MINISTRY VISION So often the difference between the stingy person and the generous person is simply imagination. It is the difference between the person who can say with John Wesley, "The world is my parish,"…
Sermon Illustrations
GO SLOW It is reported that once, during Vince Lombardi's years at Green Bay, the Packers were resoundingly defeated by an opposing team. They did everything wrong. The very next day at practice, Coach Lombardi…
STANDING ROOM ONLY When Mark Twain was on one of his lecture tours, he was getting a haircut in a small town, and the barber asked him if he planned to attend the lecture that…
AN ARTISTIC NAME Mark Kostabi, a New York painter doesn't actually paint very many of "his" own paintings. He hires someone to do the painting for him, and he even hires someone to come up…
BAPTISMAL HANG-UPS Always excited about the opportunity to baptize, I had taken my place in the baptistery when I remembered that one of the candidates had requested that her nose and mouth be covered as…
THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE What John Baillie said about mystery in theology is particularly true of the atonement. To theologize is something like drawing a map of the world on a flat surface. It is impossible to…
DEATH AND FOOD STAMPS Al Palanza's brother had been dead for two weeks when a letter arrived at the address of the deceased. Social Services had written to notify him that his food stamps had…
THE OLDEST OPTIMIST An optimist is an 80 year old man, who marries a 30 year old woman and buys a 12 room house, next to a grade school. By W. A. Criswell, notes from…
A TEMPORARY TREE There is a Japanese tree which is transplanted often so that it may not have a chance to develop a taproot. As Christians, we are like this Japanese tree - ambassadors who…
BEYOND WINNING SOULS The effectiveness of a church's involvement in world evangelization will be due to the size of its faith and its vision... One of the greatest misconceptions is that our task is simply…
THE LONELY LEADER To be able to lead others, a person must be willing to go forward alone. From System Forms Brochure, December 1988
A SIMPLE FACE-LIFT There's a simple do-it-yourself face-lift that's sure to improve your looks; it's called a smile. From System Forms Brochure, December 1988
FROM LEMONS TO LEMONADE If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. From System Forms Brochure, August 1988
REALITY BEYOND YOUR VISION The fact that something is beyond your vision doesn't mean that it isn't there. From System Forms Brochure, December 1988
KEEP IT SIMPLE STRATEGY A lot of communities have Little League Football programs in the fall of the year. In one such community, two weeks into the season, an armchair coach with a big gut…
IN THE NAME OF SECULARISM "The right name for our troubles is 'secularism,' which is defined not as the denial of God, but as the practical exclusion of God from our thinking and living. God…
THE WORLD OF THE ARTIST An imaginative artist brings into being a world of his own invention. He does it normally by laying down patches of paint on canvas, in a certain spatial order (or…
EMOTIONAL ALTITUDE It is your attitude, much more than your aptitude, that determines your altitude Dr. Cisk, parents meeting at Westfield Jr. High, Oct. 22, 1990, author of Life Skills Program
NOBODY This is a transient ever changing world filled with loneliness and pain. Shel Silverstein, in a poignant poem entitled "Nobody," from his book A Light In The Attic sums it up: "Nobody loves me,/Nobody…
Burden | Cooperation | Happiness | Home | Humor | Marriage | Memory | Remembering | Teamwork | Unity
TRASH TEAMWORK Maybe you heard the story about the woman who was away for a few days at a teacher's convention. In the middle of the convention she suddenly remembered it was trash day, and…
