FORKLIFT POWER Not long ago I was riding with a friend of mine when he was taking his eight year old son to school. While driving down the freeway the boy noticed a large flatbed…
Sermon Illustrations
PASS THE BUCK Passing the buck: A child with a dollar bill was heading out to the drug store for an ice cream sundae. "Why don't you give your dollar to the missionaries?" asked the…
STRESS AND SICKNESS Illness is related to unrelieved stress, not just stress. From Physicians Plus Seminar handouts
REACHING THE LOST The church that is not reaching the lost is lost. By E.V. Hill, "How to Close the Back Door of Your Church" Seminar, Pheasant Run, October, 1988
MEETING TROUBLES "Calvin Coolidge was once asked how he managed to remain calm when surrounded by troubles on every side. He answered, "Oh, I never let trouble bother me, for I have discovered that if…
COST OF GIFTED CHILDREN If there are so many gifted children in this world, why does it cost so much for their parents to raise them?
LUXURY OF IGNORANCE There is no such thing as an ignorant question. There are only uninformed questioners. And the best way to remain so is not to ask questions. We simply cannot afford the luxury…
BAD PLEASURES But aren't there bad, unlawful pleasures? Certainly there are. But in calling them "bad pleasures" I take it we are using a kind of shorthand. We mean "pleasures snatched by unlawful acts." It…
EFFICIENCY OR COMPASSION Jeremy Rifkin asks the question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value that is the key to our science?" He considers the answer as obvious:…
DELI BREAD: LORD'S PRAYER MUTILATED A little boy was with his father when he stopped at the delicatessen and purchased some cold cuts and some rye bread. The father explained to his son that there…
TREADMILL BLUES The difference between mission-driven results and goal-driven results is described in the following way: Every day, people with no particularly deep purpose achieve a lot of goals. They complete reports; make sales; ship…
WOLF PACK LIES Lies are like wolves; They never travel alone. They have learned that they do more damage, if they hunt in packs.
LIMITATIONS OF MIRACLES The fact that love does not operate according to the rules of power may help explain why God sometimes seems shy to use his power. He created us to love him, but…
TAKE UP YOUR ELECTRIC CHAIR Tradition tells us that when Jesus was a teenager, there was a rebellion near where He lived. The Roman army crushed the rebellion and crucified an Israelite every ten meters…
QUALIFIED PREACHER To be a preacher today you have to make more speeches than a lawyer, more housecalls than a doctor, fix more things than a plumber and know how to run an adult nursery.…
GOD IS NOW HERE! A man who had no regard for God sent his little daughter to live with friends who taught her to read. She proudly told her father when she came home, "I…
EDGE OF THE CLIFF He said, "Come to the edge." We said, "But the cliff is too high." He said, "Come to the edge." We said, "But we may fall and be crushed on the…
APPEARANCES ARE ADEQUATE "The crux of a person's identity, the experience of being that person, the aura of urbanity or erudition or sportsmaship that surrounds him, resides in the trappings, not in the person himself.…
SERVANT ADMINISTRATOR The fall of the Christian leader is likened to an oil tanker that polluted the shores of Alaska. The Greek term which is translated as "minister" is "hyperetes." It is also translated as…
LEADERSHIP SHORTAGE There is no shortage of leaders; There is only a shortage of those willing to follow them.
