story is told by a well-known English minister, now with his Lord, how, years ago, on a night when he was just ready to retire, there came a knock…
