OXYMORONIC GOLF The following description of the challenge of golf by Arnold Palmer can be applied to life as well... see what you think. "Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. A child can play…
Sermon Illustrations
CHURCH DANGER A bishop was invited to dinner. During the meal he was astonished to hear the young daughter of the house state that a person must be very brave to go to church these…
NATION OF EDEN An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Russian were discussing the nationality of Adam and Eve. Each said that Adam & Eve were of their own nationality with supporting reasons: The Frenchman: Because…
BUSIER THAN ISAIAH One minister remarked sorrowfully: "The prophet Isaiah wrote, 'In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord.' If he were a modern minister, he would write, 'In the year that…
TIME EMBROIDERY The time God allots to each one of us is like a precious tissue which we embroider as we best know how. By Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
OSWALD SANDERS ON HUMOR Oswald Sanders called humor the "lubricant of missionary life" after he quoted Helmut Thielecke: "Should we not see that lines of laughter about the eyes are just as much marks of…
RETIREMENT FUN My retired neighbor tells me there's no particular pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun comes, he says, when you have lots to do and don't do it." From "The Way I…
BASKETBALL ELBOWS U.S. Olympic basketball team member Charles Barkley spoke about his role in the "Dream Team" victory over Angola in the first game of the Olympics. He said, "The elbow is part of my…
FAILURE AS FINAL The former Chaplain of the United States Senate, Richard Halverson, once wrote: "It's not failing that's the sin! It's accepting failure as final --- that's the sin! No matter how often a…
SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION Bibles or New Testaments are now available in all of the world's major languages. The entire Bible is translated into a total of 293 languages spoken by about 90 percent of the world's…
TOO LONG TO WAIT Two friends were talking together. The first man asked, "How did you enjoy the play last night?" His friend who was making a genuine attempt at raising his level of sophistication…
MINIMIZING SIN Promoting evangelism or bolstering self-esteem may seem far easier if you represent man's plight as a mere fly in the ointment rather than a poisoned well. By Nathan Hatch, Christianity Today
SINGLE MOSQUITOES A Minnesotan was asked if the bugs were bad in his state. "We don't have a single mosquito if that's what you're worried about," he replied. "Really?" was the amazed response. "That's right,"…
WHEN YOU HAVE ARRIVED When you think you have arrived, your problems have just begun. From the "How to Close the Back Door of Your Church Seminar," Pheasant Run, October 10 - 12, 1988
JOB WELL DONE It occurs to me that Christ would have been comfortable with the words of John Wesley, "Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry because I never undertake…
KEEP US FROM EVIL Sin is that which above anything else we should dread, and a good preservative against sin is to be afraid of nothing but sin. By Matthew Henry, Commentary on Nehemiah, pg.…
CANS OF WORMS Don't open up a can of worms without knowing how to get the worms back inside. Mortimer B. Zuckerman
FORMS OF WORSHIP We get no credit for acting like a fool; the art of praise is not to out-emote others, to raise our hands higher, to dance with more reckless abandon, to roll our…
TIMELY DECISIONS Even the right decision is the wrong decision, if it's made too late. By Lee Iacocca, from pg. 54 of his autobiography
PASSION DEFINED Passion is a very different word than most of us think it to be, or at least, much different than commonly used. Passion means to "experience, especially sensation, and usually painful." The word…
